The Newtown bee., 1879-03-18
NEWS SUMMARY
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 The great Vanderbilt will contest in New York has come to an abrupt conclusion through compromise. by which, it is understood, the contestants Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs. Berger, the late commodore's daughter--get $1 000 900 each and costs, and the will IS to re- main uncontested.
 The sudden close of the Vanderbilt will case caused much comment in New York and the counsel for William H. Vanderbilt denied that there had been any compromise with the con testants,
 Whiteaw Reid will be the orator nnd George Alfred Townsend tho poet of the next meeting of the New York Press association, which IS to be held at Rochester the third week in June. The Dime Savings bank, of York, Pa, has i suspended.
 1 The New York society for the prevention of crime are raiding disorder,y houses in that l city. Five were closed one evening recently I James R. Keene, well-known New York l grain operator, says that telegram to which his name was forged, was sent from that city 1 to Chicago grain brokers, directing them to sell l 5000, ,000 bushels of wheat on his account. | The sale caused decline in wheat in Chicago | from 96 cents to 93 cents bushel. MT. Keene said he repudiated the entire sale. At the eighteenth commencement of the l Eclectic medical college, of the city of New York; two of the twenty-five graduates were ladies.
 | Benjamin Shallcross, receiver of taxes for 1 the twenty-th third ward of Philadelphia, disap- 1 peared and an investigation brought to light a deficiency of $25,000 in his accounts | The Pennsylvania legislature adopted joint resolutions in honor of the late Bayard Taylor.
 Prominent men of New York, Philadelphia and Washington have been swindled out of various sums by three plausible individuals, who represented themselves as subcommittee engaged in collecting subscriptions for a na- tional celebration in commemoration of the late Bayard Taylor, to be held in Washington.
 A dispatch from Eastport, Me-, says the ship | Turkish Empire, 1,600 tons, West master, from St. John to Dublin, with cargo of deals, went ashore at Big Duck island, near Grand Menan, and was total loss. The captain and six men were drowned. The pilot and seven men were saved.
 John P. M. Richards encountered two bur glars in his residence in New York, shot one of | them dead and captured the other.
 Rev. John Weiss, well-known Boston lec- | turer and essayist, is dead.
 The twenty-ffth anniversary of the founda- tion of the company formed to lay the Atlantic cable was celebrated at the residence of Cyrus founders-Mr. Field, Peter Cooper, Moses Taylor, Marshall o. Roberts and Chandler White - all were present except the last named, who is dead. Among the hundreds in the country, including William M. Evarts, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Ward Beecher and others. few short addresses were made, but the proceedings were mainly of an informal character, About one thousand persons were present during the evening.
 About five hundred persons were present at 8 town meeting in Mechanics hall North Berwick, Me-, when part of the floor suddenly gave way precipitating 150 men 8 distance of fourteen feet to the floor below. No one was killed outright, but many received frightful injuries, and the recovery of several was con- sidered doubtful Medical aid was immediately summoned from the adjoining towns, and everything possible done to alleviate the suf- ferings of the injured.
 At an exciting meeting Of the Brooklyn Presbytery, a committee made report in re- gard to charges against the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage's methods of preaching and allega- tions that he stands charged by common fame with falsehood and deceit" Seven speci- fications charging the reverend gentleman with untruthfulness in regard to his church and other matters, were adopted, and his trial was ordered. Dr. Talmage was present and voted to have the trial take place.
 At the Maine municipal elections the Repub- licans and hard-money Democrats elected their candidate for mayor of Belfast by nine ty-one majority the Republican candidate for mayor of Bangor was successful; there was no election for mayor of Augusta and new election was ordered, and in Biddeford the combined Democrats and Greenbackers elected the mayor by seven ajority.