The Newtown bee., 1879-03-11
NEWS SUMMARY,
Eastern and Middle States.

NEWS SUMMARY.
 Eastern and Middle States.
 Twenty-one new dentists were graduated at the thirteenth annual commencement of the New York College of Dentistry in that city.
 The Peru Steel and Iron company, of New York city and Clintonvile, N. r., has failed for $2O0, 900, and receiver has been appointed. It is thought the assets will more than cover the liabilities
 David Fender, the young criminal who at tackled Mrs DeBary in broad daylight on Fifth avenue, New York, tearing valuable earring from the lady's ear while the street was filled with pedestrians, has been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in States prison.
 The schooner David H. Tolck went ashore at Barnegat, N. J., and the sea being heavy, be- gan to break up rapidly. The captains wisa died in the rigging, and out of seven men and boy landed by the efforts of hfe-saving stations crew, two were dead, while the rest were in dying condition. Another man was swept from the rigging and drowned. At the convention of the American Fish Cul4 ture association in New York, & number of papers on pisciculture were read, and Robert B. Roosevelt was elected president for thecom- ing year,
 To the recent fatal burning of about seventy | five valuable horses in 6 New York stable, | must be added 8 similar casualty by which
  | time the stable destroyed was on Fifty-third street, close to Fifth avenue, and of the forty | three horses lost in the flames a number were fast trotters. Many of the carriages and sleighs | burned were also very valuable The loss ill horses alone exceeds $50, 900. Total loss, over | $100, GOO. A panic ensued among the inmates | of girls seminary, next door to the blazing stable but they were all removed in safety.
 Peter J. Pintler, said to be 1os years old, died at White Lake, Sullivan county, N. r., | few days ago. His oldest brother, believed to be 110 years old, is still living.
 Myron A. Buell. 8 farm hand, has been sen- | fenced to be hung April IS, for assaulting and numbering his employers daughter, Catharine M. Richards, aged fifteen. The tragedy took place near Cooperstown, N. r., June 25, 1878. | Mayor Cooper presided at large meeting in the interest of tenement-house reform, held at | the Cooper Institute, New York. It is charged the city's crowded tenement-houses are hot beds of disease and death, and should give way | to more commodious dwellings,, built with a view to prolonging, not shortening life.
 It is now asserted that the result of second investigation of the case of Barron, the Dexter | (Me. cashier, is to indicate that it was & case of robbery and murder, and not of suicide. It is said that the alleged irregularities in his | accounts can be explained, and that he lived inside of his income
 | J. B. Enos & Co.,, flour merchants of Water ford, N. Y, have failed for over $2O0 ,000. At the municipal elections in Maine the united Democratic and Greenback candidate | for mayor of Portland was successful In Rockland there was no choice. In Bath, Lew iston, Auburn, Gardner and Saco the Republi- can candidates for mayor were elected.
 Western and Sournern States. The annual Mardi- Gras carnival, at New Or leans, began with the landing of the king, who wss escorted through the city and paid bis re- | spects to the mayor, who handed him the keys of the city. General Sherman and party were present at the kings reception and ball. | legislative investigating committee in Mis- souri reported that State Treasurer Gates was a defaulter in the sum of S343, ,0OO and re- commended his impeachment.
 l A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says thirty | six Indians-the remnant of the Bannock band which was raiding ip Idaho last summer-were | surprised by pursuing settlers and all but two or three of the whole band killed.
 A fire destroyed two-thirds of the business portion Of Bamberg, s. O., causing loss of | $50, 000
 The flames destroyed seventeen buildings in Pensacola, Florida, entailing 8 loss of $125,- 900, on which the insurance is $70,O0O. Major A. M. Hutchens and Thomas McNatt. | both highly-respected citizens of Tishominso county, Miss, left iuka together to go home, | being neighbors. Hutchens had drawn $l TOO in gold from the express office, sent by Gin cinnah house to be used in purchasing 8 farm. Late in the evening McNatt's horse reached home riderless, with blood marks on the sad | dle. This aroused the suspicious Of McNatt's family, who feared foul play, and search was instituted which revealed the dead body | Of McNatt, terribly mutilated, about two miles from his home. One hundred yards further on Major Hutchens' body was found in like | condition.
 l Ten mos ,ils ago Charles w. Angel, secretary of the Pullman Palace Car company, at Chica- | go, embezzled $100, ,O00 belonging to the com l pany and fled to foreign lands. He was event. ually captured, taken back to Chicago, tried, | found guilty, and the other day sentenced to | ten years imprisonment.
 J. M. Lunsford and six of his children were burned or smothered to death while asleep in | their residence, at Nelsonville, Ohio. Only Mrs. Lunsford and one child escaped. The Michigan Democrats and Greenbackers have united on State ticket, with John B. l Shipman for judge of the supreme court at the head. The platform adopted deprecates the tendency to standardization of power opposes war claims, demands that all money be made 8 full legal tender, calls for the substitution of | greenbacks for national bank bills, gays money enough to meet the requirements of business should be issued, and opposes all monopolies.
 Mrs. J. F. Coulson, of Coolville, Ia., locked | her three children, whose ages ranged between three and nine years, in the house while she visited & neighbor. During her absence the house was burned to the ground, and the three little ones perished in the flames.
 l Five lives have been lost and all the business | part of Reno, New, destroyed by fire. The fire started in the morning at the west end of | the business streets back of the Masonic block. strong gale was blowing, and it leaped from house to house and block to block with the rapidity of lightning. In three hours the | whole business portion of the town was in | ashes with the exception of the Masonic build | ings. Among the buildings destroyed are three | freight depotg, Bander's bank, the postofics, | Shoemakers drug store, the Pollard Interna. !. | tional and Arcade hotels, the depot, Davidson's and Frederick's jewelry stores, Penninger & | Osburns drug store, both telegraph offices, | Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office, the railroad and | baggage rooms, the Baptist and Catholic academy of music, Barnett's Prescott's and | Grey X Issac's dry goods stores, Abraham's s and Nathan's clothing stores, and Manning l and Ducks farmers cooperative association | grocery stores. Two or three Central Pacific trains, including the lightning train, were also destroyed. The logs IS about $l 900, 900, and the insurance only about $150, ,000. The five | lives known to be lost are those of Mrs. John Beck, John Riley and three tramps. A number | Of persons were injured. Several farmhouses two miles down the meadows were set afre by l the sparks and destroyed. After working un- | til exhausted the whites forced the Chinese to work on the engines.
 | From yyass:lngern. l An altercation in the Senate lobby between | Dom Piatt, editor of the Washington Capital and William McGarrahan, who has been promi- nently before the country in connection with a
 large silver mine claim, led to blows. Piatt was knocked down and badly beaten in the face. The parties to the row were opponents ! in the claim referred, and just before the trouble a bill in McGarrahan's interest had been laid over in the Senate, upon Senator Mo l Donalds objection.
 The President in his veto of the Chinese em- | igration bill, says the measure is virtually 8 | denunciaticn of the whole Burlingame treaty