The Newtown bee., 1879-06-10

The AIneriean Museum, on the Bowery, New 5York, has been destroyed by fire, and loss incurred of $20000 One of the human curi- osities-Stcwart, the without and iees-narrowly escaped cremation, and an edu- cutea INe was turned into roast pork.
 % f Pa f paadleTs add & in the so iGon men were thrown out of work. k Thirteen hundred and thirty delegates were present at the Maine State Greenback Conven- lion held in Portland. Joseph III. smith was unanimously nominated for Governor. The platform affirmed the principles of the platform ot the Maine Convention of l87S demanded measures for the restoration of American ship- ping, and adopted greenback money resolu- tions adding: We oppose all subsidies or lsgalized monopolies; we favor few and simple laws, and those vigorously enforced and we hereby denounce communism in all it's forms and phases" , .. -
 The Duke of Argyll father of the Marquis - Q. LGrns Goyernor- General of Canada, ar- two daughters, and after sholl -aat nroraejod r to Quebec. " ~ &aG4a&Ess& NSN Sixteen Brooklyn aldermen have been fined Sl59 each for contempt of court in failing to call special election to fill the aldermanic scat claimed by Congrcssmnn Daniel O'Iieilly.
 Western and Southern States.
 John II. Lewis and son, farmers residing near Winchester, Ind, quarreled with John Lumpkins and his two about ditch Lewis was cutting Lumpkns' eldest instantly killed, and the youngest son and father were severely injured. Young Lewis was fatally iajurcd by blow on the head with pick. The elder Lewis surrendered himself Petersburg (va.) dispatch says that at a colored baptizing in that city highly edu- onted deai and dumb mute named Burwel Lancaster, aged twenty -one, was baptized, and alter returning from the water he threw the rro crowd into consternation by giving a lusty shout of "Thank God r' after which he was again taken deaf and dumb.
 A crowd of seventy-fve men entered the pail at Bakersfield, Cal, and hung two men who were awaiting U ial for murder.
 The Ohio Republicans, in convention assem- WJe bled at Cincinnati, have nominated q State F ticket hcnded by Charles Foster for Governor. Andrew Hickenlooper is tho candidate for lieutenant Governor. Theballot for Governor stood: Foster, 2S0; Judge Taft, 27l; neces- sary to n choice, 277 The platform adopted condemns tho of the Democrnts in Congress in regard to the appropriation bills, Z praises the governmonts financial administra- ton, and thanks the President and Republican members of Congress for tho stand taken against the majority. Daniel Clark has been nominated for Gov crnor by tho Iowa Greentackcrs, and plat form adopted in conformity with the party's principles. 68 M3N&M EfH M&#& About two o'clock in the morning Are was discovered in the lower floor of the Washing ton House, at Hagerstown, Md. The flames rushed up the starsways, completely cutting off n N all escape. There upward of sixty per- in the house, besides the regular boarders nearly all oi whom were compelled to escape ny CHnDulE uoWn bHe pOrcn plllitrS SeVerhl of those who escaped in this way sustained serious injury by falling. Two persons were killed and number of others less ~ dangerously injured. lNsN&& EYE A#Wfs5eF Troy Dye, formerly Public Administrator of Sacramento Co.,, Cal, and his partner in crime, Edward Anderson, were hanged at Sacramento for the murder of A. NJ. Tullis, last August. The murder for which the two men were ex- fccuted was the most remarkable in the crirni- nal annals of the Pacific coast. Tullis was m old bachelor residing at Grand Island, short dis tance down the river from Sacramento City, who, by thrift and frugality, had accumulated an estate of about $50, 900; and to get hold of this Public Administrator, Dye p1anned tho murder and had it perpetrated by Anderson and q man named Clark, partner of Dyes in the snloon business in Sacramento.
 q NIajor-GeneralE James Shields, late United States Senator from Missouri, died suddenly and unexpectedly at Ottumwas la. where he had been featuring. General Shields was born 7n Ireland in l8l 10, ard came to this country in 1876. He was elected to the Illinois Legisla- ture in lS30,s became State Auditor in 1S39 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of the State in l843, and in 1S45 was made General Land Commissioner. He came out of the Mexican a Brevet- Major General, in 1S46 appointed Governor ol Oregon F0W Territory and the next year was elected to the United States Senate from Illinois. Moving to Minnesota he was sent to the United States Senate fronfimt S@nte' in lS57.FD DurisE ntae war he serxSu Aas V general Fl. th6 Union army, and afterward taking up his residence in Wisconsin he was president of the Democratic State Convention in 1868. Moving to Missouri General Shields again came prominently into