The Newtown bee., 1879-07-16
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

John F. Seymour, a brother in law of Bishop Seymour, was found dead in the grounds of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York He was discovered early in the morning by his wife and the bishop, and had a bullet wound in his breast. MT. Seymour. who was a large and powerful man, was in the habit of going out early every morning to clear the grounds of tramps, and 1t was while out on one of these expeditions that he met with his death .-.... ...-.-...
 Mrs. Andrew Johnson, her five-year old son and little girl named Miller were drowned by the giving way of crowded wharf at Morris Island, near Trenton, NJ.
 big hole has been made in the business portion of the college town of Amherst, Mass, by an incendiary fire. The Amherst House, the largest hotel in the place, the postofficc, the Amherst Savings Bank, the public library, w. k. Stehbins' large livery stable, the Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon college secret so- ciety buildings, a number of brick and wooden blocks, and several barns and sheds were swept away. The burned district extends from Amlty street nearly to the Baptist church, about twenty rods along the upper side of the college green. The loss is from S75, 900 to $10O,00O.
 As Miss Jennie Dunbar, a young music teacher, was walking in grove near Mat teawan, N. r., several boys threw some fire crackers which exploded under her clothes, setting them afire and burning her so terribly that she died in great agony the same night.
 Joseph Akins, age seventy-one, a fruit gar dener living few miles from Greensburg, Pa, instantly killed his wife, age seventy-three, and after telling his nearest neighbor that he had "killed the old woman," placed the mug gle of the gun under his own chin and killed himself. The quarrel arose from dispute about little piece of property.
 Twelve hundred men and boys employed in tour collieries at Shamokin, Pa, struck for an advance of ten cents per wagon.
 Mrs. Josephine A. Colton, wife of a New York printer, from whom she had separated, shot and killed herself after interview with her husband.
 Herbert F. Burrell and Andrew B. Coon started from Boston for a trip around the W orld in the Golden Gate, the smallest craft that ever attempted such a feat. She is a schooner, 19 feet long, 2l feet depth ot hold and l-7 tons burthen.
 The skeleton remains of a mastodon a huge prehistoric animal, have been found at Little Britain, N. Y.
 Vanderbilt's projected new rapid transit route through some of the most prominent streets of New York has been killed by the aldermen. ..F
 One day recently q New York policeman was arrested for burglary, two others were committed for assault and four ward detectives were arraigned for not preventing something like l20 burglaries.
 Louis Schlagter, Buffalo butcher, threw a large knife at number of boys who had been annoying him, and it struck Peter Miller, eigh- teen years old, in the leg, causing a wound from which the young man bled to death.
 The largest ice-house of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, of New York, situated at Rock land Lake and containing 50, 900 tons of ice, has been destroyed by fire.
 The steamer Wyoming from Liverpool ar- rived in New York, having on board GOT Mor- mon emigrants, mostly Scandinavians. The party were in charge of thirteen "elders," and went direct to Utah.
 While bathing at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Charles Gardner, nine years of age disappeared be- meath the water, and his brother William, age twelve, sprang to his assistance, but also found a watery grave.