The Newtown bee., 1879-06-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Eastern and Middle States.

Wendell Phillips spoke and an address py Peter Cooper was read.
 At Jerome Park New York, tho great one mile and halt race for the Belmont Stakes, for three-y -year-olds, was won by James R. Keene's colt Spendthriit in 2t422.
 Peter Swigler, a colored man, was hanged at Chambersburg Pa. for the murder of another oolored man lust December. Heappeared un- ' concerned on the scaffold, saying "All l got to say is what brung me here is whisky and had company. 1 adyisG+ all young men to let whisky aionn,"
 By the explosion of boiler in briclyard at Freedom, Pa, John Bryan and Frank Ma,heny were instantly killed and four other men badly hurt
 Great consternation was caused in Shenan- doah, Pa, by the sudden sinking of many buildings ill the town and the appearanee of cracks in the ground three or tour inches wide and one-quarter of a mile long. The openings are over a mine and are believed to have been caused by the coal being cut too near the sur face.
 At Rochester, \. Y, Peter Peters, Prus- sian, aged fifty shot his wife, fatally wound ing her. and then blew his own brains out The tragedy was caused by family troubles, the man complaining that his wife thought more of their three boys than ci himself.
 Felix McCann, aged fifty -four, was hanged at Norwich, N Y., for the murder of James M. Hatch in Sherburne on December 3, lS7S The immediate provocation was that Hatch had shot a chicken of McCann's; but there had been bad blood between the two families, grow ing out of McCann's second marriage.
 Lightning struck Rev. George Clarkes cot tage ct Asbury Park, N. J., and instantly killed James Kelly and B, Fenton, two paint CTS who had been working on the buildings, but had taken refuge in the porch.
 Three young men Charles Fifield, Wm. O. Pinkham and William Rowell-were drowned in Salem (AIass.) harbor by the capsizing of a sailboat.
 The great strike of Iron workers at Pitts burgh, Pa, Is at end, the iron manufac- turers having resolved at meeting that under existing circumstances they deem it inexpe- dient to resist further the unjust demands of the boilers."
 Judge Blatchford, in the United States Cir cult Court at New York, has decided, in the suit agreed upon by Representatives s. E. Chittenden and B. F. Butler, that the reissue of legal tenders in time of peace was valid The case will be taken to the United States Supreme Court, where 1t will be argued by Senator Edmunds one side and General Butler on the other
 As Mrs. Honora Lacy was driving from Will mington Del, to her home in Chester county Pa., some cotton and straw in the bottom of the carriage were gnited by match, and in instant the whole interior of the vehicle was in blaze. The horse became frightened, away, and before it was stopped Mrs. Lacy literally roasted alive, her flesh being burned to crisp. She died early the next morning
 At Jersey City, N. J., Mrs. Jenny R. Smith and her lover, Covert D. Bennett, the con- victed murderers of the formers husband, Policeman Richard H. Smith, were sentenced to be hanged on the 25th of July. Mrs. Smith received the sentence with composure, but Bennett had to be supported from falling. The crime for which the prisoners were sentenced IS briefly told as follows: On the morning of August l, 1878, Police Officer Richard Harri- son Smith, of Jersey City, was found dead in his bed at his house, No. l33 Pacific avenue. His wife said that while she was in bed by his side she saw a man in the room who chloro- formed her. and when she awoke her husband was dead. The officcr's skull was fractured in two places and there were seventeen stab wounds in the left breast Mrs. Smiths night garments were entirely tree from blood. The suspicious circumstances caused the police to arrest her and her paramour, Bennett While in jail they corresponded, and an eight-page letter written by Bennett was intercepted and assisted largely in their conviction. 1t appears to be the general belief throughout Jersey City that whether the condemned receive trial or not they will never be executed.
 Edward Parr, an old man convicted in Phil adelphia of brutaly murdering his married daughter, fell to the floor of the courtroom as sentence of death was pronounced upon him by the judge; and upon examination it was found he had taken dose of strychnine. AL though the doctors tried hard to keep him alive he died after eighteen hours of terrible suffering.
 Western and Southern Stases.
 While workmen were tearing down the ruins of a five-story building in Cincinnati that had been destroyed by fire one of the interior walls suddenly fell, carrying with 1t portions of the second, third, fourth and fifth floors and twelve of the fifteen men, four of whom were killed and the rest injured
 Nine colored men and women were arrested in Portsmouth, Va, for disorderly conduct, and upon the mayors order the whole party were whipped, receiving thirty y-nine lashes each at the whipping-post.
 The planters of Washington county, Miss, have issued memorial, addressed % the business men and benevolent societies of the North, saying that if single boat should make it's appearance, offering free passage to Kansas to the colored people, it would create such q stampede that every plantation accessi ble to the Mississippi would be depopulated and their owners financially ruined. The memorial says further that the colored man has real cause tor dissatisfaction, and the people of the North are invoked to C interpose their condemnation and power to prevent the destruction of the industrial interests of the white and black alike ofthe Mississippi valley" The Workingmcn's State Convention, held in San Francisco, nominated F. White, a | farmer, for Governor Dennis Kearney was reelected permanent president ot the party. | Alter session lasting several days the Ma | tional Convention of Brewers adjourned at St. Louis to meet in Buffalo, N. Y, the first Wednesday in June, 1880.
 | J. J. Ayers, editor of the Los Angeles Er- press, was nominated for Congress for the | urtb ctrict If uli bxyt tha -ip mems Convention.
 Two monuments erected to the memory o Confederate dead were unveiled at Stonewal ! Cemetery, Winchester, Va. General Joseph l.. Johnston was the chief marshal of the pro cession, and United States Senator Morgan, o | Alabama, the orator of the occasion. Gov ernor Holiday also spoke.
 John Blan, hanged at St. Charles, Mo-, fol murdering Elijah Warren, his brother-in-law after quarrel made a desperate attempt tc escape just before the execution, but wa: caught in the ante-room ofthe jail and secured On the same day Munroe Guy, colored, was hanged at Hillsboro, Mo-, for killing AafoI McPete last Christmas.
 A bloody double tragedy, the result of long standing feud between the White ant Corners families of Ottawa, H., and vicinity
 took place few days ago. Lawrence Whit
 was shot dead by a revolver in the hands 0
 D. T. Corners, who was himself immediatel,
 thereafter killed by bullet from some un
 known hand
 A fire at Dwight, H., destroyed clever
 business houses and one dwelling, causing
 loss of S75,00O.
 Heavy trosts have done considerable damag
 to crops in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin an
 some portions of Illinois.
 terrible riot at Mcintosh, Ga, between
 negroes belonging to the place and party c
 cOlOred excurSiOnlStS from another county. re
 suited in the death of five men and the wound ing of many more.
 The Association of Medical Superintendent 1 ot Ann Institutions for thta Insana con,