The Newtown bee., 1880-07-28
k WEEKS EVENTS,
Easterr aaa Middle States,

Th3 population of Pennsylvania, according to the new census, is about 4,226 ,000, an in. crease of twenty per centum in ten years.
 Henry W. Shouse, 8 prominent and wealthy chants bank, was killed in Honesdale, Pa. by Benjamin J. Bartee, his brother-in-law. In company with James W. Wilson, the lawyer oi the late Judge John 5house's estate, iii Wayne and Pike counties, Pa., Mir. Shouss went to Honesdale to transaet business. He had almost completed tbts, and early in the evening he and Mir. Wilson called at the office of Justice of the Peace Eldred, an old and warm friend of Shouse. They had been con. versing tor some time and were about to separate, when Bartree, who is farmer at Ledgedale, few miles distant from Hones- dale, hurriedly entered the front office, With. out stopping to say word lie reached his right hand dowh into the hip pocket of his trousers, and, drawing a revolver, rushed in front of Shouse, placed the muzzle at his temple, and discharged the weapon twice. Mir. Shouse's head fell back in the chair in which he was sitting, and, without speaking word, he expired. Justice Eldred grappled with the murderer, and vainly endeavored to wrest tho pistol iron, his grasp, but Bartree threatened to shoot him and he fled. Bartee then fired another bullet into Shouse's body and surrendered. He was locked up.
 The steamer Dessong-Lieutenant- Com mander H. H. Gorringe U. s. N, master having tor freight " Cleopatra's Needle" the obelisk presented to tho city of New York by the khedive of Egypt, has arrived at New York.
 Mrs. Nesmith, wife of lieutenant Nesmith, U. s. A., accompanied by Bessie Fanshawe, twelve years old, and another little girl named Helen Deakon, were drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J.
 The destruction by fire of large brewery in Now York few nights ago entailed loss of about $200 900.
 After returning from a days debauch, Justin Hoffman, a shoemaker of Pittston, Pa., abused his wife and wound up by firing at her with a shotgun. The shot killed sick child in the mothers arms and fatally injured Mrs. Hoff- man. The drunken husband in his frenzy then shot at some children playing in the yard, wounding two. He was arrested and narrowly escaped lynching.
 General Neil Dow has written from Port land, Me-, his accer lnce of the nomination for President, rendered him by the National Prohibition party. Alter comm menting at some length on the merits of the liquor traffic and the responsibility of tue prohibitory move. nIent, he concludes as follows: |" consider the objects of the Prohibitionists of this coun- try to be of supreme importance to the in- terests of the nation aLd the people. Aside from it's bearing upon the moral and religious welfare of the people, consider the suppress sion of the liquor traffic to be an interest of
 
 now claiming the attention of the country. My lite has been largely devoted to the ac- complisbnent of that purpose. Perhaps I may live to zee my dearest hopes in relation to it realized at least in this, my own, State; but, however that may be, in the future as ill the past shall keep that object in view. While I sincerely wish that the choice of a candidate by the Cleveland convention had fallen on some other one thar myself, I accept the nomination willingly, being sure that it will prove to be tho humble beginning of trium- phant eud."
 Portions of New Hampshire have been visited by an earthquake, which cansed many buildings to tremble considerably, shook down dishes and pictures in several places, and in others gave forth peroeptible sound.
 An unusually heavy storm did considerable damage in portions of Pennsylvania. In Nescopeck township brick church was de- molished, two barns were blown down. crops destroyed, roads blocked and railroad trains stopped for hours.
 The Vermont Democrats at their State convention in Burlington put 8 full ticket in the field with Edward J. Phelps for governor at the head.
 Boston has 8 population of 363, 565, an in- crease oi 7l, ,066 in ten years.
 Sheriff Borland, of Westmoreland county, Pa., arrested sixty -one members of a circus on the charge of abducting and assaulting a young girl. The sixty-one circus men, dressed in all manner of costumes, were com- mitted to jail at Groensburg.