The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-06-10
NEWS EPITOME.



The 'srecord III six-day G go-as-you- please =
pedestrian matches has again been beaten, this
time in contest in New York in which Robert
Vint a little shoemaker from Brooklyn, covered
SIS miles. John Sullivan came second with a
score of $50 miles, John Hughes third, $50
miles, and Patrick Fitzgerald fourth, 5S7 miles.
NINE hundred bicycles appeared in the first
annual procession of the League of American
Wheelmen in Boston.
DECORATION day was celebrated in New York
this year by the usual large parade of the mill
tary and civic societies and the decoration OF
graves at the various cemeteries.
A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Trenton, N. J., ran into an open switch and
three cars left the track, one Of them completely
overturning. Augustus B. Ritter, Philadel-
phia bookkeeper and Mrs. Lucretia Penning-
ton, an old lady aged eighty-one years, were
killed, and about fifteen other persons were
injured.
The first vote taken in the New York State
senate for United States Senator to succeed
Mr.. Conkling, resigned, resulted as follows
Conkling, g.; Jacobs, 6; Rogers, 5; Wheeler 4;
Cornell, 8; Folger, 2; Pomeroy, .; G. B. Brad
ley, l. The first vote in the senate for a sue
cessor to Mr.. Plat, resigned, resulted as
follows: Plat, 8; Herman, 7; Depew, Z; Miller
q Judge Noah Davis, 2; Lapham, 2; Joseph H.
Choate, 1; Sharpe, 1; Wheeler, l; Rogers, l..
The first vote in the house for successor to
Mr.. Conkling was Jacobs Al; Conkling, &c;
Wheeler, Is; Rogers s; Cornell, 6; Crow
ley, s; Evarts, 2; Wadsworth q Folger, 2;
Tremair, 2; Alvord, 2; White, 2; Edick, I;
Chapman, 1; Miller, 1; Fenton, 1; Ward.
1; Pomeroy, 1; butcher, 1; Fish, 1. And
the first vote in the house for a successor
to Mr.. Plat was: Herman, AT; Plat, 81; Depew,
IA; Cornell, IL; Lapham, 6; Folger, 9; Evarts,
5; Crowley, 8; Miller, 8; Morton, 2; Wads-
worth, 2; Tremain, 2; Choate, 1; Rogers, l;
Pomeroy, l.; Francis, /. Messrs Herman and
Jacobs received the combined Democratic
strength, except that Senator Jacobs voted for
Mr.. Bradley, while the Republican votes were
scattered
GENERAL THOMAS D. HoxsEY, Greenback
leader in New Jersey, and twice the candidate
of his party for governor, died a few days ago
near Paterson, aged sixty-six years.
The schooner Carrie S. Doyle, which sailed
from Gloucester, Mass, March Is, with crew
of twenty men, is given up as lost
Two men and boy were killed, and several
children were injured by the explosion of a
boiler in Gaffney & Co.'s dye works, Philadel-
phia The boiler was blown fully 400 yards,
forcing its way through the back brick wall,
through two fences, knocking down posts and
landing in the railroad depot yard in front of
the works.
TwENTY-sEvEN barrels of gasoline standing
on the platform of the Consolidated railroad
freight house at Springfield, Mass, caught fire
Immediately after the passing of an express
train and burned for an hour. Little damage
to surrounding property resulted, but there
were two explosions, by which several firemen
and about forty citizens were more or less in
jured.
ALFRED B. STREET, the poet, died at Albany,
N. Y, aged seventy years.
AT the opening of the New Hampshire legis-
lature, in Concord, Governor Bell delivered his
inaugural address in the presence of both
houses. The address gives the State debt as
50, 372 TO- which is less by $780, COG than it was
the previous year. The savings banks have a
deposit of s32,o97, 734, or nearly s4,Oo0,0OO
more than in 1880.