The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-11-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Eastern and Middle states

CHARLES P MILLER, notorious New Yo-,
gambler and confidence man, was sho. and
killed in barToom By another gambler nsmel
Tracy There had been bad blood between the
two men for some time.
Two tenement houses in West Grand ssrees
View York, suddenly collapsed early in the
morning and fell together in huge mass Of
ruins Eyewitness SAP that there was sud !.
den crash and reyerberasing sound as n.
t.Iunier. A cloud Of white smoke rose above
Nos. - and s. Grand street. and when il had
cleared away i. was seen that the two BUILDINGS
had collapsed. From the mass of ruins iss,,a3
the agonized cries OF the wounded and .ba
dying. The roofs Of the buildings fell in from
The center, and under their weight the foors
were crushed and the walls bulged out, falling
with thundsriLg crash outward on the street
The Buildings were occupied by eight families
and other tenants, comprising In all about
thirty parsons, OF whom nine were killed and
fourteen more or less seriously injured.
Sanken foundations and the weight of two
floors that had been added TO the buildings
were the cause of their collapse.
I've p--oOA- @c1C OAAC VI tLlc-4 VIII
probably fatal results. by ths fan Of an elevate,
from the fifth floor to the basement OF the Bel.
Fidere hotel, New York.
LATER election returns indicate the success
Of the Republicans for State officers in New
York excepting the State treasurer, for which
position the Democratic candidate has been
successful. Both branches OF the legislature
are Democratic, the senate Standing about
seventeen Democrats 10 fifteen Republicans
and the house about sixty-sU Democrats 20
sixty-two Republicans.
Hos. J. G. BLAINE has resigned as chairman
and member OF the Maine Republican State
committee.
NEW YORK CuY has contributed more than
s125, 900 for the relief of the Michigan sufferers
By forest fires.
New YORK mercantile firm reports that for
the week ended November II the number OF
failures throughout the United States was 15s.
which is the largest number for any one week
this year.
FIRE at Old Orchard Beach, Me- destroyed
six summer hotels, causing loss of about
SIS, 600: and on the same day the flames burned
down the Bethany Orphans home near Wor-
melsdorf. Pa, causing pecuniary loss of about
$50, 900, although the si1ty-five little inmates
were all carried ont in safetF.
COLONEL ]. HOWARD WELLEs weIl-con.
nected New Yorker, has been caught in an
elaborate scheme TO blackmail Jay Gould, the
weli-known stock operator, by sending him
letters threatening death in case the sender was
not given points regarding the probable rise
and fall In stocks. Il was learned that all the
letters were mailed for station Z, and Oh Sun
day fifty detectives and fifty letter carriers
watched all the lamppost boxes in that district
Presently letter was posted which letter
carrier found to be directed to Mr. Gould, and
az signal detective arrested Welles, who had
dropped it in the box.
BIS. EDWIN BooTH, wife Of the tragedian
died the other day in New York.
THZ Massachusetts Paper company, Of Spring
field, Mass, has failed, with liabilities of
$500, 600.
OFFICIAL returns from every county in Penn
sylvania give Baily, Republican, for State treas
urer, 1902 plurality over Noble, Democrat.
sEIFF ferryboat containing nineteen per.
sons, while crossing the river from Troy, N Y,
to Port Schuyler, was swamped by the swell oil
passing propellers, and five men were drowned