The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Eastern and Middle States.

 four miles from Bethlehem, Pa, were nearly severed from their bodies. A bloody ax was found in the apartment. Joseph Snyder, who boarded with the Gogels, was believed to be the murderer. He was found in a neighboIing barn under the straw at niue o'clock the next morning. He was imme- diately taken back to the house of his victims and questioned as to the murder. He was interrogated by the Rev. Mir. Brendle, of Bethlehem, and at once confessed to having committed the crime, telling his story with great deliberation. He was in love with the eldest daughter of the Gogels, sixteen years old, but was opposed by her parents. He be- lieved by killing them all opposition would be removed to his suit. After killing the parents he attempted a criminal assault upon the daughter, but was unsuccessful. He had scarcely confessed before a rope, taken from one of the beds, was placed around his neck, and he was dragged outside of the house and hanged to a large chestnut tree. Alter being suspended nearly twenty minutes the body was cut down by the poorhouse authorities and taken to that institution, where it was found that death was caused by strangulation. The officers of the law made vain endeavor to restrain the fury of the mob, Detective Yohe, of Bethlehem, firing at one of the 1ingleaders without effect. Several thousand people visited the scene of the tragedy during the day and the excitement was intense. Snyder was twenty-four years old. Gogel was day laborer and about forty years of age. He leaves three children.
 REV. DR. E. H, CHAPIN, one of the most noted Universalist preachers in the United States, died at his home in New York @ few days ago, aged sixty-six years. For more than thirty years Dr. Chapin had been pas- tor in New York city, and he had also ap- peared on the lecture platform in every large city in the country.
 TIE total population of Vermont, according to the census returns, is 332 2S6. Of this number l66 S8S are males and l65 398 females; 291. $40 are native and 4O,946 are foreign born; 33l ,243 are white and 1,043 colored, including six Indians and five half-breeds.
 DR. DAVID P. SMITH, of Springfield, Mass, professor in the Yale medical school, and one of the most prominent physicians in the Con- necticut valley, is dead at the age of fifty years.
 THE summer resorts along the New Jersey coast suffered considerable damage during the recent extremely heavy snow-storm. Many of the costly bulkbeads in front of the summer cottages were completely swept away. At Coney Island the damage done to the Man. hattan Beach property alone is estimated at S50. GOO.
 AT the unveIing of a small bronze statue t General Phil Kearney in Newark, N. J., Governor Mcclellan, Generals Grant and Sherman and other prominent persons par Gcipated
 DURING the last ten years Maine has gained in population p o30; Vermont, 1,735; Mas sachusetts, 5,735; Rhode Island, 59 l77, and Connecticut, s5,229. Returns from some counties in New Hampshire show gain in the same period.
 THE New York Democrats have just held a mass meeting in the Cooper Institute for the purpose of considering the condition of the party i'll the city and the best methods of re- organization.
 AT 6 special congressional election held in the Third New Hampshire district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Eyarls w. Farr, Ossian Ray, the Republican candidate, was elected. 5-
 CHARLES OCoNoR, the eminent lawyer oi New York city, has relinquished his citizen ship in New York State and become a citizen oi Massachusetts. He has taken up his permanent residence at Nantucket, having found that the climate of that place best agreed with his health. MT. O'Conor is seventy-fve years old, and is engaged upon 8 law treatise which is to be his final profess sional effort.
 A FIRE in the lower part of New York city destroye ei several large buildings used as fac- tories, causing total loss ot about ss25O,00o.
 THE taking of evidence in a suit for abso- lute divorce, begun by ex-United States sena- tor Isaac P. Christiancy against Lily M., his wife, was concluded in New York few days ago. The last day was consumed in the ex- animation of Edilberto Giro, on whose admis- sions the suit was begun. The dispositions will be forwarded to Washington for use at the next term of the United States circuit court of the District of Columbia.
 THE Eastern and Middle States have ex. perienced some of the coldest weather known in years. In New York city the thermometer registered five degrees below zero, and much
  bitten and requiring medical aid. The ther- mometer at several cities registered the fol- lowing figures below zero: Baltimore, one; Philadelphia, five; Washington, D. C., four.
 BENJAMIN K. PHELPS, the New York city district attorney, is dead in his forty ninth year.
 Western and Southern States
 J. A. GARDNER, prominent resident of Rowlett Station, Ky, was called from his house by negro boy named Campbell and asked to come to the stable. While there he was knocked down and robbed of about $130. Suspicion rested upon Campbell and 8 brother of his, and they were arrested and confessed to having committed the crime They were car r.ed to Muntordville and lodged in jail. At twelve o'clock the next night they were taken from their cells by about one hundred men and hung 10 tree. Gardner received prob ably fatal injuries.
 A MUTINY of twenty prisoners in the Co., lumbus (Ohio) jail was quelled by the police bomhardins the mutineers with cold water and chunks of coal. Several convicts were sefi- ously injured by being hit with pieces ot coal.
 EARLY on Christmas morning Walter G. Drury, drug clerk at Napoleon, Ohio, was shot and instantly killed by General Robert K. scott ot that place, formerly colonel of the Sixty eighth regiment, Ohio volunteers, and afterward governor of South Carolina. The only son ot Scott, 8 young man seventeen years old, and somewhat dissipated, had been on Christmas spree with Drury and party of friends, and early in the evening his father had succeeded in getting him home. Later the boy had gone off with his companions and finally had been put to bed by Drury in the latters room over the drug store. When Governor Scott discovered the whereabouts ot his son he went to the drug store and de-