The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-06-25
NEWS EPITOME.
East and Middle.

The Pennsylyauia Observation-Disclosures State
convention to nominate candidate for State
treasurer met at Pottsville. Addresses were
made by General Weaver Congressman c. N
Brumm, and ex-Congressman De La Matyr
The platform Endorses the national platform
of 1880, denounces the aggregation OF reh
estate by corporations when not iii actual use:
denounecs monopoiies: censures the legislature
for its failure to pass the anti-freight discrim-
ination bill; demands protection TO American
labor and produce denounces the national
banks for their attempt 10 coerce Congress
by the withdrawal OF their circulation; denies
the charge that the Decentralization party
favors an unlimited issue of currency, and de-
clares that only such volume of currency as
business requires shall be issued; denounces
the national bank system as legalized robbery,
and Endorses Weaver and Chambers r. W..
Jackson, of Mercer county, was nominated for
State treasurer by reclamation. Z. S. Watson
was reelected chairman of the State Central
committee. Resolutions expressing sympathy
for the land league OF Ireland and America
were adopted.
A FIRE in Brooklyn did damage to two large
warehouses to the extent of more than $500, 000
One man was burned to death and another
severely injured
ROBERT MARTIN, an Englishman fifty years
old, residing in Newark, n J., while under the
influence Of liquor, shot and killed his wife, and
then shot his two ear-oll girl, inticting fatal
wounds
AT sale in Philadelphia Of unusually fine
imported Jersey and Guernsey herd-book cat.
tie the highest price reached was 8, 500, which
was paid for six-year-old COW called Regina
". An agent of Samuel J. Tilden paid 81, 300
for Bettina w., aged four years; 300 for
Madelaine, aged four years; 81, 200 for Queen
Of the North, aged eight years; and $500 for
the three-year-old bull Dido.
Silas NJ. Waite, ex-president Of the First Ma
tional bank, of Brattleboro, W., in the United
States court at Windsor pleaded guilty to
making false return to the government officials
under the national banking act, and was SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment in the house
of correction.
In Elizabeth, N. j., Miss Fannie Walker, a
dressmaker, was shot by an insane young man
-hh5it, WuO CIdtllltu 10 DO III love WIFI
her. The young woman was not seriously
wounded, but her assailant killed himself.
A YOUNG lady of sixteen, pupil in the New
York public schools, attempted to drown herself
because she failed to pass the examination for
admission to the Normal college.
AT the Coney Island races Luke Blackburn
The "King of the Turf was defeated in the
race for the Coney Island cup, distance two
miles and quarter, by Glenmore, Monitor
roming in second and the well-known horse
Parole third
FIRE at Bethany, Pa, destroyed Dilinger
4 Sons distillery, causing a loss Of about
100000
The assay Office in New York has on hant
bullion OF the value of $50, 600 900, the larges
amount on record.
THERE has been an immense strawberry croI
this season along the valley of the Hudson.
Two brothers named Hoffman and MAJ
named Brask were drowned by the capsizins
OF a sailboat while crossing Long Island Sount
near Rye, n. Y. The father Of the Hoffman.
and another man were saved