The examiner., 1881-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.


 JEFFERSON DAVIS arrived in New York the | other day on an ocean steamer from Europe
 He was on his way with his family to look after
 his plantation in Tennessee.
 A COMPANY is forming in Philadelphia tc
 make glucose from cassava, tuber which
 grows luxuriantly in the southern part of the | United States.
 A NEW counterfeit national bank note has
 just been put in circulation. It is good inn. l tation of the ive-dollar note issued by the
 Bovleston National bank, of Boston. | JOHN ". FoRNEY, the well-known Philadel- phia journalist, died at his home in that city 8 few days ago. aged sixty-four years. MT. For ney had been clerk of the House of Representa- tives, secretary of the United States Senate and l collector of the port of Philadelphia, and had wide acquaintance among the prominent men of the day. At the time of his death he was editor and proprietor of Proqress. BOILER burst in the Keystone rolling mill, Pittsburg, Pa., completely demolishing the | boiler house, and killing one man and seriously injuring ten more.
 THE recently suspended Pacific National bank, of Boston, is to resume business. PAsoUALE TAoUcINTo an Italian ragpicker. living in squalid New York tenement, quar- reled with his wife, aged only fourteen years shot her dead, then killed his mother-in-law, l and followed up his double crime by desper- ately wounding himself in an attempt to com- | init suicide.
 l ONoFRIo MANGANo, convict at the Sing Sing l (N. Y.) prison quarreleds with colored con- 1 vict named Williams and stabbed him to death l MaDgano was serving life term for having killed his wife, and Williams was the third person whom he had murdered.
 TERRIBLE fire which broke out early in the morning in & frama clearinghouse occupied by railroad workmen, at Gibson's station, eight miles from Fittsburg, Pa., resulted in the frightful death of ten men and severe injuries to ten others, one of whom died in the hospital the same night, while two or three more were not expected to recover. The fire originated in the upsetting and consequent explosion of kerosene lamp. An eyewitness says: ' Be- tween and o'clock MT. McCune, the board ing house keeper, rose and lighted the kitchen fire. Leaving lighted lamp on table near the dining-room door, he went to arouse his wife and the servants. In his absence the ex- plosion occurred and the dining-room was in flames. Mir. McCune made his escape with his wife and the servant, and shouted to those upstairs to run for their lives. In another moment the flames had enveloped the stairway, thus cutting off all means of escape for the men above except through the small openings at either end, and from these the sliding doors had to be removed: The loft was filled with straw and combustible material used as bed- ding, and only those who were nearest the o7-o4 4IoS~ made for these openings by the half-crazed men and struggle for life took place, each trying to crowd the others out of tho way, as only one at time could be forced through the windows on account of their small size. Some of the poor fellows, seeing that all could not escape in this way, tried to dash downstairs and through the flames, only to meet horrible death. The men lad not even time to clothe themselves, so sudden was the alarm and so quickly did the fire make head way. Those who made their escape seemed so bewildered by the sudden outburst of flame and the cries of their companions that they rushed back into the burning building, at tempting to their property. At this mo- ment a crash came. The frail walls, weakened by the flames, crushed in upon the unfortunate men, and their cries for help were drowned in the roar of the flames In few moments the flames were dying away and the scene that fol- lowed was terrible Shrieks and groans went up on every side from the poor unfortunates who had been burned and scorched. Men with great patches of skin and flesh peeled from their bodies rolled upon the ground in their agony. Half dozen Pittsburg physicians hastened to the scene of the fire as soon as they received word of the sad calamity and did all in their power to alleviate the sufferings of the living.
 A FIRE near Pittsburg, Pa., destroyed Graaf Bennett x Co.'s rolling-mill, employing about 1000 hands. The loss is estimated at $500. 900.
 THE Keely motor stockholders, at their annual meeting in Philadelphia, after an ami mated discussion, adopted the report of the directors that the inventor should, for the pro- lection of the stockholders, communicate to some other person than himself the secrets he had discovered, and take out patents to cover his invention.
 THE New York State board of health has issued memorandum in which it says that " this board views with great apprehension the widespread smallpox contagion along the routes of travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and in numerous manufacturing towns in sev- eral States.'' The board requests immediate information from any point in the State where tho dread disease may have broken out.