The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
NEWS EPITOME.
Eastern andMtddIe states.

Eastern and Middle States.
A BILL forbidding the consolidation Of com.
peting telegraph companies has been passed
BY the New York assembly.
THE people OF New York city and vicinity
have been experiencing the delights of
Western blizzard, accompanied by intensely
cold weather. The thermometer tumbled to
one degree below zero, and travel was
seriously impeded on the streets by snow and
ON the rivers by ice. At Saratoga, N. Y,
the thermometer fell to thirty-fye degree
below zero! From all parts of the Eastern
and Middle States came reports that the
weather was unprecedentedly cold.
MRS. JOHANNA CALLAHAN, aged seventy,
and her son William, aged thirty, were burned
TO death by an accidental fire which destroyed
their dwelling at Commercial Point, near
Boston.
LOOMS q McMAsTER, carriage manulac
tuners. of Bata, N. Y, have made an assign
nent. Their liabilities are $4,000; assets
1856, 600.
MRS. CATHARINE MILLER and George Smith
were hanged from the same scahold in the
jail-yard in Williamsport, Pa, for the murder
OF Andrew Miller, the husband of the woman,
on the eighteenth of March, 1879. The crime
for which the two were hanged was the result
OF an unhappy marriage contracted between
the woman and the victim OF their crime. Thir.
teen years ago Andrew Miller, the murdered
man, welded Catharine against her wishes and
under the compulsion of her father, who was a
shittless man. She was then about fifteen years
OF age, and Miller was forty-fve. George
Smith wa at that time her lover. Mrs. Mil
ler and her husband lived an unhappy lie.
They had three children, all girls, now aged
twelve, eight and six years. Smith continued
his attentions to Catherine after her marriage.
On the night of March Is, 1879, Smith enticed
Miller from his house. When Miller reached
the yard Smith struck him with club, telling
him to the ground. He continued beating
MIN until he was dead. Mrs. Miller then fur.
nished him with rope, and he took the body
and hung it up in the barn. Smith and Mrs.
Miller were arrested on suspicion. At first
they denied their guilt, but subsequently con.
fessed.
FRANCIS A. DURvIAGE, a well-know story
writer, died in New York few days ago,
aged sixty -seven years.
The marriage of Flora Grace, child less
than twelve years old, who by force and fraud
was married at Erie, Pa, to Louis Grace, a
man old enough to be her father, has teen dis.
solved.
IT is announced that General George B.
Mcclellan has been elected president of the
Central Underground Railroad company, of
New York city, and that he is to go to Europe
to place the bonds on the market.
IDA LEWIS, who has become famous for
having saved number of persons from
drowning, and has gained the name of the
"Grace Darling" of America, has again come
to the front as lfe-ssver Two musicians
belonging to the band stationed at Fort Adams
in Newport barber were walking on the ice to
Newport, to fill an engagement, and fell into
large hole which had been cut by men who
had been spearing for cells. They were going
down for the third time when they were
rescued by Miss Lewis, who, having heard
their cries tor help from Lime Rock lighthouse,
FASTENED to their assistance.
A FEW mornings ago the arched roof OF the
old New York Central railroad depot, in
Buffalo, n. Y, overweighted with the accu.
nlulated snow and weakened by the removal
of the Offices which formerly contributed
greatly to its support, fell crashing to the
Garth, burying number OF persons and sew
eral railway cars beneath tangled mass OF
iron, wood, glass, snow and brick When the
debris was cleared away the dead bodies OF
four men-three of them clerks in the rail-
road company's employ-were found.