The examiner., 1882-03-25
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
 AT Waterbury, vt., Michael McCafrie, aged
 fifty years, in a fit of insanity, killed his wife,
 of the same age, and his own mother, aged eighty years, and concealed their bodies in the ce lar of his house.
 @-SARAH BURR. an old woman who died re- gently in New York, has bequeathed S, OO0,0 900 to institutions in the metropolis and other parts of the country.
 MRS. MELVILLE, wife of Engineer Melville, of the Jeannette. has received & letter at her residence in Philadelphia from her husband, in which he expresses the belief that Com mandor Do Long and the twelve men with him have perished.
 RALsroN, McQUA1DE x Co.,, bankers, of Fair view, Pa., have suspended. The liabilities are between $20O, 900 and $500, GOO.
 BOILER explosion in Goodwin Brothers shoe shop at Lynn, Mass, leveled tho build ing, killed several men and injured ethers.
 SMALLPOX assumed an epidemic form at South Bethlehem, Pa., 13O persons out of population of 900 being down with the dread disease.
 HAzAEL, winner of the recent champion pedes- trian match in New York; departed suddenly and secretly from Philadelphia for England in order to escape the clutches of deputy sheriff who was after him with attachment issued in favor of former trainer.
 THE mouth of J. ". Clark & O. s mines near Pittsburg, Pa, is about three hundred yards from the Mpnonoahca river. and the coal is brought in cars down a steep incline to tipple at the waters edge, where the barges are loaded for shipment. The other day several sfa dirTtr ha fa1 or1 awaiting the arrival of cars. Suddenly loaded car broke loose at the head of the incline l. came whizzing down with fearful velocity and crushed into the tipple, instantly killing three men.
 NINETEEN women graduated the other day from tho Women's Medical college of Phila- delphia.
 SERGEANT MASON, convicted by court martial of shooting at the assassin Guiteau, has ar rived at the Albany penitentiary. Resolutions aeking executive clemency for him were pro posed in the legislatures of New York and New Jersey.
 ALL business was suspended and health off, cers were given police power at South Bethle- hem, Pa., on account of the extraordinary spread of smallpox. Eighty-fve houses con- tained 150 cases, and more than ], 900 persons left ,he village.
 WILLIAM BRECKENRIDGE, driver employed by Brooklyn laundry, was caught in the machinery and whirled around. His hands and feet were torn off and he died in less than half an hour.
 FREDERICK A. PALMER, late auditor of the city of Newark, N. J., has been sentenced to State prison for twenty years by Judge Depue, on eight indictments for obtaining about s220,- 900 from the city treasury on forged warrants.
 THE captain and fourteen men of the ship Screamer, of New York, which foundered at sea- were landed at Progincetown, Mass, hay ing been rescued by Nova scotian brig. Three men are known to have perished, and it is feared that fourth was also drowned
 PROFESSOR Boss, of Albany, N. r., has veri- fled the discovery of the first comet of the year, made by Charles s. Wells, of the Dudley ob- servatory.
 HENRY G. RODGERS, who was United States minister to the kingdom of Sardinia under the administration of President Van Buren, and one of the three surviving members of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1887, died the other night in the Lancaster (Pa.) county almshouse aged nearly eighty years.
 MRS. HARRIET E. SPRAGUE, young widow, while leaving meeting at Cherryfield, Me, was killed by Chester Cunningham, who cut her throat The murderer had been paying his victim attentions, and his crime was prompted by jealousy.
 LABOR strikes are announced in various DOT tions of the country. At Lawrence, Mass, the strike of the mill operatives assumed formida- ble proportions.
 CAR attachel to freight train jumped the track near Downingtown, Pa., and run into by another freight train. The engine of the latter train and eight cars Were thrown over an embankment thirty three feet high and seven other cars filled wivh merchandise were completely wrecked. illiam Fllley en- gineer, fatally injured, and c. Keeser, fireman was killed.