The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

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The defalcations of Palmer and Hall, the
Newark IN. j. officials, are estimated at
$780, 900.
AT Biddeford, Me-, Leon Moore, . clerk,
shot and killed Miss Belle Cushman school
teacher to whom he was engaged to be mar
ried, and then killed himself. They were each
twenty-one years old. The deed is supposed
to have been prompted by jealousy.
PHILADELPHIA threatens to abolish the cleo
| trio light. Twenty-Five buildings were recently
set on fire in one day by means of the wires.
A PHILADELPHIA election officer, convicted
of fraudulent counting, has been fined 800,
sent to prison for six mouths and debarred
| from holding Office or voting for seven years.
The annual report Of the Massachusetts
savings banks shows the number of banks to
be 1865; liabilities, $685. $50, 1878; number OF
accounts, 1888, 951-increase, 80 $50 deposits,
$3.50 444, 479. 1o-increase, s13, 1926, 55673; sur
| plus on hand, $14, 800.
| A COLLISION between two freight trains near
! Christiana, Pa, resulted in the death OF an
engineer, fireman and brakeman and the
1 destruction of two locomotives and seven
| loaded cars.
| THE late William F. Weld, the Boston mil
lionaire, leaves an estate valued at s21 900 600,
| all of which, with the exception of So, 900 left
for charitable purposes goes to his family.
The estate is the largest ever administered
upon 10 Boston.
a sU,-DAY go-as-you-please pedestrian con-
test o. New York ended with the success of
Patrick Fitzgerald, who covered $50 miles, thus
defeating the best previous score, SIS miles,
maize by Vint last May Noremac came in
sec ond, with SOS miles; Herty third, with $50
m lies; Krohne fourth, with 500 miles, and La
c. ,use fifth, with sol miles The prizes were
81, 500 and q silver trophy for first man, $500
for second, $500 for third. 5000 for fourth and
500 for fifth.
THE failures throughout the United States in
1881 are reported by R. G. Dun & Co.'s New
York Mercantile agency as numbering 1892
A with liabilities amounting to s81, 1885, 1882. They
B say in their circular: GAS to the proportion of
/ failures to those engaged in business, our sta
| tistics show that in 1876 the failures were / in
every SO persons; in 1877, in rs; in 1873, in
| 81; in 1879, in los; in 1880, in 1853; while in
F! 1881 the proportion was in $40. The advan-
| sage in favor of the year just closed over the
average of years is therefore very marked"
FEW mornings ago fire broke out in the
boarding house of Garrett Abois, at Richburg,
N. Y. Mr.. Abois, aged seventy carried his
sick and infirm wife out of the house and
raid hep in her night clothes in the snow.
Three of his children, aged respectively thir-
! teen, twelve and ten, two girls and one boy
| were burned to death. All of the ten boarders
| escaped in their night clothes, but three were
| fatally burned.
LAST year 1929 vessels arrived at New York
from foreign ports, of which 1853 were steam
ships, 408 ships, 1850 barks S83 briggs and
1886 schooners. OF the steamships 1875
were British, 206 German and 1913 American.
OF the sailing vessels of all classes 1,641 were
American, 1869 British, 619 Norwegian, 399
Italian and 800 German. In 1880 1917 vessels
arrived from foreign ports, of which !, S95 were,
steamships.
The record Of arrests by the New York city
police in 1881 shows, in round numbers, SO, 500
OF this total about 50,s0O prisoners were men.
There were 38, G09 deaths and &c, 1870 births in
the city during last year.
Four passenger cars were precipitated down
an embankment near Kennebec, Me-, and
catching fire were entirely consumed. Two
men were killed outright and about fifty four
more were injured, several fatally.
ANGELO CoRNETro, a convict at the Sing Sing
On. " prison, crept behind Daniel Cash,
another convict, and inflicted stab which
caused death in twenty minutes. A short time
ago Onofirio Mangano, another italian convict
killed colored prisoner named Williams and
at Manganese trial Cash was the principal wit
ness for the prosecution and Cornetto for the
defense.
THE annual auction sale of pews in Mr.
Beechers Plymouth church, Brooklyn, brought
s25, 492, the first choice going for s425.
THE total number of disasters to steamships
in 1881 is put by New York paper at 19s of
which fifteen were American and al British
vessels.
AT the opening of the New York legislature
no organization was effected in either branch.
Although the Democrats have slight majority
in both houses, the refusal of the Tammany
members to go into the Democratic caucus and
to vote for the officers nominated in that eau
Gus prevented organization and caused dead
lock.