The Sentinel., 1882-01-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
eastern and Middle s+a+..s

Eastern and Middle States
Boston is to have statue Of the late Presi
dent Garfield.
The Massachusetts and Connecticut Iegis-
latures are in session.
PROFESSOR JOHN W. DRAPER, NJ. D., ILL., D..
tho noted scientist and author, died the other
morning at his home in Hastings on the
Hudson, aged seventy years.
DURING 1881 nearly $500 buildings were
erected in New York city, at total cost of SAT-
700, ,00O Among the edifces were six churches,
six schools, eight hotels and thirty public
buildings.
]. W1NsLow JONES & Co., packing firm of
Portland, Me-, have failed for 1882, 900. The
firm owned fifteen corn and five lobster fac
tories in Maine, and fourteen lobster and
salmon factories in the provinces
THE Massachusetts State debt, as shown bv
Governor Longs annual message, is $50, &c.,
464.
AN additional deficit of $3.50, 900 has been
discovered in the accounts of the recently sus-
pended Pacific National bank, of Boston.
the duties of his new position as president of
the Lincoln National bank of New York.
The schooner Cara Lee arrived at Pigeon
Cove, near Rockport, Mass, bringing five men
alive and two dead, picked up adrift in an open
boat. They are the crew of the schooner Bird,
of Rockland, Me-, bound for Boston with plas-
ter. The vessel sank, and the men, eight in
number, took to boat and were picked up
forty miles from Cape Ann. On the death of
the second mate, who was the last to expire,
the five survivors cut his throat and sustained
life by sucking the still warm Blood from his
body. ~
Two Mormon missionaries are reported to be
making numerous converts in portions of West
ern Pennsylvania.
MARTIN KANKowsKY, who murdered Nina
n .ar Hoboken, N. j., was hanged in the jail at
Jersey City, N. ]. He met his death without
fear or bravado, and with declaration of his
innocence at the very moment when he was
lifted off his feet by the rope Kankowsky mar
ried his victim and then murdered and robbed
her. He leaves wife and two children. On
the same day of Kankowskys execution Joseph
Abbott was hanged at Elmira, N. Y, for kill
ing George Reed, a fellow-convict in the New
York State reformatory, in April, 1880.
EDWIN W. SToUGHToN United States minis
ter to Russia under Hayes administration,
died few days ago at his home in New York,
aged sixty-three years.
AN explosion of fire damp in q coal mine
near Lansford, Pa, caused partial cavjng in
of the mine and injured nine men, several of
them being hurt to death.
One of the five buildings that constitute the
sugar refining works of Havemeyer Elder,
in Williamsburg, Long Island, has been totally
destroyed by fire. This refinery is said to
have been the largest in the world, its capacity
being over 400 barrels day. The building
burned was six stories high, and contained
nearly all the machinery used in refining
valued at $3.50, ,000-and s60O,O worth of
sugar. The total loss is put at about 81, $780,
000 and 5000 men are thrown out of employ
ment.
OSCAR WILD, English poet and apostle of the
"1Esthetes," delivered his first lecture in this
country few nights ago before New York
audience.
WHILE a strong wind was blowing at Syra-
cuse, N. Y, two walis-all that remained of
building which had been destroyed by fire
week previous-fell upon a restaurant and pre-
cipitated the fourteen inmates into the cellar
Three young men were killed, and two men
were fatally and about ten more seriously in
jured.