The examiner., 1882-04-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE steamer Sidney L. Wright, on her way from New York to Porto Rico, was wrecked, and with her crew of five men went down.
 REV. DR. ORvILLE DEWEY, well known Uni tartan divine, died few days since at Sheffield, Mass, aged eighty-eight years.
 BY the strike of the operatives employed in the great Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass, more than 5000 persons have been thrown out of employment.
 HE tugboat Henry c. Pratt, lying at 8 Phil adelphia wharf, exploded her boiler, killing five men and causing considerable damage to buildings in the vicinity. The body of George Scully, captain of the tugboat, was blown 250 feet over two buildings, striking the ground alive. .' .. -@
 THE captains of several vessels which ar- rived in New York few days ago report that they had passed through enormous masses of dead fish, the sea being covered with them for over forty miles. The fish had probably been killed by some volcanic eruption.
 FOUR thousand persons were thrown out of employment at Troy, N. r., by the strike of
 nolders.
 THE comet recently discovered from the Dudley ob ervatory, Albany, is only 160 900, GOO miles di,tant, and approaches the earth at the
 rate of 9 GOO, GOO miles day, but is expected to
 switch of when still 80, 900. 900 miles away. FIVE persons were hanged for murder the other day in Pennsylvania. At Harrisburg Frank and Henry Rumberger were hanged for the murder of Daniel Troutman on the 14th of November, 1880, at his home in the upper end of Dauphin county. The men broke into his house for | robbery. Troutman shot at one of them as ho | was f1eeing but the other shot and killed him. At Middleburg, Jonathan Mover was executed | for aiding his brother-who is also under sen- | tence of death for complicity in the same | crime-to murder John Kintzler, an old fortune-t teller, and his wife in 1877. At Pitts burg Edgar F. Small suffered the extreme | penalty of the law for murdering Nicholas Jacoby, with whom he had quarreled. At Clearfield John A. Nevelling was hanged for the murder of Samuel Pennington in 1880. And on the same day that these executions occurred in Pennsylvania John McOarthy was hanged at Angelica, N. T., for the murder of Patrick Markey.
 GEORGE E. LANE, of Exeter, N. H., banker, and county treasurer until January last, gave
 himself up to the sheriff of Kent county and
 confessed that he had appropriated about s25,- 900 of the county's money and over $2O, 900 of
 the cash belonging to depositors. Heavy specu-
 lation in stocks is the cause of his downfall. Two accidents occurred the other day on one of the New York elevated railroads. In one
 two trains collided and narrowly escaped being thrown into the street, and in the other little girl fell under the wheels of train and was
 literally cut to pieces
 FOUR colored men were drowned at Laytons
 Pa., while coming down the Youghiogheny river in an old boat which sank when it reached the falls
 AN elephant, said to be the largest in the | country, was sold at auction the other day in | Hoboken, N. J., for st, 600. ..- -= .-...- JOHN LEWIS, prominent politician of Scran- 1 ton, Pa., had his head blown of while firing a | blast iu mine. | THE inadequate water supply of New York | has led to the promotion of a company which
 proposes to build an aqueduct from Lake | George to the city-a distance of 225 miles-at | an expense of $50, ,OOO, 900.
 Two brothers-James and Elliott Bassett
 respectively twenty-one and nineteen years old -were burned to death and three frame build
 ings were destroyed by fro in Ansonia, Conn. -.t .-s-- DURING severe gale at Evansburg, Pa., 8 thlee-story brick houss. in the course of erec-
 ton, was blown down, and two mtn-William
 Hunt and Frank McDonald-were killed. John
 Houser and William Sharle were fatally in-
 juled and five others were slightly hurt In
 Pitt. burg Pa., during the same storm, 8 simi-
 lar accident occurred, and two workmen were
 fatally injured.