The examiner., 1882-03-11
THE WORLDS NEWS.
ASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES

EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
 A FIRE at New Haven, Conn.,, destroyed the large dry goods store of Edward Mailey & Co.,, doing d mage estimated at s175,o0o
 AN underground telegraph company has been es abiished ih New York city, with capi- tai of $200, 900.
 HE Western New York Dairymen's associa- ton held meeting at Jam estown and effected an organization with e6-Goyernor R E. Fem ton as president.
 COMMITTEE of the American Agricultural association met in New York few days ago and discussed the plans for 8 proposed national agricultural exposition to be held in the me- tropolis in 1883.
 IT is estimated that tho recent loss of four Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooners has made twenty-two widows and sixty-two fatherless children, many of whom are in destitute cir cumstances
 THE will of Charles Albert Read, lately de- ceased, of Newton Mass, gives s5o,ooo to the treasury of the United States to be ap- piled to the reduction of the war debt. To the attending physician of the testator $500 is given on condition "that my head is severed from my dy, as have great horror of being buried a1ve.''
 THE recently suspended Pacific National bank, of Boston, has resumed business
 EDISON L. FULLER, awaiting sentence in the Vermont State prison at Windsor for the muir der of MT. Witham in Readsboro, hanged him. | self with his suspenders in his cell He was found and cut down ten minutes later, but | could not be resuscitated.
 A MAN at Utica, N. r., drank two quarts of whisky, for wager, and died shortly after ward. 5#r AN international rifle match between English and American teams will be shot at Creedmoor | in September and return match at Wimble- | don next year.
 PETER DONALDSON, bookkeeper for W. V. Mcfarland & Co.,, New York lard dealers who failed few weeks ago, disappeared, and an examination of his accounts proved him to be a | defaulter for several thousand dollars. | THE British bark William J. Stairs, from Liverpool for New York, was wrecked off Long Branch, N. J. Of the officers and crew, com | prisine fifteen men, all but the cabin boy, were rescued by the men of the Life-Saving Station No. 5.
 MILTON S. LATHAM, prominent citizen oi San Francisco ex-governor of California, and | York the other day, aged fitty-six years.
 OF the ten men who started in the last six day ou-pleaso pedestrian match in New York, four-Vint, Panchot, Scott and Rowell- | dropped out before the contest ended. The match was for $1, 900 entrance money put uI by each man, diamond whip emblematic oi the championship, and 8 share in the gate money for all the contestants. who covered 525 miles. On the first day O the match the hitherto invincible Powell made the unprecedented score of 15( miles in less than twenty-three hours, and il was then generally supposed that he would again prove victorious, as he had secured { | good lead over his competjtors-a lead whicf he maintained until the fourth day of tht match, when he broke down, and on the fifth day he retired, after making nine miles, hi total score for the five days being 415 miles After Rowells collapse, Hazael, of England went to the front, where he remained to tn end of the match, although hard pushed by Fitzgerald, whose record of 582 miles, mad in match last D cember, was the best per formance up to the present contest The scorer made by the six men who were on the tracl when the contest closed on the sixth day ant the amount of their winnings were as follows Hazael, 600 miles-s9, GOO in stakes and SIC, ,O0 gate money; Fitzgerald, 577 miles 900 il stakes and s4,0OO gate money; Noremac | 555 miles -$2, 400; Hart 542 miles-$1, 600 Hughes, 535 miles-s1, 200; Sullivan, 525 mile $500. About 40, 900 persons paid $1 each t. | ee the match
 | THE New Jersey house of assembly unani mously adopted s resolution congratulatine Queen Victoria on her escape from assassina. on.
 CONSIDERABLE excitement was created ir l Boston financial circles by the failure of the banking house of Charles A. Sweet & Co. The liabilities of the firm were put st s2, 800, GOO and it was stated they would probably pay uI in full. Shrinkage in the value of railroad se i curities held by the firm is given as the cause of the suspension.