The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

bank cashier Smith, of Orange, at Hoboken
received taste of Jersey Justice" in their
prompt conviction and sentence to ten years
imprisonment at hard labor. The third
prisoner pleaded mot guilty" and was re
handed fer trial.
Two heavy failures are reported from
Boston, the firms of F. Shaw DC Co., tanners,
Ind Charles w. Copeland d Co., boot and
thoe dealers, having suspended, the former
with liabilities of S3,5OO,OO and nominal
hssets of $5000,000 and the latter with
e750,000 of liabilities. F. Shaw
Coz assets include tanneries in Northern
Maine, New York State, New Brunswick and
Quebec, and 100000 acres in Maine. There
were from 10000 to $1,000 people employed
by this concern, which did the largest tan
merry business in the world.
The steamer Octorara, of the New York
Ind Baltimore Transportation company,
was sunk in Black creek, within sight of
Che sapeake bay, in a collision with the
steamer Elizabeth, of the Ericsson line, ply
ing between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
EDWARD TRoDDEN, an eight-year- boy
threw a butcher-knife at William Walker
eleven years of age, in Philadelphia. The
knife pierced Walkers body, and he died
fro the effects of the wound.
FOLLOWING the failure of F. Shaw & Co.,
the Boston tanners, five more Boston houses
engaged in the shoe and leather business
suspended.
Two freight trains-one of forty-five and
the other of twenty-five cars-collided near
Pownal, Vt, with terrific effect. The en-
eines were driven into each other, and fifty
cars were thrown from the track and piled
one on top of each other, while some of
the cars fell into the Hoosac river.
The wreckage Immediately took fire,
and six train hands, comprising the engi-
heers of both trains, a conductor, two brake
men and an OPERATOR were imprisoned under
the cars and burned to death. The groans
of the men could be heard under the wreck,
and on account of the fire they could not lie
rescued. The loss of the road is about
$4,000.
G. II. WARD, large Boston boot and shoe
manufacturer, with factories in Brockton,
Mass, and Harrington, N. H., has failed
for about $4,000. His failure was another
outcome of the suspension of Shaw Co.,
The Boston tanners.
The Pennsylvania Democrats at their
State convention in Harrisburg nominated
Robert Taggart for auditory eneral and
Joseph Powell for State treasurer, and
adopted q platform indorsing Governor
Pattison's administration.
AFTER a contest of seven weeks Austin F.
Pike was elected TO the United States Senate
on the forty-second ballot by the New Hamp-
shire legislature at Concord. The last ballot
stood: Whole number, 315; necessary for g
choice. 49, Edward H. Rollins, l; Aaron
F. Stevens, l; William S. Ladd, L; Gilman
Marston, 49, Harry Bingham, 112; Austin
F. Pike, 1S1. Mr.. Pike, having a majority
was declared elected United States Senator
for six years from March 4, 1888
Mr.. Pike was born at Hebron, N. H, in 1919
and was educated in the schools of that town
and the Plymouth and Newbury (Vt.) acade
mics. He read law in Franklin, and upor
being admitted to the bar in 1916 located il
that town, where he has since been engaged
in the practice of his profession. Mr.. Pix
represented Franklin in the legislature il
1885, 1851, 1852, 1866 and 1866, having beer
speaker the last two years, end was presiden
of that body last year. He was also mem
Der of the Forty-third Congress, 10 married
and has three children.
sc. & j. G. PHINNEY, Boston boot ant
shoe counter manufacturers, have failed
The firms liabilities are about 100000, TO
which amount they we're on Shaw d Co.
paper.
FIVE suits for damages and penalties hav
been commenced in Philadelphia agains
the Western Union Telegraph company 70
delay in transmitting messages during tn
strike of operatives.