The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle states

Eastern and Middle States
FOREST fires have done an immense amount
OF damage In portions of New Yo.k. P,nl.
sylvanla and New jersey. In many distri /,
'he names ragged wi Ii unexamp cd Jury,
sweeping away Everything in III ir path for
niles he burning woods set fire to Il pow.
der company works near Scranton, Penn,
una by the explosion which followed ono
workman was killed and two injured. Tho
numbering village of California, Penn, was
almost entirely destroyed by the flames.
J,her towns were reported TO bo ab,azc or
seriously Threatened by the advancing flames.
Seyera mountains in the Tires States were
on hre, and many lives were +, ported lost
TWO men were instantly killed and five
Others seriously in iured by the sudden fall OF
the rafters of a building which they wero
tearing down in VII iamsburg, N. y.
GILMAN's STATION, busy hamlet in Sui
llvan county, n. Y, was destroyed by tho
forest fires. In all eighteen buildings, 90
OoO,O0O feet of lumber, and four cars loadsl
with lumter Were lel tO tho flame, All tho
buildings dest Dyed belonged to Mr. Gilman,
whose loss is SljO,C0O and many Of his l5i
employees lost their all. A tract OF land ten
mics long and two niles widc was burned
over
boiler attached 10 tie Whitney Marble COM
panys works ncar GOuverncur, N. y.
GEORGE CRossAULT, his vile and two
children were burned to death in II iirc whicl
n. Y.
FOURTEEN men, including an in iian and
negro, stlrtel in the six day, go-as you'll 50
pedestrian match in New York Seven
men were on the trace At o
cnd OF the SIKH daY, Lul ing acc, m
pli'hed the '2j miles necessary 10 obtain
share OF the gate receipts. During the week
there was fierce contest for first pace b.
tween Rowell and fit2gera d hrst one al
then the other bong ahead Tin the last day
Eowell made desperate effort TO regain lis
l'st lead, but could not get nearer than b.
within four miles of Fitzgerald Imm mo
crowds vocli usly theered the cont sta Us
all the week. The previous highest sore
on record 49, 600 miles, made by Ha1ael
III lsS! - was beaten. Following an,
III, scores of the seven men who divid d thc
gate money, and thc amount reto.vel by
each: Patrick Fitzgerald, of Hunters Point,
Long Island, 60 miles, Sll,CCO; Charlie
Howell, Of Eng'and; coz miles, 81 900; Pc or
D. lanchOt, Of Buffalo, y. ", 5ji miles, S.,
700; GO sc ID. Norcmac, Of Now York, 5I5
niles Sl,4CO; ID. j. licrty, of Boston, t39
milts, 81 OOO; Robert Ninu of Brooklyn. so
miles $500; Alfred Elson, of Connect.cI 1t
52j miles, $500
SIAMEsE embassy TO this country, with
Prince krom Nun NaIcs Va arildhi tlo hall
brother OF KIM Phrobat Somd n
Ihla Paramendo Mahlh Chulah-
longkorn, of siam, at the hc I'd as envoy tx
traordinary and mini ter penipotent ary,
were recei, ed with naval hOnors upon their
arrival in New TX. From tho III tropois
they proceeded TO WasEin ;ton
MUCH excitement was created in New York
by the ann Iuncemcnt that two llfebOats be.
longing 10 the eln steamship state
Florida, from Now York, bound for lasgow
Scotland, had en picked up a. see. The
State of Florida carried thirty-h, 80 ca in and
hlty stccrage p s,cngcr', and her officers an
crew numbered eighty perions-ld5 so us al
together. a sailing vessel which was sighted
by another steamship sent ont signals indica-
ting that size had some of the mlssiI X steam
ships people on board
LOSSES from the forest fires in Elk county,
Penn, are estimated at Sl,O)JOOO.
TWENTY thousand people wcro present Mt
the form al opening Of the new Produce EX-
change building in New York.
HUNDREDS of CANNES of high anl low de-
gree were on eXhi, itOn Mt the dog show,
which followed the PEDESTRIAN match at the
Md son Square garden, N,w York. Prcs-
d mt Arthur was rcprc,, ,,n'cd by red masti 7.
The liz dogs on exhibi ion were valued ut
over Sj5O,0OO.
Hon. TRUMAN SMITH, ex-United States
Senator, and for several successive terms a
member of the lower house of Congress from
Connecticut dicl n few days since i'll STAN
ford, Conn, at tic ripe old age of ninety
three years
WILD excitement prevailed in Wall street
financial circles upon the announcement that
the Marine Natl bank, suppose t. he ono
Of the mos onscrvative and secureSt banEs
in New Nolk, had closed its doors About
two hours lat II tn lankirg house of Grant
IL Warl, Of which General Grant Is
special, and his son, Ulysses :. Jr., K II, ,ral
lartn n, also suspnlei, with lab lit IS csti-
mated Mt anywhere betwe N $0J,OU0 AMI
81 Loo go Pie ident FisI, of til, Marine
bank, is also 81 o 'iaI partner in thc firm OF
Grant g. Ward, while the la, named part
ner, Ferdinand Ward, is a director in tho
bank. Thus the tank and the firm were SO
identified nan ia'ly that the collapse of tho
one was clo,c,y lo,iowe by the sus, ,lension of
the otbor. The bank had u large amount Of
money on dep sit including 81 90 900 Of
city funds, but it was thought the do.
pO itori would be eventually pad in
iull. IL was claimei that | resi-
dent Fish and Mr. Ward hal lost heavily in
iont cal estate spe 'ulltiUn, Il at tho firm of
GI ant a. Ward had Overdrawn iti a c)unt
Rt the ! ank t. the extent of more han 500,
O00 and thnt this caused tho banks sus pon-
son Gere a. Grant was reported to b q
heavy loser by the double III pens on Tho
two failures caused II feeling of insecuIi y
and alarm in Wal street III It lai not pr.
val d there in years.
S;nvE typnty-f We fri ,nds of COnprpSSmau
w +. Robinson, of Brooklyn, in the Hou,c,
IRE ented him the other day with clock
and brass cando'abra in honor of his scvea-
t.eth lirthday.
JOHN +. SLATER, the tton manufacturer
and philanthrcpi who gave Sl,WJ,WO for
the edu alton of tho co.ored mon OF the
South, died the other day at his residence in
Norwich, Conn, aged about seventy years
AT the General Con 'eren of tic Motho-
dist Fps op,l church, held in lhiladelp in,
many Questions of intei est to the d nomina-
H)n were discus o by the dele satos.
TIE s,lspens, conrer. ing o fate of tho
survivors of the Sc, IN hp State OF FloriGa,
trt m New York for & laieow, was relieve by
u d s1atch re ived in New York from Quo
o. announcing tn, arrival at that place OF
the steam hip 'ritania with twenty four OF
the survivors O oarl. h,Stato Of lor dl
had tollid d N mid ocean with the BARK
Po1ema, and both vessels went down. Of
o bark's crow of iiftton only the captain
and two s,amen wer, savol. The steamer
carried tnirty-five cabin and fifty steerags
pas, engeI s. and a trcw of cighty-onc men,
and a stewarioss. wv nty nine o. TIE crew,
Including tae stcwa! dess and twoivo pas n
gers were saved by pa sing vessel aitjr
drifting about in a mall boat Tor nearly two
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