The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Eastern and Middle States

DIR. ELISHA HARRIS, honorary secretary |
Df the New York State board OF health. dis
,ingushed for his sanitary services during |
the war and for his many valuable contri' |
buttons to medical science, died the other
day In Albany, aged sixty years,
EDWARD n. RowEIL was acquitted at Ba'
tavia, n. y, of the charge Of numbering
johnson L. Lynch whom he found at his
house with his wife three months ago. ana
shot dead. The jury acquitted him on the
ground that the shooting OF Lynch had been
done in self-defense. The verdict was re:
ceved with great cheers, the building OF
bonfres end the exploding Of fireworks by
the excited citizens. Rowels former part
er, Palmer, against whom much feeling had
been engendered by his testimony ON the
witness stand was hanged in eiligy.
A JURY returned II verdict OF s2S,92I
against the Boston and Albany Railroad
company in favor OF James B. David, OF Bos'
ton, as damages for PERSONAL injuries sus.
,aned at Springfield, owing TO the neglect OF
train men.
JUDGE HARRY f. PACKER, president OF
the Iehigh Railroad company, died few
days since at his home in Mauch Chunk,
Penn, in his thirty third year. He was the
youngest and the last surviving son of the
late Judge Asa Packer, the famous protector
and builder Of tho Iehigh Valley railroad.
AT a meeting Of cotton operatives, repre-
senting iiftyOne mills, In Fall River, Mass,
il was resolved u strike in ten Of the mills
against proposed reduction In wages. Eight
thousand persons were thus thrown out or
employment 1t was decided 10 pay single
men Of the strikers 81 per week, married
men S4.b0, and twenty-five cents for each
child while the strike continues, and also TO
| ngly f,,. m tho pnttpn pVnratiYna
throughout New England.
WHILE members OF various Masonic
lodges were assembled in hail ut Guilrord
N. Y, preparing to attend funeral, the
floor Of the hall suddenly gave way, precipl
tating seventy men to the floor below. A
number of men we're severely injured.
Mrs. CATHERINE DIX, widow of Governor
Dix, died in New York few days since.
THE Queen of TAHITI, the largest Of th
Society islands, has been travelling across Tn
continent, and recently arrived in New
York.
A GREAT crowd witnessed the funeral o
Judge Packer, late president Of the Lehig
Valley railroad, at Mauch Chunk, Penn
Business was entirely suspended and spcccl'
trains brought hundreds Of people from Me-
; York, Philadelphia and other points. IN
pail bearers numbered thirty-two, iEcludln
: tongres man Samuel J. Randall.
4 An uomer. n ] James Il. Lines, cai
9 riage trimmer, became involved in quarr'
with his wife, from whom he had lived apaI
for several wears, and shot her twice, Il
flicting fatal wounds; then lie killed hlI
: self. Lines was man OF violent disgositlo,
4 and his vile had refused 10 go WIN MN
q Denver. Col. where he had Deem II wing
FIRE broke ourut night N the iuctor,
n GrossmnnN A kucu,uer. Allentown. Penn. +
= tally Jestrnymr il and a number OF sma
u buiiJnps attached As the irc,uen wl
o were standing uI the lall aul in ii
g building were doing their utmost 10 subd'
the flames, the north aud south walls III
l, denly fell ,utwari, aud some fifteen n'
v were covered with the debris. streams
water were Immediately directed upon u
ruins covering the men, which prevent
some Of them FROM being burned 10 deat
FIVE men were killed, and eleven serious
y, injured 10y Tine inleh "alH
:, BETWEEN 5000 aud 6,OOO buildings wc
# submerged hy the rising waters IN fltt>bu
- and Allegheny City. The,e buildings
+, ciuuel inc residence, u. ''V'' r,,,, ro' i,, ,h
OF whon, were nov n"r w "uI"iy L., Wv ,'
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