The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States,

FIVE acres Of ground over n coal mine noar
WllkesDarre, Penn, suddenly caved in with a |
roaring sound like that Of an earth1uake.
flfty dwelling houses stood on tho ground. |
ana they sank from one to three feet, many Of |
thein being completely wrecked and the in |
mates narrowly escaping with their lives.
FLOOD caused by heavy rains and freshets |
swept through Springfield, Vt, undermining |
houses, displacing streets and running tho |
crops The damage is estimated at $4,000 |
to business interests and many thousands to |
roads.
A DISASTROUS food, the second in three
months, has done great damage at Curwins
vile, Penn. A large dam gave way, setting
adriit thousands of logs, and n number Of
houses and barns were carried away.
JOHN g. Emo has been indicted by the New
York grand jury for unlawful conversion Of
the funds of the Second National bank whilo
president.
BROOKLYN put on gala appearance in
honor of the fifteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Potomac Bunting and flags
were conspicuous everywhere, and 100000
people witnessed the parade of veterans, Phila.
delphia, Boston and other cities being repre-
sented by grand army posts Generals Grant,
Hancock, Mcclellan, Newton, Governor Alb
bett, of New Jersey. and Mayor Low took
ness meeting General Grant was unanimously
elected president Of the society. In the even
ing reception was held at the Academy OF
Music.
A FIRE in Boston partly destroyed n large
rubber warehouse heavily stocked with goods,
causing an estimated loss Of more than s4OO,-
OOO. Sixteen iiremen were injured moro or
less severely by an explosion in the burning
building.
HESTER CLYMER, ex-mcmber Of the Penn
| sylvania State senate, member Of Congress
from 1879 TO 1881, and Democratic candidate
for governor in 1865, died suddenly of paralysis
at Reading, Penn, aged - years.
CASHIER SHEPARD, of the New York Cen
| tral railroad freight department at Buffalo
mysteriously disappeared, and an examination
of his accounts showed that he was short
about $4,000.
The receiver appointed to settle the af-
| fairs of Grant & Ward has filed n schedule OF
| the assets and liabilities of the suspended firm
| The cash assets are SD, !3'. 20 and LOT OF Sc
curites and bills receivable. mostly mcollcct-
able. The liabilities amount, in round num-
bers, r. $li,OO0,OW.
, THE Peoples Savings bank, Of New Castle,
Penn, has suspended.
A MEETING Of Massachusetts, Republicans
opposed to the nomination of their party at
Chicago has been held in Boston. A commit
tee of 100 was appointed, and series of reso-
lutions were adopted declaring that tho Chi
cago nominees "were named in absolute dis
regard of the reform sentiment of the nation
and represent political methods and prin.
ciplcs to which we are unalterably opposed
and closed by saying: "Whatever ac
action be taken by the Democratic
party in Chicago, we, the Repub,
lcans and Independents, direct our commit
tee to call convention in such manner "a
they may deem cXpedicnt after the Demo
cratic candidates have been nominated, anC
not later than August /, To take such furthe
action as may, to them, seem necessary U
carry out the sense of this meeting with prac
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