Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Eastern and Middle States

COMMODORE FRANCIS B. ELLISON, of the
United States navy (retired), died few days
ago in Boston, aged eighty one years.
Four THOUSAND dollars were paid for
St Bernacd dog thirty five inches high by
Emmett, the actor, in Passaic, N. ]. The
dog is the largest in the world and the sum
paid for him the greatest ever realized by
the sale of a canine.
A LARGE coasting sled containing thirteen
young men came down a steep hill at
Waynesboro Penn, vita such terrific speed
that all control of it was lost by the steers
man. The sled struck young woman,
throwing her twenty feet, breaking her
then it dashed into and shattered heavy
oaken hitchlng post, finally coming to stop
against the front of a brick house. Four of
the young men received fatal injuries. and
the other nine were all more or less seriously
hurt.
LAST year there was a total of 1876 acci-
dents in the mines of the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania OF these 323 resulted fatally,
| making 153 widows and rendering 512 chill
| dren fatherleSs. During the last ten years
2, ,463 lives have been lost in this district, l.,
| 274 women made widows, and 4, 195 children
| made fatherless.
WADswoRTH, of Morrisville, N. pro
prietor of eighteen cheese factories, has failed,
with liabilities Of $12 900 and assets of about
$4,000
DR.. JOHN B. WooD, a prominent New
York journalist, and few years ago presi-
! dent of the New York Press club, lost his
| life the other day in melancholy manner.
| He was fifty-seven years old, and MS eye
sight was bad. While walking after mil
night along the North river front he fell
| from a pier upon the ice twelve feet below
and received injuries which soon resu ted IN
death
A FREErHINKERs' association was formed
| at a convention in Boston.
PETMEcKY, the murderer of Mrs. Froitz
helm in Auburn, N Y, has been sentenced
to be hanged on Friday, March2l.
THE total Hudson river ice crop this winter
is estimated at 100000 tons, or 1,OO0,OO0
more than last winter.
GOVERNOR BOURN in his annual message
to the Rhode Island legislature commehds a
proposed scheme for industrial education.
TWENTY SEVEN men at Greensburg, Penn.
have formed a secret, oath bound brother
hood, and decided not to buy French goods
and to boycott all dealers selling them until
the embargo on pork is removed
ABOUT 600 New England farmers interested
in the milk trade met in Boston and formed
a protective association.
AFTER lasting seven months the strike of
window glass workers at Pittsburg, Penn,
has como to an end by an agreement between
employers and employees which is largely
favorable to the latter. About 2, 800 men
engaged in the strike resume work
FOUR men were frightfully injured by the
explosion of can of giant powder at a lime
quarry in Sipesviile, Penn.
ANOTHER Gloucester Mass fishing
schooner-the Waldo Irving, with crew of
fourteen men on board-has been given up
for lost
A RESOLUTION of thanks to Lieutenant
Rhodes, of the United States revenue ma
rine service. for his galant conduct at tn e
wreck Of the City of Columbus, was passe d
by the Connecticut legislature.
A sCAFFoLDING collapsed suddenly near
Pottsville, Penn. throwing eight carpenters
to the ground, distance of thirty feet. One
man was instantly killed, another fatally
hurt, and the rest more or less dangerously
Injured