The bee., 1884-01-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

6REAT damage 70 property has been done
along the Atlantic coast by the recent severe
storm The New Jersey and Long lslandc ast
suffered heavily. Vessels were driven ashore.
piers washed away, and buildings at the
summer resorts were carried out to sea The
damage at Coney Island, Long Branch and
Atlantic City alone will aggregate more
than S3J0.Q00. Boarding houses. stores
dwellings, bath houses, and other bu uildings
a. Atlantic City were washed away and
carried TO sea. The whole amount of
damage done a'olg the Atlantic Goa { it Is
believed viii aggregate more than 81, 900, ,000
SMALLPOX has been rapidly spreading at
Girardville, Penn, and the public schools
have been closed.
GOVERNOR WALLER in his annual messaee
10 the Connecticut legislature disaDproves OF
biennial sessions The State debt is S4272,-
100.
SO&E twenty men were shoveling snow IN
deep raj real cut near Briuton, Penn,
when they We're Tpl into bya train. two of
their number instantly killed, q t5ird fatally
injured and four Others badly hurt.
Two colossal mortgages have Just been re-
corded. The Buffalo New York 6, Philadel-
phia Railroad company has morteagel its
property TO a Fhiladelph;a trust company
for S25,0900ta, and the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad company TO a New York
trust company for $50, l,090
AT meeting Ct the Joint executive com
mittee Of the trunk line railroads and their
Western connections. held in New York, the
Eas.-boun1 rates were restored.
JOHN SHEA, weaver, working in a mill
near Providence. Il. l.. cut his wifes throat
and then killed himself in the same manner.
CARDINAL McCLosKEY, the head Of the
Catholic church in America, received many
congTatu atiOns and presents from prominent
fFa No ntlya at r.io
the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of
his entry into the priesthood
JAMES KEENAN,. one of three brothers who
kept the largest hotel at Greensburg, Peun.
committed suicide because pretty young
widow who boarded in the hotel married his
older brother.
Two large New York grain commission
firms have suspended with heavy liabilities,
owing to the recent sudden decline in wheat.
A FIRE on the East side of New York de-
stroyed three large warehouses, causing a
loss Of about $500 900.
STHE boly of Charles Delmonico. the best
known of New York restaurant keepers,
was found in the woods near Orange, n.
j. About tel Gays previously Mr.. Del
monico, who had been suffering for
some time from a nervous disorder, had
gone cut for walk, and that was the last
seen of him alive. While in a dazed condi-
ton he had taken tTdln Tor Newark, wan
dered OF to a lonely spot ana Succunbed to
exposure. The Delmonic0 family were the
most noted re staurant keepers in the coua-
try, ard Charles was the last Of that name
I'm the business. He ran four large and fash
ionable restaurants, and left large fortune
A JAPANESE wrestler imported to this
country for the express purpose OF defeating
the American champions, was easily thrown
by Edwin Bibby at match in New York.
A WORKMAN named Posey was blown to
atoms by the explosion of powder mill near
Lebanon, Penn.
In view of the prohibition Of American
pork by Germany and France the Boston
Produce exchange adopted resolutions re-
questing Massachusetts Senators and Repre-
tentatives in Congress to urge the nassage
of retail alatory bin restricting or prohibit
ing the importation from those countries of
wines, etc.