Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-23
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

MAJOR CHARLES B. THRocKNoBroy
Commandant at Fort Schuyler, New YORK
was placed under arrest pending investiga-
ton OF charges Of issuing worthless checks
and duplicating his pay vouchers
PURSUANT TO the proclamation Of the
Governor, the Pennsylvania Senate con-
vened in extraordinary session at Harris
burg to consider whether sufficient cause ex-
ists for the removal from Office Of Auditor
General Thomas McCamant aud State
Treasurer Henry K. Boyer, who are alleged
to have been in collusion with ex City Treas
urer John Bardsey. OF Philadelphia, in his
malfeasance in office. Lieutenant-G Governor
Watres occupied the chair. or the fifty
Senators, four failed to answer the roll-call
! HENRY SANFORD and Frederick Lovejoy
were elected President an1 Vice-President,
respectively, of the Adams Express Com
pany In New York City, to succeed John
Hoey and Clapp Spooner, accused Of NAL
feasancs.
JUDGE HENRY WILDER ALLEN, of the
Court Of Common Pleas died very unexpect-
edly in the Chamber Street Hospital, New
York City He was born in Alfred Me-, in
1896.
The soldiers and sailors monument in
Utica, n. Y. was unveiled General Joseph
r. Hawley made an address.
ELwooD PARSONS, President Of the First
National Bank Of Trenton, y. j., and a large
real estate owner in Pennsylvania, New Jer-i
sey, Kentucky and Virginia dropped dead
on a recent evening. Mr. Parsons was a
member Of the Friends denomination.
PHILLIPS BROOKS was consecrated Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese Of Massachusetts,.
The ceremonial occurred in Trinity Church.
Boston
CHARLES G. McCAwLEY, Colonel Com
mandant Of the United States Marine Corps
retired, died at his home at Rosemont, Penu.
He had been i'll since last March, when he
sustained a stroke of paralysis
KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATS ratifiel the
State and local candidates at big mass
meeting in the Brooklyn (N. " Rink. Ex-
President Grover Cleveland presided.
THOMAS H. STOUT, a clerk employed by
Kennett, Hopkins & Co., New York Stock
Exchange brokers, has disappeared. He was
a defaulter to the extent Of about $50, 600.
THREE persons were killed and eight in
jured by the breaking Of the fly wheel in
the Amoskeag Mil, in Manchester n. H.
The United States cruiser Atlanta, which
narrowly escaped destruction during the
late storm while on her way to help the
wrecked Despatch. and on which six men
were seriously injured by an explosion has
arrived at the Port Of New York.
An attachment Of over 500, 900 was issued
in New York City against Ex-President
John Hoey's property. and direct charge
Of embeZzlement was made against him by
the Adams Express Company.
The three-mastsd schooner Rebecca A.
Taulane, Of Boston. commanded by Captain
Amia NiclEerson, Of South Chatham. Mass.
went down at sea, and her crew OF seven
men were drowned.
The body of Miss Laury s Pres5ery. the
missing Smith College girl. was found in
Paradise Pond. Springfield, Mass. She had
committed suicide She was the daughter
Of wealthy parents but was detected rob
bing one Of her college mates. and preferred
death to disgrace II is believed she was
kleptomaniac as she had plenty Of money OF
her own.
SAMUEL WHITNEY HALE. Ex-Governor of
New Hampshire, diei at the home Of his
brother in Brooklyn, n. Y. He was born IN
Fitchburg. Mass, in 1923.
The General Conference Of the Evangeli-
cal Church. which had been in session at
Phiadephia. Penn. for two week, has just
adjourned. The next General Conferences
will be held in the autumn Of 1895, at Naper.
vile, H.
AS tour men Of Occum, Conn who had
acted as pall-bearers at funeral In Wilt
mantle, were driving back to Occum. their
horse ran away down hill Peter McCaf-
ferty, aged thirty-five, was killed and John
Shea was fatally hurt The horses dashed
over precipics sixty feet high and were
killed.
On the first dag of the sale at Hunts
Point, n Y. of the racing stable Of the late
August Belmont seventy-six stations,
broodmares and youngsters brought s!7O,-
050
IRVING A. EVANS, the stock broker,
known to Boston and New York spectators
as Merry" Evans. shot himself dead at the
summer residence of his uncle, Brice L.
Evans, in Allentown, y. X.