Passaic City record., 1891-10-03
THE NEWS EPIToMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern ana Middle States.
A PAYING vein of gold ore has been found
in Silver Lake Township, Penn.
WRITs of quo warranto were issued
against the State Treasurer and State Sec
retary of Connecticut.
WATER in the New Hampshire rivers is so
low that many of the mills can run only on
half time.
THE public schools in Syracuse, N. Y,
closed for few days because of the phe-
nomenal heat.
JAMES DARLING and Sandy Ferry, while
dynamiting stumps near Garfield Penn,
were instantly killed by the premature ex-
plosion OF a cartridge.
Rev. DIR. s. D. BURcHARp. author of the
famous Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
speech during the Cleveland Blaine Presi-
Dental campaign, died in Saratoga, N. Y.
BE was born at Steuben, N. Y, September
9th, 1912.
On the day following the accident it was
stated that eleven OF the victims of the fire.
WORKS explosion in Newark, N. j., were
dead and other fatalities were expected.
All the victims were Italians.
Two freight trains came into collision
The engineer, William Day; the fireman,
James Gardner. and brakeman, G. A.
Sprague, of the east5ound train, were
killed. They all lived in Hartford.
THE Rev. Caspar Wistar Hodge D. D.,
LII. D., Professor of New Testament Liter
ature and Biblical Greek at Princeton IN.
J.l Seminary, is dead. His death resulted
from surgical operation to remove a cancer
from the throat. He was born at Prince
ton on February 81, 1881.
Ex-STATE TREASURER WILLIAM Fl.
KEMBLE, of Pennsylvania, died at Philadel-
phia of heart failure. He was worth s., 000,-
O0O.
A FoURTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy named Am
brose Parr committed suicide at Milville,
N. j.. by hanging himself in the garret of
his home. He was employed as tending
boy at Whitall Tatum & Co.'s flint glass
works, and refused to go out with the other
tending boys when they struck. On several
occasions, it is said, the strikers called young
Parr ''scab," and he brooded over the mat
ter so much that it unbalanced his mind.
AN explosion of oil destroyed the whole
sale coal-oil house of Phillips & Cunning
ham at Philadelphia, Penn. The total loss
is estimated at a little over $500, 600.
FRANCIS HENDRICKS, Mr.. Fassetts sue
-cessor as Collector of the Port of New York,
was sworn into Office by United States Com
missioner John Shields at the Custom House.
The new Collectors bond for 5000, 600 was
filed at the same time, bis sureties being
United States Senator Frank Hiscock,
Colonel Elliott F. Shepard and Edward B.
Judson
SOME time ago Mrs. Catherine F. Felt of
Saletn Mass, quarreled with and left her
husband. Recently her pug dog was killed
and its collar was sent her, as she believed,
by Felt Shepoured two quarts of kerosene
over her clothing and lighted it. Wrapped
in flames she ran into the street and was so
horribly burned that she died few hours
later.
JOHN W. MAcKAY and Mrs. Fair reached
New York from San Francisco in four days,
twelve hours, twenty y-eight minutes, the fast
est trip on record.
THE Massachusetts, Democrats in conven-
tion at Worcester renominated William E.
Russell for Governor.
JUDGMENT was rendered against John
Bardsley, ex-Treasurer of Philadelphia,
Penn, for 1894, 010.
REMEL the man who attempted to wreck
Lehigh Valley Railroad train at Kennedy's
station, near Phillipsburg, N. j., month
ago, has been sentenced to ten years at hard
labor in State prison and fined $1,000.
WILLIAM GOULD, JR., of Albany N. Y,
who vas found guilty of aiding and abetting
Bookkeeper Whitney in falsifying the ac-
counts of the Albany City National Bank,
han been sentenced to six years imprison-
ment.