Passaic City record., 1893-07-22
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
A YOUNG girl who was employed as do
mestic at boarding house and George B.
Frame, a boarder at the same place, were
struck by a train while they were attempting
to cross railroad bridge on the outskirts OF
Watertown, N. Y, and instantly killed.
A PLOT of convicts at Danpemora On. Y.)
Prison to murder the guards and escape was
exposed by a prisoner he was pardoned by
Governor Flower.
MISS LIZZIE BYRAM died at her fathers
cottage, Asbury Park, N. J., of hydrophobia,
the result of the slight bite of surly pet
black and tan dog.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND started from Buzz
yards Bay. Mass, ON a fishing trip in E. G.
Beuedict's steam yacht Oneida.
DINNER was given in honor of James H.
EckeIs. Controller of the Currency, at the
Union League Club, New York City.
THE corner stone of the Odd Fellows
Temple, which will cost 81, ,000 900, was laid
at Philadelphia, Penn, with impressive
ceremonies.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND returned to Gray
Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass, from his fish
splendid and that his rheumatic trouble had
left him.
FIRE on the dairy farm near Carteret,
N. j., occupied by Thomas Stugg destroyed
buildings covering seven acres, and caused
a loss of about 100000.
STATE SENATOR EDWARD B. OSBORNE, of
the Fifteenth District, died in Albany, N. Y,
at his sons residence, of paralysis OF the
heart. He was nearly eighty years old at the
time of his death.
The will of A. J. Drexel was filed for pro-
bate in Philadelphia among the bequests
was one of 81 ,000, 900 to found an art gallery
or museum.
j. r. THOMAS, Postmaster of Ovid, N. Y,
after being wounded twice slightly, killed
one of two burglars who were robbing his
Office. The dead thief is William M. Lind
say, an ex-saloon keeper of Rochester, N. Y.
South and West.
AT Denver, Col. the Peoples Savings, the
Rocky Mountain Dime and Dollar and the
| Colorado Savings Banks have closed their
| doors. At Kansas City, Mo-. the Missouri
| National Bank has suspended payment ; also
| The Grand Avenue Bank, private institu-
| tion. The assets are 100000; liabilities,
| $40, 900.
| Four people were killed and several in
| jured in a collision between Grand Trunk
| train and horse car in Chicago, Ill.
THE foreign exhibitors at the Worlds
| Fair are getting ready TO file claims against
| The National Government for damages,
| claims to the amount of 100000 having
| already been prepared.
THE First National Bank at Cedartown,
/ Ga, closed its doors. The suspension was
caused by inability to realize at once on col
laterals.
SECRETARY MoHLER has issued statement
saying that if the conditions continue favor
able Kansas will have the largest corn crop
in the States history, with the exception OF
that of 1889.
Miss EMMA GARRETT, of Philadelphia, who
with her sister, Miss Mary S. Garrett, had
/ charge of the Pennsylvania blind children's
exhibit at the Worlds Fair, committed sui
eide by leaping from window at the Briggs
| House. 4&
THREE Denver (Col.) National banks-the
Union National, the Commercial National
and the National Bank of Commerce CLOSED
| their doors, owing to the heavy demands OF
excited depositors. The Mercantile Bank, a
small private institution, also suspended,
owing to the closing of the Union Bank.
URuGUAY's exhibition in the Agriculture
| Building, Worlds Fair, was thrown open to
the public view, and was visited by large
crowds.
THE drouth, which extended over an area
| of 40. 900 square miles in Western Texas, has
been broken by good rains
AT Denver, Col, the German, State and
Peoples National Banks closed their doors
to forestall the heavy demands that it was
evident would be made. The list of closed
banks in Denver is now thirteen. of which
six are National five savings and two private
institutions.
Two men were mortally wounded and one
| instantly killed in pitched battle between
tramps and citizens near Sheffield, Ind.
AT Green Bay Wis, Rear-Admiral Melanc-
ton Smith. United States Navy, died after a
| two-days' illness. He was born in New York
City May "a, 1910, and entered the navy as 8
| midshipman at the age of sixteen.
THE Brazilian Building was dedicated at
the Worlds Fair.
The Commissioners of Agriculture of the
Southern States, in session at Atlanta, passed
| a resolution calling for the adoption of a
uniform system of control and regulation oi
the manufacture and sale of commercial
| fertilizer.
/ SwEDEN's day at the Worlds Fair was
| celebrated by big procession and con-
cert Columbias Building was opened on the
| same day.
A NUMBER of striking miners, with theiI
| wives, attacked the strip pit miners in one oil
the mines near Weir City, Kan. A fierce
] fight ensued, in which clubs and firearms
| were used. About 100 shots were fired and
/ a number on both sides were injured. No
| one was killed.
! IT is estimated that ten thousand persons
/ in Denver, Col, and twenty thousand out.
| side of 1t have been thrown out of work by
the cessation of silver mining. They are In
| great distress
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