Passaic City record., 1896-01-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The sealing schooner hlIAneny twenty-tour
/ tons, M. Halgram, master, and carrying
crew of four whites, is reported to have gone
| to pieces on the west coast of British Colum-
bia in the recent gale.-James Farley, Of
Philadelphia, Pa, was found dead in an area
in Newark, N. J. During the night he had
fallen into the area and, striking on his
head broke his neck. Postmaster John,
son was held up by masked robber at Pen
deton, Ore. at the point of a pistol, and
compelled to surrender $500 of postal and
money order funds. The government COM
mission appointed to consider and report
upon the questions regarding the proposi-
tions for deep-water ways from the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic worked busily in De-
troit over various charts of the regions neces-
sary to be traversed by the routes suggested.
Mr.. John Patten, in a lecture before the
Baltimore Section of the National Astrono-
mical Association, attributed sun spots to
chemical action in the sun.
Head Dingees and George Mahan were
shot to death, and Hiram Sweeney and Pha-
roah Simons badly injured, in fight with
the Humphreys in Letcher county, Kentucky.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, granted
pardon to ex-Representative John l.. Gehr,
doing five years. time at Joliet Penitentiary
for murder during a riot at Little's mine, In
Tazewell county, 1894, when two men were
killed and the mine burned. The governor
holds Gehr innocent-The Brunswick
Company, organized in Brunswick. Ca, In
1887, and capitalized at five million dollars,
was placed in the hands of receiver by
United States Judge Speer, at Macon, ON the
application of the Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany of New York, holders of 100000 first
mortgage bonds. J. N. Talley, of Macon,
was named receiver.-John J. Ramage.
ex-auditor of Delaware county, o., was sand
bagged by ehree men near Marysville, rob-
bed, thrown on railroad track. run over by
a train, and will lose an arm and leg. He
may die-In Albuquerque, N. NJ, Judge
Collier appointed Charles W. Smith receiver
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, The ap-
pointment to take effect February l. The
order of the court especially stipulates
that no employees u the road shall be
dismissed within thirty days thereafter,
and that the new receiver shall as
sumo all responsibility resting on the
old receivers.-Howard and Haynie, OF
Duluth. owners of one of the largest retail
dry goods houses at head of the lakes, made
an assigment.-Wm. Boresta, fireman on
passenger train No. on the Council Bluffs
division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railway was killed in collision be-
tween several derailed freight cars and the
passenger train at Franklin Station, Chi
cago.
bill was introduced in the Virginia
Legislature to authorize the reorganization
of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. now in
the hands of receivers.-Two men were
killed and third fatally injured by an cleo
trio car breaking through trestle on the
Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Elec .ric RAIL
road. near Bedford, O.-Governor Green
halge of Massachusetts, Matthews, of Indiana,
Stone, of Missouri, and Rich, of Michigan,
highly commend the work of the Christian
Endeavorers in advancing the young people
of the country to a higher standard of pat
riotism and Christianity. Benjamin John
son, resident partner in Philadelphia, of the
New York broking and bankerage firm of
Kendall & Whitlock, has disappeare and it
is charged that an investigation of the books
of the Philadelphia bra ch, shows irregu-
larities in his accounts.-James Boone,
Mr. R. G. Johnson and Eugene Boone of
Decatur, ILL.,, hav, beel officially informed
that it has been proved that they are among
the fifty-four heirs to the Pegg estate of
$66, 600 900, at Philadelphia, Pa, soon to be
secured by the claimants. s.-Judge Gilbert,
of Portland, in the Unite States District
Court, in Helena, Mont, appointed Andrew
F. Burleigh. of Seattle, receive for the
| Northern Pacific Railway.-Anton s.
Soares, Portuguese, no was assaulted in
| New Bedford, Mass, by Caroline Thechera.
on the morning of November 26, died at ST.
Luke's Hospital, as the result of the injuries
received. The woman is under $4,000
bonds, awaiting the action of the grand
| jury.
! man supposed to be John Meyer, a
| travelling salesman, was found dead in q
room in the Elberon Hotel. New York city.
He had committed suicide by inhaling gas
through rubber tube connected with The
burner. DIR. Godfrey Hunter, member OF
Congress from the Third Kentucky District
was nominated for United States senator by
the Republican members of the Kentucky
| legislature in caucus. Isaac Wilson, Dcmo-
cratic member of the legislature, died in q
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