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SUMMARY OF NEWS Eastern and Middle States. A bill to grant female suffrage has been ó fested in the lower house of the Massachuset Legislature by 127 to 93. insurance James E. Goll, well-known in New Yo ciroles, committed suicide by sho ing himself in the head. He was at one tir wealthy, but met with reverses, had fam troubles and became dissipated. The Rhode Island Republicans met in 00 vention at Providence and renominated t present State officers by acclamation Follo ing the usual custom, no political resolutio were passed. The Tarrytown (N. Y.) First National Ba has failed. The liabilities are estimated $122,000 and assets $80,000. The Bank Chemung, at Elmira, N. private instit tion-has also suspended. The Rhode Island Democratic State eo vention, held in Providence, resulted in nomination of a ticket headed by Isaac La rence for governor. Leading New York bankers had & conferer in that city with the House committee bar ing and currency regarding the resumption specie payments. General Ewing, of the co mittoe, the made inquiries to draw out the views bankers, who expressed the opinion t1 resumption was practicable. After the meeti General Ewing said that the statements of bankers had strengthened his own opinion the secretary of the treasury was not able tl carry out the resumption act. Before a committee of the Pennsylvania L islature railroad appointed to investigate the Pittsbur riots, R. A. Ammon, of Pittsburg, W was at the head of the Trainmen's Union the time of the strike, testified that the c zens offered the strikers arms to resist troops, two prominent citizens having offer a hundred stand of arms each: one of the zens went to see him at Allegheny him that he hoped the men would stand their money. rights, and promised them arms a The steam chimney of the Hudson ri steamer Magenta exploded two miles bel Sing Sing, N. Y., and two passengers W killed outright, two were fatally scalded, a several others received serious injuries. Warren Lane, bookkeeper of the Planet M Manufacturing Company, Brooklyn, N. New was returning from the company's bank York where he had drawn $4,000 W which to pay off the empl byees. He was companied by an assistant, who carried $700 silver. were When in an unfrequented locality tl approached by three men dressed laborers, who suddenly attacked the clubs knocking them down with blows from 88 t and relieving them of the money i the twinkling. Before they could gain their f thieves were rattling off in wagon was waiting in charge of a confederate 8 made good their escape. Peter McHugh, Patrick Hester and Patr Tully the were hanged at Bloomsburg, Pa., Rea, murder of a mining superintendent nan in 1868. The town was filled with peo from the surrounding country, but only ab two hundred persons were admitted to the three yard where the execution took place. little men were hanged together and exhibit signs of fear. Hester, who was in stantial circumstances and for whom stre ous efforts had been made to obtain an am oration of the death sentence, protested innocence to the last. While the men w still hanging, a shedon the side of the jail y d gave way with a crash, precipitating ab fifty persons to the ground and injuring little boy 80 severely that he died soon aft S Fires Twenty-three buildings destro by fire in Keeseville, N. Y., causing a loss e gregating $65,000. Nearly a whole block large business houses in Philadelphia has burned, the fire being one of the largest t ever visited the city and causing an e mated loss of over $1,010,000. Comptroller John Kelly, of New York ci has the written letter to the attorney general State in favor of the release of William e Tweed from further confinement. Comptro Kelly says in his letter As public office d urge his discharge, because I believe further detention in a debtors prison is neit beneficial to the State as an example to e doers, nor in any sense serviceable to the cit e Meanwhile, Tweed has refused to tes further he in regard to the ring frauds u is released. p The Higgins Building-a five-story mar structure on Canal street, New Yorkalmost totally destroyed by fire, and sevent business $645,000. firms suffered losses aggregat e Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Boston book p g lishers, $120,000. have suspended with liabilities Judge Blatchford, of New York, has 1 d dered J. an opinion against Ex-Governor Sam IS the Tilden, in the suit of the United States It recovery of several years' income IS This suit was instituted during the elect e campaign in 1876. The effect of the decis h will be to bring the case before a jury on question of the amount of Mr. Tilden's inco If during ing the eleven years from 1862'to 1872, d which he made up no return himself 38 allowed the assessors to make up the ret -1 and paid the tax thereon subject to a pens of five per cent. rs The Broadway Savings Bank, of Lawrer st Mass., and the Sixpenny Savings Bank er New further rk city, have been enjoined from do IS business. The latter institution O patronize by the remarkably large number d 33,000 and depositors, most of them poor children with little accounts. Its pec lial mated t'es are and the deficiency is at $82,425. Careless management 11 amounting to almost indifference. is char against its officers by the bank examiners. The trial of Insurance Superintendent Smy of New York, charged by the governor V s, irregularities in office, ended in his acqui 7e by the Senate by a vote of to 12. The Vanderbilt contested will case dr at of a'ong in the New York surrogate's court. M se the evidence offered to show that the C ve m dore was mentally unsound or unduly in enced in making his will is excluded. of The Pennsylvania Republican State cony n. tion will be held at Harrisburg, May 15. k, The recent report of Acting Superintend ag Henry L. Lamb on the condition of the sav 1 banks"in nine the State of New York shows at the savings banks were closed during 18' Long Island, of Brooklyn: Clairmont, ay ton, German, Oriental and Yorkville, of York toga Rockland. of Nyack: Saratoga, of S total Springs; and the New Rochelle, wit In amount due depositors of $1,601,719 the State, to-day 136 savings banks he doing ber business. The total deposits and the re year. of depositors have decreased during 10 the The deposits fell off nearly $4,000,0 a transactions of the year were smalle I accounts their volume than in other recent years n were opened than were closed us average of each deposit declined, and the tplus of the institutions has shrunk. The ot resources of the banks, now in operation, t is on January 1, 1878. $56,785,336 total lial d 098. ties, $51 455. 238, leaving a surplus of $5,3 From these facts the superintend its finds reason for the belief that the nd banks are coming back to sound rules savi in a ministration. are commanding reasonable o he fidence of depositors, and are sound. Western and Southern States. er Howards Four men and a boy were drowned n
