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NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. ANOTHER body, that of Mr. Rowe, of New York, has just been cremated at the Washington (Penn.) furnace. DESTRUCTIVE forest fires have been raging in portions of Massachusetts and Maine. A COLLISION between some coal cars and oil cars at Driftwood. Penn., resulted in a fire which destroyed fifteen buildings, mostly business.houses. Less, $55,000. A CREMATION seciety has been formed in New York, and a crematory for the burning of bodies is to rerected near Cranford, N.J. HODGES, HERSEY & Co., manufacturers of straw goods of New York, have failed for $300,000. THREE mes in New York have been arrested on the charge of attempting to swindle the elevated railroads out of $100,000 by means of forged tickets. One man confessed that in two years he had stolen $14,000. BUSINESS failures in the United States during the past six months, according to ths New York Mercantile Agency of Dun & Co.e number 5,510, as against 4,637 for the first six months of 1883. The liabilities amount to $124,000,000, as against $66,000,000 for the first half of 1883. THE Plymouth Savings bank at Plymouth, Penn., and the Gloucester County Savings bank at Camden, N.J., have suspended. FIRE destroyed the main factory and other buildings belonging to the Revere Rubber company, at Cheisea, Mass., causing an estimated loss of $500,000