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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Eastern and Middle States. New Henry Hausmann, residing in Chrystie customary York, came home from work, and after street, a wife, scene of domestic violence with his with whom he had been in the habit several quarreling, he went down stairs and drank of he sent glasses out for of wine. Returning to his home altereation with his some beer and renewed the tractive the bedroom, where wife. his three Suddenly bright he and entered killing children were, and fired shot at ating Martha, aged six years, mortally wound- each, ing his Adam, a boy of four, and seriously woundfather oldest boy, John, nine years old. then shot himself twice in the The inflicting In his wounds from which he cannot recover. breast, said that statements to the coroner Hausmann that he had been married eleven wife, the first fiveyears he lived happily with years, his existence but that during the past six her excessive had drinking. been made miserable to him years by Mrs. Eveline Stuart, who was married about in six a months ago, and resided with her husband York, fashionable hotel on Fifth avenue, husband's became despondent on account of New by dissipation, and committed suicide her taking laudanum. An agent of the Russian government peared local in Philadelphia and negotiated with apcompany to build a bridge across the & Danube, costing over $3,000,000. rifle Charles range Clapper, while acting as scorer at & shot in Albany, N. Y., was accidentally through the heart by Dr. J. V. Lansing. inside Miss Bertha Von Hillern walked 100 miles the feat or twenty-eight hours at Philadelphia, female pedestrian. being considered & great one for & Bank W. H. Howell, cashier of the First National on a of Highstown, N. J., went to New York showed spree, and an examination of his books not a deficiency of over $2,000. He liable. arrested, but his bondsmen will be held was Security Robert L. Case, president of the bankrupt York, Life and Annuity Company of falsely was found guilty of perjury in swearing New The to report of the defunct company. delphia schooner Alexander Young, from Philacoal, bound for New York with a was run into off Sandy Hook by the cargo of steamship sunk City of Brussels. The schooner ocean was and two of her crew were drowned. of An the explosion of fire damp occurred in ton, Pa., chambers of the Jermyn mine at Scran- one thrown in and the miners in the vicinity of & mile every off were direction, while carts a quarter were were njured. hurled over thirty overturned. feet and were Six terribly miners John Mrs. Eliza Millar, of New York, claims land in Young estate, consisting of 119, 000 the as well Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, acresof and Alexandria, as valuable property in Philadelphia 000,000, Va., altogether valued at to and has signed documents $30,bringing suit for the recovery of preparatory the estate. Eliza Preliminary Millar, of steps New have York, been taken by Mrs. ning of a suit for the looking to the beginof consising valued at $30,000,000. and John Young estate, 000 acres Kentucky, of besides land in Virginia, West Virginia 119,- and delphia and Alexandria, valuable Va. property in Philaremoving While number fire of men were engaged in the Jermyn mine damp at in one of the chambers of explosion in every direction. took place Six and Scranton, the men Pa., were a sudden hurled a the distance of thirty feet by miners the terrible were force thrown injured. explosion and were more or less severely of Pa., Intense by the excitement was caused in banks-the suspension of its three Reading, house of Bushong Reading & Savings Bank, the banking savings Bank. All Bro., and the Dime Savings to the three institutions closed their James public within a few hours of one another. doors his wife while Savage, intoxicated. of Belgrade Depot, Me., killed opposed Two parties to each in Trenton, N. J., are fiercely or not the other on the question and the matter street cars shail be run "on Sundays, whether mitted will probably have subThe to the people at special election. to be Meriden, works of the Meriden Screw Company Loss, $25,000 Conn., insurance, were entirely $12,350. destroyed by fire. at York A number have of striking cigar makers of were been ejected from their homes, which New owned by their employers. Western Ex-United and Southern States. who has been States Marshal Schaffenberger, the past eight months in the Kansas penitentiary for government for robbing the national the President. of $40,000 has been pardoned by exploded The boiler of the steamer Tom Morgan gineer and near Greenville, Mass., and the enThe owner of the boat were killed. sippia State opened fairs of South Carolina and Missiswere largely attended. at Columbia and Jackson, and Berlin, During of gale on Lake Michigan the schooner wrecked. Buffalo, The N. Y., struck reef and was but the four captain and cook were diowned. pieces survivors managed to P M. next of the day, vessel over night and until cling four to a lifeboat, although when two they were reached by son posure. and a sailor-died of from them the the terrible captain ex. goods Field. Leiter & Co.'s mammoth retail store in Chicago-one of the dry caught establishments of its kind in the largest Hames fire in the upper story and before countrying down were got under control the whole the While the to the two lower stories was builddenly fell, firemen were at work a stairway gutted others and one man was killed and sudbe probably fatally injur d. The four surance. about $1,000,000, but there is a large loss will in one Chicago of its has been startled by the suicide most prominent business Coolbaugh, Bank. He president of the Union men- National W. trance to was found lying dead at the en the Douglas monument. partially supposed emptied revolver at his side. with period of to mental have aberration. committed the deed during He damage A fire in the business part of St. Louis Steinberg, a amounting to over $100,000. the sufferers. hatter and furrier, and others M. wer having A company has been formed in San Francisco between for its object the laying of that city and China and a cabl capital stock is $10,000,000. Japan. It the An Western earthquake States, occurred in different parts Bluffs. Ia., Omaha, shocks being felt at Counc elsewhere. Neb., Columbus, office In North Platte, Neb., Ohio, printin an material was overturned. Proctor In Warren county, Ia., a man named tempting fatally shot Miss Codigan while Renbe house. While to commit burglary in her father at la officers amination Proctor undergoing was taken a preliminary from the The by a number of men and hanged. cable Trans-Pacific Cable Company, for Japan, a between San Francisco, and layin the has been organized in San China Francisco an capital stock being $10,000,000. lary Reuben at Proctor attempted to commit discovered a house by in Warren county, Ia., and a burg W: a daughter of the Miss Cadigan whereupon proprietor her, inflicting mortal he fired two shots took and while him being examined wounds. a body He of was arreste him. away from the examiners and forty hange me all Quite over a the severe shock of earthquake West, particularly in was fe in Nebraska, printing In North Platte, Neb., the Iowa at
