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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Eastern and Middle States. George T. Plume, a New York broker well known in the financial circles of the city, sent message to the Stock Exchange, of which he was member, to the effect that he was unable to meet his contracts and further de velopments disclosed that he had appropriated to bis own use over $100,000 belonging to the Lamont estate, of which he was an executor. The Pennsylvania railroad company bought out the Empire transportation company at Philadelphia, paying in round numbers, $4,600,000 ment. for its merchandise, cars and equipWilliam M. Tweed testified before an aldermanic committee in New York that he was now a bankrupt that since 1871 he had paid to lawyers 31,490,500 that since that period he had lost $1,206.1 and that $5,000 could not be realized from the property now owned by him. He also stated that it cost him $60,000 to escape from Ludlow street jail, that sum having been paid to the various persons who aided him in getting away. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, was sued for libel by Phoebe Robertson, New York boarding house keeper. serted The libel consisted in the following words, inin Personal' advertisement lished in the Herald Beware of the black- pubmailing crowd at Nos. 51 and 53 West Twentyfifth street. The jury awarded the plaintiff $10,000 damages. As boatman was rowing on one of the lakes in Central Park, New York, his oar struck against of an object which proved to be the body The ahandsome and fashionably woman. corpse was Mrs. Thomas Otis Leroy, redent siding on Fifth avenue and wife of the presiof the Leroy shot company. She had evidently committed suicide. John Tierney, a laborer: was killed by an express train at Hackettstown, N. James Proctor, a brakeman, fell between the cars at Chatham, N. and received injuries resulting in death, and W. M. Terwilliger, convict at work on an elevator at the Elmira (N. Y.) reformatory, was killed, while a companion had his leg broken by the sudden fall of the apparatus. The steamer Massachusetts, recently wrecked on the Long Island coast, was brought off the rocks and taken to New York. John McKeever and Cornelius Carmody were injured- the latter fatally an explosion in the cartridge department of the Watervliet arsenal at Albany, N.Y. The Oswego Falls Woolen Mills, near Fulton, N. tity Y., were partially burned, and large quanof valuable machinery, wool and finished cloth was destroyed, causing loss of $100,000, on which there is a full insurance. The Sharpsburg Savings Bank. of Sharpsburg, Pa., has suspended payment. Reynolds & Wessel, wholesale druggists of $30,000. Buffalo, N. Y., failed with liabilities of about At New Haven, Conn., the American Mutual Life and the American Mutual Life and Trust business Companies were enjoined from transacting all sable, except that which may "be indispenpending a petition to have a receiver appointed for each company. Seventy persons died of small-pox within a few days at Clintonville, N. Y. N. R Heaton's storehouse, near Rouse's Point, Y., was burned, with 30,000 pound of wool. Loss, $15,000. An accumulation of fire damp in the shaft of caused a mine at Green Ridge, near Scranton, Pa., a fire which covered an acre in extent and required the constant employment of large gangs of men in order to prevent the flames from spreading. During drunken carousal at York, Pa., and Frank Frey shot at and wounded two women a man and was himself shot in the hand. By & fire in Madison, N. J., five buildings, including the passenger station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad and a large stroyed. amount of valuable property, were deinsured. The loss is about $30,000; partially Two sons of William Downey, of Pittsfield, Mass., were killed by the bursting of gun. victed Samuel Humphries and Edmund Smith, of burning the Lebanon Valley railroad con bridge, strike near Reading, Pa., during the recent troubles, have been sentenced to five years' each. imprisonment and to pay a fine of $1,000 The No. 3 woolen mill at Waterford, Mass. was stories destroyed by fire, The building was four high, 200 feet long, and 250 hands were employed in it. Loss, $100,000. The thirty-first annual meetingof the American Missionary N. Association took place at Syraelected cuse, Y. Hon. E. S. Tobey, of Boston, was president for the coming year. The New York State assessment of taxes 511.01. upon the different counties aggregates $8, 726, service The payments to the New York militia for during the recent labor troubles will amount to about $250,000. A large number of depositors drew their of money New out of the Union Dime Savings Bank, York, one of the largest institutions saving ticipated in the city, and a heavy run was an- of Western The and Southern States. suspension of the Market Street Bank, of San Francisco, took place, owing Savings to a heavy withdrawal of accounts. gational The third meeting of the Triennial CongreAbout 200 Council opened at Detroit, Mich representing delegates all were in attendance, Governor parts of the country. W. B. Washburn, of Ex was was chosen Moderator. The statistical Massachusets, read, and shows that there are 2,325 report gregational 184 churches in the Union-a Con since 1874, the number of members gain of 350,658- 405,092 a gain in three years of 26.979-and being Sunday school scholars: the church charge of churches number 2,713; the pastors annual in expenses are about $4,000,000. paper was on The Bible in the Public Schools A lege. read by Ex-President Woolsey of Yale ColNational Francis Murphy was elected president of the Cleveland, Temperance Ohio. Union, in session at A land swindle on an enormous scale unearthed J. R. in Kansas City, Mo., by the was Miller, Ham, Edward L. Stevens and George arrest W Texas on The a requisition of the governor of men arrested are charged forging for land titles and issuing fraudulent with order immense tracts of land in Texas deed to perfect their plans it is alleged and in confederates had made duplicate their of notary the and other seals and obtained copies copies All the signatures titles and of many Texas State officers of senting either the patents used by them- reprelands-were forged. general government or State blank forms and duplicates while they had printed had for their been operations. Gov. Hubbard' of deeds necessary attention after drawn to the matter year ment at investigation he informed the ago, govern and agent to Washington, who sent on a make full examination. specia search different resulted in the simultaneous A thorough to of the parts of the country of sixty arrest, in ascertained gang of swindlers and it was member fourteen that they had burned no less furthe proofs of court their houses, crimes. in order to destroy than the land have been fraudulently Large conveyed quantities by conspirators try to many persons all over the coun the The suspension of the Home Savings Bank at of Elgin, III., is announced. mercial Two robbers attacked Joseph Hansen, a 146 traveler, as he was crossing com Hansen feet high near Big Clifty, Ky. a bridg sailants drew a revolver. shot one whereupo of his fatally injuring and threw both. the other over the bridg Wood's Museum.
