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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. THE President and family enjoyed a fishing trip to Herford banks, about fifteen miles off Cape May, N. J. About 10 o'clock in the morning the President, Mrs. Harrison, Lieutenant and Mrs. J. W. Parker, Congressman and Mrs. J. E. Reyburn, Mrs. Dimmick, Mr. and Mrs. William Buckman, Miss Alice B. Sanger and Thomas V. Cooper, of Philadelphia, left on the United States revenue cutter Hamilton. The voyage was a pleasant one, and over 500 of the finest of sea bass, flounders and porgies were caught. THE investigating committee of the Philadelphia Councils heard the interview of exTreasurer John Bardsley, now a convict, concerning the Keystone Bank, into which the names of Postmaster-General Wanamaker and other prominent Philadelphians are brought. CORPORAL WESTERVELT, of Company A, Seventy-first Regiment, ran a bayonet through the leg of Private Wilkes, who was trying to sneak through the guard lines at night at the State Camp, Peekskill, N. Y. THE Massachusetts Naval Militia, in conjunction with the Squadron of Evolution, had a sham battle on Deer Island, in Boston Bay. FRENCHY, or Ameer Ben Ali, the American imitator of London's "Jack the Ripper," convicted of murder in the second degree for killing "Old Shakspeare," was sentenced in New York by Recorder Smyth to State Prison for life. GEORGE VAN RISTO'S two children were drowned in the Hudson, off New York City, despite the father's efforts to save them. EDWARD BURGESS, the celebrated yacht designer, died from typhoid fever at his home in Boston, Mass. He was born at West Sandwich, Mass., June 30, 184S. P. W. BARNEY. Superintendent of the Lake George (N. Y.) Transportation Co., was fatally hurt while rescuing his boy from drowning. WILLIAM CARPENTER, his W ife, Mollie, aged thirty, and their son John, age seven went out in a small boat on the Delaware, at Philadelphia, Penn. Just off the Federal street ferry on the Camden side their boat was run down by the ferryboat Pennsyivania. The wifeand son were drowned, the, husband being rescued. E. C. STARK & Co., bankers of Oneida, N. Y., made an assignment. Liabilities are estimated at $220,000. GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POWDERLY, of the Knights of Labor, forwarded to Governor Pattison his declination of his appointment as one of the World's Fair Commissioners from Pennsylvania. JOHN SIPLE and William Long, boys of fifteen, were drowned while bathing at Fort Plain, N. Y. THE little naphtba launch Ethel was wrecked in the heavy surf on the bar off Long Beach, N. Y., and Louis Caemmerer, of Brooklyn; Daniel Dennis, a neighbor of Mr. Caemmerer, and George Norwood, of Flatbush, were drowned. PHINEAS M. AUGUR, the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Connecticut last fall, died at his home in Middlefield of heart disease. THOMAS VACHON, a French Canadian, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Nora Landry, at Gardiner, Me., because she would not board him for nothing and then killed himself. A DECISION by Judge Wallace was filed in the United States Circuit Court, New York, in the caseof the Edison Electric Light Company against the United States Electric Light Company (owned by the Westinghouse Company), sustaining the Edison patent on the incandescent lamp. The suit was begun in 1885. BRACKEN'S new brick block on North street, Pittsfield, Mass., was burned. Loss $100,000. PETER YARD and George Noseman were killed and C. F. Wetterau and Andrew Gilbert fatally burned by a premature explo sion in a mine at Hazleton, Penn.
