Eastern Echos

.Maltin O. au Flict, tbe abscondlig trea urer of lluroo couuty, ühio. who absconded uearly two yeurs ago, ivw oaptured iu Brantford, Ont., on tbc ]yth iist. The state Miprrnw i-ourt of New Jersey has dedded tbe state railroad tax !aw uocouj stitutiona! on the aioutid tla'. it was special Uirislatiou Abjut yl,00ü,iUJ laxes bad al ivady been eollected under it. Win. H. MessLTvav, ex-Mayor oL Salem, Aluss. d:eJ Feb. lst, aaed 74 joais. He was u member of the tirst party of" whitu- to cross the plu us, and whs ut b;ie time iu the Mex ic-an uMuy ajd coniintd in a Mts; can iriso:!. In_18S3 be w-as secretan1 of New Mexico and In 1854 was Kovernor and seeretary as wel: a superintendent ut ludian allairs. He wa eleefe.d delégate to congress, but was eounte l out. He una-sed a io:ti:u;! Iu New Mexico umi retlred trom busineu tlnrty years ago. Four men and a boy of Uarrisbiirg, Pa werc drowneJ on the 81st wlrl ■ attemptlu" tu cross the Sus..]uehanna. David Wilsoa of Pittsburg, shot bis wifeaud then committed suïcide on the He had been out of employment about 17 months, and had became discouraged. M.'chael ü'C'onnel, who i aecuted of havIng sei lire to valuable property in Oreat liar riugtou, Mass.. last BUuimer, was arrested in New Vork on the lsth ml. llievalueof the property destroyed i about $00j,uUO. John Lev. ï-.dgc, probably thi oldest lawver in the L niteu Statt-s dlcd at hls homo in New York on the l.tü iust. He was Iu the 94th year of hls a ,e at the time of bis death. He was nevex a consp cuoas pi ader in coarte, but was otteu sulected as asgijjuoe, administrator or exeentur. Inle4t-fi Lc was corporation counsel. xuo nemrew iMauuiactunng vuinpauv at Adams, Mass., which is one of Ue lanrett manufacturera of Kimrhams and tub:e elo:hs in the country, havo raued the watjes of th.ir operators ten per cent. to date Irom March 1 Tho men had uot askeil lor mere pav. The management of the Ponemah tnllU, at Taitville, Conn., has granted the emplove' (iemauü lor a teil per ceut4 ncrease in rrc and a reduttlon iu the hours of Mmi to slxty per week after March 1. The Stietueket conipany Las raiscd wagei live per cent in aticlitiou to th live per cent. receutly given. Maine ship builders are on a strike. The Peniberlon milis at Lawicnce. Mass., announce au advance of wages on March 1 probubly irom seven to ten per Cent Work was resumcd In the Penusylvauia cook regioni 2id. Mis. Ne fer of Cleveland, ühlo, was ehloroforined aud robbed ol $a,OOÜ KeD. 23. F.re consumed a block of nine buildings in Etliiiburjf, lJa. The oriRin of the lire was an explosión oí natural gas. Mr. Uroves, a 6katingr.nkmau.tKer, was bti:ndto death The loss is Í12,(KK) to Í15.OÜÜ; Insurance',