Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Godfred Eistenberger, a guest in Carsten’s hotel, at Elizabeth, N. J., shot dead a waiter named Beuhler, who entered his room with a lighted candle. James Egan, ex-Speaker of the New Jersey House, has been sentenced to a month in the penitentiary and SSOO fine for attempting to bribe an Assemblyman at the last session of the Legislature. Edward Tappan, in prison at Hunter’s Point, L. 1., for the Townsend outrage, confessed that his brother, John B. Tappan, on the evening of Nov. 17 last, killed Mrs. and Anna Maybee by strangling them to death on the barn i.’oor, then assaulted Mr. Maybee and robbed the premises. Another appalling marine disaster is reported. The steamer City of Columbus, bound from Boston to Savannah, with eightytwo first-class and twenty-two steerage pas' sengers, was wrecked on-a ledge of rocks off the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, at a point thirty miles directly south of New Bedford, Mass. All the boats were swamped. Many pqfsons left the vessel in various descriptions of floating devices, but all lost their lives save seventeen. About 130 lives were lost. Three men were killed by an explosion in a dynamite factory at Allentown, Pa., and three small buildings were destroyed. By the explosion of a boiler in the shoe factory of E. Y. & E. Wallace, at Rochester, N. H., four men were killed and six injured. The engineer had weighted down the safety-valve with a brick. A portion of the boiler went through the base of a chimney ninety feet high, which toppled over upon the factory. Two persons were killed by a bursting boiler at Hunter’s Point, L. I. A special Treasury officer in New York seized a mail package from Amsterdam which contained diamonds valued at $20,000. The Arm of Williams & Guion, New York, has been dissolved because of the financial embarrassment of Wm. H. Oulon,

who made an assignment, and has liabilities approaching $2,000,000. Other members of the house, or the company itself, are not involved, and a new firm has been organized under the name of Guion & Co. It is stated that Wm. H. Guin has no assets.