Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-18

Coroner Fleming will. hold an inquest
I immediately, aud il is expected facts
will be produced to show that the rail.
road, company is to blame in: this shock
/. ing tragedy. The track was but dimly.
{ lighted, SO that the. victim was unable to.
see the. locomotive as it backed down
upon her, and no one. seems to have
warned. her. Everybody cenSures the.
railroad, and Mr., Veto. will sue for
/ heavy. damages, which there is, little:
doubt he will obtain. ] gq ! -.
+ THE Use Of eftLoReFoRM DISCONTINUED:
+ BY MASSACHUSETTS. pRSf1sTs. = :. -,
| An interesting meeting of tie Massa-
ehusetts Dental Society was, held in Bos-.
ton yesterday. After much discussion
the following resolution was adopted,
excepting the last clause ), r., rs =
| Resoloea, That in the opinion of the
Massachusetts, Dental Society the use of
| chloroform in dental operations is not
|. justifable, and that the public should be
| advised to shun such practitioners as
| persist IN using ehloroform as an anas-
| thetic. rt so go 49, +. "a ~.
woRKINeMEN's MEETING IN BOSTON.
Efforts originating in New York city
brought about meetings of working peo-
pie in the principal cities of the United
States Thursday night. The call was to
demand from the United States govern.
ment an enforcement of the eight hour
| law upon all persons engaged upon the
| public works, ETC., ETC., as shown in the
resolutions below. The Boston meeting
was holden in Faneuil Hall. and was
called to order by VIM. F. Griffiths of
Somerville. The attendance numbered
| some five hundred persons, about eight
o'clock, and the most of these tarried
throughout. Mr.. William Murray,
! journeyman painter, was made Presi-
dent of the meeting, and list of twenty
Vice Presidents was read and accepted.
| A long series of resolutions denouncing
architect Mullet were adopted, and a
considerable amount of speechmaking
INDUCED in.
THE INTERNATIONAL CHECKERS MATCH.
Six games were played on Thursday
afternoon, at Boston, in the match at
checkers between James Wylie and w.
r. Barker, for $400 and the champion
ship of the world. The first, second,
fifth and sixth games were drawn, but
the third and fourth were won by Wylie,
being respectively the Whittier" and
AYRSHIRE Lassie" The summary is
now as follows: Games played, II won
by Wylie, 3 drawn, s. Thirty-nine
games remain to be played.
BAzAINE's SENTENCE.
A Paris dispatch says that President
MacMahon, before taking action on the
appeal of mercy for Bazaine, will wait
for explanations from the Marshal and
for the expiration of the usual delay dur
ing which the Court may itself reserve
the sentence. The Presidents decision
will be announced to-day.
The Duke d'Aumale, president of the
Court Martial, has gone to Besancon to
attend exclusively to the command of
his army corps.
A special to the London Nelos states it
is reported to Paris that President Mac
mahon decided to commute the sentence
of Marshal BaZaine to twenty years Sc
clusion.
Later accounts from Paris agree that
BaZaine received the sentence with the
greatest calmness.
The Berlin press regard the verdict as
the result of political intrigue, and GEN.
sure the conduct of the Due d'Aumale.
DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A double murder, followed by the su-
icide of the murderer, occurred in
Charlestown, Mass, on Thursday morn
ing, just before six o'clock. The fami-
", of which three members have met a
violent death, is that of George U. Kim
ball, an old resident of Charlestown, and
a man fifty years OF age. Henry Ly-
man, who was the first to tell of the
deed, is a boarder at the house, who,
| with several others, came down stairs at
the call of Mr.. Kimball, and found that
man standing in the center of the par
lor, clad only in night shirt, with a ra-
zor in his hand. Motioning the boarders
away with his hand, Kimball then drew
the keen instrument across his throat
twice, making two CHASTITY cuts, one
close up under the jaw, and the other
Just over the collar bone. Witnesses
rushed to the police station, and several
officers went to the house, and found
the man still breathing. Officer Pierson
attempted to lift Kimball from the floor,
but in his last few minutes of existence
he threatened to cut him. He lived but
about ten minutes after the officers ar
| rived, but before his death they discov-
cred his wife Caroline, apparently asleep
in her bed in the room adjoining the
parlor. Her deathly pale face caused an
investigation, and drawing the sheets
away from her neck finger-marks plain
ly showed that she had been strangled.
A bloody handkerchief used as a gag was
lying near her head, but the body was
in comparatively natural position of
rest. Kimball's step-daughter, Corinda,
| who has lived with her father, was next
sought for, and when found, the sight
was the most terrible of all. She lay on
bed in closet-like apartment opening
from the front room, her head surround
ed by a mass of dried blood. Her throat
was cut from ear to ear and her head al
most severed from her body.
THE SPANISH MINISTER. ..
Admiral Don Jose Polo de Barnabe,
the present Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain here,
is Rear Admiral in the Spanish navy,
who has an excellent reputation as
sailor, and who has proved himself
equally able as a diplomatist since he
came here in that capacity two years
ago. The Admiral came here rather
prejudiced against our government,
having, under the reign of Queen lisa
bella, advocated vigorous warfare
against the republic of Peru, as the first
| step toward the reconquest of the re-
volted Spanish provinces on this side of
the water. He also contended in a
pamphlet which he wrote that the Mon
roe doctrine was an insolent assumption
on the part of the United States, and
that Spain had more reason than any
other European nation to disregard and
defy it.
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