Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-23
News GIenmINxs.

Irving the self-confessed murderer, is
believed to be fraud.
The absconded Union Pacific Rail-
road clerk is found $4,000 short.
A boy at Pleasant Valley, O., fell fifty
feet from tree and was killed, on
Friday.
A Spanish steamer was wrecked re-
Gently near the Isle of Pines, and eigh-
teen of the crew lost.
The Springfield, Ill, School Board
have resolved to admit colored children
into the schools.
The report that bonds to the amount
of 800, 900 are missing from the New
York Comptroller's office, is untrue.
The total attendance at the Indiana
State Fair, which closed Friday, was
over 100000. The receipts were $780,
900.
The interments at Shreveport on the
10th were six; for the week seventy-two.
Total from the outbreak of the disease,
500.
A large increase of the internal reve-
nue. is expected this month, but the
heavy payments will prevent any reduc-
ton of the debt.
Tie trustees of the Union Trust Com
pany have appointed committee to
consider the question of speedy resump-
ton of business.
Robert johnson was struck on the
head and fatally injured during a fight
in liquor saloon in Jersey City, Satur-
day night. No arrests.
1t is said that the Tichborne trial has
already cost 81, 100000. The claimants
only chance now is, to see Barnum and
engage himself as sideshow.
Curtin, of San Francisco, who killed
the seducer of his daughter, has been ac-
quilted. The judge approved the yer
dict, and the spectators cheered.
A heavy gale at Havana unroofed
houses, flooded several streets, and twelve
persons were drowned. At Guantona,
all the vessels were driven ashore.
M. Riviere's report to the Bazaine
court martial charges that the prisoner
deceived the emperor and his own officers
and in nearly all things behaved with
great improperly.
The Cuban Insurgents defeated four
hundred Spanish troops on the Goth inst.
Subsequently the insurgents were beaten
and seventy killed. They were equally
unfortunate at several other points.
The enormous hat factory of J. t.
Warning, at Yonkers, was closed on Sat-
urdaY, indefinitely, owing to slackness
of orders. The silk factory of Skinner
81 Co., near the above, was also closed
from the same cause.
The steam canal boats William Bax-
ter and William Newman, left Buffalo
last night for Syracuse, with full cargoes
of grain, competing for the State prize,
one hundred thousand dollars. Other
boats are loading and will follow
A gentleman at Eyota, IN Olmstead
County, Mimi, has received from his
brother on the Pacific coast q small
quantity of variety of wheat grown
en- Vancouyer's Island, which is said to
have yielded one hundred bushels to the
acre, and weighing sixty-eight pounds to
the bushel.
The defalcations of Pierce, the cashier
of the Lowell Merchants Bank is now
stated at sixty-three thousand dollars.
The Investigations so far indicate that
the capital of the bank is not impaired
and that the surplus win remain. The
bank officials have proposed no COM
promise with the defaulting cashier.
Rev. Mr.. Knight, of Dundee, Scotland,
lately on trial before the Presbytery
for taking a somewhat too scientific
view of prayer, has been acquitted. But
his troubles are not over, for. a minority
of the Presbytery propose to carry the
matter to higher court. ls 4