Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A youth named Christian Geise, aged 10, was
arrested in Baltimore for AssAulting another
boy. His disgrace 90 preyed upon his mind
that he committed suicide by taking arsenic
......A fatal ARRAY occurred in Owen county,
Kentucky, between two brothers named Walker
and two brothers named Smoot The Shoots
we're arrested last fall by James NJ Walker and
others, special detectives appointed by the
Governor, as alleged Ku Klu1. A feud has
existed between the parties since, and at a
meeting in owenton James NJ. Walker was shot
and instantly killed by John smoot, and F.
Walker severely wounded. The town marshal
attempted to arrest Smoot, when several friends
drew their pistols and threatened the officer
with death il he did not desist. " A steam
boiler in Picton, Ont, planning mill exploded,
instantly killing the engineer and his son, and
young man. The accountant was seriously
but not dangerously hurt. One man was badly
scalded about the breast and head, and two
others suffered Commissions. Fragments Of the
boiler, not less than ton in weight, were
hurled distance Of two hundred feet. -. At
the Philadelphia Exchange the Sunbury and
Lewiston Railroad was sold at auction, under a
foreclosure of mortgage, for S551, 900, subject
to a mortgage of $1,20O,000. Malcolm Camp
bell, acting for the trustees was the purchaser
$50. From the explosion of a coal oil lamp
fire broke out in q tenement in Philadelphia.
On the second floor three boys we're asleep.
They were discovered in an unconscious con-
dition from inhaling smoke. Two recovered,
I...A
belonging to Edgecomb, Me-, named Joseph
Dickinson and Jason Huff, were drowned in
Wiscasset Harbor. Me. They were in two boats
loaded with sand and the boats sank. 49,. AT a
meeting of Roman Catholic Archbishops in
Cincinnati, Philadelphia was made an arch
diocese. 1t is thought that two other arch
dioceses will be created, and that additional
bishoprics will be formed. .... The Faculty of
the University at Ann Arbor, Mich, have sus-
pended thirty-nine sophomores and forty-two
freshmen for hazing. They say the University
can better afford to be without students than
without government. -. Bertha Daniels, II
years old, committed suicide in Philadelphia, by
eating sulphur from the heads of matches
...... Advices from Magdalen Island of April
30, say the seal fishery from the shore is a
failure. Twelve vessels had returned from the
Gulf seal fishery with good fares . The U.
S. Senate Finance Committee, took further
action on the House Currency bill, and by a
majority vote agreed to recommend the in
corporation in it of the following provisions
The maximum greenback circulation to be
1882, $1,000. New national bank notes to be
issued to the amount of $164, 900, 900, provided
that for each million of such new notes issued
there shall be 100000 of greenbacks retired
until the total greenback circulation shall have
been reduced to $780, 100000. The committee
voted to fix January 1, 1877, as the date at
which specie payment should be resumed but
did not reach conclusion as to what system
should be employed for that purpose, whether
of interchangeable bonds or by means of any
of the other plans proposed. .