Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Interesting Items from Home and
Abroad.

| Abroad.
Three persons we're killed and five were
seriously injured by fire at Uxbridge, Ontario.
80. The will Of Don Bartolome Blanco de
LENA, who died in New York was admitted to
probate. The testator was owner Of 1872 houses
in New York and Brooklyn, his income at his
death being nearly 81, 900 day. He will leave
\ $1,000 for the establishment of a pious school
at Gee, $500 to each Of the Catholic churches
of New York, $4,000 to his mother, and the
remainder of his estate of $4,000, 900 to his
brothers and sisters in Spain. President
Keep, of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road, in an interview, expresses great surprise
at the decision of the Supreme Court of Wis
consin, but said his road would at once take
measures to obey the law by the date fixed in
the injunction. But as the road could not live
up to the Potter law and furnish first-class ac-
commodations to the public, he will take
measures to take off all first-class passenger
coaches, stop all work on the line and in the
shops, except for repairs, and reduce the force
to a minimum strength. The Milwaukee and
st. Paul Company make the same decision. g.
Three Of the U. S. monitors, the Amphitrite,
Terror, and Miantonomah, carrying four guns
each, are to be rebuilt. These monitors now
have wooden bulls, but will be rebuilt entirely
of iron. Many improvements will be made in
their machinery, ventilation, etc. The contract
for rebuilding the Amphitrite has already been
awarded to Harlan & Hollingsworth, of Will
mington, Del, :. The following are the balances
in the u S. Treasury Currency, $15, 1873, 121 !;
special deposit of legal tenders for the redemp-
ton of certificates of deposit, $59, 935, 900 E;
coin, including S29, AGO. TAO in coin certificates,
S72 511 ,554; outstanding legal tenders, $3.50,
600, 900. .... The Democrats of the First Dis
tract of Wisconsin have nominated Hon. N. d.
Pratt, of Racine, for Congress. -. The Re-
publicans Of the Sixth District of Wisconsin
have nominated A. M. Kimball for Congress.
..... Experiments are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain whether
steel tubes can proftably replace those of
copper and brass.in locomotives.
The Grand Jury Of Washington refused to
find true bill against Mr. Dana, of the New
York Sun, for an alleged libel upon Governor
Shepherd. .... In the Tennessee Republican
State Convention, Hon. Horace Maynard was
nominated for Governor. A resolution was
passed declaring any Congressional legislation
based on the principles Of the Civil Rights bill
unwise " The differences which caused the
great strike of mill operatives at Bolton Eng
land, have been, at last referred to arbitration.
.... Five hundred more farm laborers have
sailed from Liverpool for Quebec. :. The
Germdntd (newspaper) states that the Pope
has peremptorily refused to join the European
Powers in the recognition of Spain. -. . The
campaign in Nebraska is beginning to be lively.
Four tickets are in the field, Independent,
Republican, Democratic, and Temperance.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth Ohio Dis
trict have nominated the Hon. John X. Nc
Bride, of Wayne, for Congress. . :. The Demo.
Gratis of the Second Michigan District have
nominated the Hon. J. s. Robinson, of Wash.
tenaw county, for Congress. .... The Demo.
Gratis of the Fifth District of Maryland, nomi
mated DR.. Ely J. Henkle of Anne Arunde
county, for Congress. 49,. The Arkansas Re.
publican Convention adjourned without making
any nominations for State officers under the
new Constitution. :. The Democrats of the
Eleventh Illinois District have nominated
Scott Wike, of Pike county, for Congress, de-
feating R. M. Knapp the present member.
The Republicans of the Third Wisconsin Dis
trict nominated Henry S Magoon, of Lafayette
county, for Congress, on the 134th ballot
after two days session. The Hon. Eli
H. Roberts, of Utica, was unanimously re
nominated for Congress by the Republican
on a platform favoring immediate steps to
ward a resumption Of specie payment, ant
opposing Presidential third term.
The Capital Wooden Mills, in Sacramento
CAL, have been destroyed by fire. Loss
100000. .... Billiard, the Boston bank rob
Der, has confessed his connection with tn
robbery. and says that the amount obtaine'
was $780, 00.. ... Thirty babies died in tn
Founding Farm at the Flatbush County Hous'
within two months. 80. Thomas Cavanagh
employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna an
Western Railroad Company, met with terribl
death near Beavertown. Thomas Hoffman,
hagman in the employ of the company, OF
served that one of the wheels of the engin
was covered with blood. On examination b
discovered Cavanagh's head fastened in tn
machinery around the wheel. He took it il
his arms and carried it mile back, when h
discovered Cavanagh's headless body. ....
The meeting of the Kansas Legislature solel
with view to take measures for the relief @
the farmers who have suffered from ravsges Q
grasshoppers, has brought out in strong belle
the fact that this disaster, though very gree
in some localities, is confined to the borde
counties and does not effect the State at large
80. Miss Edna Dean Proctor, whose nam
has been used in recent discussions of tn
Beecher case, has brought suit for damages
first against Mr.. Francis D. Moulton an
secondly against The New York Graphic Con
pany. -. 1t is reported that the Japanese ar
willing to vacate Formosa on condition that th
Chinese Government will hold the people ther
under subsection and acknowledge that th
Japanese were justified in occupying til
, , island.
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