Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and
AhE0aH.

The United States Supreme Court viii soon |
render decision as to the eligibility of women
for the Office Of Justice OF the Peace. The |
great food on the River Segrei Spain, was
attended with loss OF lie and damage. More
than one hundred persons were drowned, and
the damage to property is immense, nearly
$50 houses having been swept away. AT
Guimera ninety-six houses were washed away
and thirty-three persons lost their lives.
Amony those who were drowned are the Mayor
and all his family. .... Cyrus Lufkin, Of Pea
body, Mass, caught his foot in the railroad
track, and all efforts to release him were I'M
availing. He was held fast for half an hour,
when a train of cars came laundering along.
The poor fellow saved his life by throwing
himself on enc side, but lost his foot, the cars
running over and cutting it of ...... Captain
Williams, of the schooner Nelson, reports the
loss of two OF the crew OF the schooner Clara
B. Chapman, Of Gloucester, Mass, on the
Grand Bank. This accident was caused by
their dory being swamped while using their
trawl . The Turks in Montenegro continue
their outrages on the Christians. They have
killed eight Montenegrins and some Saxon
residents in the neighborhSod of Podgoriza
and burned village. The Christians were
compelled to flee to the mountains. -. The
London Indian Office has just received dis
patch confirming the report Of the capture Of
Mana sahib. He will be tried Immediately at
the place where he was captured. The London
newspapers unite in demanding that exemplary
vengeance be visited upon Mana Sahib.
The town of Worthington, Greene county,
Indiana, was destroyed by fire; the work of an
incendiary ...... In Anderson, Indiana, the
mother and sister of Albert Mawson were
arrested being charged OF his murder. "A
train on the Chicago and Southeastern Rail
road was boarded by robbers, who ran away
with it meanwhile the robbers, with pistols,
compelled all the passengers to deliver up their
valuables. 49,. The boilers of the mill and salt
works belonging to W. H. Cooper & Co., at
| New River, Michigan exploded. One child
was killed and several men severely injured.
...... Four young men were hunting deer in
Tallahatchie bottom, Tennessee, and became
separated. One of them observed the cane
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caused by deer, fred the contents of a
double barreled shotgun, loaded with buck
shot, and hearing screams, rushed to the spot
and found Thomas Mosby, one of his COM
| panions, lying dead shot through the head
David White, another comrade, shot in the
head and mortally Wounded, and the third one,
s. W. johnson, severely wounded. 80. The
London Times correspondent at Bombay tele-
graphs that it is estimated that 1000 persons
were killed in the town and district of Midna
pore during the recent cyclone. The steamer
May foundered on the voyage from Glasgow
to Trinidad Ten persons went down with the
ship. The remainder took to the boats, one o.
which, with five men, is supposed to have
been swamped. The other, containing two o.
the crew living and three dead, was picked up
and the survivors we're landed at Falmouth
England.
1t is believed in Europe that within few
months Russia and Germany will be engaged
in desperate conflict. Both are preparing
for it,. The grand jury at Salt Lake fount
seven indictments, one charging Elder George
Reynolds, man of prominence in the Mormon
Church, with bigamy and polygamy. He wa
admitted to bail in the sum Of 80, 500. .... TIL
working women of the United States will holt
convention in Washington next January. E.
There appears to be disposition among tn
Bonapartists to shortly urge in the Frencl
) Assembly the removal of the remains of Ma
poleon III. to French soil. 80. Michigan ha
gained 10000 in population since 1870. 80.
The California pioneers of 1860 have organize
a society Massachusetts has fixed Thurs
day, Nov. 26, as Thanksgiving Day. TIL
hand loom weavers Of Philadelphia are o.
strike. 49,. The Swedish government bring
all goods and men to take care Of them to tn
United States Centennial free of cost to tn
; shippers. 80. The town of China Maine, ha
just celebrated it's centennial The town wa
originally known as "Jones Plantation" an
} was settled by family of Clarks from Mar
tucket, Mass. in 1774 ...At the recent meet
ing of the Grand Lodge of Masons, Scottis
Rite of the Orient Of Palermo, Italy, Mastf
Ferretti, now the Pope, was expelled from tn
order.
+ Three years imprisonment is the penalty i
| Canada for refusing to support wife. -.
lie Nord the organ Of the Russian govern
ment, says the Montenegrin massacres cannc
be overlooked; Turkey must mete out speed
justice to the perpetrators and make repair,
ton for their crimes. The great powers hay
advised Porte to take this course. . Angu
= McTavish, an old resident of Dunwich Ont
: met with a horrible death. In attempting I
head off a steer, the animal attacked hi
furiously, carried him some distance on h
horns, and dashed him. to the ground. Il
Z died shortly after, suffering great pain.
John Roach has over two thousand men en-
ployed in Chester, Pa. The keels of thre
iron ships are now laid there. They are a
designed for the Pacific Mail Steamship Con
, pany. The Ottumwa express on the Chicag
4 Burlington and Quincy railroad, consisting
: nine full passenger cars, was wrecked
q Whitefeld, Iowa. The whole train was ditche
- Nineteen passengers were fatally injured al
t several killed. outright. ... Information r
: ceived from Southwestern Nebraska shows tn
n thousands of people are in a starving cond
q ton. Many for weeks have had nothing
! eat but baked squash and pumpkin and sal
: and others live on baked -four and water, OF
meal day, for weeks. Ten thousand Peep
will need aid sufficient to keep them fro
. starvation and cold during the winter. HUI
g dreds of people are naked and on the verge
= starvation, and without means to leave Il
y State.
The Oregon Legislature has passed stril
u gent act against gambling, one Of the claus
of which provides that a person losing mon'