The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-23

Inc Baltimore ana ONO railroad conf
pony is going to fit up part of the Chicago
exposition building for depot.
George Weber, well-known Cincinnati
brewer, has male an assignment Of his
property, worth $500, 600 or S90O, 900 His
liabilities are about S325,0O0
One hundred and tweny employees of the
New York custom-housc, principally in
spectors and woishers, are to be discharged,
this week. The reduction is made to cuitail
the expenses of collecting the revonuc.
Ed Riley, countcrfciter, WHO has been
extensively circulating counterfeits on the
Traders national bank throughout Pena-
sylvania, has been captured and jailed at
Erie, Pa.
An injunction has been granted against
the negotiation of $4,000 funding bonds
recently issuedby Russell county, Kansas. 1t
is alleged the bonds were issued without
warrant of law.
a so-called anatomical museum, was
broken up in Rochester on Saturday after
noon, and the professors arrested, and oh
scene representations of nude male and fe.
male figures seized by the police.
A murderer'named Murphy had reached
the gallows at Carson city, New, Friday,
preparatory to paying the penalty of his
crime, when reprievc TO the 9th inst,
| arrived and put stop to the proceedings.
The widow of Jim Fisk loses her suit
against the state insurance company of
New Jersey, which held a policy on the
Fifth avenue theater, because she did not
begin it within the time provided for in the
policy.
Alonzo Bodkin. a prominent young man
of Farmland, Ind, deliberately and fatally
shot himself through the head at musical
gathering the other evening, leaving this
note Boys, beware!
Moses Frank of Hobart, Ind, 80 years
old, was killed last week, by the accidental
| discharge of gun loaded with marble in
| the hands of his younger brother. The
| latter is so affected by the accident that he
| has to be watched to prevent him from COM
| hitting suicide.
The official figures in Wisconsin show
that the constitutional amendment prohib-
| iting cities and towns from mourning III
| debtedness over per cent of their assessed
valuation received G6,051 votes to 1909
against-the total being only about third
| of the congressional vote.
| The roof of the new Catholic church in
course of erection at Sedalia, Mo, gave
way, Saturday morning, precipitating three
carpenters so feet to the ground. Henry
| Myers was instantly killed, and William
| Hughey and John Gallivan fatally injured.
| The jury in the case of John Murphy,
| indicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, for as
sault with intent to kill in recently shoot
ing at men employed on the Bingham Can
on railroad, on Saturday, brought in yer.
dict Of guilty of assault with intent to fright
en- but being sent back, atterward returned
l ,.,,t II, dot
| The latest reported FL dorado discovery
| is in the northern wilderness of Wisconsin,
where collaborating quartz is reported to
have been found which assayed at the sur
prising rate of Sl700 per ton. The dis
covercrs refuse TO designate the spot. but
| it is believed to be on the northern buun-
dairy in Oconto.
| The notorious negro bully, Joseph Law
renee, who has been the terror of Jamaica,
| l.. l., and the surrounding neighborhood.
and is supposed to have been the murderer
of several persons, including the two little
| Denton children, whose mother he enticed
away from her husband, has been arrested
and taken to Jamaica to Jail.
Carl Vogt, the Belgian forger, and three
other prisoners named Herman Thomas,
| Charles Leach and James C. Campbell,
confined in Ludlow street jail, were detect
ed, Friday night, in plot to escape, by
| forcing the bars from the window of n cell.
They would have been out before morning
but for the timely discovery of the plot,
Jesse Fouks, negro about Is years old,
is awaiting trial for the murder in Prince
| William county. Va, of Jeremiah llern-
don, wealthy man, so years old, his wife,
| and a negro boy, 10 years old, named Adj
olson Russell, few days ago. Fouks had
been accused of stealing piece of pork,
| and in a quarrel that ensued he cut up the
old couple so terribly with an aX that they
| soon died and he made short work with the
| little boy, the head of the latter being cut
in two. He then plundered the house of
over $1,000.
Wednesday last was the anniversary oflhe
great New York fire of 1885, which de-
stroyed GAS of the most valuable stores in
that city, and 700 900 worth of proper
| ty; conhagration still remembered for its
ravages and threatenings, Notwithstanding
the disasters of Chicago and Boston. 1t
will also be the anniversary of one of the
coolest days and toughest winds known in
many years. The celebration of these
| events had thus far promised to be too
much like them to be regarded as welcome,
metcorologically. The besettng dangers
| of exceptionally Indictment weather are for
waSeful present vigilance and prevention,
rather than for "reminiscences.
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| MAN IN RuINs.-One OF the saddeSt spcct0-
| cles IN the world is n human being shattered
| and broken down by the use of ardent spirits.