Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28

thief robbed the express train on the Delaware
and LAckAwanna railroad at Delaware Station,
n. Y, Of s12, 900. The night was unusually
dark and the express messenger hungry. He
locked the safe aud doer Of the express car
and went to his supper. The burglar watched,
and when the safety valve Of the engine was
blowing of he thrust his hand through the
window by the side of the entrance door to the
car, raised the dead latch, opened the side
door on the opposite side from the depot
placed a railroad tie upon the ground and to
the door Of the car, and by that means noise
lessly slid the safe, weighing 21spounds, to the
ground, making of with Capt. Farms
worth, with Company H, sth United States
cavalry, had a severe fight with the Indians,
over 100 Of whom attacked his little troop.
The troops lost one man killed and four
wounded, ten horses killed and two wounded,
and killing fifteen Indians large number Of
ponies, and woundiDg fifty or more of the
savages. Their ammunition giving out they
then reiterated . Five Arkansas horse thieves
are reported lynched at Brinkley Station. -.
According to official figures, Chicago elevators
contain 1,149,776 bushels wheat, 51O,923
bushels corn, 4l5,5SS bushels oats, 52,710
bushels rye, and 274, $50 bushels barley, making
a grand total of 2,4O3, SS3 bushels, against
3, sos, CTS bushels at this time last year. Mil
waukee has 800, 201 bushels wheat, IA, 1923
bushels corn, 34 2S5 bushels oats, 8, 1856 bushels
rye, and 76,9S5 bushels bailey.
John P. Kahoalii, a native Of the Hawaiian
Islands, has been convicted there Of treason
and sentenced to be hanged in March, 1875.
His offense was ths writing Of petition to the
French Consul praying that French war
ships be allowed to dethrone King Kalakawa
and put @ leen ENNIS in his place. This is
the first case OF treason in the islands since
1910. ...A United States judge in Maine has
decided that q fu qtive from Canada cannot
be returned to that country for embezzlement
the Extradition treaty not covering the offense.
The result is the release of a dishonest insur.
ance agent named johnson, who run away
with $1,000. .....A six-year-old boy in Min
neapolis asked a playfellow to go up stairs witt
him and see his fathers pistol. Pointing the
loaded weapon at his own breast, he said
: Jimmy, see me shoot myself" and fired
The wound was mortal. -. :. The majority
against woman suffrage is very heavy in Michi
gan, and its advocates in the West are conse
: quently much discouraged. .... The Baltimore
papers say that duck shooting on the Chesa
peake is excellent this season. . The Hebrew
Orphan Asylum in Baltimore county, Nd,
: with its contents, was destroyed by fire. TIT
inmates escaped. The loss is about $25, 900
..... Mr.. Charles J. Corson, of Brooklyn
applied to the Court of Sessions for an orde
compelling George E. Tyson, of Polaris fame
to support his father, who is 81 years of age
Mr.. Corson was sworn. He testified tina
/ Capt. Tyson's father was helpless, and tina
D his son, who received $175 a month on tn
Polaris expedition, and since had an extr
, years pay appropriated by Congress, had no
contributed to his support He asked that tn
!. son be ordered to pay IS week, or take car
of his father entirely. The judge reserve,
4 his decision 49,. Last December Marion c
o Palmer, of Gansevoort, N. Y, accidentall
}, swallowed silver dental plate with four from
teeth attached. An incision was made in tn
d esophagus by surgeons and the plate wa
. found four inches below the clavicle and sue
3 cessfuly removed. The teeth had becom
d detached and passed into the stomach Paine
, had been unable to swallow any solid foo
= since the accident. The plate was an inc
n and half long and three-fourths of an inc
I wide. don Alphonso issued an address t
s his troops before he quilted Spain. He say
a his temporary retirement is solely caused by
@ royal order depriving him of his command
II Catalonia. He awaits the time when b
y service will be again useful to the cause. Do
d Carlos approves Of his withdrawal w A
IL jeremiah Sullivan was driving buggy by IL
70 Brooklyn Court House, the horse was frigh
l. ened and plunged into Fulton street. Sullivs
y could not hold him and started to jump on
70 His feet were tangled in the reins, and he IL
10 forward and was caught in the wheel.
s. every turn Of the wheel his head was har
>. mered on the cobble stones, and his body W
G beat N to jelly.