Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-03-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The death Of Charles Sumner was announced
in the New York Assembly by Speaker Hustled,
and in the Senate by Mr.. Robertson Speeches
eulogistic were delivered by Messrs. Beebe
and Col. Spencer .. "A deficit Of at least
SIS, 900 has been found in the accounts Of
Adolph Hammers, late Tax Receiver Of Louis
vile, Ky, who died very suddenly and under
suspicious circumstances In Peoria, Ill,
Thomas Fitzgerald, a drunken wife-beater,
literally pounded his wife to death in a fit Of
drunken fury $500. Nine prisoners escaped
from the penitentiary at Laramie City, Wyo-
ming, by overpowering the guard 49,. The
latest dispatches from the Ashantee Expedition
state that the British loss in the war was 16
killed and 36S wounded ... Both branches of
the Massachusetts, Legislature adjourned on
receiving the announcement of Senator Sum-
ner's death The flags on the State House
and city buildings were displayed at half-mast.
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven-
ton nominated Henry Howard for Governor,
Charles G. Van Zandt Lieutenant-Governor
Joshua M. Alderman for Secretary of State,
Willard 5ayles for Attorney General, and
Samuel Clark for General Treasurer-all by
reclamation. The Executive Committee of
the Centennial Commission met in Philadelphia.
and after conference with the Board of
Finance resolved to continue the vigorous
prosecution of the preparations for the celebra-
ton in 1875, and that all the steps thus far
taken forbid the abandonment of the interna-
tional character of the exhibition. 80. Marshal
Serrano has assumed supreme command of the
forces operating against the Carlsts in the
north of Spain. 49,. The caulkers and ship
carpenters in Buffalo struck for an increase of
pay, or the wages received previous to the
panic. -. The California Assembly passed a
bill making it misdemeanor to invite any
person to drink, or to accept an invitation to
drink liquor at any public bar. 800. The Ohio
! Constitutional Convention refused, 4S to 80, to
submit to a separate vote the section allowing
woman suffrage. Fifty-three votes were re-
quired to secure such submission to separate
vote. 80. AT the annual meeting of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company in Boston, Oliver
Ames was chosen President and E. H. Rollins
Secretary. The report to tho stockholders for
the year ending Dec. 81, 1878, gives the gross
earnings at $40, 266, 1O3. G6, and tile operating
expenses at "a, 974 ,S61,O2.
Ten alarms of fire occurred during one night
in Boston, keeping the fremen almost con-
stantly on the move, and owing to the fierce
northwesterly wind and extreme cold causing
unusual excitement and anxiety. Two of the fires
only were serious $50. Dispatches from North
western Iowa, report continued suffering
among the settlers on homsteads in Osceola
Lyon, and others counties in the extreme
northwestern portion of the State, caused by
the failure of the crops. m The returns from
New Hampshire show that Weston will lack
about $50 votes of an election by the people
......A man giving the name of Ezra Y.
Cooke is under arrest at Providence, r. l., I'M
der charge of extensive swindling of the hay
and grain merchants of New York, Michigan
Vermont, and elsewhere Having leased an
old building in Woonsucket he put out the
sign Burrill & Cooke" and to this bogus
firm consgnments of hay and -four have been
arriving from several remote places. The
officers found in the store only an old table
and chair Four car loads of flour from various
points have been intercepted.