Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-12

at the penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., last win
ter, has been killed by guard at the peniten-
tisry for another attempt at instruction. -.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, held at
Cleveland, Ohio, thought itinexpedent to pass
the question of fraternal relations with the
Southern church, and so negotiations we're
broken of :. Detective Wood from Boston
arrested Abraham jackson, the Boston defaul-
ter, at the Ausable House, Keeseville, N. Y.
Henry Rex, Waterman in a lumber yard in New
York, shot three times at some boys who were
calling him names, instantly killing John Nc
Kenns, boy of fourteen. see. .Nunez has been
elected president Of Colombia by an over
whelming majority. By the capsizing Of a
yacht in lake near Arlington, Mass, man
named Prentiss and five young ladies were
thrown into the water. Two of them, Alice
and Minnie Wellington, were drowned. MIR.
Prentiss succeeded in keeping the others aAoat
until rescued ... The Postmaster General
has annulled the contracts for carrying the
mails on thirty routes in Minnesota and Iowa,
as he has ascertained they were obtained
through fraud. -. The Pennsylvania Republic
can State Convention at Lancaster renominated
Gov. Hartranft for Governor and Henry Rawle
for State Treasurer. The platform adopted
declares the equality Of all men before the law;
protection to home industry and home mar
ket for home products; the right of the laborer
to protection and encouragement and the pro-
motion of harmony between labor and capital ;
cheap transportation and the advancement of
closer intercourse between all parts of the
national currency, adjusted to the growing
wants of the business interests of the country,
and steady reduction Of the national debt /;
and the equalization of bounties to the soldiers.
The resolutions adopted, while they "point
with confidence to the present administration, ="
"declare firm, unqualified adherence to the
unwritten law of the republic, which wisely,
and under the sanction of the most venerable
of examples, limits the Presidential service OF
any citizen to two terms, and we, the Republic
cans of Pennsylvania, in recognition Of the
law, are unalterably opposed to the election to
the Presidency of any person for third term.
49,. By an explosion in the drug store OF
BOWS & Co., in Boston, the entire building was
destroyed. There were between twenty and
thirty persons in the building at the time, all
of whom were more or less seriously injured
and three taken out dead. The cause Of the
explosion is unknown. The loss, including the
five story building, amounts to 100000.
The Catholic church disaster at Holyoke
Mass, was one Of the most appalling that ha'
taken place for some time, even in this day o.
disasters. The exercises in the church hat
nearly closed when the altar draperies tool
fire. and the church full of men, women ant
children at once lost all sense of reason. Thos
in the galleries leaped to the floor and wer
trodden and trampled to death, while those Oh
the floor crowded and smothered each othe
in their frantic efforts to escape from the burn
ing church. All the efforts of the priest t
keep order failed. The screams of the Twin
and the means of the dying made deafenin
tumult above the orders of the pastor. TIL
people appeared to be piled one upon the othe
in the doorway those in front not being abb
to escape, nor could those behind them say
themselves. The audience numbered abor
seven hundred people, and of these sixty-si
men, women and children lost their lives.