Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. of Interest from Home and Abroad.

items OF Interest from homc hho AoHeaos
The strike Of the Brooklyn hod cArners is
at an end, they working eight hours at s2,
while the brcklAyers are working the same
period Of time and receiving $500 instead Of
a for ten hours labor, which they were re-
ceiving prior to the disagreement. A dis
astrous gale prevailed along the great lakes
barge on Lake Ontario laden with iron ore
was lost with four persons on board. OF
fishing feet Of nine vessels on Lake Michigan,
the following casualties are reported; The Sea
Lion, Capt. Springstein, stranded at Grand
Mari; South Wind, Capt. Clanfoot, with four
men aboard, undoubtedly lost Gen. Hooker,
Capt. Myers on the beach Planet, Capt.
Geniet, at Browns Pier; Sea Gull, Capt. Frank
Keyank, with three men aboard lost; E. B.
Perkins, Captain F. Drake with four men
aboard, lost. IA singular suit is before the
supreme court of New York State. William
Steen, the keeper of a hotel near Kingston,
sold liquor to man named Batting some time
since, under the influence Of which Batting be-
came crazy and killed man, and was there
fore sentenced to prison for life. Mrs. Batting
now sues Steen under the civil damage law,
for $4,000. 81. Isaac Brandt, formerly State
Treasurer of Iowa, has been convicted of en-
bezzling money belonging to the State.....
John Watson committed suicide in hotel in
Hartford, Conn.,, by means of slow charcoal
re, which he had taken the utmost pains
to arrange. The supply of coal from all
regions so far this year, says the Miners Jour
nal, foots up ALA, 939 tons, against 5,594, $50
tons to the same period last year-a decrease
of !, 479 I'll tons. The decrease in the supply
of anthracite is 1857, 47G tons ia negro
named Reed was whipping his wife in Nash
vile, Tenn, when the neghbors called
policeman named Robert Frazier to arrest
him. On Frazier's entering the door of the
house, Reed shot him in the mouth and heart,
killing him instantly. Reed was arrested and
lodged in Jail. That night an armed mob
attacked the jail, and as the jailer would not
surrender the keys, broke open four heavy
iron doors and secured the murderer. A rope
was put about his neck, and he was led to the
suspension bridge, from which he was thrown
with the intention of hanging, but the rope
broke, and he fell a distance of ninety feet
to some rocks below and thence rolled into the
river. He was shot twice on the way to the
bridge. A large police force were unable to
drive away the mob. THE Oshkosh fire
losses amount to $500, 0OO against only $780,
900 insurance
The number Of miners killed by the explosion
in the colliery at North Staffordshire, England,
was forty-one. These are probably all who
have persisted. Many of the bodies of the
victims were mutlated beyond recognition. A
great number of the dead miners left large
families of children in destitute condition. -.
Vessels passed through the straits of Mackinaw
this year on the first of May. The ill-feeling
existing between the Frenchmen and English
men engaged in the fisheries off Newfoundland
is likely to lead to collisions, and the govern
ments Of France and England have resolved to
send war vessels to prevent disturbance. ..
In the family of Mr.. Hinckler, at Sandake,
Iowa, seven children died within one month,
all of diphtheria. Their remains we're de-
posted in vault as they died and were all
buried side by side in one grave. The
Falcon estimates the loss of horses and mules
Ill rdyotto COulVyJ Lcllll't lIOu SudLS Ill
three days at from three to five hundred head
Edward Bowring Stephens, the well-known
English sculptor, is dead The Carlst forces
on the frontier of Navarro have revolted and
declared for King Alfonso.
Maj. J. H. Mclaughlin, of Detroit, offers to
wreste with any living man for from $5, 900 to
$4,000 and the championship Of the world =.
The Austrian minister to this country has
resigned his position. He will travel through
the country previous to returning to Europe.
80. The steamer st. Luke, from Leavenworth,
Kan. to st. Louis, struck pier three of the st.
Charles bridge, twenty-five miles from the
latter place, about ten O'Clock at night, and
sunk in fifteen feet of water. There. were
about one hundred persons on board, of whom
nine were drowned-six men, one woman and
his son were suffocated by gas, which filed
the room from leaky pipe, in Buffalo. When
persons entered the room with light there
was terrific explosion which lifted the floor
...... The Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
has been sold by the master commissioners
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holders for $1200,000 over and above the lien
created by the. receivers certificate and the
court costs. .... The Union Pacific railroad
earned 81, 062, 952. 65 in April. .. James Cor.
man, of New York, was choked to death by
a piece of meat while at dinner g. James
Rice, alias Dobbs q noted professional burglar,
escaped from the Connecticut State prison
in company with another prisoner They both
pretended to have reformed, and had gained
privileges on account of good behavior, taking
advantage of which they managed to get away.
The Rev. Rufus Babcock, D. D., of Pough-
keepsie, died in Salem, Mass, of typhoid
pneumonia. He was Baptist minister of
over fifty years standing, and was widely
known throughout the New England and Mid
die States 80. Two laboring men we're suffo-
Gated by the caving in of sand bank at
Brooklyn. Several others had narrow escape.
......T The Democrats of Montgomery, Ala,
elected the mayor, clerk and twelve aldermen.
Their first victory since reconstruction
A man named Welsh, striker from the Green
field cutlery works, went to sleep upon the
railroad track near Springfield, Mass, while
intoxicated and was killed by passing train.
.... The horse of Homer Waller, appointment
farmer of Duchess county, N. Y, ran away
with him at Dover, and he was thrown out and
instantly killed The Hon. d. d. Pratt,
ay-TTnited Stataa Sanator from Indiana hoe