Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home andAbroad.


Mass, by an incendisry fire. =. The priests |
imprisoned in Posen, Germany, and the neigh
boring towns, have been released and informed |
that evidence with regard to the alleged secret |
administration Of the diocese by papal dele
gate is no longer required by the government. |
..... The postmaster-gen has reduced the
postage to foreign countries from ten to five
cents for each half ounce, to take effect July |
1st e.. Alfred Speer, of Rockland, Me-, while |
intoxicated, shot his wife in the face. As she
was running from the room with her infant in |
her arms another shot was fred the ball enter |
ing her shoulder. Speer then shot himself
through the head. His wife will recover. 900.
Three men were burned to death in the house
Of Alderman John Meagher, in Houston, Tex |
..... A terrible tragedy occurred few miles |
from Penn Yam, New York, the result of a
thoughtless joke. 1t appears that a young
man named Cole, living in the same house with |
his brother-in-law, George Pierce, thought to
give the latter scare by assuming the charac
ter of burglar. He raped at the door and in
answer to a reply said in an assumed voice
''Yom money or your Ife." He then took off
his boots, and climbing up on roof, entered
the house through second story window.
Pierce, who was down stairs, thought he was a
desperate, and cried out not to come in or
he would be killed, and Selling a carving knife
ran up stairs He met Cole at the head of the
stairs and Immediately grappled with him,
in the struggle cutting his jugular vein. Cole
instantly fell, exclaiming {" You have killed
Edward Cole. My poor wife and children"
Pierce was thunder struck on finding that he
had killed his wife's brother. Albert Young,
son Of State Senator Young, Of Wisconsin, shot
his father and then committed suicide. The
father will survive. 1t is thought that the son
had committed forgery, and resorted to this
means Of concealing it,
James V. Smith, he engineer of the steamer
Senator which was blown up at Portland,
Oregon, recently, has been placed under bonds
to answer a charge of manslaughter in causing
the disaster. Z. Lieutenant Governor Crawford,
of Canada, is dead. .. The schooner d. G.
Wright was wrecked near South Haven on
Lake Michigan and Capt. Hanson and the crew
of five men were lost. "A fire in the woods
near Canton, Conn, destroyed much timber
and lumber and miles Of fences. Loss about
800, O0O E. The military authorities captured
party of forty-two miners en- route for the
Black Hills and brought them back Edward
Williams jumped from moving train at New
Haven, Conn, and falling under the cars had
both legs cut off, which resulted in his death.
.. The Canadian authorities are endeavoring
to extradite several murderers who have taken
refuge in Montana. ... AS Mrs. George L.
Taylor and her two children, of Maplewood
N. j., were driving to the depot to meet Mr.
Taylor, their phaeton was struck by locomo-
tive and dashed to pieces. Mrs. Taylor and
the children were carried over two hundred
yards on the COW catcher and received but
slight bruises. The Honolulu Commercial
Advertiser says the reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Hawaii has been ratified
by King Kalakaua. Much excitement was
created in financial circles in Philadelphia by
the discovery that s. Gross Fry, president of
the Spruce and Pine streets railroad had issued
fraudulent stock ON that road to the amount Of
5000, 900 or $780, 600. 80. Col. Fred Grant has
joined the Yellowstone expedition. go. The
Italian Senate has voted national donation to
Garibaldi.
The Papal Nuncio has made formal demand
for the restoration of Catholic unity in Spain,
and the government has replied that it is
resolved to maintain liberty of worship. ....
The Fdnf,tlla, a ministerial organ, authori-
tatively states that the Pope has resolved
to convoke the vatican council again OF an
early date, to discuss ecclesiastical reforms
...... Vice President John G. Breckenridge
died in lexington Ky IA boat containing
two men, with their wives and four children,
went over dam near GAINESVILLE Ohio, and the
women and two of the children were drowned
-... The call for the redemption of S., 900, 900
| coupon bonds, issued from the treasury lately,
indicates an additional subscription of that
amount by the syndicate making in all 1885,
, 900 called in on that account. Five attempts
were made to fire the village of Fort Edward,
N. Y. Two proved successful, but the other
three were speedily detected. The damage
was trifing :. The confagration in Peshawur,
India, leaves $50, 900 inhabitants houseless &.
A collision occurred on the fourth of April off
the coast of China between the Chinese steam
ship Fu-sing and the British steamship Ocean.
The Fu-sing founded almost instantly, causing
a loss of fifty lives ...T The jury in the case of
Father Gerdeman, the Catholic priest of Phila-
delphia charged with embezzling church
funds, have failed to agree on verdict
The Pail Mall Gazette attributes the origin of
the recent European war rumors to the alarm
( Of Germany at the passage by the French As
/ sembly of the bill concerning the cadres of the
> French army ... Chandler, Hart & Co., boot
, and shoe dealers, Philadelphia, have suspend
ed. Their liabilities are from 300, 900 to 1926
900. number of their creditors are New
England manufacturers. .... By the fall of an
elevator in a store in St. Louis, one man was
l killed, another fatally injured and two were
seriously hurt. 80. Reports from Jackson and
Clay counties, Kansas, state that the wheat
3 and corn crops are nearly destroyed and the
. grass completely eaten up. The only hope is
of the hoppers dying off, which they seem to
7 be doing by thousands g. The New England
, Society of New York city has made arrange
ments to go to the Bunker Hill celebration
June IT, -. The Roman Catholic bishops OF
Prussia, who addressed petition to the En-.
peror, and received reply last month from
/, the Ministers of State, have made rejoindel
Q that to reject the decision of the vatican coun
s Gil would be equivalent to an abandonment Of
S Catholicism and that they are convinced the
1 Holy See would never be unwilling to act il
o conformity with all proper decisions of the
State government.