Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-12-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What Is Doing In ths Old World and the
New.

ton. Sarah Oonklin, aged fourteen years,
was murdered in Rutland, n. Y, while passing
through woods on her way from school. A
young man named Rutar was arrested on sus-
picion. It ia thought that he attempted to |
outrage the girl, failing in which he killed her
with a blow ON the head with hammer, |
which was found in the vicinity .... Many OF |
the Pennsylvania collieries have been closed
and the miners thrown out OF work on account !
of the over-supply OF coal. Failures are
reported from all parts of the country. -. The
Pictou On. S. coal miners have had their
wages reduced twelve and one-hsh per cent.
Avery another Of the st. Louis whisky
ring, has been found guilty of conspiracy to
defraud the government ..... The New York
State board of canvassers declare that Bige-
lows plurality for secretary OF state was
4,S10.
Two Catholic priests and woman we're
burned to death at Back river, near Montreal,
Canada, by the burning of hotel $50. The
Turkish garrison in Goransko has been sue
cessfully relieved by Raouf Pssha. Trouble
still continues between American residents
and the Chinese, and insults are constantly
offered to missionaries and ladies'. China
has about given up FUrmosa. 49,. Twenty
miners were instantly killed and a number
wounded by an explosion in the Powell Duffryn
pit, near Tredegar, England. go. The Khedive
of Egypt has ordered fifteen Thousand men to
march against the Abyssinians. E. The report
of the comptroller of currency shows there
was redeemed by the department from
june 1874, to November, 1875, the sum of
$219, 1886, 445 $50. Gen. Babcock, President
Grants private secretary, has been indicted
by the st. Louis grand jury for completely in
the whisky frauds. VIM M. Tweed escaped
from Warden Durham and deputy sheriff
while away from prison on pleasure trip
such having been the discipline accorded to
him during his con inement in Ludlow street
Jail, New York From the story told by the
officials, it seems the party drove about New
York in carriage Saturday afternoon, stop
ping at Tweed's house on Madison avenue
aboG*fve o'clock. After sitting in the parlor
a short time Tweed asked permission and
went up stairs to see his wife, few minutes
later the Warden sent young Tweed to call
his father, as it was time to return to prison.
Young Tweed went up and Immediately re-
turned with the information that his father
had escaped. The officers az once searched,
and on finding that he had really escaped,
sent the information all over the city and
country. As Tweed's huge form was 80 well
known, it would be impossible for him to
travel by land, and the superstition is that he
embarked on sailing vessel for foreign
port. The sheriff, who is responsible for the
custody of the prisoner, offers reward OF
$4,000 for his recovery.
A terrible explosion occurred at the Swaithe
main colliery, near Barnsley, in tho West
Riding Of Yorkshire, England, by which one
hundred and fifty men were killed and many
seriously injured. There we're three hundr cd
miners at work at the time. The explosion
WAS caused by careless blasting. So. There
are at present eighty available ships in the
United States navy, sixteen Of which are iron
clads The Mark Lane Express says that
the European who at market is frmer, but
there was no prospect of an advance unit
spring .... The failure of William Spotten &
Co., linen manufacturers, of Belfast, Ireland
is announced, their liabilities being placed a
81, $780, 900. .. 1t is reported that Egypt doei
not want to annex Abyssinia, but to secure
safety against the violation Of her frontier b!
Abyssinia. The governmental estimates
for the next fiscal year are four and one-hal
| millions more than for this year ... Samue
Do
by his hired man named Sheridan, ordered
three gunners off his grounds, and as they re
1 fused to go and used insulting language, Hib
d berd carried out his threat and shot one of tn
, dogs, whereupon one of the gunners knocked
: down abberd with the butt of gun and sho
and killed Sheridan, after which the party raj
away. Hibberd fired as they retreated an,
l wounded one Of them.
The North German Lloyd steamer Deutsch
land, from Bremen for New York, with on
: hundred and twenty-three passengers on board
: grounded off the Thames England, and wa
t wrecked. Over fifty of the passengers an
s crew were drowned. The weather was OK
] tremely thick, and heavy northeastern wa
blowing at the time 80. The Prussian govern
i ment has formally summoned the archbisho
~ of Cologne to resign. This is q preliminary t
y legal proceedings to depose him. :. Chin
is preparing to send out foreign ministers .
. s. H. Coude & Sons knitting factory in Or
wego, N. Y. was burned. Loss, 10000; il
surance, $4,000. 49,. The Arkansas legisls
0 ture has passed bill donating all the Stat
6 lands in the counties in the northwestern pal
@ OF the State for the building of railroad frol
n some point on the Atlantic and Pacific railroa
@ in Mississippi, via Fayetteville in that State
II to point on the Little Rock and Fort Smt
= railroad at or near Ozark . !. Mr.. John I
Smith, ex-member of Congress from Ohio hs
been appointed commissioner of Indian affair
Rawson Close, furniture dealer of Mo-
- wich, N. Y, was burned to death in his barr
The fire is believed to have been of accidents
'' origin. An explosion took place-in a col
'' mine at Methley near Leeds, England, and 81
~ men we're killed. A number of person
Is have been arrested at Lebanon, Pa, for pas
ie ing five and ten dollar counterfeit bills on til
First National bank of Peru, I'll. -. Alexandt
h@Ot pionlheh1 AMERICAN railway euperii
tendent, has begun suits in Montreal for I'll
!. recover. Of seven million dollars worth (
/ real estate in Canada !. :. Asa W. Kennel
:. a well-kuown stock drove, arrived from But
. falo N. Y, with "a 600, the proceeds of Gait
sold, and was robbed of the entire amount c
% his way home, two miles west Of Adriai
: Mich He was seriously injured by the higl
|, waymen ....s. Henry A. Mann, excount