The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-16
News Record.

Forty boys escaped from the Roman
Catholic protectory at Morrissania Friday.
Seventeen of them were recaptured.
The dye house of Taylor & Perry's mill,
Bridgeion, Maine, was partially burned
Saturday morning. Loss not large.
In Westerley, II. l., Scott Chapel, Fri
day, accidentally stabbed himself at din
ner, infiicting, possibly, fatal wound.
Il. Jones was shot dead by w. II. Dick
erson, Fayetteville, Missouri, for creating
u disturbance and pulling knife on the
latter.
Three hundred dollars reward has been
offered by the town of Milford for the APP
prelIension of the murderer of Walling-
ford.
The eccentric Russian who burrows in
the sand, feeds on sea weed, and washes it
down with salt water has arrived at Old
Orchard.
A meeting will be held at Dexter park,
Chicago, from the 21st to the Oath of Sep
TENDER, at which purses amounting to $15,-
900 will be offered.
Friday night, Jane, wife of Robert
Nicholson, was found dead in bed at
Lewiston, Maine. 1t is supposed that she
took an overdose of laudanum.
A Washington dispatch says the Presi-
dent has offered the secretaryship of the
Interior to J. Russell Jones, with the re-
| quest to punish all Indian frauds.
Wright W. Wheatly, one of the murder
ers of France Warl, at Helena, was hanged
Friday at 10 80 o'clock. He died neither
confessing guilt nor pleading innocence.
Elbridge Jones, of Milford, aged thirty
five years, farmer, committed suicide
Tuesday night by shooting. Cause I'M
known. He leaves u wife and one child.
The value of the domestic merchandise
exported from Boston during the month OF
July Just ended was so. S6o, 800, larger
amount than in any previous single month
Over 10000 people witnessed the hang
ing of Webb at Knoxsville, Tenn, Friday
He protested he was innocent. A letter
is published from Joseph Aver offering
Webb to commit the murder for which Ii,
was hanged.
At Rochester on Saturday, the Weathe
was fine, the track was in good condition
and John w. Hall and Ncrea were abou
equal fsvorites in the "a race, and selling
at $50 each to $40 for the field. In tn,
free to all race Goldsmith Maid sold at so
to $2S for the field.
The New York Sun says Mr.. knight
relations received spas as their share of thu
$50, 900 indemnity received from Spain OF
, account Of the Virgnius massacre. A
there are but fifteen survivors this amour
to each would not exceed 5,000-leavin,
$75, 900 to be accounted for.
A London special says that Webb. VIII,
on the 10th started to swim from Englan,
to France without tho aid of life appa
ratus, was picked up at midnight, having
accomplished little more than half the dis
lance. He was in good condition and feel
} confident he could hsve finished but for th
, roughness of the sea.
There was an interesting jumping mate
at Hoboken, N. j., on the 1lth, betwee
James w. Freeman of Chicago and Rober
II. Ryan of New York, in which the grea
distance of 10 feet 81 inches was made in
, standing jump by Ryan, which is with
% inches of the best jump on record, mad
by Ned Searles at Utica, N. Y, few year
3 ago.
9 Daniel Clancy, aged sixty years, wa
. killed by the down tram at II a. m. o
5 Saturday while crossing the track of the n
o II. & N. r. railroad at Kings street, nea
2 the Catholic church, at Northampton, Mas
He had been drinking. The horse stoppe
0 on the track as the train approached, to
late to prevent collision. The wagon wa
destroyed, but the horse escaped.