Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-01-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of rntere-, from Home md Abroad.


white men prospecting in the vicinity Of the /
lower hills. They had a camp well fortified /
and stocked with animals and wagons, and /
could, he said, defend themselves against large /
odds. "a convention of pig-fron manufac- I
turers of the United States, held in Philadel- /
phia passed resolutions agreeing to decrease /
the production Of pig-iron one-half, indorsing |
Mr.. Kelley's Convertible Bond bill, now before
Congress, and opposing the ratification of the !
proposed reciprocity treaty with Canada. Geo.
The New York State Dairymens Association /
adjourned after a largely attended session, at |
which discussions upon the different methods |
Of making butter and cheese, and the state of
the market, were the features. Skimmed-milk
cheese was denounced as a dishonest manu- |
facture, and damaging to the character of
American production. A committee was APP
pointed to report on the practicability of an ex-
detrimental farm and chemical station, to be
conducted by the association. The next meet
ing of the association will probably be held at
Elmira. go The New York and Oswego Mid
land Railroad Company does not receive money
enough to meet its running expenses. ID. j. Gill
hgan, of n. Y, having breakfasted with his wife
and six children, started for his work in a glass
cutting establishment but having forgotten
something he turned back, and saw his wife
Keeling out of liquor saloon. He followed her
unperceived, and entered their apartments
with her. He gave some money to the younger
children, and directed them to buy coke with it.
He then struck his wife, and her head struck
against chair, killing her . "A boiler which
exploded in Newark n j., with loss of life,
was thirty-tive years old. e. In the trial of
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, the
jury, after four and half hours elaboration
brought in a verdict of murder in the first
degree, with a recommendation to mercy. The
trial excited great interest. Pomeroy is but
fifteen years of age, and was under two indict-
ments for two murders, that of Katie CurTan. a
little girl who was enticed by him into the cellar
of his mothers house, where he concealed her
mutilated remains under pile of bricks, and
the shockingly brutal murder of the little boy
Millen, aged four years, of which he has just
| been convicted.
widow living on Jersey City Heights
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three children and was out of work. She was
employed in the ballet until the close of the
" Black Crook, but after that could getnothing
to do. She had eaten nothing for two days.
An officer saved her life. . Westchester
county, N Y, was shaken by an earthquake
about 1890 at night. The shock was felt
through the whole district, extending from the
upper snd of Manhattan Island to The southern
portion of Connecticut ... The strike of the
operatives in the jute mills of Dundee has
ended the proprietors renouncng their inten-
ton of reducing wages. 80. Of 150, 900 working
men and women in New York city, over 10000
are out of employment, and will have nothing
to do during the winter. .... Vermont has ten
cotton mills, with 1874 looms and 80, 948 spin
dies, consuming during the year ending July j.,
1874, 2,734, 167 pounds of cotton. Russia is
making another invasion of Central Asia
Francis A. Hayes has been nominated for
Mayor by the Peoples Reform party of Boston.
..... -Four stores we're destroyed by fire at
Dover, Del. 49,. As DR.. Ira Burrows a leading
physician of Providence, R. l., was riding in a
started on run and the doctor was thrown
out. In falling his eye caught on hook on
the buggy-top, and was completely torn out
The msurection in the Argentine Republic
. is suppressed, and the government has granted
amnesty to the insurgents. Peace has been
| proclaimed ... The buildings of the Vermont
Reform School at Waterbury were burned, the
fire being caused by defective gasometer.
The inmates, one hundred and fifty in number,
were all saved The building, with the furni-
ture and fixtures, cost $50, 900. .. In July
last Nehemiah Brown, of Bangor, Me-, was
reported to have been drowned while on fish
ing excursion with a party which included q
woman, who had just confessed chat Brown
was murdered by man named Crosson, one Of
, the excursionists. A few months ago the
lcelanders were celebrating the thousandth
, anniversary of their nations birth. Now al
, extensive immigration is taking place among
these people, they making new homes il
< Wisconsin and Alaska.
counterfeiters' gang was broken up il
Putnam county, Penn, and two of the mer
arrested They had issued and circulated
large sums Of counterfeit money w Neal
. Preakness, New Jersey, five children of Johr
q Dotterich were drowned by breaking through
G the thin ice on which they were walking. The
v eldest was 16 years of age. The pond wher,
/ the children were was within sight of thei
o home, and the mother was looking out and en-
b joymg the sport of the children as they sank
t struggling desperately as they went down -.
!, Two vessels have been wrecked off the Spanish
: coast and eight lives lost. -. The King of TIN
. Sandwich Islands, now visiting the Unitet
= States, is the son of a Barnstable whaler who
years ago, married princess to save having
= his throat cut. The father was afterwards los
at sea. 80. The steamer Mongol, from Shang
;, hia for New York, has been wrecked, and six
, teen persons persisted. -. James R. Gilmore
/. known in literature as Edmund Kirk, author o
It "Among the Pines" was arraigned in Newark
Il n. j., for sentence on a conviction of falls
Z pretenses in the sale of real estate. The coul
said that the prisoner had made reparation a
e far as possible, and the court imposed fine @
?, 300 in each of the two cases 49,. LOU
e Hartz has been pardoned out of the New Jerse
State prison, after an incarceration of fourtee
years on q life sentence for murder. Whe
sentenced he was only fourteen years ole
Good conduct in prison, backed by the appeal
of friends gained the release. The Repubt
newspaper of New York has suspended, after
! a life of little more than two months. -.
~ Coroner Croker of New York. was admitte
to bail in the sum of $4,000, the jury
w his case on the first trial failing to agree