Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home audAbrond.


IAN attempt was made to rob the Adams
Express messenger on the train between Lima
and Forest Ohio, by saving through the end
door Of the express car. Having effected an
entrance the robber commanded messenger
Price TO surrender. Price refusing TO do go,
the robber shot him twice, once in the meek
and once in the shoulder, whereupon Price
shot the robber, killing him instantly. He
proved to be a recently discharged conductor
on an accommodation train on the Pittsburgh
and Fort Wayne railroad named Binkley.
Prices wounds are not serious ...... Two
men arrested for burglary near Elhcot City,
Howard county, Nd, have been identified as
escaped convicts from the New Jersey State
prison at Trenton. One Of the men confessed
to be August Duffnger, sent to the New Jersey
State prison for ten years, and the other
Philip Bernhard, sentenced to the same prison
for two years. They are said to be two OF a
party of six who escaped from the Trenton
State prison ON the fifth of April. -. The
American Methodist chapel at Quickang,
China, was destroyed by mob of Cinnamon.
The authorities have offered PREPARATION. Six
thousand German families are preparing to i'm
migrate from Russia on account of oppressive
CONSUMPTION. The Western Union Telegraph
Company have purchased the steamer Suffolk,
changed the name to Professor Morse, and are
fitting her up for the purpose of laying a sub
marine cable between Key West and the West
Indies. 3. A tornado passed over the State
of Georgia, taking in the whole line from Ala
bama to North Carolina and proving more dis
astrous in its results than any tornado that has
visited the country for years. When first seen
the cloud resembled funnel, with its apex on
the ground. Buildings were demolished be-
fore it, houses were lifted bodily from the
ground and smashed to pieces, and in one case
whole village was swept away. 1t is known
that over seventy persons we're killed and more
than one hundred injured.
Instructions have been sent to the provincial
authorities of Prussia to treat the collection of
money for priests who have been subjected to
legal penalties as punishable offense. $50.
police station of Providence, R. l., was
struck by lightning during thunder storm and
the upper portion of the building destroyed by
fire. Seven officers asleep in the top story had
narrow escape. All the prisoners and dodgers
we're safely removed. 80. The jewelry estab-
lishment Of BENZ. L. Hood, ON Broadway,
Albany, N. Y, was entered by burglars through
q rear door while the proprietor was gone to
dinner and $4,000 worth of jewelry taken.
Mr.. L. A. Benton, jeweler in Cleveland Ohio,
opened his store at nine o'clock few MORNINGS
since, and as he turned from unlocking his
safe, Was confronted by masked robber with
knife Mr.. BentoA showed fight with hat
Chef, when he was knocked senseless from
behind by a second robber. The thieves then
rifed the safe and escaped. Mr.. Benton's in
juries are serions. 80. Another ocean steamer
disaster follows too quickly the many that have
been recorded. The steamer Schiller was one
of the favorite steamers of the German line
She left New York with about three hundred
and City passengers, many of them $ermans
who had acquired fortunes in the United States
and were visiting their native land for the first
time At dead of night and in dense fog the
unfortunate steamer ran upon q rock at the
Sicily Islands and became total wreck Over
three. hundred of her unfortunate passengers
persisted. . The ship Salvatore, from Savan-
hah for Liverpool went ashore near Holyhead
and was lost. The bark Marco Polo, from
New York for Bremen, stranded at Andreselle.
Both crews were safely landed .... While two
men named Romeman and Daggert were at
supper in Philadelphia boarding house, they
reopened an argument they had the evening
previous concerning the refining of sugar.
Remelman called Daggert harsh name,
whereupon the latter drew knife and stabbed
the former to the heart. Daggert escaped. 49,.
The postal treaty has been signed by all the
nations constituting the general postal union,
and the new rates will be charged after July l,
excepting on correspondence to and from
France.
An attempt was made to burn the town OF
Summit, Mississippi. Buckets Of coal oil were
placed on tops of houses Two brothers
named Moses, were arrested on suspicion. 80.
Wyatt Flowers, colored, Of Columbus, Ohio
had misunderstanding with his aunt and
shot her with pistol and then with arazor he
cut two horrible gashes across her head anG
another across her stomach. He then reloaded
his pistol, shot himself in the right temple
and died soon afterward in great agony. The
woman was fatally injured, Flowers had beer
an inmate of the penitentiary for shooting hi
white mistress w Chief-Justice Lowe, Of
Utah, refuses writ to compel Brigham Young
to pay his former wife, Eliza Ann, $500 pei
month alimony, as granted by the court at thu
time of the divorce ... The Gear of Russia il
on visit to the Emperor of Germany ..
The steamship Cadiz was lost near Brest Will,
on a voyage from Lisbon to London. SixteeI
persons were drowned. 80. A boy of sixteeI
shot and fatally wounded playmate of four
teen in Brooklyn, N. Y, but whether acct
dentally or on purpose was not ascertained
! He was placed under arrest. -. The Plane
Mills carpet works of Brooklyn, New York
were destroyed by an incendiary fire, involving
a loss of $3.50, 1000, and throwing four hundred
persons out of employment. A Baptist churel
adjoining was also consumed. .....A larg
number Of persons attended the centennia
celebration at Ticonderoga, N. Y.
The recent developments in the Interna
Revenue department of the United States ar
most astonishing. For several years rim
extending all over the country has existed
J yearly growing stronger and increasing it
ability to defraud the government. 1t ha
some of its members in the department. and i
breaking up the ring the officials we're oblige
to use the greatest secrecy. Every year tn
government has been defrauded out of owe
81, 1850, 900, and without word of warning tn
government seized dstilleries in all the Wester
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