Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The Mexican national Congress met on the
sixteenth of September for the fret time under
the restored political regime OF 1857.
Another suit for the people against VIM. H.
Tweed, TO recover s9Ss ,640.44, stolen BY the
"ring, has been instituted in New York. $50.
George W. Pemberton, the murderer Of Mrs.
Bingham In East Boston on the twenty-second
Of last March, was hung st Boston go. The
American Board OF Foreign Missions, which
held its session in Chicago, called for dona-
tons the last day and the appeal was 80 efrec-
tive thst many women in the audience handed |
in their bracelets and rings. George Speer, |
negro aged thirty years, having wife and
five children, was hanged in Fayetteville, Ga, |
for an outrage committed on a white girl, |
fifteen years old. -. Suit has been entered |
in the district court at Washington in the |
name of the United States, against G. w. Bal
loch for $16,652, being the balance due on
a special settlement Of his accounts as chief
disbursing officer of the Freedmens bureau
... The court OF commissioners on the
Alabama claims have allowed $48, 1856 95, with
interest, to lifferent parties for merchandise
by the Flor la ON July 10, 1854; also 80. 1884. 46,
with interest for merchandise on the Anna F.
Schmidt, destroyed by the Alabama July 2,
1868. Several other small judgments were
also rendered. 49,. E. W. B. Hitchcock, of
Naugatuck, Conn, attempted to murder his
wife by shooting her. but the bullet glanced
of her corset steel and left her unframed.
She escaped to give an alarm, when the hus-
band shot himself in the breast and died in a
snort time. He had lost his savings by the
failure Of savings bank and was Respondent
......P. f. Hooper and a young son we're
drowned at Lewiston, Me-, while gathering
drift wood.
Recent rains caused floods in Leicestershire
, and Warwickshire, England, INJECTING con-
siderable damage to property and some loss of
life ...... 100000 was lost by the burning of
awool securing establishment at North Chelms-
ford, Mass. The insurance amounted to $7O,-
900 ..... The custom authorities are prepar-
ing adhesive stamps to put on the hand bag
gage of passengers by the railway lines run
ming through portions OF Canada. The stamps
will have the date and hour Of the passengers
departure, 80 that the officers can tell whether
he has come through on one train or not 80.
...... A fireman of New York ferryboat got
on the crank of the engine to oil the ma
chinery, when the engineer, ignorant of his
intentions, gave the engine quarter turn,
and instantly crushed the poor fellow to death.
John Ryan aud Michael Carney fought
| in ri or 10
died from the effects Of the beating he re-
ceiyed ...... A freight train, while running at
a speed OF forty miles an hour, jumped the
track and dashed through the walls of the
Rochester IN. W depot, instantly killing the
fireman and engineer. he TAIN was badly
wrecked. "A coal bs ge commanded BY
Capt. Coopes, was run WIN and sunk py a
schooner in New York hal DOR, and the captain
wife and child persisted. -. The Spanish gov
eminent has declared, in reply to the Vatican,
that it will respect the concordat excepting
where it interferes with the internal affairs of
Spain.
The English steamer Biscay, of Newcastle,
was stranded off Jutland while on a voyage
from Cronstadt to Bremerhaven. Eleven per-
sons were drowned :. -. The hosting works
of the Utah mine, in Virginia City, Nevada,
were burned on Sunday night. The loss lie
$3.50, 900. The works were recently completed,
with machinery to sink a shaft to the depth OF
1000 feet. The engineer stood at his post
hosting out the miners until he was badly
burned ..... The Pope will send to the Phila-
delphia Centennial two mosaics, representing
the Madonna by Raphael, and st. Agnes by
J Gentili An edict has appeared in the Gdzet,
at Picking enjoining the proper treatment OF
, foreigners. =. The consul of Liberia at Lon
don gives to the press report of the progress
Of the war Of the Lberians with the barbarous
tribes. 1t states that five engagements have
been fought, in all Of which the Liberian army
has been victorious. .....A disastrous storm
occurred at Cape Breton, causing much losl
: of property among shipping 49,. The Hon
Samuel E. Dimmick, of Honesdale, Pa, attor
l ney-general Of Pennsylvania died at Harris
3 burg of pneumonia -. The steamer City O
Berlin has just made the passage from New
York to Queenstown in seven days, ffteel
! hours and fortyeight minutes, being TIN
fastest trip ever made over the Atlantic ..
: The Berlin Hotel Kaiserhof was destroyed b,
fire; loss, $1,OOO,OOO. l.rr h.
, An unknown man threw himself from tn
q top OF the Washington monument in Baltl
more, distance of one hundred and eight
feet, and was crushed to a shapeess mass .
The balance sheet of the Post-offce depart
ment for the past fiscal year, shows the gros
o receipts to have been 1927. SCI, 1902. 68, and til
: total expenditures $50, oil 1908, As, leaving
y deficiency of s6,049, SCOTT. The receipts ex
coed those Of the previous year twelve pc
. cent, and the expenditures exceed four an
!, eight-tenths per cent. -. Messrs. Moody an
y Sankey, the revivalists, will commence thei
K labors in the city of Brooklyn shortly =.
Y A British admiralty minute exonerates Vice
= Admiral Sir W. Tarleton, commanding th
Y fleet, and Capt. Hickey, of the Iron Duke
!, from responsibility for the sinking of the iron
:, clad Vanguard. .... The Jamaican government
= has seized the steamer Uruguay and her carg
' of arms and ammunition belonging to tn
. Cuban insurgents, and which was driven int
), jamaican waters by Spanish iron-clad 4.
0 A pact has been drawn up between Nicaragua
@ Guatemala and Salvador to unite and form on
n national government. 1t is not yet know
B. whether Honduras and Costa RIGA will join il
e 49,. Fear is felt in Peru that the Argentin
l. republic may go to war with Chill about th
straits of Magellan. -. .Advices from Japa
state that the torture will very shortly
- abolished in the courts. The Coreans al
. still reported as disinclned to enter into diplc
matte relations with Japan. One alleged reaso
g, h. La.