Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. of Interest from Home and Abroad.

has begun in Ssnto Domingo. Ex-President
Baez has been proclaimed President by the
revolutionists. The cities of santo Domingo
and Puerto Plata remain loyal to President
Gonzales .Advices from Herzegovina con-
firm the report that the insurgents have re-
jected the advice Of the European powers
to suspend hostilities, and also that they de-
mand the independence Of Bosnia. 80. The
Scotch express on the Midland Tailrord, Eng
land, came into collision with an excursion
train from Morecambe to Bradford, near Kid
wick. Five persons we're killed and forty in-
jured, several probably fatally. .... Fourteen
Montreal (Canada) dry goods firms were COM
PEELED to make arrangements with their credi-
tors during one week.. Josephus Sooy, Jr.,
treasurer OF New Jeasey, has embezzled from
the State about 1000, which has been spent
in dissipation. He was arrested in Philadel-
phia. . Thomas Callaghan, who occupied
room in a New York tenement house with
his mother and sister, drove his sister into the
street at midnight and then killed his mother
by beating her about the head. He was ar
rested. ...,. Three young men aud three young
women were rowing on the river at New York
on Sunday, when they fastened a line from
their boat TO tugboat in order to get tow ;
but the sldden starting of the tug turned their
boat over, and girl of nineteen was drowning
when one Of the young men swan to her
aud they both sank out of sight. Col.
Edward W. Longstreet, OF Syracuse, N. Y,
committed suicide on account of financial diff
culties. Lewis J. Bennett the canal con-
York, 1921 of money fraudulently obtained
| Canal Appraiser Davis has been arrested for
completely in the Hand contract fraud go.
Secretary Bristow has ordered the sale of
$4,000, 900 of gold during September 80. The
business portion of Reynoldsville, Pc, was
destroyed by fire.
Hon. George D. Lord, ex-member Of the
New York Assembly, was arrested for bribery
in connection with bill passed by the Assem-
| bly, last winter for the additional compensation
of one John Hand for dredging Black Rock
harbor, Buffalo. He was held in SIS, 900 bail
..... The second day of the San Francisco
panic resulted in the closing of the Merchants
bank and the National Gold Bank and Trust
Company, not on account of insolvency,
but simply lack Of gold coin. They will re-
sumo in few days. VIM. @. Ralston, presi-
dent of the broken Bank of California, after
attending a meeting Of the directors Of the
offices, deliberately committed suicide by
drowning go James r. Mcneil, well -known
planter living eighteen miles below Memphis,
Tenn, on the Arkansas side was assassinated
by an unknown man in broad daylight. ....
Mrs. j. p. Couse, of Nashville, committed
suicide after her third attempt ...... The Iew
custom house regulation requiring due entry
of the wearing apparel in actual use, and
other personal effects, etc, of persons arriving
in the United States from foreign countries
went into effect Sept. first. 80. The Trpolitan
auth critics apologized to the United States
consul for the indignities offered him. ...
SEQ de Urgel captulated. The Alfonsist army
occupied the forts. ..... Passengers on train
from Chicago, via the Kankakee route, report
the robbery Of the occupants of the sleeping
car to the amount Of $1,000 .... The pro-
posed German pilgrimage to Lourdes was
causing anxiety in France, as they do not wish
to have the German religious difficulty trans
ferred to French soil. e. The propeller Comet
collided with the Canadian steamer Manitoba
on Lake Superior and was instantly sunk, ten
of the people on her being drowned.
Two new cases of yellow fever have broken
out at Fort Barrancas, Fla. .... Lee & Shepard,
the large publishers of Boston, have suspended
payment. They lost heavily by the two large
fires in Boston, but would have been able
to recover themselves had business been good
during the past year. The New York branch
under the name of Lee, Shepard & Dillingham;
made an assignment to James Miller
A report from the scene of the Herzegovina
revolt, says that twenty-one thousand Bosnian
Christians have fled to Austrian territory. The
whole district from the mountains to the
rivers Unna and Sauna has been abandoned by
the Christians and devastated by'Turbs "
Cardinal McCloskey on his arrival at Rome
will only receive the ring and the titles per-
tanning to his dignity. He will not receive the
hat, because its investiture would entail
grand public ceremony. .. The English Arctic
expedition reached West Greenland with al
well, and departed for Upernavik. They were
to visit Capt. Halls grave and then go to wintel
quarters. They will survey in sledges previous
to deep winter, and in the spring start TOWARD
the pole in six sledges. Every week or two
a s.edge will transfer its supplies to the othel
sledges, and return to the ships. This method
will be followed until there is but one sledgt
left which will proceed to the pole alone .
duel over trivial matter was fought II
Waco, Tex, by which one of the duellsts wal
killed. The contest was with six-shooters, a
three paces in the dark 49,. q. The deputy col
lector at Antioch, Contra Costa county, CAL
seized Jost's distillery and twenty-six Thousand
gallons of spirits valued at $50, 900, on
charge Of Illicit manufacturing Charles
Burgess, negro, was arrested for numbering
a man named Ratchet while sitting in hi
doorway in the Cherokee nation, but attempted
to escape from the officer, who shot him dead
..... The Atlantic mills at Lawrence, Mass
have started after being idle seven weeks
There is a prospect now for steady employ
ment for one thousand hands.
Aaron Anders, well-known and Influential
citizen of Frederick county, Nd, was accident
ally drowned in mill race at Sanganore. II,
was one Of the proprietors of the Sanganor,
Touring mills, and of the Frederick City steam
mills IA mother and daughter named Moller
of New York, were drowned in the undertow a
Rockaway beach, Long Island go. Hon. ]. M
Thacher, commissioner of patents, has resign
cd, to enter upon the practice of patent law il
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