Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-01-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What is Doing In the Old World and the
New.

New.
The number Of killed and wounded by the
Bremerhaven disaster is now stated at two
hundred. ..... The Inmsn steamship company
are to start line between Philadelphia and
Liverpool. .. Thomas Burt, OF Carson City,
Cal, was hanged by vigilance committee at
that place. He had been connected with
crimes of arson and robbery, but had escaped
the law on recount of the absence of the wit
nesses The Hurst and Watkin committee
Of the Erie bondholders in England have pro-
posed schome to be carried out under fore
closure by committee Of which Gov. Tilden
is to be invited to take the Craftsmanship.
The unemployed lsboreIa Of Montreal to the
number Of three thousand, gathered about
the city hall and demanded work and bread.
An ale and also bread wagon was sacked by
the mob, and other disturbances arose. Trou-
bic is apprehended see. During the election
in Peru fight took place ia the town of
Husnta, between the parties Of rival candi-
dates, during which over twenty were killed
and many wounded. The police were not
allowed to interfere lest the government
might be accused of trying to intimidate the
voters go. The strike of the coal miners at
the Sydney coal mines in Nova Scotia is over,
and the men have returned to work at the re-
duced wages. ... The Mississippi steamer
W. s. Pike was burned at her dock in New
Orleans, and two passengers and several Of the
crew are supposed to have persisted. Loss on
vessel and cargo amounts to 5000, 000..
PRESIDENT Grant, with members of the Cabi-
net and congressman, many of whom had their
wives, in all making party of four hundred,
were in Philadelphia viewing the Centennial
preparations, at the invitation of Philadelphia
merchants, who subscribed &c., 900 for the
purpose.
During services fire broke out in the Con-
gregational church i'll Norway, Me-, and en-
tirely consumed it. Masked robbers forced
their way into United States express car in
Missouri, bound the hah-asleep messenger
and locked him in package trunk, and then
| rifed the safe of $4,000. -, "A party Of Mexi
cans crossed the river below San Felipe and
horses from Strickland and Slaughter. .....
James Carr, eighteen years old, was found
frozen to death on the Merrimack river al
Lowell. woodchopper named Mullen was
found frozen to death near fremont, N. H..
The Cubans capture o train of seventeen cars
! from the Spanish forces. .... Forty hunters
from the United States we're arrested in
Canada for shooting out Of season. They
were fined and their game confscated. 3. Two
brothers named Hickey quarreled in Toronto,
and one stabbed the other in the chest in
fictng wo nd which will result fatally.
Speaker Kerr has appointed the standing
committees Of the House. Morrison, of Hi
hois, is chairman Of the Ways and Means
Randall, of Pa, chairman Of Appropriations !;
Cox, of N. Y, chairman on Banking and Our
rency $50. An earthquake in Porto Rico on
the night of Dec. s and 9 created great alarm
and the town of Arecibo was almost entirely
destroyed. Two churches and only six houses
remain, and they are 20 badly damaged they
may fall at any moment. THE Pacific jockey
club of San Francisco have definitely named
the twenUy-second of February as the day of
the great 100000 race. ALI the owners of the
original nine horses entered are satisfied, and
everything is harmonious. :. The Rice gram
mar school in Boston, Mass, was accidentally
set on fire by the ianitor while thawing a
steampipe with red-hot poker. The flames
ran up the ventilators and destroyed the upper
story and part Of the second Loss, 1916, 700;
no insurance. Captain General Valmaseda,
the commander-in-chiefo of the Spanish forces
in Cuba, has resigned, and has been succeeded
by General Carlo. .... The court house at
Camden, Ark, the finest in the State, was
destroyed by fire, with all its contents.
There have been forgeries in the Office of the
treasurer of Kansas to the amount of $50, 900,
and that official has been removed by the
governor.
The governor of Sagua, Cuba, has offered q
reward Of ten gold doubloons for each insur-
gent brought in dead or alive. . :. Yale Col.
lege has withdrawn from the American rowing
association. .. Bands Of armed Indians are
on the Texas frontier, and trouble is appre.
hended .... The archbishop of Philadelphia
has excommunicated the members Of the
Molly Mcguire association from the Catholic
church. ... Henry Wainwright, convicted Of
the murder Of Harriet Lane in Whitechape
Road, London was hanged at Newgate prison
...... General Jovellar, the Spanish minister
Of war, has been appointed csptain-general o.
Cuba. General Ceballos will succeed Jovella
as minister Of war :. The steamer Louisiana
Of the General Transatlantic Company, cam,
in collision with the steamer Gironde on tn
1 river Gironde, France and sunk, sixteen live
T being lost. :. Mount Vesuvius is in an erup
T tive condition, and Professor Palmieri predict
: a long period Of eruption. 80. "A Portuguese
gunboat has been ordered to the island o
= st. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea, ON accoun
Of an instruction Of the negroes.
While Dennis DAILY, farmer Of Ledyard
5 Cayuga county, N. Y, was removing potatoe
: from pitt aheavy mass Of earth fell upo
8 him, and when taken out he was found to b
: dead. The training ship Goliath at Graves
j. end England, was destroyed by fire. There
4 reason to believe that twenty boys persisted i
q the flames. -. The hog disease is prevailin
to an alarming extent in Warren and othe
counties in New Jersey ..... About seve
J. o'clock in the evening gas main runnin
y under Federal street bridge, in South Boston
& exploded from some unknown cause, an
s wrecked everything for some distance abou
n killing number of people. The pavement
!. which were crowded at the time were torn U
a for one hundred and fifty yards, and mar
persons buried under the debris-o A larl
portion Of the bridge fell, carrying down viii
: it several persons who were crossing at Il