Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Inrerssrln. Items from Home and Abroar

works attacked non-un on men in their board
ing house. and fatally shot one Of them and
severely injured several others. IA night
freight train on the Canada Southern railway
ran through an open dravbndge into the Wei
land canal, completely wrecking the engine,
tender and eight cars. The engineer and fire.
man we're killed. The insurgent chief Peko
Paul vics with FIVE hundred men defeated the
Turks and occupied Suttorina. ... The Prince
OF Wales was handsomely received at Madrid
by King Alfonso. E. Don Amceto Esquirol has
been elected president Of Costa Rca.
Guatemala and Salvador, Central America, |
have declared war, and few skirmishes have |
tsken place between their troops ...... AS
Michael Turner was carrying Culver Patterson
and John l. Smell across the Mohawk, in a
rowboat, at Amsterdam, N. Y, the boat struck
the ferry cable and all thresNwere thrown out
and drowned. Smell and Patterson were law
yers -. E. The Metropolitan hotel, at Long
Branch, N. j., was destroyed by fire. Loss,
| go, 900. 80. Bernard Flaherty, known to the
theater going world as Barney Williams, died
in New York city of paralysis, aged fifty three
years.
The governor of the army Of Barbados re-
ports that the island is now quiet. Mckee,
of the st. Louis whisky ring, was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment and to pay fine
of 10000. :. The Massachusetts Republican
convention appointed delegates to the ma
tional convention, but left them unpledged.
Resolutions favoring both Bristow and Blaine
were before the members, but were not acted
on As John Smith, who murdered Judge
Carson at Grab Orchard, KY, was being taken
from court to jail, he was assaulted by the
sons of the victim. The attempt to kill the
prisoner failed, however, and the young men
were arrested, only to be set at liberty on
their promising to abstain from further
efforts in that direction. &c. The opera house
at Rouen, France, caught fire from gas jet
while the troupe of seventy-fve performers
were preparing for the performance, and be-
fore they could all escape the entire building
was in flames number of the company
were burned to death, among them Nine.
Phys, the principal singer. Four soldiers were
killed ald fifteen others wounded in endeavor-
ing to rescue the unfortunates ...... A bill to
remove the electoral disabilities of women
was defeated in the English House of Com
mons by a vote of 239 to 152. e. John Stone,
aged twenty, of Manor Station, Pa, fell in
love with thirteen-year old girl, and because
she refused to marry before she WAS sixteen,
ne blew out his brains, leaving note in which
he said that he could not live three years with
out the girl -. The Turkish garrison of
Nicsic made a sortie to procure provisions, but
we're repulsed by the besiegers The garrison
and inhabitants are in extremities, having had
} nothing but horse meat for several days .
! The national board of fire underwriters declare
3 that fifty-fve per cent of the fires are incen-
7 diary.
The New York Democracy, in convention in
Utica, appointed delegates to the national
convention, heading the delegation with Sena-
tor Herman. After directing the appointees to
0 act as unit, the convention adopted resolu-
y tions declaring its settled conviction that re-
turn to the constitutional principles the frugal
expenditure and the administrative purity OF
0 the founders Of the republic is the first and
most imperious necessity Of the times, the
O commanding issue now before the people OF
o tho Union and while entertaining cordia
appreciation Of other Democratic statesmen
X respectfully suggest the nomination of Samue
J. Tilden for President. Says the New Yorl
u World, the home organ of Governor Tilden
N Governor Tilden's chances for the nomination
seem increasing in consequence Of tho growing
u impression that the State OF new York is II
u exercise potent influence in the decision o
NJ the question. While other candidates may b.
10 able to carry the State Of New York, the Demo
- Gratis do not seem incline to leave the matte
y to chance. .... The Arkansas Republicans sp
Il pointed delegates to the national convention
n and instructed them to work for Oliver P
l. Morton.
h The plague in Mesopotama is on an in
@ crease and has appeared in the military hospi
u tails and garrisons. At Bagdad from April
L to April 10, inclusive, there were 1856 attack
and 20S deaths. -. Representatives of tn
- great powers having met at Rome and aske
~ the advice of the cardinals as to the bes
h means to bring an end to the conflicts betwee
# the various states and the church, the cal
dinals answered unanimously that peace wa
impossible until the Independence Of tn
church was acknowledged. go. Mary Shena
70 was found in Cincinnati with her throat cu
- and the body of newly-born female chill
:, with its head nearly severed from its body wa
y, found under her bed. :. Gov. Rice, of Masst
al chusetts, has vetoed the James Parton Ma
w. riage bill. The California Republicans lei
I'd their delegates to the national convention III
m pledged, but expressed their preference *
Id Blaine. The German imperial court of di
| cipline has sentenced Count Won Arnim t
Id formal dismissal from the public service an
~ the payment Of costs of proceedings Th
re Post-office Appropriation bill foots up q tot
T. Of $32, 1879, 109, Of which the revenues of til
70 department will probably cover $29 25S, 20;
Az ....Gen. Crook announces that the Indians
% Red Cloud are on the verge of starvation
owing to the non-arrival Of supplies. Fl
fears they may go ON the warpath as result
The body of Edward Fuller, of Rutland, vt
missing since March first has been found in
VIZ pasture lot in Westminster, together with til
~ remains OF his borse and sleigh. A Jug
~ liquor by his side indicates that he WAS intox
:, Gated at the time he was lost in the snow
Iv The Porte calls on the European powers to al
es him in putting down the instruction in b
on dominions, citing as precedent the aid give
he Russia in quelling the rebellion in Hungary
O 1S49. The steamer Quessant, of Bres
hit France, has foundered at sea. Twenty-or
les lives were lost .....A four-year-old child ,
de Mary Grenon, in New York city, was burned
rd death by its clothes catching fire. The moth
lis lay drunk in the room at the time. u. The Cel
Oh tennial commission have decided to close IL
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