Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-11-18

stantly killed and some twenty-five very badly
Of them 30 seriously that they
ArterwArd died. Every care possible was taken |
Of the injured. .....A fredAmp explosion 90
CURED in the Vaudeville colliery, near St.
Clair, Pa and three men we're terribly burned.
..,.. The will Of the late James Lick, which
devised large amount of money to San Fran
cisco charities, has been contested by the son,
John II. Lick. Gen. Miles had an engage
ment with Sitting Bull on the twenty-frst
and twenty-second ult., on Cedar creek, and
succeeded in killing and wounding number
OF his willy sdyerssries. Tao soldiers were
wounded. The Indians we're forced to retreat.
and Gen. Miles followed lhem SIXTY miles,
when they separated into two bands, the troops
following that body head,d by Sitting Bull in
person, which was NOW in the direction OF
Fort Peck.....A forty -eight hours downpour
OF ram in Orleans, Ind, flooded the surround
ias county 80 that the water rose to the win
dow tops, and gave the entire place the APP
pearance Of lake. Great damage was done
to property. ... The whaling feet recently
abandoned in the Arctic ocean had On board
1904 barrels Of whale oil 1919 barrels Of
sperm oil, 81, 100 pounds Of whalebone and
$4,000 pounds Of ivory ..... Later Intelligence
from the West Indies brings further accounts
Of damage b. the recent hurricane. .... A cry
OF fire in Chinese theater in San Francisco
started the immense audience in panic
stricken rush for the narrow exit Many wore
knocked down and trampled on-the police
taking ont twenty dead bodies.
There are internal disturbances among the
Japanese. ....Since the last defeat OF the Ser
Wan army, the Russian officers are leaving in
numbers, refusing longer to risk their lives for
such a pusilanimous people, whom thsy COL
denim in the strongest terms. -. The new
Dutch maritime canal, connecting Amsterdam
with the German ocean, has been opened with
elaborate ceremonies. Charles W. Garrett
Of Indiana, anu Frederick 4. Woodwork, of
California, were dismissed from the Annapolis
naval academy for hazing. . The Gloucester
(MaaG.) fishing schooner T. A. Smith lost
three men by being washed overheard at the
banks. Two horse thieves, named William
Fulton and BuEdley, were lynched in Wyan-
dotte county, Kansas, by vigilance COM
mlttee. -Four carriages, three wagons, one
pair Of mules, one span OF horses, one set of
harness and three COWS, tho property Of
Brigham Young, were sold at public auction
in Salt Lake by the commissioner, to pay the
award of the court in the Ann Eliza case
They brought 81, 1856. Further seizures OF
property will be made A conhagration in
Granada, Miss, destroyed sixteen business
houses. 1.-The national debt was reduced
S3, 1888, 1879 during O5tober. -. Two men were
killed and number injured by four cars being
thrown from the track of the North Pennsyl-
vania railway at Center Valley. A broken
axle was the cause. By the explosion of two
mills of the Miami Powder Co., situated near
Xenia, Ohio, one man was killed and num-
Der wounded. Loss, $4,000.
Frank Beebe, aged eighteen years, book
keeper of the West Troy On. " hank, is de-
faulter to the amount Of Ga 000 ..... James
Weeder, Sam Collyer, "Fiddler" Neary, u
Richard Goodwin and John Clarke, on trial at
Salem, N. j., as principals or assistants in the
fatal prize fight between Weeden and Walker,
were found guilty of manslaughter E. Turkey
has conceded to Russia's demand for six
weeks armistice and the necessary papers
have been signed. e. Much damage to crops
is reported from the interior Of Cuba, on &C
| count or foundations. IA report from Camp
Stambaugh, Wyoming Territory, says village
| ,Nf f,ya l,un al 90 4
tackled on the thirtieth of October by large
Sioux war party, estimated at 1900 lodges
at Pointed Rock, about ninety miles from CamI
Stambaugh. AS far as learned, only one Sho
shone, named Hump, escaped. He was the
Indian who saved the life of Capt. Henry il
Gen Crooks second fight last summer -.
H. D. Simpsons glove factory at Chatham
N. Y, was destroyed by fire. Loss heavy
insured $15500 .... The extensive barns OF
@. ". Pierce at Derby Line, VT were totally
$50, 900. IA man named jackson and hi
wife, while returning TO the American eide
from the Canadian shore Ill small boat, wert
drowned. BY collision between pas
senger and freight train near Linden, N. J..
on the Pennsylvania railroad, one man wal
killed and several injured.
Oolorod burglars broke into the house Of 1
Mr.. Hausman near AIkeus, s. G 3, and afte
numbering that gentleman and his nephew
and ransacking the house, fred the premises
go. VIM. Wheatley, well known actor il
other days, died in New York. aged sixt.
years st. Hyacinthe, the small Canadian
town pear Montreal, which suffered 80 severe
ly from fire few months ago. has again beel
visited by the same scourge and twenty build
ings destroyed being the only portion of tn
town exempted by the previous confagration
high wind famed the flames, as previously
.... Weeden, Goodwin and Collyer, convicts
OF inanslaughter at Salem, N. j., ia connection
with the prize fight, were sentenced each t.
six years imprisonment. Clark and Neary eac