Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
shows the receipts the past year to have been
s295, 600, snd the disbursements $500 451.

shows the receipts the pact year 70 nave been
s295, 600, and the disbursements sS09451.
BY the giving way Of the second floor in the
exhibition bnilding at the Franklin county
(Me.) fair, two hundred people we're precipi-
teted to the story below and large number
injured, one fatally. e. Gen. Rufus King died
in New York city after a short illness. He
WAS for many years editor of different inhuen-
tial journals, and at the breaking out Of the
war accepted commission in the army-being
West Pointer. 80. The steamboat express
train from Fail River to Boston, drawn by two
engines, collided with freight train near
Randolph, while running st the rate Of forty
miles an hour. Three locomotives, the smok-
ing and several baggage cars we're totally
wrecked. One fireman was killed and two
engineers and two passengers who we're
smoking were terribly injured. 49,. On the de-
mand Of the English minister, the Turkish
government has arrested Chefket Pasha for
completely in the Bulgarian outrages. -. Pin
kerton's detectives have captured Frank
James, one Of the Minnesota robbers who
succeeded in escaping after the attempted
bank robbery. He was found in the house Of
DIR. Nolan, near Kansas City, being under
treatment for gunshot wouDd received dur
the fight. He is one of the notorious James
brothers . The Duke of Abercorn has re-
signed the viceroysbip OF Ireland, and the
Duke OF Marlborough appointed as his sue
cessor.
While ooroner's jury, belonging to Hamil-
ton, Canada, were returning from inspecting
the body of a suicide few miles from town,
the wagon containing them overturned, and
two of them were so severely injured that one
of them has since died and the other cannot
survive. ... The three-year- old running colts,
Brother to Basset and Vigil, have been sold
for $25, 000. .... After the schoolteacher in
the Little Canadian town of Ramsay had dis
missed her scholars for the night, she was
overpowered and outraged by two mon. Rs
cognizing the ruffians, she threatened to have
them brought to justice, whereupon they cut
out her tongue. She tainted, and on recover
ing consciousness found herself alone in the
room. Dragging herself to the blackboard,
she wrote the names Of the men and some OF
the particulars of the crin-e, before che fell tc
the floor and expired from loss of blood. .....
The report of the United States land commits
sioner gives the total number Of acres of public
lands disposed OF during the year at 1924, 1926
Of which 2,S75, $40 acres were absorbed by
homestead entries; COZ, 1856 acres were OBJ.
tanned by entries under the timber culture
law 1,008,0O0 acres were approved to variouf
States as swamp lands; 1,17s,0O0 acres were
certified to railroads under land grants Of
Congress, and GAO 500 acres were disposed Of
by ordinary cash eaes. Burglars murdered
Captain Trim and woman and child in hil
house at Bucksport, Me-, and after ransackine
the apartments, fred the premises in hopes o.
covering the crime ... On the last day o.
the Jerome park meeting, Bill Bruce won the
mile and an eighth handicap in 1:59 Parole
the mile and half race iu the fast time O.
2:3S; Princeton the maiden three-yesr-olt
three-quarter dash in 1:1g11 Partnership thu
mile and three-quarters in 3;l23