Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-08-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

DOMuAhA VI NE Uos
gtor,s of Interest from Home and Abroad
The Kentucky county elections resulted in
Democratic gains throughout the entire State.
80. The Democrats have reelected Houston
governor Of Alabama by an increased majority.
..... Two young ladies, Cora A. Brown, OF
Pa, and Carrie Stott, of Warren,
Ohio, were drowned while bathing near Fair
point, N. Y ..... The Turks have burned the
town Of Gurgusovatz, and are destroying
possible. The Porte has paid
e4O 900 to the families OF the French and
... AS thirteen persons were crossing Put
nam's pond, near Ironville, Essex county,N.Y.,
in small rowboat, it was swamped, and ten
of the party were drowned, consisting of Mr..
johnson and wife, John McAulister and wife,
John Burt and daughter, Peter Osier, Adolph
Liviner's sop, Mr.. Holden and Miss Thatcher.
..... Gen Crook has fallen back seventy-ive
miles the Indians arc harassing his scouts !;
he is endeayoring to join Gen. Terry.
A $32, 1000, 900 mortgage has been recorded in
Albany by the Hudson River railroad in favor
OF William II. and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
The Turks have carried and are in possess
sion Of Satschar. THE re-enforcements
have reached Gen. Crook and he has made all
the Sioux taking with him rations for two
months. -. Twelve persons were killed and
twenty wounded by railway accident at Rad
stock, Lngland. e. James Spicer and his
daughter, aged twelve years, and John Fill
more, all OF Mayville, N. Y, were capsized
from a rowboat on Chautauqua lake and ali
drowned. .... The double scull two-mile race at
Saratoga was contested by the Union Spring,
Atslauta, Neptune and Wolvenhook clubs.
The water WAS perfectly smooth, and the race
the best ever pulled on the lake, being nip and
tuck the whole distance between the Neptunes
and Unions but finally resulting in a victory
for the Unions in 12.16 which is unparalleled
time.
Timothy Donovan, residing in Greenburgh,
N. Y, started his son down an old we'll to see
what the matter with it was, when the youth
was overcome by gas and fell to the bottom
The father alarmed his brother Cornelius, and
then started down the we'll after his son, when
he too fell, under the influence of the poison
GUS gas. Cornelius endeavored to rescue
them, but succumbed as had his brother and
nephew, and dropped dead to the bottom Of
the well. TIE bodies were grappled for......
The receiver OF the broken Mechanics and
o1,iy, Of Vfrb hoa
had the late paying teller arrested for embez-
zing funds to q large amount " Hallett
Kilbourn has sued the Speaker and sergeant
alarms Of the House, together with the COM
mittee on the real estate pool, for $4,000
damages for injuries sustained by reason of
imprisonment without cause. 49,. The single
scull contest at Saratoga was won by Riley, of
tho Neptunes, in 1920 Kennedy, of Yale,
Icing second, i'll 1897 followed by Alderman,
of the Atalantas, and Yates, of the Union
Springs. The four-oared race was contested
by the crack clubs of the country, most Of
whom are entered for the Centennial races
The starters were the Sho- wac -cae-mettes, OF
Monroe, Mich; Northwesterns, of Illinois
Atalantas, of New York BeaverWyck, of AL
b4ny, and the Argonautas, of Bergen Point
N. j. The Northwesterns came in winners il
1902, the -wae-cae-mettes second, will
the Atalantas, Beaverwycks and Argonautas
following in the order named.
A severe hail, rain and wind storm passed
over Wayne county, Pa, unroofng houses
blowing down chimneys and fences, and badly
damaging the corn and other crops. -. Thert
is company forming in Paris to construct
cable between that city and New York. . :. Thu
regular Republicans of Arkansas have nomi
mated Joseph Brooks for governor. The If
regular Republicans also have ticket in til,
field. 49,. The following nominations for Con
gress are announced: Savannah district o
Georgia, John E. Bryant, Rep; Vermont, thirC
district, George W. Hendell, Rep, Maine
fourth, j. II. Donworth, DEM; Virginia, third
John E. Kenna, DEM; California, third
Thomas E. McKenna, Rep; Maine, fifth, VIM
Fl. Mcclellan, Dem; Vermont, first, A.
Childs, Dem; Ohio, third, John e. Savage
Dom; Ohio, eighth, George Arthur, Dem.
Ohio, fifteenth, VIM. W. Poston, Dem.
Gov Porter, Of Tennessee, has been renomi
mated by the Democracy $50. Smuggler wol
the free-to all-race at Rochester in 21594
218 and 219I Lucille Golddust took sen
ond place, beating Bodne and Judge Fuller
ton. ... The New York Mutual base bail clu
defeated the Athletics of Philadelphia by
score OF nine to seven.
The first of series of matches between tn
American yacht Madeleine and the Canada
yacht Countess of Dufferin, for the Queen
cup, now held by the Americans, resulted in
victory for the Madeleine by about ten minutes
.... Mr.. Disraeli is about to be raised to tn
House Of Lords with the title of Earl of Bes
consfeld -. -. Congressional nominations
Alabama, seventh district, Dem, Gen. W. Z
Forney; Georgia, Savannah district, Rep
John E. Bryant; Missouri, thirteenth, Dem
A. FL. Buckner Arkansas, second, Rep, ].
Williams Arkansas, fourth, Rep, Samut
Murphy Michigan, eighth, Dem, Fred Z
Potter. .....,G rasshoppers have appeared
large numbers in Nebraska. Presider
Grant addressed message to Congress askin
for authority to increase the cavalry regiment
or to call for volunteers for six months to pu
down the Indians. jenkins Shovel ,coloret
was hanged in Snow Hill, Md, for rape con
mitted on white woman and colored VIC
man. Victor Smith quarreled with Mr.
Frank Bowman, with whom he boarded, /
Rochester n Y, and drawing a pistol kille