Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-07-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
IH,er,srIBs u,Sm. from Home and Abroad.

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On her way from O-tonsgon for Houghton,
Mich, caught fire and almost instantly was q
mass of flames. or the eighteen passengers.
but one WAS saved. -Four Of the fourteen per
sohs composing the crew escaped with their
lives. Lane, Pierce & Goa tapnery at
sandbsuk, n. Y, wac destroyed by fire, with
loss OF SlOO,OO' ,,,... A party of masked men
entered the jail at Nebraska City and assss-
sinster Hank Dodge, who was TO have been
executed IN week. ...,. A reduction OF ton
per cent. in tho wages Of the mill operatives
in Scotland ia proposed . The actual number
IF mou on duty in the United Ststes army is
2G,979 OF which z, $3.50 are in tho Territories.
S,7lS in Texas, and 1884, in the Southern
States. Gen. Terry has iu the field 1923 mon.
and Crook I,790, of which probably fully two
thousand are At for active service The re-
msinder of the army is doing garrison duty at
forts in Northern States.
Gov. Tilden, in his reply to the committee
which formally rendered him the nomination
for the Presidency, spoke particularly in regard
to the necessity for reform Bv the burn
ing Of the boot shop of George Oxford q Co.,
at Kingston, Ont, three hucdred hands were
thrown out OF employment .. President
Grant asked for and received the resignation
OF Gov Jewell as postmaster general. As
sislant Postmaster.General Tyner has received
the appointment. 49,. The commissioner of in
tofnal revenue, Mr.. Pratt, has resigned his
otbeo......A man named Ripley, living at Bar
Mills, Me-, cut his throat in eleven places, and
finally hanged himself. &C. Dom Pedro and
suite have sailed for Europe. -. The most
terrific thunderstorm of the season extended
over the principal portions of New England
and the Middle States, killing number of
persons and doing considerable damage to
property. -Four companies of United States
troops on their way to join Crooks expedition
were attacked by the Sioux Indians, but sue
Cooded in driving thenl off after losing few
Enoh......A commission hss been appointed
10 requisite the boundary between New York
and New Jersey ..... Tho petition to have the
viii CT A. T. Stewart r9opened has been denied
10y the surrogate.
-Four masked robbers compelled Farmer
Hardy, Of Cris6old, Md, to open he safe.
WON Which they took $1,000, mostly in gold
eola. Ten years ago he was similarly robbed
of $4,000. ,,., The Sioux chief Rain-in-the-
Face, who shot Custer, cut the heart from the
body and affixed it to pole, around which the
savages held numerous war dances The
KING and queen of Greece are visiting England.
......W @. Mcdonald visited his wife at her
fathers house IN Pittsburgh, Pa, and during
an alteration shot his vito and then himself
Both will probably die A revolution was
attempted at Cuzco, Peru, but was promptly
suppressed by the killing OF thirty of the ring
leaders.
The mercantile agency of r. G. Dun & Co.
In their statement for tho first six months Of
1876 give the number OF failures for this period
I'll tho United States as 1900, with liabilities
amounting to sos, AIS, 429 In the first Sly
months OF 1875 the failures were 3, Boa, will
liabilities amounting to $7G, 900, 0O0 In Canadf
tho failures for the first six months of 1870
were 858, with s12604, 236 liabilities. In tho
first quarter OF tho year tho failures in tht
United States were 2,S06; in the second quar-
tor, l,79l, Tho agency says: THE marked
decline in failures for the past quarter afford,
some encouragement to the belief, now yer,
generally entertained that We have seen tn,
worst effects Of the present depression, 80 fa
a. casualties Of this character are concerned
1t is true that business continues in q yer,
depressed condition; that the results of trade
with rare exceptions, have been exceedirgl,
unsatisfactory that values continue to de
cline, and that uncertainty and anxiety exist il
all quarters. Yet, in the face of all this, Their
is comfort in the reflection that the cause
which produced this condition of things hav
boen almost completely reversed. In the plac
Of reckless over-trading, we have now lessene
sales guided by caution, and also prudenc
in purchasing"
Three brothers, named Charles, Albert an
Ad'f Thelhausen residing in Newark, N. J.
were formerly employed in Dawson's tanuery
from VIII Oh they were discharged by the fore
mai, whom they have threatened with violenc
ever since, until he finally sued out wsrrar
for their arrest, which WAS put in the hands c
Policemen Elsden and Dickerson to serve. N
sooner had the officers appeared at the hous
aud made known their errand to the brother
than each armed himself with huge navy n
volVer, shooting E'sden dead on the spot an
woundng Dickerson 80 that he expired
few hours. They then ran from the hous
toward the tannery on the way seriously shoe
ing MIR. Cahill. Arrived at the tannery the
asked for the foreman, and not finding hin
shot and killed an inoffensive workman name
Fischer At this time the foreman's son-il
law, John Albers, went into the room to fir
out what the firing was for when he instant
was shot down and five balls fred into hin
from the effects Of which he died. The wor
men had now recovered from the stupor in
which they were thrown by tho horror Of t.
scene, and closed in on the murderers with Il
long knives with which they work one OF Il
brothers having the right hand nearly severe
at the wrist By threatening with their revc
vera the deeperadoes made their way to Il
street, followed by the crowd, which no
numbered hundreds. The brothers ran towal
tho river, and finding tho crowd pressed the1
jumped into the water and endeavored
escape by swimming. The crowd Of enrag,
mon meanwhile arrived at the bank of Il
river and began throwing missiles at the hea
of the murderers in the water, who were @
haustod by their long run and soon sunk fro
sight under the waters. The crowd stay
about until certain the mon were drowned al
there was no need to iufict the lynch law
freely threatened.
Constant rains have done considerable dal
age to crops in Ohio. 49,. Owing.to the excee
ingy heavy rain a small river near Freedol