The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29
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Crimes and G, sualties.
ARREs FOR A HORRIBLE O .~NsPIRAcY.
NEW YoRK, Jan. 29.
Newton Hover is under arrest at Hudson
this state, for conspiracy with roughs to
smother all members of his uncle's family,
Abram Post, and then burn the mansion
and dead bodies, his object being to burn
up notes and ether evidences of Hover's
debt to Post.
DIAMOND RoBBER ARRESTED.
WAsHINoToS, Jan. 90
j. FL. Richardson, one of the diamond
robbers of Saratoga, has been arrested here
and considerable property recovered.
II FORGERY.
New YORK, Jan. %.
George w. Chad wick, charged with
completely in the recent forgery of a check
for 1914 225 on the Union trust company,
was Saturday help for trial in default of
$50, 900 bail.
julius Ketter, also implicated, was sent
to house of detention, as witness, in de-
fault of So 900 bail.
A LONG CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE.
New YORK, Jan. 20.
Mrs. Gustave Huberscboff died Friday
evening, having taken a dose of arsenic.
She suffered from an incurable disease and
procured the arsenic a year ago.
~suFFERINGs AT SEA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.
The schooner John Bright arrived last
evening from Tahita, having on board
Capt. Stewart of the British ship Ada
Irondale and three apprentice boys. The
captain reports that the ship left Scotland
June 20 with coal for this port. October
18th a fire was discovered in the lower
hold, and in thirty-six hours the gas gener-
ated blew up the deck, when the officers
and crew, twenty-three in all, took to the
boats and steered for the Galapagos islands
1900 miles distant, but winds and currents
setting the boats back the captain conclud-
ed to make the Marquesas Islands 2,400
miles dis ant, which he did November 8,
after most intense suffering from exposure
and lack of food. The carpenter, William
Dinver, wins drowned by the capsizing Of
the boat.
ANOTHER INSURANCE TROUBLE.
NEW York. Jsu. 20.
Charles E Appleby OF Glen Cove, l.. l.,
was Friday appointed receiver of the
Metropolitan fire insurance company of
this city, at the suit of the stockholders,
who charge that the defendants have vio-
lated the law and invested in illegal eecuri-
ties. The company's officers say they lost
$780, 900 by two large fires in Troy 10 and
II years ego, and $500, 900 more by the
Portland fire in 1866 Tho company did
merely a local business after 1870. The
company has assets enough to pay liabili-
ties in full, leavifg sufficient to repay
stockholders at least so cents on the dollar,
and perhaps in full. The last semi-annusl
dividend of the company was 81 per cent,
and the last quotations of stock 70 per
cent.
A BIG swISDLER TO THE FRONT AGAIN.
SANDusKV, o, Jan. 20
Rush r. Sloane, whose connection wi h
the Cincinnati, Sandueky and Cleveland
railroad and while heavy embezz emenls
and other crimes for which he fed to
Europe some two years ago, may be re-
membered, wi it is announced, in a short
time sgain assume control of the road. He
settled with the road, and the indictments
against him were quashed. Since his re-
turn Sloane has been quietly buying up
shares, until be and his friends have OBJ
tanned the controlling interest. This will
effect a change in the entire list Of %oficefs,
who were brought from Boston by presl-
dent Farlow.
PEDLAR
LANCASTER. O., Jan. 90.
A pedlar who was lodged Friday night
at the house of s. s. Chalfaut. near Thorn
vile, chloroformed the whole family dur
ing the night and carried off 5000 cash and
$35, 900 in drafts.
FATAL EXPLOSION
New York, Jan. 29.
Yesterday at Broxville a tank In which
rags were stepped in a chemical preparation,
ex Iloded, severely i~niuring four persons,
one fatally.
DEATH FROM U~YDRoPHoBIA.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 90.
Charles p. Willmore, twenty-six years of
ag', died this morning of hydrophobia af-
ter suffering fearfully since Thursday last.
The deceased was bitten three times by one
dog and once by another, last summer. He
wal . native Of ST. John. N. b.
AN EXPLOSION.
HALLowRLL, Ms, Jan. 2S.
A large boarding house on second street,
owned by J G. Cummings, burned to-
night. The loss 10 small, but when the
furniture was being removed an explosion
occurred In one Of the rooms, It is suppos-
ed Of gun powder, seriously injuring four
persons.