Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-12-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and MIddIe States.

following day.
Nine railroad employees who took part in the
labor troubles OF last summer were tried at
Morristown, y. J., and found guilty, receiving
sentences ranging from ten days at hard labor
in the county Jail and fine of $50 to ten days
imprisonment without hard labor or fine.
The l.. Candee & Co. Rubber Company at
New Haven, CONAN immense establishment
occupying an entire block caught fire in the
arctic shoe department, and in two hours the
building WAS a mass Of smoking ruins. Six
hundred hands were employed in the manufac-
tory, many of them women. The loss is over
S600,0 900 and the insurance about S35000O. A
number Of workmen were injured by jumping
from windows.
The official election returns in New Jersey
show the following vote for governor Nc
Clellan, Dem, 81, $780, Newell, Rep, $500;
Hoxey, Greenback, 4,5SS; bingham, Tenn
perance, 1886.
The Fort Edward Educational Institute at
Fort Edward, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
Over two hundred students of both sexes were
in the building at the time of the fire and most
of them lost all their clothing and valuables. !
/ Loss, S125OOO; insurance, 100000.
/ Colonel sibley prominent resident of Bos- |
/ ton. was sentenced to four years hard labor in |
/ the State prison for committing forgery.
/ Mayor Stokely, of Philadelphia, was assaulted |
on the street by young man who struck him
in the face. The attack arose from the en-
/ forcement of local ordinance The mayors |
assailant was arrested.
Trenton, N j., has been visited by temper
ance revival. All the bars except one we're
reported closed.
Four men belonging to the schooner Grace
Choate, of Portsmouth, N. H., were drowned
while attending to some fishing tackle.
Mrs. Jane Vosberg died in New Bedford,
Mass, the other day, aged 101 years.
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in New York was the marriage of Miss Florence
Adele Vanderbilt, daughter of William H. Van
derbilt to Mr.. Hamilton Nick. Twombley, Of
Boston. Over fifteen hundred invited guests
witnessed the ceremony. Mr.. Vanderbilts we'd
ding present to his daughter was a necklace
costing $4,000.
DR.. Benoni Carpenter died at Pawtucket,
r. l., on the morning appointed for his wifes
, uneral.
Fire broke ont in the handsome white marble
, building corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets,
Philadelphia, and did damage to the extent of
, $500, 600 partially insured.
The West Jersey Game Society have pro-
t cured 100000 salmon eggs from the Pacific
coast with which the streams of q portion of
I New Jersey will be stocked.
) The work on three elevated railroads in New
2 York city is progressing with considerable
J, rapidity.
president and cashier of the Miners Trust
!, Company Bank of Pottsvile Pa, were con-
q victed of conspiracy to defraud depositor out
Y of S24, 000 after trial lasting fifteen weeks.
g The committee of New York aldermen inves-
e tgating the Tweed ring frauds, examined John
4 II. keyser :" the ring plumber" and elected
- from him that after the exposure of the frauds
e he had assigned his property to another man for
@ the benefit Of the city !; that the assignee had
sold the property. realizing $60 600 from the
# sale and that such sum was returned to him
q by the assignee, so that nothing was obtained
- by the city from the transaction.
At Pottsvile, Pa, Buckley" Donnelly, a
l. Molly Mcguire was tried as an accessory to the
e murder of two men in 1875, and found guilty of
II murder in the first degree.
It Western and Southern States.
1t A number of soldiers from Fortress Monroe
~ Va, tried to gain admission to the saloon of 8
G man named Congo, who belonged to the mill.
=, tary band at the fortress, when Congo seized 6
10 heavy oaken bar and struck one of the soldiers
is Edward S. Langton over the head, in6ictine
N INJURIES from which he died after being brought
ID to the hospital Congo fed but was captured
10 by sheriff.
II The commissioners of the Lee Monument
~ Association at Richmond Va, have postponed
q for one year the award of an equestrian STATUE
ss to General Lee.
OF number of articles at one time belonging
lg to George Washington or Henry Clay were SOLE
re at auction at Riversdale, Nd. A pair of shoe
III once worn by Washington brought 81 a pal
belonging to Clay sold for So Mrs. Hayes ant
General Sherman were present at the sale.
- The post hospital at Columbia, s. c., wa
~ burned and large amount of medical store
OF was destroyed. Loss, 100000 insurance
ne $4,000.
IT, The Third National Bank of Chicago ha
ty suspended.
ok George Staples, living near Versailles Mo
4t came home drunk on a Sunday night, qual
IN relied with his daughter-in-aw, and fnall
IL knocked her down and killed her. The We
mans husband, George Staples, Jr., interferet
OF and his father attempted to shoot him, whe
se the son wrenched the pistol away and shot h
i'd father three times, instantly killing the Of
CO man.
bo The National Grange met in Cincinnati, dell
~ ~ gates from every State being present.
''' Phillips & Co., bankers of Georgetown, Obi
have failed; liabilities, about $85, 900.
90 George Armbruster, wealthy real esta
De- owner, returned to his home in Fultonvill
OF ILL.,, after an absence of several days, ar
ST. found his wife in the company Of prominel
yas citizen named John T. Richards. WhereupC
-; he shot them both, killing Richards Instant
~, while his wife died two hours afterward.
''t ~ James R. Hawkins, colored man of min
Vi teen, was hanged in Towsonton, Ind, for cor
VS.. uniting an attrocous assault on young G
the last April Previous to the hanging Hawk
der confessed his crime.
The The suspension of the Central National Ba
MD of Chicago took place the other day. T
80 officers say that every cent of the S437, 900
oop" to depositors will be paid
i0o The President of Mexico ordered the Mexic
commander ON the Rio Grande to repel any
ner vasion Of the United States troops, and sent
ne, q reinforcement of $4,000 men under Gene
If Treveno, to enforce the order
nes John Potts, of Pottstown, W. Va, habit
M drunkard, was reproved for his miscondl
~, by his father--after whom the town was name
ieu Thereupon young Potts attempted to drown
I 1t father, and failing to accomplish his purpC
her he followed the old man to his house and nj
cen dered him with Ratchet.
leir During heavy gale the United States ms
tba of-war steamer Huron was wrecked on the COZ
- of North Carolina, near the mouth of Athena
pel sound, and out of the 1873 men on board abe
she 100 lost their lives. On the morning of the
She aster the Huron had started from Fortr
and Monroe for the West Indies. The boats Il
WV were launched from the wrecked vessel W
~ swamped, and the men saved were compel
ine to swim two miles through heavy surf. 1
ull. commander of the Huron and nearly all
ring other officers were among the lost. Five n
was in boat from the wrecking steamer Ba
GRO were drowned while attempting to maxi
IL landing at the scene of the disaster.
liver beavv storm, in Vr@iU;o and o5ia"ont Stat
eets The small rivers rapidly gained in volume {
rom soon became raging torrents that swept az
everything in their path. At Lynchburg,
ont the rise in the James river caused many of
- merchants and citizens occupying dwell
yes, their portable property to higher ground
oder safety. Two bridges were swept away by
or flood and the gas house WAS partially {