Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-13
A SUMMARY OF NEWS.

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the gorge "A terrible disaster occurred a
quarter Of a mile from Ashtabula, Ohio, by
which at least 100 persons were killed or in
inred. The western express, consisting Of six
passenger and drawing-rOOm and five baggage
and express cars broke through an iron bridge
and fell distance Of seventy-fve feet to the ice
below, which gave way and portions of the cars
went into the water, many persons being drown
ed Others were killed by being crushed in the
falling cars, while still others persisted in the
flames which speedily consumed the portions of
the cars left above the water. 4 binding
snowstorm prevailed at the time. Of IT'S people
ON board the train, it is thought sixty lost their
lives or were seriously injured. Capt James
Parce, of Mt. Forest, Canada, who lived apart
from his wife, attempted TO kill his stepson and
daughter, and being unsuccessful committed
suicide. The stepchildren were seriously in
jured. . The Alabama claims court has adj
iourned sine die. By the burning of FIVE
story building on the Bowery New York. $685.
600 loss was entailed. The losers were tobacco
dealers and matters. . .Brem0ker. Moore & Co.'S
large paper mill at Laurel, Indiana, was burned.
Loss about $780, 900; insurance, SIS, 00e... 900.
Two masked burglars were caught in the act at
East Schadack, Rensselaer, county, N. ".
Messrs. Sayler, Abbott and Lawrence, the sub
Congressional committee. report, from the re-
turns as submitted, that South Carolina voted
for Hayes and Wheeler by about seven hundred
majority, but that Hampton and the entire
Democratic ticket have been elected by much
larger majority.
Thirty-siN bodies were removed from the
scene of the Ashtabula disaster. The balance
of the unfortunate victims are so completely
destroyed by fire that they cannot be separated
or removed. OF the thirty-six recovered, nine
teen are recognized and identified few of
the bodies which were under water show very
little mutilation. Others are burned away so
that all that Is left of man or q woman can be
put in cigar box. Some are without heads,
others without hands or arms Others still are
burned away except the large bones of the
trunk, the bones either calcined to snowy white
ness or covered with black charred flesh In
some the bowels alone resisted the fire. The
faces of such as are best preserved by water
wear a look of fearful horror. The eyes are
open and staring, tongues protruding, and hands
clinched in hair or clothing, or held as if to
ward off blow from above
L. A. Woodward, one of the Old Tweed ring
Of New York, has been released after paying
some 1926, 600 to the city authorities. 1t is now
believed that all of the fugitiVes will settle with
the city and thus secure their release from law
suits. "A meeting Of citizens of both political
parties took place in Chicago, relative to the
Presidential difficulty, and resolutions of a pa
cifc nature were adopted. . The governor of
Minnesota has issued an appeal to the pastors
of the several religious denominations; to the
OlIlCbTS VI llG various CIdIlldDl6 uSSOClhtlOlS,
and to the humane and philanthropic, individu-
ally and collectively, throughout the State Of
Minnesota asking for aid for the benefit of the
grassh0pper sufferers from the grasshopper
plague. He says that many localities have sls-
tanned an almost total loss of crops for four
years in succession, and the people who have
suffered these constant rayages have been COM
PEELED to mortgage not only their farms, but
their entire stock and household goods to pro-
cure means to avert starvation from their fami-
lies. E. The Mexican authorities ON the Rio
Grande endeayOred to capture an American
steamer on the river but were unsuccessful. -.
The savings banks of Massachusetts, have $243,-
$40, 66 on deposit. .. Two white men were
killed and two wounded in an tack by friend
ly band of Indians within sixteen miles of Red
Cloud. The same party of Indians committed
other depredations and it is feared killed other
miners. .Kreischer & Son, friedrich manufac-
turers on Staten Island suffered loss of $780,
900 by the burning Of their works. No insur-
ance.. The new census of Peru gives the total
population at 2, 703, 075 49,. The rebellion in the
South American States of Colombia still con-
tinues. "A fatal railway collision occurred at
Quincy, H., by which four of the employees Of
the road were killed. g.. "A number of men work
ing snowplow on the railway at Healdville, Vt.
were severely injured by running into train of
cars. On January list Victoria was proclaimed
Empress of India with great ceremony. =. Dur
lOip NEW lOIh CITY SSlllGItu lGUH ,Ott uItS.
with losses aggregatng to $2, III, $685.. En-
peror William, of Germany, held grand re-
ception of his officers on the SEVENTEEN anniyer-
sary of his entering on soldiers life. A ter
rible disaster occurred at the wreck Of the
British ship Circassan, which had been OH the
beach at Bridgehampton, i. J., since the morn
ing of the eleventh Of December. Most of the
cargo of the steamer had been removed and it
was expected that she would be hauled off that
day. The gale came on while the steamer lay in
this helpless condition on the beach and the
waves swept entirely over the wreck. Every
effort was made by the life saving station tC
save those on board, but twenty-eight lives were
lost by the disaster. The ship is a wreck. The
lost included officers and crew Of the steamer
and wreckers.
An increase of about forty per cent. has beer
made on passenger rates westward from New
York The report of New York States cana
auditor shows that during the past fiscal veal
the canal receipts were 81, 4S7, 33l and expenses
81, las, 1874 leaving the net receipts $685. 1873
....At an election at Gloucester. Canada, rio
occurred, during which ten or twelve men WERE
severely injured and it was necessary to clost
the. polls. The Royal land company of Vir
ginia has mortgaged its property to the Phila
delphla Fidelity Insurance company for 50, 500,
600, in order to procure funds TO build a rail
way to the coal mines in their land in the Sben
andoah valley. The national debt statcmen
for December 31st shows grand total of 50,
229, 1922, 500 35-an increase of $3.50 l42. 81
during the month. There is coin to the amour
of $96, ST., 1880 in the treasury . Wad
Hampton has issued q message calling upol
the people of South Carolina to pay ten pc
cent. of their taxes to his officers A man an
child were drowned by the sinking of the steam
ship Emile off the Florida coast. "A TIRE
mendous gale ragged on the Atlantic coast 0
France, and shipping disasters were numerous
"A snowslide near Alta, Utah, buried
boarding house and suffocated four men, tw
Others being rescued in an nsensible condition
49,. Smith Ely, Jr., having resigned his seat i
Congress to accept the Office Of mayor of Me-
York city, David Dudley Field was elected
fill the vacancy. Gems Crook and McKenzi
disbanded their IndiNn-fghting forces at Fol-
Laramie.
Five members of New, York gang which ha
robbed the mails between Philadelphia and tha
city of a large amount were arrested . Ne
York business men representing $l00,0W 600 {
capital propose that the government relinqus
its 81, 900 Of stock in the Centennial
Eph Horn, for the past twenty-four years we
known as popular minstrel man. died in Ne
York. In the friendly competition betwee
the representative students of several of tn
American colleges, F. NJ. Taylor, of Nortl
western University, Illinois, received the pri2
for essays; Emil Schwerdtfeger, of Cornell
was the successful contestant in Latin in IL
mathematical contest G. A. Van Velzer, of Co
nell and George c. Hollerith, of the College
the City of New York, were equally worthy;
mental science L. D. Jones, of Princeton. boz
off the honors Eugene Prayer, of Cornell, VIC
the prize for Greek; the judges of oratory