Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
urerc-ti-s Items from Home and ,broa,

NttfO4h"s Atcht- from home ana Apronds
Considerable damage was done to shipping
ON the English coast by recent gales. Russia
has an army Of 500, coo men already equipped,
part Of whom are ON the border . McLangh-
lin, Of Michigan, defeated Cavanaugh of Yer
mont, In a wrestling match at Utica, N ".
Rear Admiral Louis NJ. Goldsborough died Of
pneumonia in Washington, aged seventy two
making the sixth rear admiral expiring within
period Of i've weeks ... A cOnhagration in
East stLOuis consumed a row OF frame houses,
and communicated To the woodwork of the
great bridge connecting with st. Louis. The
bridge was damaged $4,000, and made impas-
sioie Tor week or so 80. J: w. Cromwell q
Go. s sawmill at Cambridge, Md. was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; no insurance 80.
Walter Aiken's residence at Franklin Falls,
n. H., was burned, involving a loss Of $4,000
no insurance 80. The English authorities are
much exercised over the speed of the rinder-
pest.
The Emperor William, of Germany, in his
speech on the opening of the reichstag, ex-
pressed the belief that the peace of Europe will
remain undisturbed 9. Mollie NcCarthywon the
four-mie race in San Francisco in 1881 1921
:...:. -Four men were killed and four wounded
by the explosion of a portable sawmill at Al
ford, Ind. ..., Mrs. Della G. Brewer, of New
York, jumped from the housetop and was killed
while suffering under an alteration Of mind,
produced by stories circulated against her good
name by jealous neighbor . Cardinal
Cullen refused to allow the remains of the dead
Fenian chief John o. ahoney TO lie in state in
the cathedral at Dublin 80. The German
steamer Franconia, which last year caused such
loss of life by running down the Strath Clyde
IN the British channel, has just been lost on the
passage from Hamburg to Aspinwall No lives
are known to have been lost ... A boier ex-
plosiOn in the Clifton nail factory Pomeroy,
Ohio pangp0 tlp instant death of aud
the wounding of seven. .Washington's birth
day was very generally observed throughout
the country.
The Apache Indians have cleared the valley
of Madalina, Sonora, of all the stock and killed
several of the residents Other outrages are
reported from the vicinity of Deadwood, Da-
kota.. VIM. E. Blewits laundry in Belle
vile, n. j., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $15-
600; insurance, s., 500 49,. Russia notifies
ship owners that she is placing torpedoes in
the Black sea. The Society for the Suppress
sion of Vice has succeeded in closing the Gin
ton medical institute, New York city, and arrest
ing the managers for flooding the country with
indecent books 800. European dispatches state
that Adelina Patti (marquise of Caux) eloped
from st. Petersburg with the tenor, Nicolni
49,. There is talk of winding up the affairs of
the Shawmut insurance company of Boston.
A horse thief named Case was hanged by n
crowd in Alexandria, La. He had previously
shot his captor twice, mOrtaly. ..... Indians
attacked two cattle trains near Deadwood,
Dakota, killing two men and woundng another
They ran off the stock .... 1t is charged that
Con. John Macarthur, who has just resigned
the post-office in Chicago, is defaulter in
re, 200. Miners at Londonderry, Canada,
having struck, their places were filled with
other men, who were attacked by the strickers,
and general riot occurred, during which one
man was killed and a number wounded Gee.
The funeral of the ex-Fenian chief John
U hahoney, was numerously attended in Cork.
The coffin was covered with the flag of the
Sixty-Ninth New York; regiment. . Gen.
Cortina, who has given the Americans on the
has been put under arrest for not complying
with the order of President Diaz, to present
himself at the city of Mexico. .. Fox's Thea
ter in Philadelphia was completely destroyed by
fire, together with the Mercantile Library and
number of adjacent mercantile houses
The aggregate losses are heavy. One man was
killed and several injured by falling walls .
Indictments for perjury in signing false state
ments has been found against the president
and secretary of the st. Louis Life Association
of America ... The German bark Franklin,
from New York for Hamburg, foundered at sea,
and all on board perished at least such is the
supposition 49,. The schooners Joseph Hedden,
Walter Freeman and BENZ. Willis were lost on
the Long Island coast during the recent gale
and eleven lives were sacrificed -. Mrs. Hiram
Young, of Newark, Vt. while insane from
brooding over the deserton of her husband
killed her little boy and girl with an Ak