Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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tutcrts tlnN items from Home aud Abroad.
In Elizabeth. n. j., DIR. Warren c. westlake.
on trial for killing Walter Lewis with an over
dose Of chloroform while extracting a tooth.
was acquitted. .... Eleven coaches participated
in the second annual procession Of the New
York Coaching club. The parade presented a
gay appearance, and was witnessed by thou
sands OF spectators. Two children were
beaten nearly to death in Hoboken, N. j., by
| their mother-Mrs Gibson-whO had been in
the habit OF maltreating them for the last two
years. She was arrested .. In the supreme
court at Providence, Rhode Island, YER
dict Of $4,000 was rendered against the
/ New York. Boston and Providence railroad
/ for loss of life resulting from the Richmond
switch disaster. The residence Of Henry
/ Tower at North Clarendon, Mass, was burned,
and two Of his children-boys aged nine and
/ eleven years each-were burned to death. 49,.
/ squad of men attempted TO arrest William II.
Crawford, near Cleveland, Ohio, for throwing
yitriol in the face of his wife, who had been
divorced from him but after firing at his
/ pursuers without doing any injury, he shot
/ himself, preferring death 10 arrest &C.. The
/ following details have been received of the de-
/ struction of another Turkish monitor by torpe-
does Two young Russian engineer officers at
/ tempted to reach the monitor early in the even
ing with torpedoes, but they were discovered
/ and driven back by the heavy fire. At three
! O'Clock in the morning they returned in two
/ skifs, carrying chain of small torpedoes
( filled with dynamite. No lookout being kept
/ aboard the monitor they securely lodged the
chain across her bow On their return they
discharged the whole series of torpedoes by
means Of an electric battery. The vessel i'm
mediately disappeared. The Circassians in
/ Trans--Circassia have surrendered their arms
to the Russians. II is said that the Turkish
ministers of war and finance have rendered
their designations. The Levant Herald was
suspended for one month for disparaging the
minister of war go. News has been received
of the death in Peru of G. T. Carleton the de-
faulting secretary of the Union Trust company
Of New York, who absconded during the panic
of 1873, and whose defalcations amounted to
! 1876, 900. 49,. A gang of drunken desperadoes
made an attack on the Greenway Hotel in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, and one of them was shot to death
by the barkeeper and two others were wounded.
IF. Hinckley, manager of the Chicago and
PaduCah railroad company, was arrested on the
charge of .defrauding English stockholders of
the company of upward of 100000.
A Vienna dispatch says Abdul Kerim Pasha,
the Turkish commander-in-chief, informed the
inhabitants of Rustchuk, Varna Schumla and
Silistria that all persons who have not proyis-
ions for at least six months mtist quit within
twelve days. A st. Petersburg special says the
Turkish monitor was blown up in open day
light by Russians in boats under heavy fire.
A cavalry fight between 1000 Turks and 1000
Russians took place near Kars, but was stopped
as soon as begun by heavy rain The Greek
ministry have resigned. -. The British Ma
tional Rifle Association will send United King
dom team to America this year, to compete at
Creedmoor "A Washington report says that
as Attorney-General Devens is not altogether
contented in his cabinet position the President
will appoint him to the vacant seat on the
supreme court bench. .... Twenty business
houses and nearly as many dwellings were de-
stroyed by fire in Walkerton, Canada. The
] schooner Rp1fOr1 faptl hay
ing on board Capt. Thomas Grape and his
wife, sailed for London. Their departure in
the frail craft was witnessed by an immense
crowd ..... Dispatches were received at the
New York office of the Pacific Mail steamship
company announcing the wreck off the coast Of
Mexico, of their steamer City of San Francisco.
...... Gen. Grant and wife were warmly well
coined by the mayor and leading citizens of
Liverpool, and were rendered the Inequalities
of the town.. Summary measures are to be
taken to protect American citizens and property
on the line of the Rio Grande from Mexican raid
ers. An explosion occurred on a lighter con-
tanning rs barrels of naphtha at Forty-frst
street on the North river, New York, and three
men We're killed and one was dangerously
wounded. e. The wife of BaptlBte Schwaerzler
and another woman were shot by him during
quarrel in New York ...... A plan for shipping
grain to st Louis from Liverpool, by way of
New Orleans, is in contemplation -. The dis
!
continues. In boat race in England the
championship of the Thames was won by Boyd
...... Three negroes shot and killed Mrs. c. G.
Chambliss, of Steward county, Georgia. They
were caught, and by the unanimous decision of
about 800 white and colored people were imme-
diately hanged. . Gen. Miles made an attack on
hostile camp near the Rosebud, and routed the
Indians after q severe running fight of several
miles. Four soldiers were killed and nine
wounded. Fourteen Indians, including their
chief were killed -. Michael Moriarty was
stabbed to death by Thomas Ryan, daring a
quarrel in New York.
BY tidal wave along the South Pacific coast
fearful loss of life occurred, and heavy dam
age to property was done, many cities having
been entirely destroyed. 49,. The notorious
husband and child poisoner, Lydia Sherman,
escaped from her prison in Connecticut, where
she was serving life sentence. Decoration
day was more universally observed throughout
the country than in previous years, and in st.
Louis, Chattanooga, and other cities and towns
eXsFodefal and eX-Confederate soldiers united
in the ceremonies over the graves of their COM
rades. In the Brooklyn (N.Y. Academy of Music
the Grafton of the day was delivered by Roger
A. Prior, an ex-COnfederate general. In New
| York there was large and fine turnout of the
militia veterans Of the war of 1872, veterans Of
the Mexican war, veteran societies of the late
war, and the local fire department, followed by
wagons filled with flowers for the graves of the
soldiers buried in the neighboring cemeteries.
The statues and monuments of Washington,
Lincoln, Seward, Lafayette, Worth, Phil Kear-
ney and Others were finely decorated, and APP
pfopriate ceremonies at each were held .....
After a struggle of five hours Jacob ii. Martin,
of Michigan, was defeated in wrestling match
in New York by James Owens, of Vera ont
The race for the Derby in England was won by
Sivio. BY disast' GUS fire in Montreal
! sixty houses were destroyed aud as many fami-
lies made homeless. Loss estimated at $780,
} 900, 80. The French Republicans have recog-
nized NJ Theirs as their leader "A Con-
stantinople dispatch says that Arabian, which
6 was taken by the Russians has again fallen
: into the hands of the Turks. Fifteen million
dollars in aid of the war have been raised by
voluntary contributions in Russia . Another
7 revolution against the government of Peru is
4 in progress. The New Orleans custom house
is to be investigated by commission .... "A
base attack was made upon Mrs. Bollenger and
her daughter by seven masked men near Waiver
ley, N. IT,. The eminent historian, John L.
Motley, is dead. He was at one time minister
to Austria from the United States, and was the
, author Of a "History of the United Neither
= lands" and other well-known historical works
on kindred subjects -. Fletcher Harper died
in New York. He was the last of four brothers
| founders of the publishing house of Harper
Brothers, which was started in New York in
1917 ...... -Four laborers on hand car nea
) Hackensack, N. j.. were run into by freight
. train, and three of them were crushed to death
t and the fourth was badly hurt. .Sixty-nine per
4 sons died of smallpox in London, in one week
-. "A detailed account of the shipwreck Of
the steamer City of San Francisco, belonging
to the Pacific Mail steamship company. show
that the vessel struck rock when five days ou
/ from Panama, and was Immediately headed fol
= the beach and run aground on a sand bar. The
passengers were all taken ashore in safety, bu
lost their baggage. -. The queen of England
: the Prince of Wales, Duke of Wellington ant
8 others of English nobility have extended inYi