The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-31
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


George T. Plume, q New York broker Wen
known IN the financial circles Of the city, sent
message 10 the Stock Exchange, OF which
he was . member, 30 the effect that be was I'M
able 10 meet his contracts and further de.
velopments disclosed that he had appropriated
10 bis own use over si00 600 belonging 70 the
Lamont estate, Of which be was an executor.
The PENNSYLVANIA railroad company bought
out the Empire transportation company At
Philadelphia. paving in round numbers, e.
600,OOO Tor it, merchandise, cars and EQUIP
menL
william NJ. Tweed testified before an alder
manic committee In New York that he was now
a bankrupt that since 1871 he had PAID 70
LAWYERS 81 ,490, 500 that since that period be
had lost 81, 2O6, $50, and that $1,000 could not
be realized from the property now owned by
him. He also stated that Il cost him sbOiOOO
10 escape from Ludlow street Jail, that sum
having been paid to the various persons who
aided him in getting away.
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor OF the
New York Herald, was sued for libel by Ph9be
Robertson, New York boarding keeper.
The libel consisted in the following words, m
serted in a personal" advertisement pub
hshed In the Herald: beware Of the black
mailing crowd at Nos. 81 and SO West Twenty
fifth street" The jury awarded the plaintif
5000 damages.
As boatman was rowing on one OF the lakes
In Central Park, New York, his oar struck
against an object which proved TO be the body
OF ahandsome and fashionsbly-d woman.
The corpse was Mrs. Thomas Otis Leroy, re-
siding on Fifth avenue and wife Of the presi-
dent Of the Leroy shot company. She had
evidently committed suicide.
John Terney, a laborer; was killed by an ex-
press train at Hackettstown, N. J. james Proc
tor, brakeman, fell between the cars at Chat
ham, y. Y, and received injuries resulting in
death, and W. Nj. TerwilligeT, convict at work
on an elevator at the Elmira IN. " reforma-
tory, was killed, while companion had his leg
broken by the sudden fall of the apparatus.
The steamer Massachusetts, recently wrecked
on the Long Island coast, was brought of the
rocks and taken to New York.
John McKeever and Cornelius Carmody were
injured-the latter fatally-by an explosion IL
the cartridge department of the Wateryliet
arsenal at Albany, N Y.
The Oswego Falls Wooden Mills, near Fulton,
n. Y, were partially burned, and Large guam
tity Of valuable machinery, wool and finished
cloth was destroyed, causing loss OF SlOO,OOO
on which there is full insurance
The Sharpsburg Savings Bank. of Sharps-
burg Pa, has suspended payment.
Reynolds & VESSEL wholesale druggists of
Buffalo, n. Y, failed with liabilities Of about
$50, 900.
At New Haven, Conn, the American Mutual
Life and the American Mutual Life and Trust
Companies we're enjoined from transacting all
business except that which may be indispen-
sable, pending petition to have receiver ap-
pointed for each company.
Seventy persons died of smallpox within
few days at Clintonyille, N. Y. ....
Heaton's storehouse near Rouse Point,
N. Y, was burned, with sc, 900 pound of wool.
Loss, $4,000. ....r#- .E
An accumulation Of fire damp in the shaft of
a mine at Green Ridge, near Scranton, Pa,
caused fire which covered an acre in extent
and required the constant employment OF large
gangs Of men in order to prevent the flames
from spreading ."...r
During a drunken carousal at York, Pa,
Frank Frey shot at and wounded two women
and man and was himself shot in the hand.
BY fire in Madison, n. j., five buildings,
including the passenger station Of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad aud
large amount of valuable property, were de-
stroyed. The loss is abolt 1000; partially
| insured.
Two sons of William Downey, of Pittsheld,
Mass, were killed by the bursting of gun.
| Samuel HUMPHREYS and Edmund Smith, con
victed of burning the Lebanon Valley railroad
bridge, near Reading, Pa, during the recent
strike troubles, have been sentenced to five
years imprisonment and to pay fine of 81 600
each.
The No. wooden mill at Waterford, Mass,
was destroyed by fire, The building was four
stories high, 200 feet long, and $50 hands were
employed in it. Loss 100000.
The thirty first annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Missionary Association took place at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y. Hon. L. s. Tobey, of Boston, was
elected president for the coming year.
The New York State assessment of taxes
upon the different counties aggregates S8, 1885,
5l1.0l.
The payments to the New York militia for
service during the recent labor troubles will
amount to about S250,000.
A large number of depositors drew Their
money out of the Union Dime Savings Bank,
of New York, one Of the largest institutions Of
saving in the city, and a heavy run was all.
ticipated
Western and Southern States.
The suspension Of the Market Street Savings
Bank, of San Francisco, took place, owing (
a heavy withdrawal of accounts.
The third meeting of the Triennial Congre
gational Council opened at Detroit, Mich
About 200 delegates were in attendance
representing all parts of the country. Elk
Governor w, b. Washburn of Massachusetts
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was read, and shows that there are 2, 1925 Con
gregatonal churches in the Union-a gain o
1874 since 1874, the number of members beinj
, 35O,65S- gain in three years of 26 979-ant
405 092 Sunday school scholars: the pastors il
charge Of churches number 2,713; the annua
J church expenses are abou5 81 Geo, 900.
paper on 1.-THE Bible in the Public Schools
was read by Ex-President Woolsey Of Yale Col
lege. GIL.
7 Francis Murphy was elected president of tn
+ National Temperance Union, in session O
Cleveland, Ohio.
A land swindle on an enormous scale wa
$ unearthed in Kansas City, Mo-, by the arrest c
, j. r. Ham, Edward L. Stevens and George W
Miller, on requisition of the governor g
, Texas. The men arrested are charged wit
v forging land titles and issuing fraudulent deed
for immense tracts of land in Texas and i
order to perfect their plans it is alleged the
&. confederates had made duplicate copies
i notary and other seals and obtained copies
y the signatures of many Texas State officer
Il All the titles and patents used by them-repr
I senting either the general government or stat
, lands--were forged, while they had printe
u blank forms and duplicates of deeds necessal
q for their operations GOV. Hubbard's attentio
7 had been drawn to the matter year ago, AZ
u after investigation he informed the govern
d ment at Washington, who sent on a speci
II "b0he w iiioho iui oAaihblhIioH' pnOrOue
, = search resulted in the simultaneous arrest,
l. different parts of the country, of sixty membe
n OF the gang of swindlers and it was furth
ascertained that they had burned no less thf
fourteen court houses, in order to destroy II
proofs Of their crimes. Large quantities
land have been fraudulently conveyed by Il
-, conspirators to many persons all over the cou
= try.
n The suspension of the Home Savings Ban
# Of Elgin, ILL.,, is announced
=, Two robbers attacked Joseph Hansen, col
Ii mercial traveller, as he was crossing a brid
Vi las feet high near Big Cifty, KY, whereup
g Hansen drew revolver, shot one of his a
. saiants and threw the other over the brid
]. fatally iniuring both.
n Woods Museum, ut Chicago, caught fiji
nj and the portion occupied as a theater W
destroyed, while all the animals in the pla
G. ruara nr,ffocntnd oaa about sAn n0n a..