Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-18
A SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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persons were present at the FIRE, and these
could do nothing to save the inmates, seventeen
/ Of whom were burned to death .... A little
girl named Stone, only twelve years old, be-
longing in Boggs township, Pa, commanded
John Woolsencroft, boy OF ten, to give her
drink OF water from pail which he was car
rying, and upon his refusal to do so she shot
him dead with gun. At the same time the
girl-murdeter's sick father, to whose bedside
the parents of the boy-victim had gone, died.
.. A recent decision of the New York court
of appeals was interpreted by the corporation
counsel Of the city of New York to signify that
by the laws of 1857 it was a legal offense for
anybody to sell liquor in quantities less than
one gallon, except innkeepers duly licensed,
while the laws forbiddipg the sale Of liquors
and ale and beer on Sunday applied to all with
ont discrimination and In accordance with
this Interpretation of the law the police raided
a large number of small liquor saloons and
arrested the proprietors. The New York Society
for the Prevention Of Crime reports that there
are 1874 liquor saloons in the city, Of which
only z, 1T have licenses, and it intends to COM
pei all to take out licenses or to quit selling
liquor. George Allen shot and killed John
Conkling, an old gentleman Of seventy-seven,
during quarrel. The victim resided in Fair
field, Conn.
At an election for members of the legislature
in Kentucky large majority of the candidates
elected were Democrats. In Louisville the
workmen elected five or six out OF their seven
candidates over the regular Democratic nomi-
nees. ........ Mrs. Holmes, a young widow,
was waylaid by q rejected lover named Clark,
as she was entering her home in New York,
and was struck over the head several times
with hatchet receiving serious and probably
fatal wounds. :. "A boy named Martin Lorenz,
four years old, was bitten by dog in New
York and ten weeks after lie went into con-
WILSON'S at the sight of water, grew rapidly
worse, and at last died in agony. The physi-
clan in attendance said it was case of genuine
hydrophobia 80. Saint Boniface Hospital, in
st. Louis, was destroyed by fire. involving a
loss of $40, 900, on which there is an insurance
of $4,000. All the patients were safely re-
moved. The centennial of the revolutionary
battle Of Oriskany was celebrated by fifty thou
sand people at Utica, N. Y. There was pro-
cession of military and civic organizations a
mile and half long, and addresses were
delivered by ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, Hon.
Ellis Fl. Roberts-who delivered the historical
address of the occasion-and others "A
fire at Murfreesboro, N. c., destroyed the main
building of the Wesleyan Female College,
Loss, $75, 200; insurance, $50, 000 :. North
eastern Wisconsin was the scene of destructive
forest and prairie fires, which moved down
everything in their path and caused an immense
loss of houses and cattle. A number of persons
were burned to death and villages and farms
were blotted out Of existence, leaving only
smoldering ruins and blackened fields where
once had stood Industrious hamlets and tower
Fling forests. -. Advices from Mexico state
that President Diaz is making strenuous exer-
lions to establish himself in the good opinion
of foreign powers especially the United States
Some malicious person threw poison into the
salt water tanks of the New York Aquarium, and
hundreds of fishes were found floating on the
surface, dead. Nearly half the fishes in the
I'LL nl
able specimens which it will be hard to replace
..... "A fight occurred at Long Branch between
a number of coachmen in the employ Of visitors
and party belonging in the vicinity who had
been carousing. In the ARRAY John Murphy. q
coachman, was struck on the head with fence
paling, nail entering his brain and causing
death. Others on both sides received black
eyes and bruised limbs. 80. A large number of
arrests of unlicensed liquor dealers are being
made daily in New York, while the office Of
the commissioners of excise is besieged by
throngs applying for licenses. ... During a
barroom quarrel in Meriden, Conn.,, Edwin N
Whitney took out knife from his pocket,
opened it with his teeth and fatally stabbed
Daniel Barrett, with whom he had clinched. . :.
The cabinet issued general order prohibiting
the sale of arms to Indians ...... The Protec-
tive Life Insurance Company, of Chicago, has
been enjoined from tansacting further bust
ness and receiver appointed. -. The seven
teenth annual convention of the American
Dental Association met in Chicago. . :. The
National Association of Iron and Steel Workers
assembled in Columbus Ohio Delegates were
present from the principal cities and all the
great iron regions of the country -. John E.
Daily, stock broker of San Francisco was
shot and killed by Leslie @. Hanks consul
general of Guatemala. The shooting was the
result of disagreement between the parties,
both of whom were well off and occupied high
social positions in San Francisco. go. The
Columbia Life Insurance Company, of st.
Louis, having been declared insolvent, re-
ceiver was appointed. .Longley & Company's
printing office at Foster, Ohio was destroyed
BY fire and a loss Of $15, 900 incurred, on which
there is an insurance and r. s. Bensons shoe
mandatory at Binghamton, N. Y, was burned,
causing loss Of $4,000, on which there is an
insurance of $4,000.
Dubois Ettinger was struck by lightning and
killed in his barn near Gardiner Station, N. Y,
and another man with him was also struck by
the electric fluid, but recovered. -. :. An alder
mans Jury of inquest over the men killed dur
ing the strike in Scranton, Pa, brought in
verdict of murder against number of the
Vigilance Committee who had taken part in the
affray, and constable was sent to arrest two
of them. The arrested men were taken from
the constable by the militia, and the Vigilance
Committee assembled under arms in the Lacka-
chairman of the New York Stock Exchange,
was unable to meet his liabilities and resigned
his office $3.50 There are between 5000 and
5000 Sioux Indians in British America, under
control of Sitting Bull who makes no secret of
his intention to return to the United States
and renew the conflict against the whites 49,.
The famine is increasing in parts of India, and
great suffering prevails. -. Two coaches and
two sleeping cars attached to a train were
thrown from the track near Centerville, Mo-,
and twelve persons were injured. -. The Vir-
ginia Conservative State convention for the
nomination of governor and other officers met
in Richmond and organized.
The Maine Republican State convention,
held at Augusta, was called to order by Senator
Blaine, and Joseph Drummond was selected to
preside. Gov. Conner was renominated by &C
clamation. scene of confusion followed
motion that the resolutions reported by the
committee ON resolutions be adopted, and an
amendment was offered by j. S. Chamberlain
commencing the Southern policy of the Presi-
dent, while Mr.. G. A. Boutelle offered one de-
nouncing it. Speeches for and against both
amendments were made by delegates Mr..
Blaine spoke, advising that no action be taken
either way, and upon his motion both amend
ments were laid ON the table. The resolutions
that were passed expressed alarm at the con-
solidation of the South and alleged that free
political action was suppressed there de-
nounced the Democratic House of Representa-
tives for refusing appropriations to the army !;
favored the purity, integrity and Independence
of the civil service and protection to industry /;
demanded the resumption of specie payments /;
opposed any further land grants or subsidies
for railroads, and affirmed that the States
of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana were
fairly and legally carried at the November cleo
ton for the Republican State and national
tickets, and that "for the Democratic party
now to raise the cry of fraud is both unmanly
and dishonest" The Georgia constitutional
convention adopted resolution in favor of re-
pudiating the payment of the bonds issued
under the reconstruction government. "A