Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home aud Abroad.


through one of the main braces of a railroad
bridge near Canton, ILL.,, for the evident pur-
pose of wrecking train. He was fred upon,
but escaped 900. Glenwood. a small village in /
Michigan, was destroyed BY fire from a burning 1
forest, the inhabitants being compelled to flee /
for their lives. Rev. John M. Friday, pastor |
of the Lutheran church at Harper's Ferry, Va, /
was drowned in the canal near Frederick, Md. /
.....E. II. Taylor, proprietor of one of the |
largest distilleries in Kentucky, failed with liza
bilities exceeding S500,0O0, his assets being |
one-haf that sum ...... A body of Circassians |
at l}ckli Ahmed, near Kars, was routed by the /
Russians and the place was burned. A dis |
patch says tie Turks lack good commanders. !
49,. party of roughs assaulted Officer Train |
in Manchester, n. H., oyerpowering and brutal
" beating him. AT last he drew a revolver and
shot into his assaiants, MORALLY wounding
William Ryan. "A large oil tank near Millers-
town, Pa, was struck by lightning, and the
flames communicating to other tanks, $4,000
barrels of oil were destroyed, together with
several derricks, involving loss of SS5, 0O0...
Four persons were drowned near Albany, N. Y,
while bathing. ~ There are several hundred
applications for vacant consulships on file in
Washington. There was a serious drought
in Alabama, no rain having fallen in several
weeks. 60. Edward Harrington, a New York
saloon keeper, was struck on the head with
cart rung in the hands OF Edward Otto, and
soon died from the effects of the blow.....
Anthony Gardner has been elected president of
Liberia, Africa. Sophia Frederick Matilda,
queen of Holland, died June 3, aged fifty-nine
years "A commission to examine the Phila-
delphia custom house has been appointed go.
The jury in the Ellentown conspiracy cases in
South Carolina acquitted one prisoner, and dis
agreed as to the other ten. .. The Civil Service
Reform Association was organized in New York.
...... While a tramp was stoning train near
Amsterdam, N. Y, he was struck by locomo-
4
stantly killed D.. Mrs. Wnslow and her daughter
of sixteen were waylaid by three ruffians near
Portage City, Wis. taken from the team which
they were driving. and were brutally outraged
and beaten seemingly beyond recovery. go.
Francis Murphy, the temperance reformer, adj
dressed 300 liquor dealers and their families in
Philadelphia Seventeen other temperance
meetings were held in Philadelphia on the same
day, and it is estimated that over LOCO, 900 pee
pie have signed the pledge since the Murphy
movement was inaugurated.
Southern Illinois was visited by a fear
! full storm of wind and rain, which swept
| through that section, leaving ruin and devasta-
ton in its track. At Mount Carmel twenty
persons lost their lives, and half a million dol
lars worth of property was destroyed, among
the buildings blown down being two churches,
two schoohouses and stores and dwelling
houses. From thirty to fifty persons were
wounded and about twenty were missing. At
| Mattoon buildings we're unroofed and over
| turned and in some cases completely demol-
! ished ~ A small band of Bashi-BazOuks and
! Circassians crossed the Danube by stealth at
tackled a Russian guard, killed several, captured
! fifty head of cattle and took some prisoners.
| The Danube has been heavily swollen by rains
this year-more so than any time the last thirty
years-and it is thought the Russians will not
attempt its passage before July. IA Peruvian
rebel turret ship that had been committing acts
Ill
by two English vessels and badly damagedafter
q sharp engagement 1t escaped in the dark
ness, but was afterward compelled to surrender.
......A sanguinary fight took place in q bar
room filled with drunken men in North Hud-
son, New Jersey, and one man was stabbed
beyond hope of recovery, another had an
eye gouged out, and five more were wounded
with knives and glasses ...... The arrest of M.
Duverdier, president of the municipal council
in Paris, on the charge of "insulting Marshal
MacMahon and melting civil war and assassina-
| tion," caused great excitement among the
working classes, with whom the prisoner was
popular .... "A villainous attempt to wreck q
train and plumber the passengers was made on
| the st. Louis and San Francisco railroad, about
1874 miles from st. Louis. By the displacement
of rails the locomotive and baggage Car were
| thrown down a bank fifty feet high, but the
rest of the train fortunately escaped the fear
full plunge. The engineer, fireman and one
passenger were killed, and the conductor was
fired upon by the wreckers, who escaped in the
darkness ia Spanish cruiser boarded the
American whaler Ellen Rzpah near Cuba and
demanded her papers. These being shown
they were considered insufficient and the cap
tain of the whaler was kept in close confine-
ment for four days. .....A waterspout near
Burlington, Iowa. damaged workshops and
foundries to considerable extent ..... The
woods of New Jersey were filed with seven
Tlr
wealthy physician, died suddenly in a street car
| in New York.
The annual convention Of the International
Typographical Union was held in Louisville,
! Ky. Detroit, Mich, was selected as the place
for holding next years convention ... .. The
female poisoner, Lydia Sherman, who escaped
from confinement in the Connecticut State
prison, where she was serving life imprison-
ment, was captured in Providence, r. I......
A woman named Fannie Brown was arrested in
st. Louis for vagrancy, and with her was u
little girl named Masterson, who had been
stolen in Philadelphia last April. -. Count
Won Moltke is said to have asserted that he
looked upon Russ1as chances as steadily i'm
proving, owing to the extraordinary negligence
aud lack of foresight of the Turks. Desperate
fighting has been going on in Montenegro be-
tween the home troops and the Turks, each
side claiming the victory Merchants and
others who favor rapid transit held large
meeting in New York. 80. "A young man named
Olney, of Providence, r. L. committed suicide
on board Long Island Sound steamer. .....
On June the first court and grand jury in the
Black Hills met at Deadwood. Forty two at
torneys were admitted to practice $50. The
Union Savings bank of Bath Pa, has suspend
ed, with the amount of liabilities unknown,
although the stockholders asserted they would
be enabled to pay the depositors in full. AT
a reception given to Gen. Grant in London, by
lTi,,,rI
cabinet aud the diplomatic corps, as well as
large number of members of Parliament, were
present. ~. Secretary Sherman ordered the
discharge of nine clerks in the second comp.
trolers office, as by their careless and corrupt
management number of fraudulent claims
were passed ...... By the tornado which swept
over Mount Carmel, ILL.,, twenty two lives were
lost and over one hundred houses were de-
stroyed.
Four train wreckers, who recently attempted
to throw train down an embankment for the
purpose of plumber, were captured near Rich
land Mo-. IA suspension bridge at Bath,
England, broke while it was coyered with people,
who were precipitated into the river Avon,
thirty feet below. About twelve persons were
killed, and over fifty were injured. ;. AT North
Hadley, Mass, Horatio G. Hurd was instantly
killed by lightning, and two of his workmen
were Frustrated by the same agency ...... The
International Typographical Union, in conven-
ton at Louisville KY, determined upon send
ing delegate to the Exposition at Paris next
year. to represent the compositors of America.
go. Mrs. Eliza Carr and Mrs. Dissel jumped
from a burning building in Boston, and both
were fatally hurt. go. The suit of the people
of New York against Peter B. Sweeny, promi-
nently connected with the Tweed ring, was
brought to an abrupt conclusion by a compro-
mise by which the plaintiffs will recover por-
ton of the money claimed from the defendant.
: 80. There was an epidemic of unknown
character among the fish of the Passaic river,
in New Jersey, and thousands died daily.
The car has arrived at the headquarters of the
, Russian army, and was received by the troops
with great enthusiasm. 49,. The Grand Gross
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