Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
JehiAl Reed 4 Co, wholesale hat dealers
and Joseph II. Marks, commission merchant
Of New Jork city, have suspended, the former
owing 600, 900 and the latter $4,000
Benjamin Noyes, who was indicted in New
Jersey more than year ago for his acts as
president OF the National Capital Life In
surance Company, in connection with the trans
fer Of assets OF the New Jersey Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and whose bail at that
time was declared forfeited because he did not
appear when wanted, Was rearrestei in Wash
ington and taken to Newark, n. J.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed bill
creating bank department, whose duty il
shall be to annually examine into the sound
ness and stability OF the States Incorporated
banks.
Students OF the Princeton IN. j. Theological
Seminary were attacked by Princeton College
students and two Of them severely beaten. Six
Of the college boys were arrested.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Leggett, a wealthy widow
residing in Tuckahoe, N. Y, was shot and in
stantyl killed in the presence Of her daughter
by a neighbor named Theron Merritt, who then
hurried to his own house and shot himself
through the heart. The parties to the tragedy
we're related by marriage, and Merritt had
been drinking at the time Of the shooting, but
the cause Of the double crime remains mys-
terry. The verdict Of the coroner's Jury was
that Merritt was suffering from temporary
alteration of mind.
The Newburyport Mass. Five-Cent Savings
Bank has been enjoined by the State bank
commissioner from doing further business.
Joseph La Page, alas Joseph Parish. was
executed at the State Prison in Concord, N.
H., for the murder of Josie A. Langmaid, of
Pembroke, N. a., on the fourth Of October,
1878. Miss Langmaid, girl of seventeen,
and daughter Of one of the most prominent
citizens of Pembroke started for school on the
day Of the murder She was waylaid, and in
the evening her body was discovered in a
dense swamp, few rods from the road. Her
head was cut off, and missing, and the body
was otherwise mutilated, evidently for the
| purpose OF concealing brutal crime. The
head was found third OF mile distant from
the scene of the murder. La Page was ar
rested and convicted on circumstantial evil
dence and sentenced on January 10, 1877, to be
executed. He was granted a new trial, which
resulted in a similar verdict and a sentence of
execution. La Page, it was believed during
his trial, murdered Miss Ball, school teacher,
at st. Adams, VT, in 1874, but escaped through
lack of evidence. Previous to his execution he
confessed the murder of both Miss Ball and
Miss Langmaid. His whole history is charac-
terized by acts Of excessive brutality. He was
accompanied to the scaffold by his spiritual ad-
visers. He made no remarks before the death
trap was sprung, and his death seemed an al.
most painless one.
Calvin Stewart, who killed Ira Cole, the rail
road engineer at Dover, N. j., last June, and
was sentenced to be hanged on April 8, has had
his sentence committed to twenty years i'm,
prisonment.
Alexander Barlow, treasurer Of the Fishkil
| On. W Savings Bank, has been indicted or
| fO1r hor -fHun for hon ri; -
two for grand larceny in taking $4,000.
A demonstration in opposition to the tariff
bill pending in Congress was held at Allen
town, Pa, over fifteen thousand persons tax
ing parttin the procession.
Commodore John Hodges Graham, of the
United States navy, died suddenly on the 18th
at Newburgh, n. T., aged eighty-four. HI
lost leg in the war Of 1872
The other day, while the Lechmere Nationa
Bank, of East Cambridge, Mass. was in charge
of the president, he was called to the door 8,
a lady, who engaged his attention while twt
men entered the building and stole over $40,
000 The woman and her accomplices ESCAPED
with their booty.
st. Patricks day was celebrated in New Yorl
with the usual procession Of Irish societies ant
annual dinner of the Knights of st. Patrick.
Wages of operatives in the Pacific mills a
Lawrence, Mass, have been reduced ten t
fifteen per cent.
A. s. Boyer and c. Sellers, late officers O
the Dime Savings Bank, of Reading, Pa, hav
been held in IS 600 bail each on charg
of conspiracy to defraud.
The list of failures in New York has bee
swelled recently by several heavy suspensions
notably those Of s. H. Mills q Co., prominen
Wall street brokers and spectators in stocks
whose liabilities will reach nearly $500, 00(
and Henry s. Wells, a large contractor, VIII
has been adiudicated bankrupt upon his ow
petition, with liabilities amounting to $685. OO(
The Democratic State executive oommitte
of Pennsylvania met in Harrisburg and d,
cided to hold the next convention in Pitt
burgh May %.
A number of students belonging to Oar
mouth College, New Hampshire, have bee
arrested for hazing. The faculty expelled {
suspended several.
The Rhode Island State convention of Il
new National party was held at Providenc
A ticket headed by William Foster for governt
was nominated.
} The Calais (Me.) Savings Bank has ST.
{ pended.
Election returns from all the towns in Ne
, Hampshire for governor give Prescott r
! publican, 39,377, and Mexican Democrs
37,863. The House will stand Republican
2O5; Democrats, 165.