Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
Lieutenant Governor LAtta, of Pennsylva-
mis-. had his arm broken and was otherwise
severely injured in attempting to slight from
train at Geenburg, his home.
The New York Republican State committee
issued call for State convention, to be held
at Saratoga on the twenty-siXth.
Dennis Kearney, the California labor sgi-
tator, addressed a large open-air meeting in
Union Square, New York.
The Oxford Iron Company, Of Oxford, N. j.,
has suspended, with liabilities estimated at
over IS, 600, 600. The failure is said to be due
to the depression in the iron trade during the
past year.
The State election in Maine resulted in no
choice for governor, none Of the candidates
receiving majority of all the votes cast. The
legislature will have to decide the contest.
The Greenback party poled between $4,000
and 40, 900 votes.
The New York State fair opened at Elmira
under favorable circumstances.
John Roark was the first victim of the new
tramp law Of New Hampshire, having been
sentenced to fourteen months in the State
prison.
Attempts are being made by the New York
city authorities to stop the sale Of skinned
milk.
The New Hampshire Republicans met in con-
vention at Concord. The ticket nominated is
headed by Matt Head for governor. The plat
form adopted fayors specie resumption, tenn
perance, ten hours as days work, and
expresses sympathy with the Administration.
A Nyack IN. " dispatch says that Seth B.
| Cole, trustee and attorney Ezra B. Weston,
vice-president and trustee /; and John Fl. Eells,
formerly bookkeeper Of the Rockland Savings
Bank, were arrested for completely in the
frauds by which the bank was ruined. The
indictments against Samuel W. Garfield, presi-
dent, aud Richard P. Eells, for perjury and
embezzlement, go over to the next year for
trial.
The American Association far the Cure of
Inebriates held their ninth annual session at
Boston, the other day.
At the State convention of the Greenback
party of Massachusetts, held in Boston, about
! 1000 delegates were present, and Benjamin
F. Butler was nominated for governor by a
rising vote. The platform adopted proposes to
refer to the United States supreme court
the question of what the government bonds
were originally meant to be paid in demands
( the repeal Of the resumption act arraigns the
Associated Press as an Infamous monopoly, "
and attacks land grants, the poll tax and the
system OF letting out contract labor.
Tho Prohibitionist party of Massachusetts
assembled at Worcester and nominated a
State ticket headed by the Rev. DIR. Miner for
governor. The platform demands the sup
preston Of the liquor traffic and contains q
hard-money plank.
The stockholders Of the Union National
Bank, Of Railway, N. j., voted to go into
liquidation because the institution was not
paying expenses. The bank will be able to pay
all demands upon it.
Western and Southern States.
The Minnesota Democratic State convention
was held at st. Paul. William Mitchell fol-
judge of the supreme court was chosen to heat
the ticket. The platform adopted asserts thai
the Electoral Commission should have investi
gated the frauds committed in Louisiana anC
Florida; that the business depression is due t.
the financial legislation OF the Republican party
and that greenbacks should be gradually sub
stituted for national bank notes.
The Minnesota State fair at st. Paul wal
visited by President Hayes, who made lont
address on financial topics and the growth O.
the Northwest.
By the bursting of the boiler of the steamer
Reliance, near st. Mary's Ga, four men wer,
killed and number Of others severely injured
Two trains on the Missouri Pacific railroad
collided near st. Louis, and five persons wer,
injured more or less severely.
The horse Rarus trotted at Minneapolis
Mimi, attempting to beat 2:14, for a purse o
$4,000. Although he failed in the attempt, We
the three heats were made in the wonderful,
quick time Of 2:15$4, 2:1513 and 2:1415.
Four colored men we're injured-one fatal
by the fall Of a scaffold at Akron, Ohio.
The steamer Nadine struck snag while OF
her way to st. Louis, on the Mississippi, ant
sunk, carrying down three of her crew.
DR.. Il. M, Wright has been nominated 70
governor of Tennessee by the Republicans o
that State, in convention assembled at Chat
tanooga.
Alexander Austin, ex collector of San Fran
cisco and prominent citizen of that city, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself through tn
heart. Financial troubles are said to have le
to the act.
From Warrington.
The secretary Of the treasury has authorizes
the exchange Of greenbacks for silver at tn
treasury and sub-treasuries.
General James Longstreet has been commits
stoned revenue agent, and assigned to distric
Of Georgia and Florida.
The Indian bureau is engaged in collecting
vast amount of material showing the histor
Of the Indian service from the beginning unde
the war department, and subsequently unde
the civil branch up to the present time. Thi
is to be submitted to the congressional commit
| I66 dppOlllSu W COu6lucE tuO buUJ6CI Vi lThlE
, ferring that bureau to the war department.
Foreign News.
Much damage in Cuba has been done by
recent severe storm.
Arrangements have been made between
Hanlan and Courtney, Canadian and American
champion oarsmen, for a race at Lachine, nea
Montreal, the stakes to be 81, OOO.
Constantinople dispatch says the Albanian
insurgents have assassinated the governor O
Ipeka and ten other officials. Information ha
also been received that Mehemet Ali Pachs
who was sent to pacify Albania, was mobile
at Yacova, town sixty seven miles north
east of Scutari. He fled from the place an
took refuge in shed, but was pursued by th
Albanians, who called upon him to organic
an attack against the Austrians. Upon refus
ing to comply with this demand, Mehemet Al
and twenty members of his suite were mas
sacred. The insurgents afterward fired tn
house containing the dead body Of Meheme
Ali with petroleum.
The Austrian army of occupation in Bosni
numbers 200, 900.
The German parliament was opened q
Berlin. In the speech from the throne, tn
, Emperor expressed the hope that tho Anti
Socialist bill would be adopted; that the sprea
Of the pernicious Socialist movement might
arrested, and that those who have been msle
by it might be brought back to the right patti
No reference was made in the Emperor
speech to foreign affairs.
| Nobiling, who tried to kill the emperor @
Germany some time since and then attempte
to commit suicide, died Of his self-infiicte
y wounds few days ago, in Berlin.
Over 600 bodies have been recovered of pei
sons drowned by the disaster to the excursio
steamer Princess Alice on the Thames.
About 800 lives have been lost by an explc
: sion of coal gas in Welsh colliery near New