Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-04-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

exploded, scattering large volume Of burning
oil over number Of spectators, one Of whom
was killed and about fifteen we're more or less
dangerously wounded. A frightful spectacle
was presented as the oil-coyered men ran
wildly in all directions, wrapped about in
flames which shot up several feet above their
heads Only one man had presence of mind
to run to the river, while another ran into
a house and the inmates smothered the flames
with carpets. Some Of the oil-soaked men
passed friends who were helpless TO aid and
could only look on in impotent horror. The
pecuniary loss is estimated at 100000.
At variety performance in the Pawtucket
OR. - Opera House, Mile. Yolante supported
an apple upon her head, and Mrs. Jennie
Fowler, whose stage name is Franklin, was to
shoot the apple while standing with her back
to the mark, taking aim by the reflection in q
mirror. The rifle was discharged and Mile
Volante fell dead ON the stage, the bullet hav-
ing pierced her forehead. Mrs. Franklin's ar
rest followed.
Governor Mcclellan has appointed John p.
Goss, John s. Lee and Edward I. Bell COM
missiOners to the Paris exposition from New
Jersey.
The New Jersey Legislature has adjourned
for the session.
A fifty-horse power boiler in the engine
room Of the Boston stamping mandatory of
Leavey & Co., Cambridge, Mass, exploded
anu buI6t Illbu W6I6 man IdLal-
ly injured, and six others more or less severely
wounded The boiler was hurled through the
brick walls of the engine-room and the wooden
walls of the building inclosing it, 1870 feet
the GS a MSh9 bMdf%se sRRd the os
and the granite walls of the canal. James
Anglin and Nathan Burgess, at work in the
riveting room in a line with the course of the
boiler, were taken from the canal dead and
mangled, having been swept along by the
boiler in its terrific fight. George Gerrity was
taken from the ruins Of the engine room fa al
ly injured. The two-story building containing
the engine was completely demolished and the
five-story main building, in which one hundred
persons were at work was considerably shat
tered.
Seven persons injured by the shower Of
burning oil at Slatington, Pa, have died.
About twenty thousand persons witnessed
the launch of the new steamship City of Para,
belonging to the Brazilian line, at Chester,
Pa. Among those present were President
Hayes. Secretaries Schurz, McCreary and
Thompson, quorum from both houses of
Congress, Governor Hartranft, the mayors of
New York and Philadelphia, and other promi-
nent persons from those cities.
The insane asylum connected with the Steu-
ben County On. " poorhouse, situated two
miles north of Bath, was set on fire by one of
the inmates who was subject to fits but was
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between sixty and seventy inmates at the time
| the flames broke out, and of these fifteen were
burned to death while the rest were rescued
with much difficulty. The building was Of
brick with iron-grated doors and windows,
which made it impossible for the unfortunate
persons inside to get out without assistance,
and the scenes presented as the fire-surround-
ed prisoners endeavored to get away were hor-
rifying in the extreme. Ten of those burned
to death were females and five males
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was
arrested in New York upon requisition OF
Governor Hampton, charged with having
forged note for 1916.
Seman Klous, a New York dealer in hatters'
materials, has failed for $400, 900.
The New York Produce Exchange has be-
gun thirty-nine suits in sums aggregating $780,
900, against the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany for losses incurred during the labor
troubles last July.
Charles Pardee, aged about seventy-fve, &
wealthy banker of Skaneateles, N. Y, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
Secretary Sherman has had another con
ference in New York with leading bankers, re
garding the resumption Of specie payments
He expressed a belief that resumption would
be practicable at the time fixed by law, bu
desired the active cooperation of the banks
The secretary proposed that the banks should
take $1O0,000,00O four per cent. bonds at par
one fourth of one per cent. commission to b.
a)lowed-to be paid for in gold before Januar.
l, 1879. Some of the bank presidents did no
? receive the proposition with much favor Will
others approved it, but no conclusion wa
reached.
s. Angler .Chace, treasurer of the Uniol
Mills, Fall River, Mass, confessed that he haC
; embezzled from the company about $500 900
t The defalcation has been going on for mum
how IF 1,,k o4nI vi,
Chace was man of high social position il
Fall River, where he has lived since 1922. FL
was an ex-member Of the Massachusetts, Hous
7 Of Representatives and State Senate, and be
sides being treasurer of the Union Mills he wa
also president of the Second National Banl
, and of the Five Cent Savings Bank, both o
Fall River. The defalcation is represented b
over-lssue of the companys notes, and the dis
t covery that something was wrong was frs
/ made when one of the corporations notes ha
q come to protest. The Union Mills Compan
was one of the largest of the great corporation
e in Fall River. On the morning after the defal
s cation became known the mill property wa
y attached by Providence banker.
5 Western and Southern States.
The Oregon Greenbackers held a conventio
q at Portland and nominated State tickle
r headed by M. Wilkins for governor.
It Ex-Governors J. Madison Wells and P. B. s
n Pinchback both of Louisiana have had inte
|. views with the President recently.
v Gardner X. Clark, prominent grain broke
of Detroit Mich, fled to Canada with his vii
and child after having victimized nearly a
:. the large grain dealers of the city in sma
II sums aggregating over $4,000.
y Henry Crouch, farmer living near Augusti
y Mich, his wife and two children, were browne
while fishing in small pond.
n John s. Wilcox, of Elgin, ILL.,, speculate
~ has filed voluntary petition in bankruptc
- $323000 He also is responsible on discounte
IL paper for 5000, 900 and has no assets.
~ A strike of the employees of the Atchiso
e Topeka and santa Fe railroad company at Tt
peka, Kansas has taken place, and freight OIL
et passenger traffic has been greatly delayed.
II While party of workmen were gather,
,e about derrick on the Tuscarawas railroad
~ Harrison county, Ohio, the supports sudden
u gave way and the derrick fell upon the me
instantly killing two and fatally injuring a thr
N The steamboat Colonel A. B. Rooms struck
rs snag on the Red river, Jim Louisiana, and sun
Ig Three deck hands were drowned.
I Isaiah Gabbart who was shot in the pub
,e square at Harrodsburg, KY, by Henry Noe
,e died of his wounds. The combat which to-
s. place in the presence of many citizens, hi
u, its origin in an election row. The men m
in and avancing toward one another empti
it every chamber of their respective tn
cinched and fought it out using their pistC
o as clubs. When they were separated it W
., ascertained that Gabbart had been morta
it wounded. Dying he exonerate1 Noel.
is The boilers of the Sandy Fashion, a SIN
IN steamer running from Cutlettsburg, KY,
g. the Sandy river, exploded at the mouth of
ct river, and the vessel sank in three minutes
;s nine feet of water. Joseph Newburg, a m
10 10 chant, A. Osburn, and two others were kill'
~ The engineer, clerk and another man w
as wounded.
lg The Iowa Greenback party me- in Des Moi
It's and nominated q State ticket headed by
nj Farnsworth for secretary of State. The pl