The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.


Meter a Co, New York brokers', suspended
with liabilities variously estimated at between
/ s2O0, 600 and 100000.
Owen Murphy, the Ascending New York ex-
else commissioner, is believed TO be in Canada.
l He has been expelled from the TammAny Hal
general committee, Of which he was member.
I Crimes and casualties: During q drunken
row at the farmhouse OF George Slade, an
/ Englshmnn, In Methuun, Mass, Michael
4 DoTan, aged twenty-three was killed by shot
/ in the breast from a guns at Albany, n. Y,
/ two men named Desmond and Powers were
I scuiiiing IN a liquor saloon. when the former
was struck on the head with pitcher by the
| latter and had his skull fractured an explosion
/ OF A kerosene lamp took place in a tenement
/ house at Rondout, n. Y, setting tre 10 the
/ building, and before ell the inmates could get
away the wife and little daughter Of James
/ Brophy were burned to death and at Pitts
burgh. Pa, James Bond, member Of the city
council. was killed at the foundry in which he
was foreman, by having a crane fall on him.
The first National Congress Of the Work
| ingmen's Party was opened In Newark, \. j.,
delegates from oil parts Of the country being
present.
Courtney, the champion rover Of the United
| States, has accepted the challenge Of Trickett,
the Australian oarsimsh and champion Of Great
Britain, to row race for the championship OF
the world, and has named 0wasco lake, n. Y,
as the place for the struggle.
The Brooklyn IN. " police arrested William
Springstein and his daughter Catherine, aged
| sixteen. for manufacturing and passing coun-
terfeit five and ten cent silver pieces, plaster
of-paris moulds having been found in their
possession.
Thomas L. Ogden has. been appointed re-
ceiver for the Delaware and North Shore rail-
road by Chancellor Runyon, of New Jersey.
The company's indebtedness is 100000
The suspension of the Rockland County
National Bank Of Nyack, n. Y, has taken place.
The searchers among the ruins Of the candy
factory in New York, recently blown up, have
recovered the body Of Herzberger, the en-
gineer.
At large sale Of Scranton coal In New York
seventy-five thousand tons were sold, bringing
higher prices than at previous sale.
Seven men were injured-one fatally-by an
explosion in mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
After trial of several days Mayor Ely with
drew the charge Of inefficient and capricious
enforcement of the laws, made against the
police commissioners OF New York.
George NJ. Brooks bank of Lowville, n. Y,
has suspended payments, the liabilities being
placed at $50, 900.
At dinner given to General Banks in Bos-
tOu null t. Dldub u sDttCil,
denouncatory Of the President for not uphold
ing Packard and Kellogg in Louisiana.
Five buildings were burned in Jamaica,
Long Island, and loss incurred of $4,000
and in Westerly, r. l., several houses were de-
stroyed by fire, the damage being estimated al
$4,000.
At Boston, Mass, the arrest of George b.
Bigelow, well-known lawyer. took place OIL
the charge Of having Incorporated the sum
of $4,000, which was held in trust by him.
The New York Legislature met in Albany
and organized James W. Hustled (Republican)
being elected speaker Of the assembly.
John Bonner 4 Co., well-known stock brok-
ers Of New York city, failed The amount in
volved by their failure is about 81 1000, 900,
and upon the heels OF the financial fall of the
firm came the suspension of the New York
Bankers and Brokers Association, OF which
Mr.. Bonner was president, and all of whose
available resources he had utilized. Many
bankers and brokers had left securities in the
hands of the firm as collateral for loans, and
these securities could not be found, as Bonner
had fled from the city just before the crash.
Three more bodies have been recovered from
the ruins of the New York candy mandatory
The Pennsylvania Legislature met at Harris
burgh and organized.
There were one hundred failures and assign
meuts reported in New York during December
with liabilities amounting to about IS, 900, 900
John Haddock, aged twenty-one, of Fern
dale, Pa, stabbed and instantly killed Mis-
Lizzie Davis, aged nineteen, in her own home
He then proceeded to his dwelling, few doors
awav, and shot himself through the heart
Jealousy is believed to have been the cause o
the double tragedy.
DIR. Thomas s. Lambert, ex-pres'dent of tn,
American Popular Life Insurance Company o
New York, convicted of swearing to false state
ments OF the company's condition, was sen
fenced to five years at hard labor in the Stat
! prison.
The directors of the Bulls Head Bank O
, New York agreed to wind up the affairs of tina
institution.
fire destroyed several buildings in tn
business part of Salem, N. J., causing heav'
loss on account of the scarcity OF water AM
the lack of engines. Total loss, about $40 900
Western and Southern States.
A collision occurred between an express AM
freight train near Cheyenne, Wyoming Terri
tory, and the fireman of the latter, Michae
Callahan was instantly killed, while the en-
gineer, Michael Mcguire, had both legs cut OF
and died in two hours.
party Of Arizona marauders, who killed
mail rider recently, were struck by detach
ment of the Sixth cavalry. The mail was re
captured and fifteen dead Indians were left o.
the ground, while more were killed.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern undertook to wal
: eghty-nine miles in twenty-six hours at Bait
/ more, Md, and succeeded, her actual walkln
time being trife over twenty hours.
Colonel William Randolph Berkeley, G
Farmville. Va, prominent lawyer and citize
t of Vir ginia, end at one time favorably mer
toned as the candidate of the Conservativ
party for governor, was shot twice and kille
t as he was sitting in his Office talking wit
another gentleman. The assassin was Capital
W. Fl. Kennedy, hotel proprietor, who 70
lowed up the crime by committing sucid,
Captain Kennedy had been heard to ute
=. threats against Colonel Berkeley, and ha
made three previous attempts to kill himse
e while in depressed state of mind.
a Dispatches from various parts of Ilinoi
, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesot
stated that an embargo of mud prevailed
those places to such an extent that in IL
:. small towns and in the country all commerce
u transactions OF any magnitude were suspende
/, Farmers rarely ventured to town except {
i horseback, while cattle, hogs, grain and pr
duce of all kinds were kept from the marke
The mud filled every city, town and count
road, lane or alley and in Laporte, Inc
b six citizens rode through the principal stree
=. in boat drawn by mules, the mud being TO
j and a half deep and in liquid condition.
The Real Estate Savings bank, of st. Lou
has suspended in accordance with resolutit
- of the stockholders.
The three children Of Carl Mas, aged I
u spectvely one, two and a half and four yeai
/ were burned to death at their residence
n Morgan township, Iowa, while the parents we
~ away husking corn.
Upon application of the creditors of the A
: derson, Lebanon and st. Louis railroad, Jud
!, Gresham, at Indianapolis, appointed L.
d Mibank receiver of the road.
l. A loss of $3.50 was caused by the destru
> ton by fire of six build ngs in the busine
. portion of Napoleon, Ohio. They were insur
for $500.
An immense crowd witnessed the hanging
Jack Harris, at Clinton, Tenn, for the murd
:, OF Isaac White in 1863 After his crime Hair
III escaned canture for over twelve vears