The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
eastern and Middle states.

Seminary we're attacked BY Princeton College
students and two Of them severely beaten. Six
Of the college boys were arrested
MN. Ann Eliza Leggett. q wealthy widow
residing in TuokAhoe, n. Y, was shot and in
SANITY killed in the presence OF her daughter
by a neighbOr named Thomas Merritt, who then
hurried 10 his own house and shot himself
through the heart. The parties 70 the tragedy
we're related by marriage, and Merritt had
been drinking az the time OF the shooting. but
the cause Of tho double crime remains q mys-
tery. The verdict OF the coroner's Jury was
that Merritt wAs suffering from temporary
alteration Of mind.
The NeHburyport Mass Five-Cent Savings
Bank has been enj0ined by the State bank
commissioner from doing further business.
Joseph La Page, alias Joseph Parish, wes
executed at the State prison in Concord \. H.,
for tho murder OF Josie A. LahgmAid, al Penn
broke, N. H., on the 4th Of October, 1875.
Miss LAngmAid, q 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 dense
swamp a few rods from the road. Her hoad
was cut OF and missing, and the body was
otherwise muhlated, evidently for the purpose
OF concealihg the evidence Of brutal crime.
The head was found third OF mile distant
from the scene OF the murder. La Page was
arrested and convicted on circumstantial evil
dence and sentenced ON January 49, 1877, to
DO executed. He was granted a new trial,
which resulted in a similar verdict and sem
tence Of execution. La Page, it was believed
during his trial. murdered Miss Ball a school
teacher at st. Albsns, VT, in 1874, but es-
capped through lack of evidence. Previous to
his execut on he confessed the murder Of both
Miss Ball and Miss Langmaid. His whole his
tory is characterized by acts Of excessive bru-
tally. He was accompanied to the scaffold by
his spiritual advisers. He made no remarks
before the death trap was sprung, and his
death seemed an almost 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 commuted to twenty years i'm
prisonment
There has been run on several of the Bos-
ton savings banks by frightened depositors.
Alexander Barlow, treasurer OF the Fishkill
IN. W Savings Bank, has been indicted on
four charges-two for embezzling $61, 900 and
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 part in the procession.
Commodore John Hodges Graham, OF the
United States navy, died suddenly on the 17th
lost leg in the war Of 1872
The other day, while the Lechmere National
Bank, OF East Cambridge, Mass, was in charge
of the president, he was called to the door by
q lady, who engaged his attention while two
mon entered the building and stole over $40,'
000 The woman and her accomphces escaped
with their booty.
st. Patrick's day was celebrated in New York
with the usual procession OF Irish societies and
annual dinner Of the Knights of st. Patrick.
Wages of operatives in the Pacific mills at
Lawrence Mass, have been reduced ten to
fifteen per cent.
A. s. Boyer and @. Sellers, late officers of
the Dime Savings Bank, Of Reading Pa. have
been held in $4,000 bail each on charge
Of conspiracy to defraud.
The list Of failures in New York has been
swelled recently by several heavy suspensions,
notably those of s. H. Mills Il Co., prominent
Wall street brokers and spectators in stocks,
whose liabilities will reach nearly 100000,
and Henry s. Wells, q large contractor. who
has been adjudicated bankrupt..upon his own
petition, with liabilities amounting to 1926, 000
The Democratic State executive committee
Of Pennsylvania met in Harrisburg and de-
cided to hold the next convention in Pitts
burgh, May %.
A number of students belonging to Dart
mouth College, New Hampshire, have been
arrested for hazing The faculty expelled or
suspended several.
The Rhode Island State convention Of the
new National party was held at Providence.
ticket headed by William Foster for governor
was nominated.
The Calais (Me,) Savings Bank has sus-
pended.
Election returns from all the towns in New
| publican, 39377. and Mexican, Democrat
37.S63. The House will stand Republicans,
POS Democrats, 1885,
Western and Southern States.
The new Virginia funding bill has passed in
| the State Senate-ayes, 20, nays, 5. The pre-
smble opposes increase Of taxation, recognizes
the necessity of preserving and insuring the
continued existence Of the institutions of the
State, including the public school system and
expressing willingness and anxiety to restore
the former equality of the public creditors by
distributing rateable among them the entire ex-
cess OF public revenues derived from the pre-
sent rate of taxation, after most economical
administration of the State government.
A party of men who were lynching colored
man at Pensacola, Fla, for ASSEMBLING little
girl, were fred upon by sheriff posse; one
man was killed and five were dangerously
wounded.
1t is reported that Sitting Bull is preparing
for another indian war.
Gus Johnson, white man, was hung in
Rome, Ca, for the murder of Daniel Afford,
a colored man. The cause of the crime was
Affords refusal to hurry in taking flatboat
across the Coosa river to johnson, who there
upon shot him dead. Before he was hung
Johnson confessed that he had murdered two
men and helped to kill two more.
The hard money league of the West met
4 at Chicago and issued an address to the PEG.
pie of the United States, opposing "all paper
imitation and consequent depression in favor
Of coin and paper of equal value and equa
purchasing power. and convertible into eact
other at the will Of the holder.
Governor Holiday, of Virginia, has issued
proclamation offering 800 for the arrest Of eacf
Of the parties concerned in the lynching of
colored woman, named Harris, in East Rocking
ham county. The woman was taken from jai
and put to death by unknown persons, on sus
picion Of having instigated the burning of |
barn.
Chess, Carley & Co.'s oil refinery in Louis
vile, KY, the largest of the kind in the South
was partially burned, causing loss Of abou
100000.
The verdict OF the Jury who found Genera
, Thomas @. Anderson, of the Louisiana return
InB pOtru, Buuby OF forging eiect1On returns
has been set aside by the Louisiana suprem
court and the prisoner ordered to be discharge,
, from custody. The decision states that the re
cord Of crime offered in evidence did not con
form with that mentioned in the information
, that the consolidated election returns, in re
gard to which forgery was charged are no
legal instruments by which frauds may be com
mitted, and thier alteration cannot be construe
into crime.
house occupied by farmer named Harley
living few miles north of Adrian, Mich, wa
destroyed by fire, and his wife and two childre
! were burned to death.
, A building in Cleveland, Ohio, occupied b
non-explosive lamp company was destroye
; by fire, together with its contents, and tots
3 loss incurred Of $165, 900.
band Of four expert counterfeitors, VIII
have been nnaratinp exfAnaivalv in the NORTH