Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-11-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle statee.

Mrs. l.. z. AleSandefE trial at bridgeport,
/ Conn, for completely in the murder OF Frank
/ Weihbecker, ended in q verdict Of murder in
| the second degree, and she was sentenced 20
| imprisonment for life.
In Elizabeth, N. j.. it was discovered that
| William Keller, successful candidate for
| Justice Of the peace, had bssh dead six months.
Victor Davis Carlton Butler, Of New York,
/ bookkeoper aged fourty-two, returned to his
/ boarding house after a prolonged debauch
/ and blew out his brains In the presence OF
| three Young ladies.
Al about eight O'Clock in the morning FIRE
broke out in the Ocean house alartb hoiel In
the heart Of Cape Nav, y. 1.-THE well-known
summer resoet@ahd before the flames could
be subd6od number Of the prominent hotels
| we're DESTROYED. The fire department consists
OF only single engine, and kilograms were
sent to Philadelphia, Camden and ethet plates
for aid but high wind prevailed, and pend
ing the arrival Of help the Aames had full
sway, notwithstanding the whole town turned
out TO extihguish them. Near the Ocean
house were several hotels and cottages
, among them Congress. hall, magnificent
structure, and the SECOND largest Of its kind IN
the place-ant these we're all licked up by the
resistieSs flames, The Stockton hotel, the
largest one in Cape May, was saved. Six
hotels, twenty cottages, three large restau-
| rants and several hundred lighthouses we're
I
Jones Il Rogers, stationers to the notorious
New York Tweed "ring," imprisoned for the
| past two months in Ludlow street jail, were
released upon compromising their claims Of
50 600, 900, and the city'g counter suit for
$500, 600, by the payment OF $4,000.
Motion FOR new trial having been denied,
BENJAMIN Hunter was sentenced to be hanged
on January 10, 1879, for the murder Of John
M. Armstrong in Camden, N. ].
Two large buildings connected with Bergner
4 Engels brewery, in Philadelphia, we're de-
stroyed by IRE, causing loss Of 5000 900 ;
and fire in the Boston chemical company's
works, at Boston, damaged property to the ex-
tent Of e6O00o
Francis Murphy has begun series Of tenn
perance meetings in New York city.
During a quarrel David Taber, of Castle
Creek. N. Y, killed his brother, James, with a
pitchfork and afterward committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
Two cars at the Spring colliery in Locust
Gap, Pa, became uncouplcd and ran furiously
down a slope, killing three workmen in its
path-Martin and John Murray and James
McHugb.
J. B. Reed, one Of the alleged conspirators
in the Whitaker will case at Philadelphia, has
been arrested, charged with forging and sell
ing the title deeds to upward Of half million
acres Of land in West Virginia and North Caro-
lima.
The Central savings bank, OF Jersey City,
N. j., has closed its doors, owing to want OF
business. Its liabilities are given at $40, 900.
The Minnequa house, at the Minnequa
Springs near Williamsport, Pa, summer
hotel able to accommodate between four and
five hundred guests. has been burned. Loss,
estimated at $76, 000 upon which the insurance
is $4,000.
| ;,,k ln N1,r
! York dock department, was arrested for en-
bezzling $4,000 The defalcation took place
some time ago, but did not come to light until
the other day, as the dock commissioners had
made good the loss out Of their own pockets.
Burnham's method of operations was to collect
rents for wharfage and fail to enter the
, amounts received upon his books. He had
been trusted implicitly.
, Governor Mcclellan, in his Thanksgiving
, proclamation to the people Of New Jersey
referred to the yellow fever scourge in the
South, and suggested that, Gas thank offer
ing to the Lord for His abundant mercies
toward u.s." collections be taken up in the
churches on Thanksgiving day, for the relief
Of the afflicted sufferers Of the fever districts
Miss Elizabeth R. Branson, who died in the
5 New York medical college and hospital for
: women the other day, left will bequeathine
J her body to the institution in which she died
, for dissecting purposes and directing further
''that the skeleton be we'll mounted and ther
= preserved for the use Of said college and I'll
students"
: The Congressional labor committee held
a session in Scranton, Pa, in discussion with
some of the labor leaders and local politicians
: on questions that affect the industries of thu
coal regions
!. The Allentown iron company, of Philadel
1 phia, has suspended. The company had foul
fy1rt, In fT1I1 o,,I 4hoir of1
. threw a large number Of men out Of employ
ment. A director stated the total liabilitie
; would not exceed $500, while the com
pany's property in Allentown exceeded 81 1000,
s 600.
: Peter Drake, cigar-maker, was stabbed
i with stiletto and killed in Chatham square
e New York, by Angelo Spagnola, Maltese
n with whom he had quarreled.
The new city hall OF Providence, r. l., com
!. pleted at cost Of over 81, 100000, was dedi
. Gated with appropriate ceremonies.
: W. T. Aldrich, receiver Of the broken Mutua
+ benefit savings bank, of New York, died
It week after his son committed suicide.
e The crew of the Boston schooner George E
e Thatcher arrived in New York ON board tn,
n bark Te1zo, from Liverpool. The schoone
!. foundered at sea during storm. The captain
WAS drowned snd the crew were five days in al
open boat without water.
Delegates from different parts Of the countr,
were present at an international convention O.
societies for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mals, held in Baltimore.
s Western and Southern States.
Following closely upon the discovery of tn
l. removal of A T.. Stewards remains in Ney
II York comes the announcement that the bod
i. Of John Peyton, a wealthy citizen of Roanoke
lad, was discovered in the dissecting room O
= the medical college at Fort Wayne few day
J after his decease. The college faculty state
= they had declined to use the body for dlssect
It ing purposes because it was brought to ther
n in an irregular manner. They notified tn
h coroner and the corpse was reinterred.
Il Facts have come to the surface showing
that many abuses exist at the Central lunati
asylum of Columbus, Ohio, and ten femal
nurses have been discharged for cruelty duck
8 ing some patients to punish them for violatin
l. the rules.e
J. The liabilities Of Joseph Hermann Il Co.
" Cincinnati bankers who failed recently, ar
h $268, 900 and assets $133,000.
4 Peter Frohman, who murdered his partne
= at Beaufort, s. c., last June, was run over an
p killed by railroad train at Augusta, Ga, Will
e attempting to escape from an officer who ha
o brought him back from England under the ez
il tradition treaty.
1t Business is resuming it's wonted activity i
!. New Orleans Memphis and other portions @
~ the South recently desolated by yellow fever
~ George Phillips was found dead in his be
3 in Cincinnati, and post-mortem examination
ID disclosed the fact that his stomach containe
u half gallon OF whisky and four large oysters
u All the coal miners in the vicinity Of Zanet
ville Ohio, struck demanding an advance c
quarter Of a cent per bushel.
The ninth annual convention of the women
q suffrage association was held in indianapolis
- Ind.
al A report that the Nevada bonanza mine
- were becoming go poor in ore that IL Would M