Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Ea.tern and nGiddle statea.

ashore ~ vineyard haven, mhhs.t ana many
more at Cape Cod and other parts Of the coast.
FIRE which broke out IN Main street Eden
burg, Pa, soon swept over the entire block.
The fremen's efforts 10 extInguish the flames
were numbered by scarcity OF water, and be-
fore the fire died out 225 buildings we're burned.
The town Was almost completely destroyed,
the total loss being estimated at 100000
The suspension of the First national bank,
Of TAmaqua, Pa, is announced. The cause OF
the suspension is attributed 10 the failure OF
one Of the principal stockholders, Charles F.
Shoerer, large coal aud iron operator OF
Philadelphia.
The trial Of Jesse Billings for the murder
of his wife, held at Ballston, N. Y, attracted
great attention on account OF the wealth of
the accused, the heinous character of the
crime and the conflicting opinions regarding
defendants guilt. After q long and exciting
trial the case was given TO the jury, who re-
manned in elaboration sixty-one hours and
then returned to the courtroom, stating they
we're unable to agree. The Jury stood eleven
for acquittal to one for conviction.
At the request of the Massachusetts bank
commissioners the Lexington savings bank has
been enjoined from doing further business,
and its affairs will be wound up without loss to
the depositors.
An attendant In the asylum for lunatics on
Wards Island, New York city, WAS attacked
and killed by one of the PATIENTS an apparent
ly harmless lunstic.
Haar & Co., New York stock brokers, have
failed for about 100000.
The Concord savings bank, Of Concord,
N. H., has suspended
Justin s. Morrill, has been reelected United
States senator by the Vermont legislature.
In tho case of Rev. II. II. Hayden. charged
with the murder of Mary Stannard, in Madison,
I H. g.. -
indictment for murder in the first degree.
According to Dun, Barlow & Co.'s New York
mercantile agency the number Of failures in
the United States during the first nine months
in 1878 is 8,676, the amount of liabilities being
$197, 2i1 ,129. During the corresponding period
in 1877 there we're 6565 failures, with $141,
1862, 265 OF liabilities In Canada there were
1922 failures in 1878, with $18, 1888 32l Of liza
bilities, and in 1877 the failures numbered
1,646, with 800, 9O4, 976 of liabilities.
The New Hampshire Prohibition party met
in convention at Nashua and nominated a
ticket headed by Asa s. Kendall for governor.
Western and Southern States.
"Bin" Longiey, notorious desperate who
had murdered thirty-two persons was hung at
Giddings, Texas, the other day. The par
ticular crime for which he suffered death was
| the murder of Wilson Anderson, in March,
1910 JOuBl6y Whb HDOug LWbuJy-blA p6hIb VI
age. He walked upon the scaffold with a
smile on his face and lighted cigar In his
mouth.
Special dispatches states that Mount Vernon,
Ind, was in the widest state OF excitement
over series Of the most revolving crimes and
| tragic vengeances that ever occurred in that
region. On q recent Monday night, at eleven
o'clock, a party Of seven or eight colored men
went to disreputable house in the outskirts
oP 10 and ITorbo1 frR oHp,ittorAa
There we're three white girls in the house. and
upon their inquiring what was wanted they
received the reply that q messenger with note
was waiting. One Of the girls op5ned the
door, when gigantic fellow with cooked re-
! vplecf entered, and ordered the girls into one
room, while the party ransacked the house for
plumber After securing all the valuables they
assaulted the women. Next morning there
was great excitement in the town. The officers
quietly arrested Jim Good, Jeff Hopkins, Ed.
Warder and William Chambers, who were &C
cused of being in the party. at night Deputy
Sheriff Thomas went to the house of Dan Har-
ris, colored man sixty years old, with a
warrant for his son. he was refused admit
lance. Thomas then went to side window to
parley, when double-barreled shotgun WAS
pushed out and discharged within three feet of
him, eighteen buckshot striking Thomas in the
face and breast, and cutting his tuguar vein.
He staggered few feet and fell dead. The
officers assisting him rushed into the house aud
secured the old man, but his son was not there.
Harris was locked up with the others. mob
gathered about the Jail in the morning and de-
manded the prisoners, but they we're refused
and the mob concluded to wait until night
(FridaY} before proceeding further. A colored
man who was in the mob and talked freely in
defence Of the prisoners, was shot and wounded
in the neck. Early in the day dispatches were
sent to Evansville, where many leading citizens
were attending the United States court, and it
was rumored that Governor Williams had de
termined to send the EvansriIle rifles and
light guard and the militia. This news put the
mob In frenzy Of excitement. Two hundred
men, well-armed. were stationed at the depot
to prevent the militia from leaving the cars.
cannon was brought out by the rest of the
mob and planted in front OF the court house
facing the street to the depot The militis
did not come, and the excitement on thai
score subsidized although the armed mob kept
it's position in front Of the Jail all day. At ter
on the following Friday evening one hundred
masked rnet fired upon the officers around the
jail and entered the building, and by means o.
a sledge hammer and crow-bar gained access
to the prisoners the latter in the meantime
} praying and singing most earnestly. The ole
man Harris, who had been wounded wher
Sheriff Thomas was shot, was lying upon
pallet, apparently Indifferent to his end. Ont
of the masked men seized him by the throa
and plunged knife into his heart. At clever
o'clock the four colored men, with ropes around
their necks, were led out upon the square, un
der locust tree when the ropes were thrown
over the limbs of the tree, and all four o.
them hung. Although identified by the women
they denied their guilt.
Nine convicts dug through the wall of thu
prison at Kokomo, Ind, and escaped to tn,
, woods.
During the progress of marriage at col
ored Baptist church in Lynchburg Va, SOM
Of the ceiling plastering fell, and the immens
crowd at once became panic stricken, many il
the galleries jumping from the windows of tn
second and third Stories while others threy
themselves headlong down the stairway on tn,
| surging people below. There was only on,
door of exit down stairs and through this mel
and women crowded frantically most of tn
killed being literally crushed to death. Tel
women were killed. three more fatally injured
and about thirty persons received wounds NOR
or less severe.
Five illicit dstilleries we're recently destroye,
In one day in Putnam county, Tenn, by United
States revenue officers
Official returns from Ohio give Barnes
Republican candidate for secretary OF state
plurality of 3,154.
) The California constitutional convention
adopted q resolution to memorabilia the Presi
dent and the United States Senate to 80 modif
the Burlingame treaty as to prohibit Chimes
} immigration.
From Warrington.
At a recent meeting Of the cabinet the quef
ton whether the military should be called up
on to proceed against fortified distillers il
+ Arkansas was discussed. It was decided no
to use the military until the civil power ha,
, exhausted all means to enforce the law agains
the illicit distillerieB.
The opening session Of the United State
supreme court was held few days ago.
The post-office authorities throughout tn
country are now registering third-class mai
. matter upon the receipt of the regular postage
, and an additional fee Of ten cents for registra