Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

ark, n. j., destroyed property valued at $780,
600, on which the insurance is S3S,OOO.
General Benjamin F. Butler has published
long letter, accepting the invitation TO be
candidate for governor Of Massachusetts,.
The United States bankruptcy law, which
was enacted and went into effect in March,
1867, is now imperative, having been repealed
during the last session OF Congress. On the
last day Of its operation in New York city
hundreds took advantage OF the final chance
and rushed into bankruptcy, among the pc
titioners being a clergyman, merchants, poll
ticians, actors and gamblers. The rush con-
tinued until the very last moment at midnight,
and the aggregate liabilities were very large
and assets small.
Frank Mulligan and Peter Choppy were in 4.
stantly killed and an engineer was injured by a
collision Of two coal trains between Locust Gap
and Alaska, Pa.
or the 200 boys in the State Reform School,
at Jamesburg, n j., forty were taken down
with the scarlet fever the other day. Several
deaths occurred and arrangements were made
to transfer the rest to safe quarters.
At East Cambridge, Mass, lad twelve
years old stabbed his brother, aged fifteen, in
the breast with jack-knife, almost instantly
killing him. The boys were quarreling over
the possession of rabbit-box.
Isaac Robinson, colored laborer living at
Mount Vernon, N. Y, cut his wife's throat
with razor and then blew his own brains out
with shotgun. Jealousy and domestic trou-
BILE led to the act.
The State election in Vermont resulted in
the success of the Republican ticket, on a
light vote. In two out of the three Congress
sonal districts the Republicans elected their
candidates, while in the third the Greenback
candidate had a plurality of votes.
At meeting in New York Samuel Allen
McCoskry, bishop OF the diocese of Michigan,
was solemnly deposed from the ministry Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church by the unani-
nous action of the house of bishops, compris-
ing thirty-one of the sixty-two bishops of the
church in the United States. Charges of i'm
morality were pending against Bishop Nc
Coskry, but his deposition from the ministry
and from all its offices was made on the tech
nical grounds If his abandonment of his
diocese and departure from the territory Of
the United States while allegations affecting
his morality were in existence.
Orvil Grant, ex-President Grants brother,
has been taken to the New Jersey Asylum for
the Insane, in Morristown, at the request of
his family Ever since his return from q trip
to California last June he had been constantly
taking of immense speculations and wild
schemes until it was evident that his reason
had given way.
GtEl0 SkalSSt
At Livingston, small town in Winona
county, Mimi, the boiler employed to run
q thrashing-machin upon the farm of Mrs.
Fritz, exploded with fearful effect. August
Schnelling. a neighboring farmer, Michael
Neinare, George Lawrence, Charles Schneider,
laborer and stranger in the neigeborhood,
and boy named Otto Fritz were instantly
killed, being crushed by fragments of the
boiler or of the wrecked thrasher, or scalded
to death by steam and hot water. man
named Winderlne was MORALLY hurt. The
cause OF the disaster was, clearly, ignorance or
negligence on the part of the engineer. Work
had been stopped to change the sleeves of the
separator, and the engineer neglected to shut
the hampers and open the valves. The fire
burned fercely in the furnace, and the unused
steam ran up quickly, causing an explosion of
tremendous force. The boiler was torn to
pieces and the fragments hurled among the
laborers with the fatal effect above described.
The thrasher was thrown 200 feet by the force
of the escaping steam.
The Kansas Republicans in convention at
Topeka, put a State ticket in the field and
adopted a platform favoring greenbacks in
place of national bank notes, and declaring
that all the obligations of the government
should be honestly discharged
Mary Dean, a poor widow living near Hills
boro, Mo-, murdered her two small children by
cutting their throats. When arrested she said
that she was too poor to give them food; that
she murdered the baby first, and then when she
undertook to put the little five year old boy on
the bed to kill him, he chung to her and begged
piteously for his life, saying "Oh, mamma,
don't kill me, don't kill me !" She needed not
the appeal but threw him on the bed, and
after cutting his throat struck him ON the side
OF the head with piece Of iron to complete
her work.
While Thomas O. Hughey, aged forty-three,
and A. Fl. Blackiston, aged thirty three,
examining papers at the formers office, q
quarrel arose which ended in Hughey's draw.
ing pistol and firing, almost instantly killing
Blackiston. Hughey was arrested.
Another frightful nitro-glycerine explosion
the second within eight days-took place al
Negsnnee, Mich, and resulted in the death OF
three men, who were blown to pieces while q
fourth was landed on a shelving rock almost
uninjured.
An elevator in st. Louis fell distance OF
about thirty-fve feet, carrying down with il
Rufus Murphy, who WAS killed outright, FRANK
Callahan fatally injured, and George Foster
very seriously injured.
The Tennessee Greenbackers convened al
Nashville, nominated Judge E. 81. East fol-
governor and adopted platform which de.
absolute paper dollar equal to gold and silver,
graduated income tax, the establishment of O
| labor bureau, stop to the importation Of
Chinese cheap labor, etc.
| The Fountain House, of Waukesha, Wis
popular summer resort containing over foul
hundred guests, has been destroyed by fire
Damage, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Democratic State ticket was successful
at the election in Arkansas.
The Minnesota Republican State convention
met at st. Paul and nominated ticket headed
by John M. Berry for supreme court judge
| The platform adopted approves the admins
tration Of President Hayes and favors speed,
specie resumption.
The Democrats of Kansas, in convention
assembled at Leavenworth, nominated a tickle
| with John r. Goodin for governor at the heat
and adopted q platform which declares tn
seating of Hayes ga high crime against fire.
government" opposes specie resumption ant
declares for more greenbacks.
A fire at Omaha, Neb., destroyed the Gran,
Central Hotel-the finest building of its kin,
between the Mississippi and San Francisco
and block of business houses, including tn
Herald newspaper establishment. The loss i
in the vicinity of 100000.
From Washington.
At recent cabinet meeting the appncatiol
of Governor Axtell, of New Mexico, for troop
to aid in suppressing local troubles was denied
The commissioner of pensions says that tn
act approved June 10, 1878, making it unlawfu
for any attorney, agent or other person to de
mand or receive for his services in pensio
case a greater sum than $40, has been th
means Of saving the government and the pen
sioners large sum Of money, although it ha
been in operation only short time. 1t ha
also been the means of breaking up certai
questionable practices which have long bee
pursued by claim agents.
About sixty-fve clerks have been discharge
from the land Office,
The law regarding the destruction OF timbe
is to be rigidly enforced hereafter, the secre
tary of the interior having issued circula
instructing the agents of tho land office