Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-04-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle stats..

fested in the lower house OF the Massachusetts, /
Legislature by l27 to %.
James E. Coll, wel-known in New York |
insurance cirolss, committed suicide by shoot |
ing himself in the head. He was at one time |
wealthy, but met with reverses, had family
troubles and became dissipsted.
The Rhode Island Republicans met in con-
vention at Providence and renOminated the
present State officers by reclamation. Follow
ing the usual custom, no political resolutions
were passed.
The Tarrytown On. " First National Bank
has failed. The liabilities are estimated at
s122, 900 and assets $4,000. The Bank of
Chemung, at Elmira, n. Y.-apEiyate institu-
tion-has also suspended.
The Rhode Island Democratic State con-
yention. held in Providence, resulted in the
nomination Of ticket headed by Isaac Law
renee for governor.
Leading New York bankers had a conference
in that city with the House committee on bank
ing and currency regarding the resumption OF
specie payments. General Ewing, of the COM
mittoe, made inquiries to draw out the views Of
the bankers who expressed the opinion that
resumption was practicable. After the meeting
General Ewing said that the statements of the
bankers had strengthened his own opinion that
the secretary of the treasury was not able to
carry out the resumption act.
! Before a COmulJtee OF the GennSYlYa0la Leg
| slature appointed to investigate the Pittsburgh
! railroad riots, r. A. Ammon, of Pittsburg, who
was at the head of the Trainmen's Union at
the time of the strike, testified that the citi
zens offered the strikers arms to resist the
| troops, two prominent citizens having offered
hundred stand of arms each; one Of these
| ciCzens wsnt to see him at Allegheny, told
him that he hoped the men would stand for
their rights, and promised them arms and
money.
The steam chimney of the Hudson river
steamer Magenta exploded two miles below
Sing Sing, N. Y, and two passengers were
killed outright, two were fatally scalded, and
several others received serious injuries.
Warren Lane, bookkeeper of the Planet Mills
Manufacturing Company, Brooklyn, N. Y,
was returning from the company's bank in
New York where he had drawn $4,000 with
which to pay off the employees. He was &C
companied by an assistant, who carried $500 in
silver. When in an unfrequented locality they
were approached by three men dressed as
laborers, who suddenly attacked the two
knocking them down with blows from sand
clubs and relieving them Of the money in q
twinkling. Before they could gain their feet
the thieves were rafting off in wagon that
WAS waiting in charge of confederate and
made good their escape.
Peter McHugh, Patrick Hester and Patrick
Tully we're hanged at Bloomsbury, Pa, for
the murder of a mining superintendent named
Rea in 1868. The town was filled with people
from the surrounding country but only about
two hundred persons were admitted to the Jail
yard where the execution took place. The
three men were hanged together and exhibited
little signs of fear. Hester, who was in sub
stantial circumstances and for whom strenu-
Gus efforts had been made to obtain an ameli-
Grafton of the death sentence protested his
innocence to the last. While the men were
still hanging, shed on the side of the Jail yard
gave way with a crash, precipitating about
fifty persons to the ground and injuring a
little boy so severely that he died soon after.
Fires Twenty-three buildings were destroyed
by fire in Keeseville, N. Y, causing a loss ag-
greeating $65,0O0. Nearly a whole block OF
large business houses in Philadelphia was
burned, the fire being one of the largest that
has ever visited the city and causing an esti.
mated loss Of over 81, 100000.
Comptroller John Kelly of New York city
has written a letter to the attorney general OF
the State in favor of the release Of William N
Tweed from further confinement Comptroller
Kelly says in his letter: GAS public officer
urge his discharge, because l believe hi,
beneficial to the State as an example to evil
doors, nor in any sense serviceable to the city.
Meanwhile Tweed has refused to testify
further in regard to the "ring frauds unit
he is released.
The Higgins Building-a fve-story marble
structure on Canal street, New York-wai
almost totally destroyed by fire, and seventeen
} business firms suffered losses aggregatint
| $645, 900.
Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Boston book pub
, fishers, have suspended with liabilities O.
100000.
Judge Batchford, of New York, has rem
dered an opinion against Ex-Governor Sanue
, J. Tilden, in the suit of the United States fo
+ the recovery of severa! years income tax
!, This suit was instituted during the election
campaign in 1876 The effect of the decision
will be to bring the case before jury on tn
/ question of the amount of Mr.. Tilden's incom
during the eleven years from 1862to 1872, dur
ing which he made up no return himself bu
allowed the assessors to make up the return
and paid the tax thereon subject to penalt,
of five per cent.
5 The Broadway Savings Bank, of Lawrence
t Mass, and the Sxpenny Savings Bank, o
r New York city, have been enioined from doint
further business. The latter institution wa
= patronize by the remarkably large number .
> $4,000 depositors most of them poor peopl
l and children with little accounts. It's liabili
ties are 81 sos, 269.77, and the deficiency is est
mated at ,425. Careless management
amounting to almost indifference, is charge
against its officers by the bank examiners.
, The trial of Insurance Superintendent Smytt
, of New York, charged by the governor wit
!, Irregularities in office, ended in his acquitta
g by the Senate by vote of 10 to IL.
: The Vanderbilt contested will case drag
4 along in the New York surrogate's court. Niue
- of the evidence offered to show that the Con
Z m odore was mentally unsound or unduly Unfit
Q eaced in making his will is excluded.
u The Pennsylvania Republican State CONVEX
l.. ton will be held at Harrisburg, May Is.
:, The recent report of Acting Superintendsr
@ Henry L. Lamb on the condition Of the saving
= banksr,in the State of New York shows thi
= nine savings banks were closed during 1877
W the Long Island, of Brooklyn; Clairmont, Gin
J ton, German, Oriental and Yorkville, of Ne
York Rockland. of Nyack; Saratoga, of sar
toga Springs; and the New Rochelle, with
total amount due depositors of 81, sol ,719. 8
In the State, to-day, 1856 savings banks al
@ doing business. The total deposits and the nun
e Der Of depositors have decreased during IL
@ year. The deposits fell off nearly $4,000,0OO
n the transactions of the year were smaller
their volume than in other recent years mol
L accounts were opened than were closed IL
Is average Of each deposit declined, and the su
b. plus of the institutions has shrunk. The tot
# resources of the banks, now in operation, WI
@ on January 1, 1878, $50, 1856, 1886 total liabil
= ties, $751; 455, 238, leaving surplus of $5, 1881
u 09S. From these facts the superintendent
IS finds reason for the belief that the saving
d banks are coming back to sound rules in az
n ministration, are commanding reasonable col
a tidence of depositors, and are sound.
+ Western and Southern States.
p Four men and a boy were drowned net
= Howardsville, Albermare county, Va, recent
3 while attempting to cross river in fra
e canoe after dark. Two families consisting
i thirteen women and children, were left will
}. out single full-grown male to support then
|. An appalling disaster occurred in the sawmi
a of Hall & Avis, about seven miles from Ricl
y mond, Va. Without moments warming q
y explosion took place which hurled the building
q lumber, sheds and persons standing around
every direction. The boiler had burst and fly
men were killed. and one was fatally and fly