Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-02-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.


tended by the governor Of the State aud ether
gentlemen prominent in politics and jour
nAlism. ADDRESSES were delivered by DR.. ]. @.
Holland, Charles Francis Adams, Jr, and
Others, and letters from Secretary Schurz,
Senator Dawes, and Charles Francis Adams,
etc, were read,
A severe storm OF wind, accompanied by the
coolest weather Of the winter, prevailed along
the Atlantic coast and did considerable damage
to shipping.
The cashier OF the National State Bank, New
ark, N. j., has been suspended by the president
Of the institution for ire ularities connected
with his position.
The Connecticl 1t assembly has passed resolu-
TONS opposing the Bland silver bill and favor
ing specie resumption.
The horses attached to a carriage in Central
Park ran away and dashed into two other
vehicles before they were stopped. Seven per-
sons were injured, more or less dangerously.
Governor Van Zandt has appointed a COM
mission 10 examine into the affairs of the
Providence County Savings Bank Of Pawtucket,
County Clerk James NJ. Brann, Of Hudson
county, N. j., disappeared suddenly, leaving
deficit in his accounts of about 1000.
Five boys were severely burned by having
bottle containing mriatic acid, thrown at
them by John OHara, the sexton of a church
III Ns l. " mara was dTT6bIeQ.
Five men were found guilty of participating
in the July labor riots in Reading, Pa. SEN
tence was withheld.
A boiler belonging to the Standard oil re-
hneTy at Constables Point, N. j., exploded
and Alfred Hill laborer, was Instantly killed.
while the engineer, Ferris Woodruff, was fatal
ly scalded.
A fire in Worth street, New York, caused
loss of about $4,000.
George B. 3igelow, a holder of come heavy
trusts in Boston, was arrested on the charge of
embezzlement and incorporation of funds.
The rioters convicted at Reading, Pa, of
participation in last Jnly's riots, were SEN
fenced as follows Hezekiah Wooten and John
Squint each to two years Imprisonment
Thomas Fra ncis aud John Noll, one year
Aaron Dease, three months, and Robert Reber,
who pleaded guilty, nine months and each to
pay fine Of 81 and costs.
A mass meeting was held in New York to
protest against 3 proposed reduction of salaries
Of teachers in the public schools.
Frank Leslie, the New York publisher, was
arrested in Philadelphia, as he was on his way
home from a trip to Washington, where he had
been the guest Of President Hayes. The arrest
was made at the instgation of Philadelphia
lawyer named W. W. Wr1gley who charged
Mr.. Leslie with libel. Wrigleys arrest had
boen caused by Leslie last summer, at Lake
George, on the charge of an attempt to swim
die and the publication of this charge in one
of Leslie's papers is the basis of Wrigley's
grievance.
The New York Senate, by vote of 23 to 8,
passed resolution denouncing the Bland silver
bill.
E. ]. Wilson, employed in the works of Pro-
fessor Mowbray at North Adams, Mass, was
blown to atoms by an explosion of nitro
glycerine that was being melted in barrels, and
the building was badly shattered by the shock.
Western and Southern States.
AS a carriage containing four persons was
about to cross railroad track in Milwaukee,
Wis, it was struck by freight train, and Miss
Helen Jacobs and Franz Falk, Jr., were in
stantly killed, while sister of the lady was
severely injured. The two killed were engaged
to be married to each other.
Just before the opening of the matinee per-
Torrance at the Holiday street theater, Bati-
more, a temporary panic was created by the ex-
plosion of gas receiver for a calcium light.
Several employees Of the theater were injured,
but fortunately the excitement among the
audience was allayed before any harm had
been done.
General Miles telegraphs from Fort Keogh,
in Dakotah Territory, that Sitting Bull has
crossed the border with one thousand lodges
with him, including the, escaped Nez Perces
and the recently deserving Indians from the
agencies The latter number $50 lodges, with
800 warriors, while Sitting Bulls own camp
numbers 1900 warriors and 5000 women and
children. They are well mounted and armed.
! With Sitting Bull are all the powerful hostile
chiefs. A short time ago Red Bear deserted
his agency with 200 lodges, just after he re-
| turned from Washington. General Miles can
put only 500 soldiers in the field.
Three members of the Louisiana returning
board were arrested on a writ issued by the
Sta'e court of New Orleans. The fourth mem,
ber-J. Madison Wells-disappeared.
An incendiary fire at Towsontown, Md, de.
sroyed buildings and stock valued at about
$4,000, on which there is & partial insurance
Eight prisoners escaped from the county jail
at Columbus Ohio, by emitting piece out OF
the iron floor of one cell and tunneling under
the wall of the building,
A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, says
Reports have reached here that party Of
fifty Mexicans mostly from Texas, under com
mand of Cononel Y. Salinas, an adherent Of
Lerdo, attacked the towns of Candida, Savinai
and Hidalgo, in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexi
CO. They seized the principal men Of these
towns and forced them to pay 600 for their
release. So rapid were the movements of the
marauders that the inhabitants thought there
were three separate bands. Cavalry started il
pursuit of them from different points, upor
which they separated, and twenty Of the ban(
crossed into Texas below LAREDO. 1t is sale
that the raid was planned at this place. "
The report that Sitting Bull has crossed int
the United States from British America i
denied 1t is believed, however, that Genera
Miles, with his slim force on the border, i
liable to an attack at any moment from the re
doubtable Indian chief and his 1000 WARRIOR
From WASHINGTON.
Colonel r. s. Ingersoll of Illinois, appeare
before the subcommittee on ways and means
and argued in favor of abolishing the tax O.
savings banks.
In response to the resolution of the Senat
the President has transmitted report show
ing that the total cost of the Nez Perces wa
was $931, 1929.
A meeting of New York delegates to Cor
gress without regard to party, was held fo
the purpose of considering q bill recommends
by the chamber of commerce of New Yor
city, providing for an annual appropriation b
the national government to relieve the wani
and provide for the comfort of poor and need
immigrants arriving at United States ports.
Hon. John B. Kerr ex-member of Congress
from Maryland, died suddenly in Washingto
the other day,
There will be a convention of delegates frol
tne STATE agricultural societies OF Tue cOrA1u
in Washington during the latter part of Eel
ruary.
In the California contested election case
Wigginton (DemocraD against Pacheco Or
publican), the sitting member, the House con
l mittte on elections decided, by vote of seve
: to four, that Wigginton is entitled to the sea
The Matthews silver resolution, which W,
> passed in the Senate by one vote less than
, two-thirds majority, was passed in the Hou
by 1880 to 79-eleven more than two-thirC
majority.
The Senate committee on foreign relation
have decided, by a majority vote, to report
favor of confirming the nomination OF Hem
W. billiard as minister TO Brazil.
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