The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-05-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Eastern and Middle states.

ness.
Z. Remington & Sons, the well-known manu- /
facturers Of rifles, ct lion, n. T., have become
financially embarrassed, and have submitted
their Affairs TO their creditors. Their liabilities /
amount to e. 0O0, COO, and the assets are esil- l
mated at four times that amount, but are not
immediately available.
Thomas E. Ladd prominent business man
Of Tacoma, n. H., disappeared after commit
ting number Of forgeries and signing a large /
number Of notes that he cannot pay
The Old stage coach days have been revived /
nv A trim from New York TO Philadelphia, made |
by members Of the New York Coaching Club, |
In their coach Tally Ho." The trip was made |
In twelve hours, relays OF horses being station
ed at different points along the route and /
the huge coach, with eleven members OF the
club perched on top, each taking his turn at
the reins attracted much attention as It rat
tied through New Jersey. When the coaching |
party reached Philadelphia it was received by
a large number of vehicles Of every description |
and escorted through the streets by numerous
| equestrisns Of both sexes, while the streets
I were filed with pedestrians and many OF the
houses we're decorated with bunting IN honor
OF the unusual event
Joel Smith, captain OF the Brooklyn First
police precinct. was shot in the neck and seri-
usly wounded BY Morris Hefsrnan. police
man Tho shooting was done In the station
house, and Heffernan had been on spree
At Bradford, Pa, fire destroyed a block
| containing fifteen buildings and caused dam
| age amounting to $50 600, on which there IS
about $25, 900 insurance
A skiff containing three women and two
children was struck by raft on the Allegheny
river, near Pittsburg, and two OF the women
drowned.
| Deaths on the rail Thomas Goran, a brake
man on a Waikiki Valley railroad train, while
making a Jump from a caboose TO fiat car
near Shawangunk, n. Y, fell with his leg
on the track, and the train passed over 1t in two
places he was brought to Rondou', and died
| about five o'clock. Charles futile, resident
of Katonah N. Y, was instantly killed by the
! Chatham express at point half way between
Katonah aud Bedford be was walking on the
track directly towards the coming train, but
being very deaf and having the setting sun In
his eyes, did not perceive his danger.
The State convention OF the National party
of Pennsylvania met in Philadelphia for the
purpose Of nominating candidate for governor
and other offices. Frank Hughes, of Schuyl-
| kill was the chairman. A motion to nominate
no one who has not severed all connection with
other parties was adopted after long debate.
| The officers nominated we're For governor,
| S. r. Mason, of Mercer for lieutenant-gov-
ernor, Christopher Shearer, of Berks; for
secretary of internal affairs, William II.
Wright, Of Philadelphia for judge of the
| supreme COuIl, Dull .. bcull1i VI l41boiAl-
| ing. In the platform Of the convention
the principles adopted by the national conven-
ton at Toledo in February last are re-enumer-
ated. 1t declares that the government should
furnish aid to families DESTROYS of settling upon
the public lands favors rigid economy in the
administration of public affairs; demands the
eight hour system of labor; the abolition OF
the prison contract system of labor; graduated
system of income tax, by which the wealth OF
the nation, rather than the industry of the
people should pay the expenses OF the govern
ment wholesome and permanent tariff laws
for the protector Of American industry; asserts
that education should be free, secular and
industrial and no property except what belongs
to the government should be exempt from
taxation; recommends that women have equal
civil and political rights; demands that national
paper money or greenbacks, based, not alone
on the two m tails, silver and gold, but upon
the entire wealth and integrity Of the nation,
should be issued in sufficient quantities to re-
yiye our PROSTATE industries by enabling the
people to associate freely with each other in
the exchange of services, commodities and
IDEAS and thereby end the suffering and ruin
of our people; this money to be legal tender
for all debts, public and private and as money
represents accumulated labor, its annual in.
crease or interest to be limited to the general
aver age yearly increase in all branches Of
American industry, which does not now exceed
3 per cent. per annum, this principle hereafte
to be applied to all debts and every violation
of it to be punished as misdemeanor.
Charles Morgan, one Of New York's merchan
princes, is dead at the age of eighty-three II,
, leaves a fortune of $l3, 000,000
Western and SO uthern States.
At seven o'clock P. M, as the night hand
in the immense Washburn Touring mill a
Minneapolis, Mimi, were about to relieve tht
| 1ov hands pud1ar and anDallinU nxnlOaiOt
@ took place which shook the city as by an earth
n | quake and crumbled the mill like an egg-shell
The Washburn mill is the largest Of its class il
America and employed from forty to sixt
:, men. The first crash was followed by othe
} explosions in surrounding mills eight OF whicl
were destroyed by the roaring flames Fron
|. fifteen to twenty men in the Washburn mil
II met terrible death in the falling ruins, Will
the pecuniary damage is estimated at owe
l. 81 900 600 The explosion is attributed to ga
IS generated in the patent middling purifier.
# Eighteen lives were lost by the explosion i
the Washburn -four mill, Minneapolis, Mimi
10 At an election riot in Weldon, N. c., job
3 Purnell a colored man, was killed and Capital
m T. s. Emery was badly hurt. The latter an
another man we're held in $4,000 bail.
> A dangerous counterfeit note Of the demon
le nation of $1o0 on the Merchants Nations
of Bank of New Bedford, Mass, has been put j
- Miss Susan A. Stuart public school teachC
es at lions Church, Norfolk county Va, VIZ
found dead in her room over the school hous
Her pocketbook, rifled of its contents, We
i lying near the body, and there were other eY
re dences of foul play.
I'd Municipal elections have been held in var
- GUS cities and towns of indiana with varyir
q results, in some cases the Republicans electiI
Il a majority of the ticket in others the Dem
| ofptu IN fInoa olynto ~,
40 field, and the new National party elected the
" candidate for mayor by twenty-one plurality.
I'd 1t is asserted that frauds upon the COVER
n ment by whisky ring in Cincinnati ha @ BET
=, discovered, amounting to about 81, 90
I'll Treasury agents we're sent from Washingt6
th secretly to Cincinnati to investigate the matte
The frauds have been committed by reflliI
q" packages, the reuse of stamps, fraudule
St Buaging, and the use of q peculiarly shap,
;s barrel which would permit the disiller to pla
10 in the barrel three or four gallons more than
az appeared to hold. The evidence in the posse
q sion Of the government officers in regard
- these frauds is said to be conclusive.
~ Memphis, Tenn, has been visited by ter
hc whirlwind which unroofed or flooded ma
rel OF the houses and caused a large amount
~ damage.
A loss of $4,000 was incurred by the 1
nd structi N by fire of Henshaw a. Sons chair 4,
nd tory in CINCINNATI. Insurance, $4,000.
ys From Washington.
Oh There now being $40, 100000 held in
De- United States treasury, originally reserved 1
:, the redemption of fractional currency, in &C
'n- sequence Of all the fractional currency havi
if been destroyed, Representative Phillips,
-, Kansas, was instructed by the House comm
M tee on banking and currency to frame bill,
lth be submitted to the committee at the next 8
he sion, having in view the release of this sum
order that it may enter into circulation in
use nominations Of 81 and 49,
to The House committee on agriculture /
,sk reported its bill to regulate the transportat