The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-02-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
eastern and Middle states.

Samuel Bowie was held in the Church OF the 1
Unity, Springfield Mass aud was attended oy
Governor Rice and OF ers prominent IN polites
and journalism. Addresses were delivered by
DR.. J. G. Holland, Charles Francis Adams, Jr.'
and others, and letters were read from secfe-
tAry Sehurz. Senator Dawes, etc.
Another heavy gale. with the coolest weather |
Of the season, prevailed along the Alta TIC /
coast and did considerable damage to the ship
Ping.
The cashier OF TIE National State Bank Of /
Newark. n. J., has been suspended by the /
president Of the institution for irregularities |
connected Nitn his Office.
The Connecticut House Of Representatives |
hss passed a resolution in opposition to the /
Bland silver bill and in favor OF resumption |
OF specie payments.
The horses attached TO q carriage 10 Central |
Park ran away and dashed into two other
vehicles before they we're stopped. Seven per-
sons were injured, more or less dangerously.
Governor Van Zandt has appointed COM
mission to examine into the affairs OF the
Providence County Savings Bank OF Pawtucket-
The PENNSYLVANIA House OF Representatives
has passed resolution for the appointment OF
a Joint committee to investigate the cause and
consequence OF the railroad riots last summer.
Henry Ward Beecher has been appointed
chaplain Of Brooklyn regiment of militia and
has accepted the position.
Alta meeting Of the principal coal companies
of the country, held in Philadelphia, board OF
control signed an agreement forming COM
binaton for the year. According to the terms
of agreement the production of coal for the
wear is limited to a certain per centage OF sales
| by each company.
The sexton Of church in GreenpCint, N. Y,
threw muriatic acid over a number OF boys who
| were annoying him, and severely burned five
| of them. He was arrested.
James NJ. Brann, county clerk OF Hudson
county, N. j., disappeared, leaving dehcit OF
about 5000.
A boiler belonging to the Standard oil re-
fnery at COnstable's Point n. j., exploded,
AMI Alfred Hill, laborer, was insl antly killed,
VIII le the engineer, Ferris Woodruff, was fatally
scalded.
fire in Worth street, New York, caused a
loss OF about $4,000.
George B. Bigelow, a holder of some heavy
| trusts in Boston, was arrested on the charge OF
embezzement and incorporation of funds.
The rioters convicted at Reading, Pa, Of
participation in last July's riots, were sentenced
| as follows Hezekiah Wooten and John Squint
| each to two years Imprisonment; Thomas
| Francis and 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.
At a mass meeting held in New York rosolu-
tons were passed oppoEing proposed reduc-
ton Of the salaries Of public schools teachers
The New York Senate by vote of 20 to 8.
adopted resolution denouncing the Bland
| silver bill.
| The shoe manufacturers of Lynn, Mass. are
rapidly filling mp their shops with new men,
and many of the striking Crispins are return
ing to work.
As Frank Leslie, the New York publisher,
was returning from visit to the President, at
| Washington, he was arrested in Philadelphia
| on a charge Of libel, preferred by lawyer
named Wrigley, whose arrest for alleged fraud
ulent transactions Mr.. Leslie had caused at
Lake George, last summer.
At an explosion of nit o-g1ycerine in a North
Adams (uass.) factO E. J. Wilson, an en-
| ploy5, was blown to pieces.
Western and Southern States.
A carriage containing four persons was struck
by a railroad train at a crossing in Milwaukee,
| Wis, and Franz Falk and Miss Helen Jacobs,
VIII were engaged to be married to each other,
were instantly killed, while sister OF the lady
1 was severely injured.
The cylinder of calcium light packed in
the flies OF the Halifax street theate', Balti-
more. exploded just before the beginning of q
matinee performance. Four or five employees of
the theater were mi red by the explosion, and
panic was imminent among the audience. but
fortunately quiet was restored before anybody
was hurt
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. he latter number $50 lodges, with
800 warriors, while Sitting Bulls own camp
numbers $500 warriors and 900 women and
children They are well mounted and armed.
With Sitting Bull are all the powerful hostile
,hiefs. A short time ago Red Bear deserted
his agency with geo lodges, just after he re-
turned from Wa hngton. General Miles can
put only 500 soldiers In the field.
The application of the members OF the
Louisiana returning board to have their case
removed to the federal court has been denied
by Judge Whitaker OF New Orleans.
Wicker's Touring mills at Shields, Ind,
and the cotton batting mills of Wilson 4 Co.,
az Carrollton, Ky, were destroyed by fire.
Total loss, $4,000.
number of buildings were destroyed by a
fire in Towsontown, Md , causing loss of
about $4,000 ; partially insured
Messrs. Anderson, Kenner and Casanave,
members of the Louisiana returning board,
were arrested in New Orleans on a writ issued
} by State court. Ex-Gov. Wells could not be
found.
Eight prisoners escaped from the county Jail
at Columbus, Ohio, by GU ting a piece out
Of the iron floor of one cell and tunneling under
, the wall of the building.
The reported rail OF Sitting Bull into The
United States from British America is denied
: but it is asserted that should he take suct
, a step General Miles and his small command OF
y troops would be in danger of defeat at thu
t hands Of the Indian chief, with his formidable
r force of 1000 warriors.
A special dispatch to the Galveston Texas
Ne,oS from Laredo, says: Reports have reached
u here that on January % party of fifty Mexi
4 cans, mostly from Texas, under command O
Colonel Y. Salinas, an adherent Of Lerdo
5 attacked the towns of Candida, S4vinas ant
q Hida go, in TIM State Of Tamaulipss. The,
seized e principal citizens of these towns ant
forced them to pay $4,000 for their release
II 10 rapid were the movements of the msrauder
that the inhabitants thought there were thre
separate bands. Cavalry started in pursuit @
g them from different points, upon which the
v separated, and twenty of the band crossed int
:, Texas, below Laredo. 1t is said that the raj
u was planned at this place.
ID From Washington.
q In response to q resolution of the Senate Ii
y president has prepared a statement shown
y that the actual cost of the war with the Ne
Perces Indians was 1881, 329
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll appeared befol
the subcommittee of ways and means, havir
in charge the revision OF the internal revenr
I'd laws and argued in favor OF the abolition
ia the tax on the savings banks.
NJ A meeting OF New York delegates to Coz
- gress, without regard to party was held fl
ly the purpose Of considering bill recommends
IN by the chamber Of commerce Of New Yol
- city, providing for an annual appropriation
TO the national government to relieve the wan
IN and provide for the comfort of poor and meet
m immigrants arriving at United States ports.
:. The House committee on public buildin
40 and grounds has agreed to report bill
is the construction of fire-proof building on Il
10 Smithsonian Institute grounds, to be used
80 a national museum.