Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

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Eastern and Middle States.
Patrick Rourke and Eve children we're burned
to death in their house at Cohoes, N. Y. The
inmates were asleep at the time OF the FIRE,
which is supposed to have been caused by the
explosion Of kerosene lamp.
Diphtheria has been raging at Carbonate,
| Pa, and many children have fallen victims 10
il during the past six weeks.
The suit OF James A. Whalen against General
Sheridan for S416 278.57, because of the al.
legged eviction Of the plaintiff from plantation
/ in Louisiana, was tried in New York, and re-
suited in a verdict for the defendant General
B. +. Butler argued the case for the plaintiff
Louis F. Therasson, New York lawyer, has
been sentenced to two years Imprisonment for
obtaining money under false pretenses from a
client.
During the recent heavy storm along the
Atlantic coast of the Eastern and Middle
States many vessels were blown ashore.
The stockholders of the wilkesbarre savings
bank, Of Wikesbarre, Pa, have resolved to
wind up the affairs of the institution paving
the depositors in full.
Alfred st. Charles and Thomas Gentleman
were instantly killed, and six others were in
jured, by the explosion of boiler in a mill at
Troy, n. Y.
A heavy snow storm which prevailed in the
western and northern part Of New York State,
the other day, greatly impeded travel on the
railroads.
At the seventy-third annual dinner of the
New England society, commemorative the two
hundred and fifty-eighth anniversary of the
landing Of the pilgrim fathers, given in New
York, speeches were delivered by William NJ.
Evarts, James G. Blaine and others.
Work of tho don1ao. A Or ~ DIaol- 1onl,
N. 4, destroyed two Touring mills and other
buildings, causing loss of about $50, 900 /,
partly insured. In Newark, N. j., a shirt fac
tory and laundry were burned and a fireman
was instantly killed. At Oswego, N. Y, the
flames swept away the New York and Oswego
Midland railroads rouud-house, containing
nine engines.
Ezra Wilson, an old gentleman of sixty,
married lady named Wright, last July, but
they did not live happily together. The other
morning MIR. Wilson's two sons, upon entering
their fathers store, in Boston, found him and
his wife stiff in the embrace of death. The
old man had shot his wife with revolver and
then committed suicide.
The skating season on the Central park,
New York, has begun.
freight train jumped the track near Halle
ton, Pa, falling on its side-killing the fire.
man and brakeman, and badly scslding two
others.
Ex-Congressman Owen Jones started from his
residence at Wynnewood Pa, to visit neigh
Dor, and was found before midnight frozen to
death by the roadside.
Western and Southern statcs.
John Pastook, Greek Indian, and James
Diggs, a colored man, were hanged on the
same gallows at Fort Smith, Ark, for murders
committed in 1877 and 1878, respectively.
The Indianapolis bank, at INDIANAPOLIS Ind,
has suspended. 1t will probably be able to pay
ninety per cent. Of the 100000 in deposits
which it holds.
The Illinois and st. Louis bridge across the
Mississippi river has been sold to q company of
New York and st. Louis capitalists for e.
900, 900.
Dr. Hegl, one of the GAINESVILLE (Ohio) grave
robbers, has been sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment and to pay fine of 81 900. An
accomplish received four months and 800 fine.
Two young men named Kinds and James
had desperate encounter in Baltimore dry
goods establishment few days ago, emptying
their pistols at each other, and receiving three
wounds apiece. James charged Kinds with
running his sister and refusing to marry her.
Green johnson (colored) was hanged at
Menardville, Texas, for the murder Of his wife.
Captain James B. Eads, the well-known en-
gineer having in charge the construction Of
the Jetties at New Orleans, and who built the
great bridge across the Mississippi at st.
Louis, has been indicted by the grand jury in
the latter CITY, together with the other directors
OF the collapsed national bank of the State of
Missouri, for converting the funds of that in
stitution to private use.
Dispatches from the West say that the cold
ia greater than it has been in twenty years.
The thermometer was several degrees below
zero, the ice in the Missouri was foot thick,
and twenty inches Of snow covered the ground
The congressional yellow fever and cholera
committee OF investigation met in Memphis
and organized. DR.. John M. Woodworth sur
geon-general Of the marine hospital service,
having been appointed by the joint committees
to investigate the causes and methods of pre-
venting yellow fever, has been constituted
president er-o6fcio OF the experts provided for
by resolution of Congress. The points Of in
quiry to be investigated are the origin, cause.
and destructive features of yellow fever and
cholera whether Indigenous or how brought
to this country; where and how they are pro-
pagated how their introduction into this
country is to be prevented the method of pre-
venting their spread when once introduced,
and the number Of deaths that occurred in the
United States during the last epidemic, with
the accompanying expenditure of money and
Injury 10 business.
Peace prevails again in Bresthitt county,
KY, the Rcene of the recent pitched battle be-
tween rival factions. A number of arrests we're
made by the State guard.
Peter Mcnamara, described as a well-known
resident of Washington, was bitten in the fin
ger by man during an alteration, two months
ago. The injured foyer was amputated, but
too late to prevent the poison entering Mo
Namara's system and causing death.
From Washington.
Alta meeting of Senators and Representatives
from the Southern States, committee report
ed resolutions expressing the most grateful
| feelings toward the people of the North for
| their charitable aid during the prevalence of
yellow fever in the South.
The Senate select committee appointed in
pursuance Of Senator Blaines resolution call
ing for an inquiry as to whether the constitu-
tlonal rights of citizens in any of the States
had been violated in the recent elections, at
their first meeting adopted a resolution calling
upon MIR. Blaine to furnish specifications upon
which the committee might base their investi-
cation. MIR. Bsyard's resolution that the
President be requested to forward to the com.
mttee copies of documents and names of wit
nesses upon which he based his reference to
the alleged election frauds in his annual mes
sage, was defeated.
General Alpheus S. Williams, Representative
Of the House from Michigan, and chairman of
the committee on the District of Columbia.
died after weeks illness, aged sixty-eight
years. He was the unsuccessful Democratic
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