Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-06

A small propeller ia the Caloasieu river,
Louisiana, oapsized during a storm and
sank. On board were the captain, engineer
and six passengers. The two first mentioned
saved themselves by swimming but all the
passengers were drowned.
After being in session several days and trans
acting great deal OF iinportant business the
international Convention OF Young Mems
Christian Associations at Baltimore adjourned.
The Oriental Powder Company's magazine,
near Brighton, Ill, continuing sc, 900 Kegs of
powder, was struck by lightning and entirely
consumed.
The assignee OF the broken Broadway Saw
ings Bank, of st. Louis, has discovered that
Krieger, the cashier, and Meyer A. Goldsall
have been privately using the funds of the in
stitution to the extent Of 100000.
A dispatch from Helena, Montana, says John
L. Vincent and four other men, while travel
ing from Fort Keogh TO Fort Assinaboine,
were attacked by fifty Yanktonnais Indians.
Alter fighting twenty hours and killing eleven
of the redskins the men succeeded in effeeting
their escape, bat were obliged to abandon their
horses and wagons.
John II. Lewis and son, farmers residing
near Winchester, Ind, quarreled with John
Lumpkins and his two sons about ditch
Lewis was cutting. Lumpkins' eldest son WIS
instantly killed, and the youngest son and
father were severely injured. Young Lewis
was fatally injured by blow on the head with
a pick. The elder Lewis surrendered himself.
A Petersburg (Va.) dispatch says that at
colored baptizing in that city highly edu-
Gated deaf and dumb mute named Burwell
Lancaster, aged twenty-one, was baptized, and
after returning from the water threw the
crowd into CONSERVATION by giving n lusty
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again taken deaf and dumb.
A crowd of seventy-fve men entered the
jail at Bakersfield, Cal, and hung two men
who were awaiting trial for murder.
The Ohio Republicans in convention assem-
bled at Cincinnati, have nominated State
ticket headed by Charles Foster for Governor.
Andrew Hickenlooper is the candidate for
Lieutenant-G The ballot for Governor
stood Foster, $50; Judge Taft, 27l; neces-
sary to a choice, PIT. The platform adopted
condemns the course of the Democrats in
Congress in regard to the appropriation bills,
praises the governments financial administra-
ton, and thanks the President and Republican
members of Congress tor the stand taken
against the majority.
Daniel Clark has been nominated for Gov
ernor by the Iowa Greenbackers, and q plat
form adopted in conformity with the party
principles
About two o'clock in the morning fire was
discovered in the lower floor of the Washing
ton House, at Hagerstown, Md. The flames
rushed up the stairways, completely cutting of
all escape There were upward of sixty per-
sons in the house, besides the regular boarders,
nearly all Of whom were compelled to escape
by climbing down the porch pillars Several
OF those who escaped in this way sustained
serious injury by falling. Two persons were
killed and number of others more or less dan
gerously injured.
Troy Dye, formerly Public Administrator Of
Sacramento county, Cal, and his partner in
crime, Edward Anderson, were hanged al
Sacramento for the murder of A. M. Tullis
| last August. The murder for which the two
men were executed was the most remarkable
in the criminal annals of the Pacific Coast
| Tullis was an old bachelor residing at Grand
Island, a short distance down the river from
Sacramento City, who, by thrift and frugality
had accumulated an estate OF about $50, 900
and to get hold of this as Public Administrator
Dye planned the murder and had it perpetrated
by Anderson and a man named Clark, a part.
ner of Dyes in the saloon business in Sacra-
| mentO,