Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
Easlern and MlddIe staIes.

He was taken before the prison physician and
found TO be well. Still refusing TO work he
was locked up in dark cell There the doctor
visited him, when Barrett discharged the con-
tents OF his slop-pail in the physicians face.
For this act Barrett was taken IRON his cell
and "paddled"- fiogged with an instrument
made of wood and leather. The next day,
while being taken from his cell to the doctors
office, Barrett attacked Keeper Patrick Mackin
with knife, cutting his coat in two places and
INJECTING severe wound in his lett thigh.
Keeper Mccormick then knocked the convict
down with his cane. Barrett fled to another
part of the prison and armed himself with
heavy hammer. Keeper John III. Good at
tempted to arrest Barrett, who raised the
hammer to throw at him, when the officer shot
the convict through the heart with his revolt
yer, killing him instantly. The shooting oc-
cured in the presence of about 200 convicts,
who had been formed into line preparatory to
being marched to dinner. During the few
minutes prior to the firing of the fatal shot, the
convicts broke ranks and crowded around
Keepers Bigin and Good and the defiant pris-
oner. The men were growing very turbulent
and disorderly until Keeper Good fired upon
Barrett, when they fell back tor a moment.
AS they rushed forward again several keepers
drew their revolvers and marched the prisoners
from the place. A coroner's jury declared the
shooting justifable.
Jennie r. Smith and Covert d. Bennett, the
alleged Jersey City murderers of the formers
husband, Policeman Smith, have been granted
a new trial by the Court of Errors and APP
petls. Chief Justice Beasley delivering the
opinion OF the court, reversing the judgment
below. The vote stood twelve to three in ia
vor of a new trial, one Judge not voting.
lduch damage to buildings, crops and rail-
l. 1
been lost by one of the heaviest storms ever
experienced in Western Pennsylvania. Harms
City and Petrolia two towns in the oil district
of Butler county, and situated in narrow
valley through which Bear creek flows, were
the severest sufferers. A large wave of water,
between five and six feet deep, swept down on
Harms City. Houses were picked up from
their foundations and carried off as If they
were chips. The people living in the houses
were taken by surprise, and the scene was a
learfully piteous one. Women were weeping
and screaming for aid, and children, with their
bodies projecting from the windows, filed the
air with cries of alarm and prayers for assist
ance. Boats, rats and few horses were
hastily procured by the residents OF the higher
portions of the town, and one by one the help
| less people were rescued from their peril.
| Owing to the cheap character of the houses
and buildings the loss in Harms City is not over
Sl5, 900 or $4,000. From Harms City the
water rushed through the valley, laying waste
farms, carrying off the grain which was stand
ing in the fields, and tearing away such out
buildings as were along the bank. On reach
| ing Petrolia the wave went through the center
Of the town, and over fifty business and dwell
ing houses were sweptaway. The Parker and
Harms City and Butler railroads suffered a loss
of $4,000, all their trestles being damaged
and the tracks washed away for miles. The
scene presented during the rush Of the waters
was terrible one. Mothers with babies in
their arms and half-grown children clnging to
| their skirts were seen on porch-tops, their pale
and haggard faces plainly telling their fears,
while men were seen combating bravely fol
life in the muddy torrents. The loss at Pc.
trolia is about 100000. Several persons
were drowned and number more reported
missing.
Miss Lavinia Fry, age twenty was passing
along public road near Ephrata, Pa, when 8
drove of cattle passed by, and an Infatuated
bull attacked her. Catching her on his horns
he tossed her twenty feet across creek. The
animal plunged after her, and on the opposite
bank he again caught her on his horns anc
threw her over a five-railed fence. One horn
penetrated her abdomen, her right hip bone
was broken and she was so badly wounded
that she died shortly atterward.
Among recent arrivals at New York on al
ocean steamer were fourteen families OF Ice.
landers, consisting of seventy-six persons
This was the first large batch of people from
Iceland that ever arrived in New York. They
will found a colony in Minnesota, and if sue
cessful will be Joined by more of their fellow
IcelandCrs.
DR.. W. Kent Gilbert, a Philadelphia coroner
is charged by local paper with selling or per
hitting the sale OF the unclaimed dead to medi
cal colleges, and receiving pay from the city fol
bodies that have never been inferred.
AT Lancaster, Pa, seven-year-old dea
and dumb boy, who had never been known t.
utter q sound, was knocked down under
coach and trampled upon by the horses. Tn,
boy received no serious injuries, but, singular
to relate, he cried out Justify while under tn,
horses feet.
Prescott g. Pillsbury, cashier OF the Law
renee (Mass.) National Bank, confessed to thu
president of the institution that he had taker
the banks funds to the extent of $4,000 Il
speculate in mining stocks The mimi,
stocks which he had on hand were wortl
$4,000, making the loss to the bank abou
1884, 900. Mr.. Pillsbury then went to Boston
surrendered himself to the National Bank Elk
aminer, and in default of bail was committe,
to jail. Heretofore he has borne an excellen
character.
Police Commissioner Wheeler, of New FORK
is charged with having deficiency in his &C
counts to the extent Of about $4,000.
A pleasure party left Clayton, N. Y, in tw
steam yachts for an excursion on the st. Law
renee river. The yachts were lashed together
and when short distance from shore an at
tempt was made to separate them, when on
OF them capsized and sank. Mrs. Persells
Mrs. Sarah Bostwick, Mrs. and Miss Burke
low and Miss Hattie Pollock were drowned.
The Rev. John Graham, d. D., of Brighton
England, lost his life while bathing in the SUI
at Cape May, n. j., having ventured out to-
lar. The body was recovered through tn
brave efforts of DR.. Graham's niece, Mis-
Bessie Graham, who secured the drownin
man, and chung to the pier until aid reache
her, when the doctor was found to be dead
The cause OF his death is said to have beel
congestion OF the heart resulting from fright
Rev. W. II. H. Murray, better known a
Adirondack Murray because of his travel
in the Adirondack regions and the stories h
has published about them, is financially EN-
barrassed, and property on his farm at Gull
lord, Conn, has been attached to satisfy TIN
demands of his creditors. Some time 40 , MI
Murray organized the Boston Buckboar
Company" for the purpose OF manufacturin
n wagon invented and patented by him, an
located the factory in New Haven; but tn
$4,000 Of stock which he held in it had passe
out OF his possession.
Western and Southern States.
8 A train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroa,
jumped the track at Havana, Ohio, thrown
the engine, baggage, mail, express and tire
nAg9nnppr into ditoh Eroinaor