The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-07-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

Joseph Il. BuKEell has been hanged al Con-
cord, N. H., for numbering Miss Hanson, n
woman who had sued him Tor breach Of prom
ise. BuEzell had been tried once for tho crime
and acquitted, and IL was thought that would
end the matter, as the Constitution Of the
United States says a mans life shall not be
put in jeopardy twice for the same crime. But
when a boy named Cook, who had been in
BuEEell's employ, testified that he had muir
dercd Miss Hanson at his employers instiga-
ton, the case was reopened, and Il was
decided that B1zzell could be tried rs an accom-
plioe. The second trial resulted in a verdict
OF guilty, and Buzzell was sentenced 20 death.
Fresh complications then arose by the confess
sion OF one of the two detectives who had
arrested Cook that the boy had committed
perjury. Cook then made an affidavit assert
| ing that his charge against Buzzeu was false,
and was manufactured by the second detective
The Supreme Court OF the State, however,
refused TO grant new trial, and Buzzell SUIT
Tered the full sentence OF the law.
A reunion of the members OF the Dodge
family has been held at Salem, Mass. About
Tour hundred persons were present.
Hanlan, the worlds champion oarsmqn, re-
ceiyed an enthusiastic welcome upon his ar
rival in New York from England.
BY an explosion at divers powder mill,
n, ar Laurel Run Station, Pa, three men were
fatally and two seriously injured.
The project of the Woodruff scientific expe-
dition around the world has been revived, and
the steamship General Werdcr will sail from
New York under the direction OF President
Clark soon as 200 students have been secured.
An engine attached to train on the Lehigh
| Valley railroad ran off an open switch at Fair
view, Pa, broke loose from the cars and
plunged over II cliff thirty feet high. The To-
connective fell, complete wreck, ut the base
of the cliff, crushing beneath it the engineer,
Augustus Helker, and the fireman, Edward
Noll, who were both instantly killed.
A reunion of the members OF the Dodge
family has been held at Salem, Mass. About
Jour hundred persons were present.
The New York Mercantile Agency OF r. G..
Dun & Co. has issued a circular which states
that for the first six months OF 1879 the failures
in the United States we're 4,058 in number, as
against 5, 1926 for the first six months OF 1878.
| The liabilities in the same period OF this year
are only S65. 000, 900, as against $l30, 1000, 900
for tho first six months OF last year. The d:f-
ference in favor OF 1879 is, therefore, that there
have been nearly two thousand l,969) less
failures while the extent of liabilities shows
decrease of over sixty-fve millions-precisely
one-half of what they we're in the first six
months OF 1878.
Patrick Bowen, who came to America from
Ireland when he was 98, has just died in New
York at the ripe age OF 1903 wears.
The Greenback Labor party OF Pennsylvania
| held its State convention ut Altoona and nomi-
mated Peter Sutton, farmer, for State Treas
urer. The platform adopted favors payment
of the national debt strictly in accordance with
the contract under which it was created; says
that no more Understanding bonds be issued;
that the Federal government only shall issue
money; that such money shall be full legal
tender, and that full legal-tender greenbacks
shall be substituted for national bank notes;
demands the repeal of all laws fostering ine-
quality in condition and opportunity, the en-
actment OF an income tax law, that all debts
Tor labor done take precedence OF all other
claims, etc.
A fire at Prevosts colliery, Centralia, Pa.
destroyed the breaker, which cost 100000.
The flames reached vein of COAL which
burned fiercely and caused further heavy
loss. About $50 men were thrown out OF
WORK.
Charles L. Courtney defeated Joseph II.
Riley in a iour-mile boat race on Silver Lake,
Perry, N. Y.
Western and Southern States.
Five new cases of yellow fever having &C.
Cured in Memphis, the Board OF Health of
that city issued the following order: "To the
people OF the city of Memphis we would say,
quietly remove your families TO Il place OF
safety until we can at least see whether the
few cases of yellow lever will assume an cpl
demic form. To the people along the lines of
the different routes of travel we say there can
be no possible danger of infection for many
days to come" Thereupon perfect stampede
OF the citizens took place, the trains out OF
Memphis being unable to carry away the hun
dreds who were anxious and ready to leave.
New Orleans has established n rigid quaran-
tine against Memphis, both by rail and river.
An explosion in powder magazine at Bodie,
CAL, destroyed the Summit Works, and caused
heavy loss of life. The works were blown
to atoms and everything near them leyeled to
the ground.
The magazine which exploded at the mine
works in Bodie, Cal, contained five tons OF
| giant powder. Eight persons were killed and
forty wounded, some fatally. Tho whole town
was converted into a hospital.
A Lake Providence U4a.) dispatch reports
the killing OF Postmaster Austin by Squire Lusk
of West Carroll, and the mortal wounding of
S. l.. Austin, Jr, parish Judge in q shooting
ARRAY there. w. II. Smith (colored), who
was crossing the street during the melee, was
struck by a stray bullet and instantly killed.
Dispatches from Memphis say that fully 5 200
people left the city within one day after the
presence of yellow fever was made known.
Isittle Rock, Ark, Vicksburg, Miss, Calves
ton, Texas, Montgomery, Ala, and other cities
ordered quarantine against Memphis.
A destructive boiler explosion occurred al
about seven o clock in the morning in the plan.
ing mill and box factory OF Adams 4 Setter
Baltimore, Md. The brick boiler-house and 9
| ,h otf, h,;ol
box factory, were completely wrecked, not 9
brick being lett standing, the woodwork being
broken into kindling wood. portion OF the
wall of the main factory, q large brick building
five stories high, Immediately fronting thu
boiler-house, was blown out from the bottom
TO the upper story, and the contents of tn,
huilding were completely Wrecked A portion
of the boiler was carried beyond Exc er street
two squares distant Large plate-glass front
and windows for the distance of two square
were demolished. One of the proprietors ant
the engineer were instantly killed, and six o
eight persons injured.
The news OF the appearance OF yellow ieve
in Memphis caused heavy fall in the price
OF provisions at Chicago and Cincinnati.
John Williams and Winter Payne (both col
: ored) were hanged at Warrenton, Va, the frs
, for the murder and robbery of Howard Holt2
. claw, a telegraph operator, and the second io
: killing n colored man named Adams after
n quarrel.
d William Allen, Ex-Governor OF Ohio, is dea
d having passed suddenly away at his home neG
;, Chillicothe, in his seventy-fourth year. Bor
u in Edenton, N c., Governor Allen lived
G Lynchburg, Va, in early childhood, and wei
IS to OHIO when he was sixteen years OF age. A
o twenty-six he was elected to Congress as
jackson Democrat and in 1887 he became
u member OF the United States Senate, servir
q until l849. In 1913 he declined the Dem
IS cratic nomination for President, and in Isl
h was elected Governor OF Ohio. He was I
!" nominated for Governor in 1875, but was d
l. ieated by r.. B. Hayes, since when he has liv'