Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-04
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Lewis Smith, the Rochester IN Y. )Rstrouo-
mer, reports having discovered comet
bright, with a short tail.
It is probable that New York win soon have |
another elevated railroad running through the /
central part OF the city, TO be built by William |
II. Vanderbilt. A part of the projected new |
road is TO be underground.
Colonel Jerome Boneparte, grandson OF the |
late Madame Bonnparte, sent a Telegram OF
coincidence from Newport, n. L., TO tho Em- |
peror Eugene in England, upon the tmgic
death OF her son, Louis, in South Airaca. The
leading New York French newspaper says
that the American Bonarartes are now the
true heirs of the Napoleonic dynasty.
A boiler explosion has occurred at East
Texas, Pa, the scene OF similar explosion
last year. The following is the list of casual
ties: Killed-Frank Fegley, the contractc-.
Morris Schmoyer, John Schmidt, Fred Ettin-
ger and Charles Derr, age ten, a driver at
the mine; all the bodies were terribly man
gled. Iniured-Wison Derr, age twelve,
brother OF Charles Derr, MORALLY; Benjamin
Keck, the engineer, death occurred shortly
nlterward; William Null, Frank Heimback,
Wilson Haring, George David, Edward Burns
and Daniel Hess, seriously. Great excitement
prevailed about the mine, which is operated by
the Lehigh Iron Company. The force of the
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the boiler, weighing over a ton, distance OF
100 yards.
A Syracuse IN. W dispatch says that Miss
Olive G Holmes, daughter of Judge S. n.
Holmes, OF that city, and Alfred L. Sanford,
son of Professor H. II. Sanford, OF Chicago
University, were drowned in Onondaga lake.
They were rowing in a boat, and in trying TO
change places the boat was capsized.
AT South Holyoke, Mass, John Kemmler, a
German, who had been out of work since last
February shot his three children-Annie,
Iudmilla and Amy, whose ages were respec-
lively six, four and one-because he could not
support them. He sent his wife out on an err
| rand took the little ones separately to a bed
room and killed them with revolver When
arrested he appeared cool and unconcerned,
saying he preferred to have his children die
| to seeing them brought up to want or crime.
The search for the murderer of Mrs Hull in
! New York has been rewarded by his discovery
and arrest in Boston. He proved to be Chas-
| tine Cox, a mulatto, who had been employed
| in house opposite DR.. HulPs residence on
! Forty-second street. The murdered womans
watch and rings were found on his person.
Cox confessed that he had been acquainted
with one of the girls employed in DR.. Hull's
house, and that he had noticed Mrs. Hull's
iewelry. He went home on the evening of
at six O'Clock and remained in the house where
he was employed until ten o'clock, when he
again went out. He had q key for the door of
the Hull house; but he was unable to make it
at, and consequently he raised the window in
the lower story and fastened it up so as to
provide Tor himself an easy means OF making
his escape from the house. On ascending the
stairs he heard some one snore, and thought it
was a man. He blew his candle out, walked
,,tDt I,.,r to 4ba o. -
bed. Mrs. Hull awakening, asked: "Who is
it," "The DOCTOR" replied the negro She
put her hand up and touched his face as he
was standing close to the bed, The robber
threw her hand back, so that she could not
touch him, at the same time laying his hand
heavily over her mouth. He then got hold OF
the cologne bottle and dashed cologne into the
face of the struggling woman, alter which he
got upon the bed and made u gag of the bed
clothing. She was by this time in an ex-
hausted condition, and he tied her in the man.
ner in which she was found in the morning.
The robbery was then committed and the rob-
her made his escape.
new counterfeit So greenback has made
its appearance in Western New York. 1t is Of
: the series OF 1875, and bears the names OF Regis
ter Allison and Treasurer Wyman 1t is eye
cuted on a printed imitation of fiber paper
which is lighter than the genuine The portrait
OF Jackson is good, bat thegeneral appearance
} of the note is bad. Bankers pronounce it q
dangerous counterfeit A quantity OF this
spurious money was passed at Buffalo, N. Y
and later several of the showers were arrested
at Dunkirk. The notes were probably ISSUED
from some Canadian point, as the persons
arrested were traced from Canada and had il
their possession a quantity of small bills OF
Canadian banks which were genuine-the pro
aAnals probably or operations there with these
bad notes.
While William Savage, Lewis W. Snyder
and james Harkins machinists, were beinl
: lowered in the cOlliery at Williamstown, Pa.
the spreader-chain gave way and the occupants
/ OF the car were precipitated to the bottom,
: distance OF over 100 yards. The two first
= named were instantly killed and Harkins wa
| seriously injured.
t The first annual b at race on the Schuylkil
, river, at Philadelphia tor vase presented b,
2 George w. Childs, was won by the Pennsyl
vania University crew, the Columbia Colleg
t crew coming in second and the Princeton Col
+ lege boys third.
I A car on the Lake Shore railroad, containin
} n funeral party of eleven persons, was throw
t IRON the track near Buffalo, N. z, and over
: turned, fatally injuring o. E, Britt and Mrs
2 Edward Marshall, and seriously injuring tou
o others. lt.
!. A loss of about $S75, 900 was caused by tn
destruction by fire of two grain elevators an
several small buildings at Buffalo, N. Y.
At Pittsburgh, Pa, Henry Kolb, anew han
| in the employ OF Spencer Mckay a Co., wa
working in one.of the lower vaults of the es
G Enlistment as the elevator was descending
Sever other workmen were on the elevator
:, and when they saw Kolb's dangerous positio
= they yelled for him to get from under. Th
,4N,t,
u in a moment the structure, weighing in tn
/, ncighborhood of three thousand pounds, crush
: cd him to the stone flooring and mashed him t
o a shapeless mass.
= Albert Weber, leading New York piano
q forte manufacturer, is dead in his filteth veal
u The New York coroner's jury in the case {
u the murdered Mrs Hull found verde
S against Cox, the sell-coniessed murderer, an
n he was committed to the Tombs.
n The spinners in the Fall River Mass mil
u have struck work. and severe struggle b,
q tW cen them and the manufacturers is antic
s pated
e A recent dispatch from Allentown, N. j
II says: " VIM A. Blake, the Princeton studer
|. who had abstained entirely from food tC
q nineteen days, and who for ten days previousl
q had taken but few ounces OF bread, has +,
e sumed his usual living voluntarily. His d,
is termination to starve TO death was the r su
Is OF a conclusion that he could not recover frol
paralysis Inspired now with an intelligeI
4 contrary belief, he has relinquished fasting an
i is anxious to live He has at no time evince
!" the slightest symptom of insanity, nor has |
:, suffered any discomfort from his long al
& stinence."
At the State convention Of the Maine Repu
= leans, held in Bangor, d. f. Davis was nom
~ mated for Governor on the third ballot n
Is platform adopted praises Hayes and the Repu
o lican members OF Congress for the stand take
against Democrats, and tavors hard mono
nd tnrolni hiticnn