Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-20
NEWS SUMMARY.


buildings in q q town and the appearance oil
cracks in the ground three or four inches wide
and one-quarter of mile long. The openings
are over mine and are believed 10 have been
caused by the coal being cut too near the sur
face.
At Rochester, n. Y, Peter Peters, Prus-
sian, aged fifty-six, shot his wife, fatally
wounding her, and tlien blew his own brains
ont. The tragedy was caused by family
troubles, the man complaining that his wife
thought moro of their three boys than fhim-
self.
Felix MoCann, aged ffty-iour, was hanged
at Norwich N. Y, tor the murder of James
NJ. Hatch in Sherburne on December 3, 1878.
The immediate provocetion was that Hatch
had shot a chicken OF McCann's; but there
had been bad blood between the two families,
growing out OF McCann's second marriage.
Lightning struck Rev. George Clark's cot
tage at Asbury Park, n. j., and instantly
killed James Kelly and b. Fenton, two paint
ers who had been working on tho building,
but had taken refuge in the porch. =
Three young men-Charles Fifield. VIM. o.
Pinkham and William Rowell-were drowned
in Salem (Mass.) harbor by the oapsiEing of a
sailboat.
The great strike of iron workers at Pitts
burgh, Pa, is at an end, the iron manutac-
turers having resolved at meeting that under
existing circumstances they deem it inexpe-
dent to resist further " the unjust demands of
the boilers"
Judge Blatchford, in the United States Cir
cult Court at New York, has decided, in the
suit agreed upon by Representatives S. b.
Chittenden and b. f. Butler, that the reissue
OF legal tenders in time OF peace was valid.
The case viii be taken to the United States
Supreme Court, where it will be argued by
Senator Edmunds ON one side and General
Butler ON the other.
As Mrs. Honora Lacy was driving from Viii
mington, Del, to her home in Chester county,
Pa, some cotton and straw in the bottom of
the carriage were ignited by match, and in
an instant the whole interior of the vehicle
was in blaze. The horse became frightened,
ran away, and before it was stopped Mrs. Lacy
was literally roasted alive, her flesh being
burned TO a crisp. She died early the next
morning.
At Jersey City, n. j., Mrs. Jenny r. Smith
and her lover, Covert d. Bennett, the con-
victed murderers of the formers husband,
Policeman Richard H. Smith, were sentenced
to be hanged on the 18th of July. Mrs. Smith
received the sentence with composure, but
Bennett had to be supported from falling. The
crime for which the prisoners were sentenced
is briefly told as follows: On the morning of
August |, 1878, Police Officer Richard HarTi-
son Smith, Of Jersey City, was found dead in
his bed at his house, No. 1873 Pacific avenue.
His wife said that while she was in bed by his
side she saw q man in the room who chloro-
formed her, and when she awoke her husband
was dead. The officers skull was fractured in
two places and there were seventeen stab
wounds in the lett breast. Mrs. Smiths night
garments were entirely tree from blood The
suspicious circumstances caused the police to
| arrest her and her paramour, Bennett. While
| in Jail they correspondent, and an eight-page
letter written by Bennett was intercepted and
assisted largely in their conviction. Itappears
to be the general belief throughout Jersey City
that whether the condemned receive a new
trial or not they will never be executed.
Edward Parr, an old man convicted in Phil
| adelphia of brutally numbering his married
daughter, fell to the floor of the courtroom as
sentence fdeath was pronounced upon him by
the judge; and upon examination it was found
he had taken q dose OF strychnine. Although
the doctors tried hard to keep him alive he
died after eighteen hours of terrible suffering.
Accustomed as the residents of New York
are to the varied phases of crime, they have
! just been startled by one OF the most atrocious
murders ever committed in that or any other
city. Mrs. Jane L. De Forrest Hull, an
aged lady, wife of DR.. Alonzo Hull, was found
| dead in her bedroom by servant who called
early in the morning to get her commands toI
| the day. Mrs. Hull was bound hand and foot,
her feet being tied separately with strong
strips OF sheeting, one to each side of the bed
Her hands were tied tightly at the wrists and
crossed over her breast There was piece OF
sheeting over her mouth fastened at the back
OF her head, and she was blindiolded. A trunk
beside the bed was opened and had been rifed
Dol ,Ia ~
many little things in it of no value to any one
but the owner were scattered about the room
The woman had apparently died by violence
| after the diamond and emerald rings which
she wore had been torsibly removed from hel
] fingers. The house in which the crime was
committed is on Forty-second street, neal
| Broadway, fashionable part OF the city. Mrs
Hull leased the house and kept lew dodgers
/ The murdered woman slept in q back room OF
the first floor. Her husband occupied the from
basement as an office, and slept on the tor
floor, in order not to disturb his wife, as he
was accustomed to being called up at all hours
OF the night to visit patients. Mrs, Hull was
,ast seen alive at about eleven o'clock on the
night of the murder. She was undressing pre-.
paratory to retiring. When her body was dis
covered the next morning it was apparent tina
the lady-who weighed nearly 300 pounds
had made desperate fight Tor lite with he
murderers--to whom there was not the slight
est clew-but without avail. On the day fol
lowing the murder her husband said: al can
not see what motive any one had to murde
my wife. She had little money in the hous,
and her iewelry was not very valuable.
have vague suspicion OF some one, but do no
wish 10 implicate that person until | ge
stronger evidence than have at present.
singular thing happened about three week
ago My wife had Bedlington terrier t.
which she was very much attached. 1t was al
excellent Watchdog. 1t was unaccountabl,
poisoned. Our circumstances are somewha
Strengthened. My vile had money left her b,
her mother, but the greater part of it has beer
Let by unfortunate speculations We Away
lived happily together and never had quarrel
MOI did a harsh word ever pass between us.
During thunder storm lightning struck tn
buildings of the Atlantic Refining Company OF
the Schuylkill river, in the southern section @
Philadelphia, setting fire to an immense guam
tity of crude and refined oil. BY the time tn
city fire engines reached the scene five ship
on the river, 10000 barrels OF oil and tn
surrounding buildings were burning fie, sci,
for distance OF over thousand yards an Eth
heat had become so intense that very ittl
Roadway could be made against the fire. Loss
about 100000.
/ A party OF about forty Chicagoans, member
of the Commercial Club and representatives G
the Lake City's largest business houses, mad
the Journey from Chicago to New York il
twenty-four hours and thirty-6ve minutes, tn
fastest time ever nude eastward between tn
two cities. The party was on a pleasure ex
cursion to Boston.
Western and Southern States.
j. j. Ayres, editor of the Los Angeles Ea
press, was nominated for Congress for tn
Fourth district of California by the Working
mems Convention.
Two monuments erected to the memory
Confederate dead were unveiled at Stonewal