Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-15
Western and Southern States.

While ex-United States Senator Dorsey was
sitting in front of the Grand Central Hotel, in
Denver, Col, Colonel Curry, OF Memphis,
approached and struck him twice with his fist
before bystanders intertered. 1t is said that
the trouble grew out of a disagreement con-
corning Federal appointments in Arkansas.
Chevalier Jumonville, who has been cashier
OF the Canal Bank. of New Orleans, tor more
than thirty years, and whose accounts have
been undergoing investigation, is found to be
a delaulter to the amount of twenty thousand
dollars.
The town OF Volcano, West Virginia, con-
tanning about two thousand inhabitants, has
been entirely destroyed by fire. The flames
originated in Thompson s. Barnes store about
four o'clock in the morning, and rapidly spread
until they reached some oil tanks, which
caught fire and burst, and the burning oil ran
through the streets, setting fire to everything
on either side. The town was in a narrow
valley between two exceedingly steep aud
lofty hills, and was without any appliances tOI
extinguishing or checking a fire. 1t was en-.
tircly engaged in the oil business, and every
hing in it was saturated with the inflammable
mat erial. Once ignited there was nothing toI
the inhabitants to do but to leave it as speedily
RS possible. Many of them were unable tC
secure any outer clothing whatever having
ittil ulOuStu lIOlll LIlclE tilOy iluN
ished their slumbers. Ten stores, the post
office, the railroad depot and telegraph office
hotel, the WdlktHg- Beam printing office
nine dwelling houses, the West Virginis TransC
portation office, Smiths boiler works. on
pumping station, several other small buildings
and six hundred barrels OF heavy oil were
burned. Almost the entire contents of the
stores and dwellings were consumed. The
loss is estimated at about $4,000.
John Thomas Mary Hanson and Frank dc
Luca were dlowned III the Mississippi river
near La Crosse, Wisconsin, by the upsettine
of boat
Careful estimates place the Minnesota wheat
crop at forty million bushels.
At Rochester, Mimi, on a recent Sunday
night, whole family, consisting Of e. p
Lesuem, his wife and two children, were struck
by struck by lightning and killed.
Special dispatches received by the Louisville
| Courier Journal indicate heavy falling off o.
the vote cast at the Kentucky election tol
State officers and members OF the Legislature
| The Democratic Central Committee estimates
the total vote cast Mt not over two hundred
| falling off of nearly sixty Thousand
on the Tilden-Hayes vote, and OF over seven.
teen thousand ON the last gubernatorial vote
In Louisville alone the vote has fallen off over
elSnI lnOuSdnu' ne ISepuDllchuS nuke SlRnl
gains in the Legislature, and defeat the Speaker
Of the last House, but the Democratic majority
is still overwhelming in the General Assembly
The proposed call for constitutional conven'
ton was defeated for want of n constitutional
majority in its favor.
most deplorable murder and suicide oc.
Cured in Chicago the other day, Solomon
Semi a partner in the firm OF Schillo, Kossman
II Sem, iron founders, shooting the foreman
OF the firm, Conrad Engleman, through the
head, and then, after swapping the revolver al
his own head, retiring to his private office anc
cutting his throat from ear TO ear with knife
Both men leave families, were sober and in
dustrious and not quarTelsome. The quarre
was about pillar which was being cast in the
foundry, and which Sem claimed was being
spoiled by EDgleman. The latter denied this
and after resigning his position on the spot
and being paid off, Sem reiterated his charge
when Engleman gave him the lie, and the
tragedy was at once enacted.
| Domestic tragedies have become quite ire
quent OF late in the West At Middletown
Ohio, Charles Ballett, a livery stable keeper
! shot and killed his wife, and Immediately alter
ward shot himself through the head, killing
himself instantly. Ballet was q drunkarC
and his wife had petitioned for a divorce
which, angering him, led to the tragedy Or
| the day previous Samuel Nussbaum, an ole
citizen OF Cape Girardeau county, Mo, cut hi.
wife's throat and then cut his own throat
Domestic trouble is said to be the cause. The
dispatch said Nussbaum would die, while his
wife might recover.
Rev. W. H. H. Murray has telegraphed Eas
from San Francisco, Indignantly denying that
he was seeking to evade his creditors, ant
asserting that he was on the Pacific slope OF
business.
The Maryland Democratic State Convention
was held in Baltimore, and resulted in the
nomi1ation of ticket headed by William T.
Hamilton for Governor. The platform adopted
praises the course OF the Democrats in Con.
gress and censures that OF the Republicans in
its details; declares for payment of the debt
upon the basis OF coin exchangeable in all the
markets of the world, and asserts that the
Democratic party was deprived by fraud OF the
fruits of its victory in 1876
Thomas E. Beeves, son Of Sir Thomas
Beeves, baronet of Norfolk, England, com
mitted suicide at Denver, Col, by taking NOR
phine. He lett letter saying he had lived a
nisspent life. He was twenty-six years old,
and had been away from home about year