The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
Western and Southern States.


that cattle West and Southwest are dying by
hundreds OF thirst. The stock men are sell
ing their stock at whatever prices they can get
for them, and they ind few purchasers Tor
cows with young calves at 81 to IS, OIL. for
yearlings at 81 to So.
Mrs. John Howe, the wife of n prominent
business man OF Cincinnati, and Anna Brown,
a servant, fell through the floor of n vault in
Covington, KY, and both were suffocated.
Mr.. Howe hearing their cries ran out and
Jumped down to their relief. He was taken
out insensibe, but was resuscitated.
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 interfered. 1t is said that
the trouble grew out of "A disagreement con.
corning Federal appointments in Arkansas.
Chevalier Jumonville, who has been cashier
of tho Canal Bank, of New Orleans, for more
than thirty years, and whose accounts have
been undergoing investigation, is found to DO
a deiaulter 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 & Barnes store about
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 narrow
valley between two exceedingly steep and
lofty hills, and was without any appliances for
sxtinguishing or checking u fire. 1t was en-
tirely engaged in the oil business, and every
thing in it was saturated with the infammable
material. Once ignited there was nothing Tor
the inhabitants to do but to leave it as speedily
rs possible. Many OF them were unable to
secure any outer clothing whatever, having
been aroused from their beds ere they had fin
shed their slumbers. Ten stores, the post
office, the railroad depot and telegraph Office,
Il hotel, the Walking- Beam printing Office,
nine dwelling houses, the West Virginia Trans
portation office, Smiths boiler works, one
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 $l50.000.
John Thomas, Mary Hanson and Frank de
Luca were drowned in the Mississippi river
near La Crosse, Wisconsin, by the upsettng
Of boat.
Careful estimates place the Minnesota wheat
crop at forty million bushels.
At Rochester, Mimi, on recent Sunday
night, whole family, consisting OF K. T.
Lesuem his wife and two children, were struck
by lightning and killed.
Special dispatche4 received by the Louisville
Courier Journal Indicate heavy falling off of
the vote cast at the Kentucky election for
State officers and members of the Legislature.
The Democratic Central Committee estimates
| the total vote cast at not over two hundred
thousand-a falling off OF nearly sixty thousand
on the Iilden- Hayes vote, and of over seven
| teen thousand on the last gubernatorial vote.
In louisville alone the vote has fallen off over
eight thousand. The Republicans make slight
gains in the Legislature, and defeat the
Speaker CT the last House, but the Democratic
majority is still overwhelming in the General
| Assembly. The proposed call Tor constitu-
tional convention was defeated for want of a
constitutional majority in its favor.
A most deplorable murder and suicide oc-
Cured in Chicago the other day, Solomon
Sem, partner in the firm of Schillo, Kossm, IN
& Sem, iron founders, shooting the foreman
OF the firm, Conrad Engleman, through the
head, and then, after swapping the revolver at
his own head, retiring to his private Office and
cutting his throat from ear to ear with q knife
Both men leave families, were sober and in
| dustrious and not quarrelsome The quarrel
was about pillar which was being cast in the
| foundry, and which Sem claimed was being
spoiled by Engleman. 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.