Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

Ex-Judge George G. Barnard, who was i'm
peached and removed IRON the Supreme Court
bench of New York city, in 1872, ON account OF
several decisions rendered in the Erie railroad
suits, is dead in his iorty-ninth year.
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, known as
"the boy with the white eye,n made an UNI
successful attempt to escape from the State
prison at Concord, Mass, by saving through
iron bars.
Eighty-flve thousand dollars worth of the
new ten-dollar funding certificates were sold
by the New York postofIice in a few hours the
other day.
A large amount OF damage to timber has
been done by extensive forest fires in Northern
Pennsylvania.
Nearly the entire business part of Gorham,
N. H., has been destroyed by fire. Twenty
buildings were burned, thirty families rendered
homeless and seventeen business firms turned
out OF doors. Loss estimated at $4,000.
BY the report OF the New Hampshire Bank
Commissioners it appears that there are sixty
six savings institutions in the State, with
87,3S7 depositors, a decrease during the past
year of 1924. The total amount of deposits
is S26, 2S2, l36.09-a falling off in year of
81, sol, 4I2.9l.
Seven miners were entombed in coal mine
ntil hhhtSbdiltt H. ny lllt ldll VI
several acres of roofing. A party of miners
at once went to work to cut their way through
the huge masses of fallen coal to the impris-
oned men, whose fate was matter of painful
anxiety. After working day and night for five
| days the seven men were reached and all found
alive They had subsisted on the meat of a
mule, and were very little the worse for their
long confinement. In order to reach them a
passage way of twelve hundred feet through
rock, slate and coal had to be driven. The
coal company presented each of the rescued
miners with one hundred dollars
The house OF John L. Keagh, near Pittston,
Pa, was destroyed by fire and two children-a
| son aged eleven and daughter of thirteen
we've burned to DEATH In his efforts to save
the children Mr. Keagh had his hand and face
terribly burned, The youngest child, aged
five, was burned so badly that his recovery was
considered doubtful.
A new telegraph company has been incorpo.
rated in New York, under the name of the
Union Telegraph Company, with capital Of
| ten million dollars. The three corporators
named are Jay Could who subscribes Tor one
half OF the stock, and David H. Bates, of New
York, and Charles A. Tinker, of Baltimore
The new company expects to have its wires
running to Chicago within three months.
A bold attempt has been made to rob the
Workingmen's Savings Bank, of Allegheny
City, Pa. Two men entered the bank and one
requested change for dollar bill. AS the
cashier, who was alone in the building, was
making change the man suddenly drew a re-
volver, pointed it over the counter at the cash
Ter, and threatened TO fire if he moved. Quick
as thought the cashier wrested the pistol from
the thiet's hands and faced the two men, who
! began clambering over the railing. He free
| several shots at them, and one shot was free
at him in return. The thieves succeeded il
getting away with 81 800, but missed severa
packages Of larger amounts, and dropped 5000
on the sidewalk
The financial statement for April shows ar
increase in the national debt of $40 ,952. l6
Decrease OF debt since June 80, 1878, SIS, $685.
6l3S3. Total cash in the Treasury, $44S, 467,
1861. Debt, less cash in the Treasury, May
l, 1872 So, 027, l20, 2l7.99 OF the debt bearing
no interest there is outstanding: Old demand
and legal-tender notes, 1916, ZAP, 63l; certin-
Gates OF deposit, S3l ,635 900; fractional cur
rency, $l5, ,009.j 50; gold and silver certif
Gates, $l7 las, 500; total, $4l2, 040 260.52. Thu
payments made from the Treasury by warrants
during last month were On account of civil
and miscellaneous, $5, III, 232. 60; on accom-
OF war, 1926, 054.36; on account of navy,
1898, 06S2l; on account OF interior (lndian anC
pensions), 81, 9l6 759.97; total $ll ,957 lbs, 10
Twenty-one steamship managers in New
York having given notice that hereafter the.
would not pay for loading and discharging YES
sells more than twenty five cents an hour, day
and night alike, several thousand 'longshore
men struck against the reduction, whicl
amounts to about one-sixth of their wages.
Mrs Sarah j. B. Hale, who for fifty year
was the editor of GOdeyS LddyS Book, died il
Philadelphia few days ago, aged ninety years
The Pennsylvania State Fair will be held
Philadelphia from September 9Th to Goth.
On May l the reduction of the tax on to
bacco from twenty-toui cents to sixteen cent
a pound went into force. For some time pre-
vious to that date Western wholesale tobacco
dealers had allowed their stock to run down
so as to obtain the benefit of the tax reduction
In order to get ahead Of their rivals Il large
New York tobacco firm bought thirty leigh
thousand dollars worth OF revenue stamps a
midnight OF April 80, loaded up five baggage
cars at Jersey City with tobacco and sent
special train on it's way westward The TRIP
from New York to Chicago was made IN few
minutes over twenty-four hours-the shortes
time for freight train on record.