Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-27
Western and Southern States.

Jesse Davis, a colored man, was ha nged at
Smithfeld, n. c., tor criminal assault upon
Mrs. Champion. The hanging was witnessed
by 5000 persons, to whom Davis made a
speech on the scaffold, advising them to avoid
bad company.
A sewer in Terre Haute, Ind, suddenly
caved in upon a number oil workmen, killing
two and injuring two more.
A waterspout in the Black Hills caused
sudden rise and overflow of Beaver creek,
flooding the country for a space of forty miles
and drowning eleven persons-six men, two
women and three children.
During thunderstorm at Boswell, Ind,
about $50 persons, who were engaged in q
shooting match, took refuge under shed. A
thunderbolt struck the shed, instantly killing
two men and injuring six more, two fatally.
George r. Reynolds was sentenced at Salt
Lake City, Utah, to two years imprisonment
and to pay fine OF $500 Tor committing big
amy He is the first Mormon convicted OF
polygamy since the passage OF the act in 1862.
Manly Stevens, Jr,, night Waterman at
| Hunters Creek, Mich, who had been married
but few months, went home early in the
morning and found John House there. Sus-
pccting him of criminal intimacy with his wife
he shot him five times, and then shot his wife,
fatally wounding both. Stevens then killed
himself.
At Bracketsvile, Texas, in fight with DR..
Charles Rivers, of that place, Lieutenant Ros-
son, of the Twentieth United States Infantry,
was shot five times and killed.
The American Society of Civil Engineers
held its eleventh annual convention at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
A st. Paul (NIinn.) dispatch says General
| Milea If tho Tau1lar a,tou hos haan orda,od
to take the field with column OF troops
against Sitting Bull and his band, members of
which have recently crossed the British
American line to the United States on preda-
tory excursions The troops under General
Miles will number about 500 men, and will
keep q sharp lookout TOR any contemplated
raid by the willy Indian chief
Whitelaw Reid delivered an address before
the Ohio State Editorial Association, in con-
vention at Cincinnati.
The California Republicans, at their State
convention in San Francisco, nominated George
G. Perkins for Governor, and adopted plat
form which sustains the Presidents veto
policy, has an nti-Chinese plank and promises
to support the new constitution.
AT Snow Hill, Md, the long trial of Miss
Lillian Duer, charged with killing Miss Ella
Hearn, ended in a verdict by the jury OF " not
! Bullby VI iuuIuOIJ Dub SullbJ vi llHlDSluuBuIef,
and she was sentenced to pay fine OF $500.
The case was one of the strangest on record,
the two young ladies having been school com
panions, and Miss Duer showing an excessive
tondness tor Miss Heacn, whom, it was claimed
on the trial, she shot accidentally and not
through jealousy because her love was not re.
ciProcated with equal fervor, as was asserted
From Washington.
1 A recent session Of the Senate was opened
under ludicrous circumstances. When the
hour for the meeting of the Senate arrived the
Senators OF both parties were in caucus and
Mr., Ben Hill was the only Senator in his seat.
Mr.. Thurman, chairman pro tenn, raped for
order and said: "1he Senator from Georgin
will come to order" Mr.. Hill and the people
in the galleries enjoyed n quiet laugh while the
chaplain proceeded to Offer prayer. Then the
! journal was read, and, while the clerk was
reading, Mr.. Groome, OF Maryland, came into
the chamber. Seeing no one but Mr.. Hill
present, he evidently thought the Senate was
not in session. He walked with his hat on
nearly to the center of the chamber, when he
noticed the presence OF Mr.. Thurman and the
clerks and jerIled off his hat. II was several
minutes before any OF the other Senators ar
! rived.