Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-01-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and M,dils States.


Three women-Miss Young, Mrs. Kreamer
and Mrs. Klouse-liying near Redington, Pa,
had been to that town shopping On their
way home they walked down the Lehigh
Valley railroad track TO shorten the distance
10 a small Jerry which they had 10 cross.
coal train was moving down the road at
the time, and they stepped on the up track
Just as an express train came around the
curve running at the rate of about forty miles
an hour. Mrs. Klouse threw herself from the
track but the train struck Miss Young and
Mrs. KreGmer, throwing their bodies some
forty or fifty feet into the air. Death was
instantaneous in both cases.
Edward King, on invalid seventy-eight
years OF age, and his widowed sister, eighty
years of age, were burned TO death in their
residence near Greenport, Long Island.
Edison, the inventor, claims TO have at last
succeeded in inventing his long.looked for
electric light, which is to revolutiOnize the
present methods OF ilu mination. The most
astonishing part Of the invention is that the
electric light is produced from little piece OF
prepared paper, through which is passed an
electric current, resulting ina "bright, beauti'
full light, like the mellow sunset OF an Italian
autumn"
Miss Howard came out first in q womans
six-day ago as-you-please " walking match
in New York, covering 1893 miles. The spec
tacle OF about twenty-five women dragging
themselves for q week YEARLY about track,
at the risk OF running their constitutions, was
not particularly ediiying, and failed to draw
the expected crowds.
In New York, the other day, Captain Boz
gnrdus, the noted marks man, essayed to shoot
at and smash $500 glass balls in hours, and
succeeded. He stood twenty yards away
from the trap and loaded his gun himself.
| Over three hundred guests were present at
| the seventy-ioarth annual dinner of the New
England Society in New York. George
William Curtis responded to the principal
toast of the evening, p" The Day we Cele-
brate;" Secretary Sherman responded to the
toast, " The President of the United States, ="
and General Sherman to "The Army and
| Navy"
! A seven-story brick building in New York,
| occupied as a corset and suspender factory,
was destroyed by fire few days ago, and a
number of female employees had narrow
escape from death. -Four women and three
men were injured.
The formal opening of the Boston Hoosac
Tunnel and Western railway was celebrated at
North Adams, Mass, by a banquet, which
was attended by about two hundred guests,
mostly railroad men.
The report of the board OF directors OF the
Erie railroad company tor the last fiscal year
shows TINT the gross earnings amounted to
SIS 9i2, 022 5S, with an Offset OF operating ex-
ponses amounting to $ll, IVA, 698.95, thus
| showing the net earnings from traffic to have
been S4,767. 1923 GO. The capital stock OF the
company fixed by its articles Of association is
as follows: Common stock, S78 100000; pre-
ferred stock, $S,536, 900-making a total Of
| $50 536, 900.
Matthew Gleason and his wife, living on q
farm near Eagrestown, n. j., were awakened
early in the morning by fire in their house.
and barely escaped by lcAping from window
in their night clothes; but their three chill
dren-John, aged ten; Margaret, aged seven
and James, aged two-werc burned to death
/ Major L. w. French, a clerk in the Maine
acknowledgements Office, attempted to have
100 rifles and $4,000 cartridges conveyed from
the State arsenal at Bangor to Augusta; bu
the wagons carrying the material were
stopped by large and excited crowd, and the
mayor OF Bangor, appearing on the scene
asked Major French upon whose authority the
arms were being removed. Major French re
piled upon the authority OF Governor Garce
lon. The mayor then said that in the presen
excited state of the crowd he teared that, will
the meager police force under his control, hi
could not guarantee the safe conduct of tht
arms through the city. Major French theI
ordered the wagons to return to the arsenal
The affair created great excitement through
ont Maine.
When the Italian ark francesca Donovan;
alIivedin New York, the details OF terrible
tragedy at sea were made public. 1t SEEM
that two sailors on board mutnied Tor thu
purpose of obtaining possession of the vessel
drove their companions aloft stabbed an
killed the cook and boatswain, wounded tn
mate and cabin boy and then tried to com
Plete their murderous work by killing the cap
lain, who, however, confronted them with
revolver and shot them both dead.