Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-01-16
Western and Southern ttateS.

WeS'eTH anu oUulileIH u dte5.
At New Haven, Ky, Albert Lucas, with
three ladies, drove off he bridge across Brust
creek. All the ladies were injured more or
less, but Lucas young daughter broke her
back, and died in few minutes. Another
lady had her collar bone broken, and Lucas
was crushed by the wagon bed falling on him.
lthas been discovered that about forty bodies
have been stolen from lakewood cemetery, IN
Richmond, Va, during the past lew weeks,
and 1t Is supposed the corpses have been
shipped to medical institutions in various parts
OF the country.
The Capital Savings bank at Sacramento,
CAL, has closed its doors. 1t is said that the
suspension will involve loss of over $l,-
900 000
While the sheriff of Amherst county, Va,
was conveying Columbus Miles, O colored
man, to Jail on the charge OF having outraged
white woman, his prisoner WAS taken from
him by an armed force of about forty men and
hanged to tree.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo-, asserts
positively that Jesse James, the most no.
torious outlaw OF the West, has died from the
effects OF shot received at the hands OF
former companion.
The steamer Fisher, the mail boat between
Pensacola, Fla, and Freeport, burst her
boiler killing Captain Watson and one other
person and fatally scalding the engineer.
Governor Cobb, of Alabama, has appointed
Luke Prior, of Athens, to fill che vacancy in
the United States Senate caused by the death
OF Senator Houston. MIR. Prior was the law
partner of the late Senator Houston, and has
never before held office.
AT the caucus OF Republican members of the
Ohio Legislature Congressman Garfield was
unanimously nominated as the party's caudi
date for United States Senator, to succeed
Senator Thurman, whose term expires in
1881. The Republicans have a majority in
both branches of the legislature.
A dispatch from Alamosa, Col, confirms the
horrible rumor that the Meeker women were
outraged while in the custody of the Ute In
dams. This fact was given with details to the
commission OF investigation, but the women
| begged that 1t be not made public. Mrs
Meeker now publishes a letter telling the
whole story, from which it appears that the
| choice was given them OF submitting to the
designs OF their captors or of suffering death.
The examination further disclosed that the
three women were permitted, as last alterna.
tive, with the exception of Mrs. Meeker, to
choose from among the chiefs who should live
with them during their captivity following the
massacre at the agency. Twelve Ute In
dams, on their way to Washington under
escort OF small body OF troops, were pelted
with stones at Pueblo, Col, and an organized
movement to lynch them was set on loot by
indignant miners, but cooler counsels even
tually prevailed.
At San Francisco, CAL, the two-story frame
dwelling occupied by Daniel Hoskins, his
wife and five children, caught fire during the
absence OF Mr. Hoskins, and before the flames
could be subdued Mrs. Hoskins, Annie, aged
eighteen, Eddie, aged four, and an infant
daughter were burned to death.
From Washington.
During December the various United States
minis coined 590S60 gold pieces, worth
$6,4S7,0OO; 1884, 200 silver pieces, worth
| S2,3jS,t32 so, and 3,l03,2 $50 minor coins
worth 1871, 1880. Total coinage-6,0 on, BIC
pieces, worth SIS, 1876, 466.