The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-07-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Eastern and middle States.


A IRE Al Tyrone, Pa. destroyed about
thirty buildinE-, including AL the bank, tne
,pefa house and the postof1ce. The dAmrge
: estimated Al Sl5O, 900 and the insurance Al
$50. 900.
Colonel William Tilden Pelton, nephew and
,.crefsry Of samuel j. Illden, died at New
York hotel the other day, aged nity-two year,.
The deceased, il will be remembere9 was an
important witness in the presidential 7" eipher
di-paiehes investigation made oy the fotief
congressional committee. %,
Ice A Murdoek's shoddy mill and one
dTe'linF house al East Douglass, Ness, were
destro, "a By IRE lew days since, causing 4
loss Of about $4,000.
The Salvation Army has settled upon Cape
May as the place most in need OF It's lAoors'
A statement prepared by the receivers o.
The Reading raiiruad shows q total tndeoted-
ness between the Philadelphia and heaiihe
raili cad and tn Rea hing Coal and Iron CON-
pany OF 5000 1914 l9.
A Narylapd-born colored woman living al
Syracuse, NY, has hair as white as snow
But, then, she has passed a century on me
being ia her 1924 year. She Is cripple RON
a fall about one year ago, bat otherwise as
well as ever.
Large temperance meetings are being held
| at Asbury Park, n J. The Women's TEN.
| perance convention began there the other
/ day and attracted mulutudes.
A wagon containing nine persons on its way
1 from the Glen House 10 the summit OF Mount
| Washington, in New Hampshire, was tipped
I over AID Mrs. Ira Chichester, OF Michigan,
was Instantly killed and i've other persons
we've injured.
The New York mercantile agency OF Dun.
| Barlow & Co. has issued circular showing
| that the number OF failures in the United
As.rsr Fha FrzfE rN mnntha
| 2497, with liabilities amounting 10 So. 49,
/ 7t3. During the same period in 1879 the
number of failures was 4,O5S, and the hAbul-
ties S65,779, $50.
AT a meeting in New York of the Demo-
cratic national committee W. II. Barnum, OF
Connecticut was elected permanent chairman,
and F. A. Prince was chosen secretary.
Inc committee appointed by the national
DemOcratic convention at Cincinnati 70 lu-
form General Hancock and Mr.. English OF
/ their nomination Tor President and Vice
President performed their duty the other day
at General Hancockis headquarters on Gov
ernor's Island. The committee proceeded IN
a body to his residence, and alter Governor
Stevenson, chairman of the Cincinnati con
ventiOn, had been introduced, letter was
read signed by the tut committee aud ten
dering the nomination to General Hancock,
who replied as follows; "Mr. Chairman and
0
the honor conferred upon me by the national
Democratic convention lately assembled in
Cincinnati and | thank you for your
courtesy in making known that honor to me-
As son as time permits to give the subject
that careful attention belonAing to II, shah
prepare and will send you reply OF formal
nature. accepting the nomination BY the
Democratic party to the Office ot President OF
the United States" The members OF the
committee were then introduced TO General
Hancock, who was in mourning .or his Jour
month-old grandson and namesake, whose
death had taken place few hours previous
William II. En- sh, who was also present,
! having come on from Indiana, was then for
| mally informed OF his nomination for Vice
| President, and he briefly thanked the COM
| mittee, saying that he would at an early day
| formally and in writing make the acceptance
usual on such occasions.
| The Democratic national committee and
| the Congressional campaign committee paid q
visit TO the residence of Me-. TIlden, in New
| York, and presented him with a copy OF the
resolution OF respect passed by the Cincinnati
/ convention. Mr.. Tlden cordially returned
| thanks.
A curious accident took place on train OF
| the Long Island railroad at East Rockawsy
| the other day Twenty-ssven Italian labOrers
were swept from one Of the platform cars by
a heavy wire rope attached to derrick at the
side OF the track and which ssgged as the train
swept by. Two or three OF the men were
fatally injured, and nearly all the rest were
/ hurt more or less seriously.
NJ. X. Waite & Co. have fled notice with
the New York secretary Of state that
they have discovered q mine of gold ore in
the town OF Northampton, Fulton county,
n. Y.
Three rs, 000-barrel oil-tanks near Brad
ford, Pa, were struck by lightning and de-
royed.