Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-09-28
NEWS IN GENERAL.

| HeOrge Full James, resulted In the death OF
| FULL mes. Barrett was arrested, but es-
capped.
A sailing yacht, having six persons on
board, was swamped in the St. Lawrence
river near Brockvile, Ont, during a gale,
and five of the six were drowned
FIVE robbers attempted to rob an east
bound passenger train on the Southern
Pacific at Harwood, Tex, ard two of them
were shot. Engineer Dan Toomey received
| two bullets in the breast, and will probably
| die
The Northern Pacific is having so loco
motives built at the Baldwin locomotive
works, and 500 freight cars constructed at
Detroit.
Serious trouble is threatened by the three
Chinese commissioners brought TO Ottawa in
bond in a bonded box car III ey intend to
C crrry the matter to Lord Salisbury himself.
They are evidently very important person
! ages, and were treated like COM
mon Chinese laborers They came
from New York, en- route for
the west, from England. They were re-
fused first class passage. The customs police
| on this side said the law required them to be
treated the same as packages in bond, and
they were locked in a box car and so brought
through. The man who let them out of the
car incurred fine of $3.50. He took the
risk, however, let them loose, followed tn m
and when they took refuge in the leading
hotel actually slept outside their door all night
being held personally responsible for them
by his superior officers. The law really ap-
pli9s only to Chine laborers, and the GUS
| toms authorities have apoogiZed for the in
1ignities offered, and hope to escape further
consequences.
There are on'y 100 white and 200 colored
peopl' left in Decatur, Ala. The business
houses are all closed, and also the postotfice
and express office Ten new cases of fever
reported and two deaths. The spread Of
the disease is appalling, considering the
lew people left in the city.
Meyer Goldstein, trusted clerk in the
employ of Greenbaum & Son, Howard
street. New York, has be n held for trial at
the Tombs court cha, ged by the firm with
forging their cheek for $637, which he cashed
at the Importers and Traders National
| Bank. Goltstein confessed that the amount
| Of his peculations by altering checks was
about SIS, 900. He has signed an agreem mt
| offering to give up a house and some furni-
ture, valued altogether at sic, 900, providing
the firm promised him immunity from pun
ishment. Nevertheless ho was held.
The News Of Merid an, Miss, has suspend
ed, owing to the yellow fever panic,
j. R. Chesney, manager of the Chicago
| branch of the cigar mandatory of Heed
J Bros of Barnesville, has been arrested on
4 war; ant charging him with larceny. 1t
is alleged that the firm has found a short
| age of about $500 in the books. Albert
| Heed came to Chicago, and, it is nd,
| found the offi"e closed and Chesney absent.
No trace coul be found of a miscellane-
ous lot of stock and property valued at
$4,000
Bach Bros, clothiers of Wabash, Ind,
have failed liabilities, $33, 900: assets, $l6,-
300. All the creditors are eastern firms.
| Calvin Du Binson and wife, who live in a
| settlement called Catamount, in Kent coun-
| ty, y. B., went to call on a neighbor, leav-
ing theIr three children in the house. They
were gone but short time when they no.
| tlced their house was in flames They ar
rived too late to save the children, all of
wnom perished.
The ty authorities of Chattanooga, Tenn
have forbidden the entrance of Men, this
and Charleston trains into the city ana all
| trains on that line have been abandoned.
| The Alabama Great Southern trains are not
| permitted to stop in the city but pass through
| with locked cars and connect with the Gin
| crnnati Southern five miles beyond the city.
Jernie, the 17-vear-old daughter of ex-
Mayor Louis Moberly of Frederick City,
| Md. is believed to have eloped with Charles
| G tlin, handsome lightning rod agent w o
for month p, st has been flirting with the
| girls of Frederick. Jennie is a blue eyed,
| vivacious girl, very popular in her town,
and was the pet of her wealthy father Cat
lin is about 35. His home is in Hagerstown,
Md. Two weeks ago his wife went to Fred
erick and gave him a sound lecture al out
his behavior toward the young girls. Last
| Tuesday he left Frederick ostensbly to sell
| lightning rods in Mddletown. Jennie met
him at Israel creek and they have not been
seen since.
| Ada Sinclair, daughter of the superin-
| tondent and master mechanic of the ordnance
department at Sandy Hood, has died from
| injuries sustained while acting as guide to a
| number of city friends, who had gone to see
the sights at the Hook. The chief point of
interest was among the crumbling walls Of
the old uncompleted fort, which was erected
during the late war. While on the top of
the hig hest wall Miss Sinclair los. her balance
and fell, striking on pie Of debr 80 feet
below, receiving fatal internal injuries Miss
Sinclair was 36 years of age, and a great
favorite at Sandy Hook.
Advices from Mier, little Mexican town,
! on the Rio Grande, state that Deputy Sheriff
Sibre of Rio Grande City, while in Mier met
and deliberately shota Mexican Journalist
named Caterinoe Cara, inflicting mortal
wounds Some time ago SiDre killed one
Abraham ResendeZ, in the same manner and
on the same spot
The brigantine Corinne, before reported
ashore on Kelp shoal, off Flat Mud Island,
n S., has been beached in Western Cone,
where her cargo has been landed in a dam,
| aged condition. The cargo and material
will be taken to Yarmouth. The Corinne is
a total wreck. There is no insurance on the
vessel The cargo is insured in Boston.
The rnisin crop of California is now esti.
mated at from 100000 TO 100000 boxes
for this year.
Travel has been resumed over the Mexican
railway. Vera Cruz advices are that the
town Of Tlacotalpan is entirely under water,
and that several lives were lost. Many fam
lilies are reported also to be i'll dire distress.
The weather is fine now. and there is a gem
eral subsldence of the water all ovtr the
country. The fire department is pumping
water out of the streets and sewers into the
canals.
1t now seems probable that the Pennsylva-
MIA and Vanderbilt lines will alter their or
iginal programme in regard to the proposed
advance in dressed beef and live stock The
Pennsylvania is now seriously considering
the advisability Of making its rate 80 I
tition OF the Chicago e. Atlantic. The Van
derbits are opposed to this course, but il
the Pennsylvania insists upon 1t. they will
apparently have to follow suit.
Mrs. Matilda Bender walked down the
gangway of the Hamburg steamship Rh etea
with such evident Inconvenience at New
York that a custom house employe reeg ted
her to n private room for special ex tmina.
tion. On her person were found several
yards of silk, crepe and llces Six pairs OIL
French embroidered slippers were in hel
hustle. Sue wore two pairs of new English
checked trousers.
Yellow fever refugees are crowding intc
Louisville, KY.
Advices from Cuba report prices on suga
ns entil ely nominal IL is said that the IN
fitted ideas of holders controlling the fev
remaining parcels of stock there hav