Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

lu6 ROVeTnule0U lOT bu0 NOu-
struction of canal at Sault Ste. Marie of
the depth Of 10 feet is So 800, 900. The work
will not be commenced until next year.
Mr.. Cowdrey, the United labor candi-
date for president, is only 36 years old. He
is rather young for so responsible a position,
but he will probably mature somewhat be-
fore he gets there.
The schooner Gladstone, from Halifax for
Jamaica, isreported wrecked at Caicos Pas
sage The ve:se is insured in a Halifax Of
fee for $50 900, and the cargo in the Boston
Mar inc for $6600
A white man named Graham and two ne
groes, David Moore and Willard Hall, were
hanged yesterday in the Jail yard at Bolivar,
Miss, the county seat of Bolivar county.
About 1000 people witnessed the execution.
The post-oflce at Marshall, Tex, was
robbed of $500 in cash and $1,000 in stamps
The cornerstone of the new building for
the Methodist book concern at Fifth avenue
and Twentieth street, New York, was laid
few days ago with religious ceremonies.
A monument erected lsthe memory of the
citizens of Hampstead, L. l., who were killed
in the late war, was unveiled on Wednes-
day in the presence of 14,000 people, Gen.
Horatio G. King delivered the Grafton.
Fire broke out in the offices of the Metro
politan Telephone Company at 692 Sixth av-
enue New York The immense switch
i board, which was erected recently at cost
of $4,000, was totally destroyed.
A special from Webster, jackson county,
! N, c., says that Allen B. Dills, we'll known
and highly respected farmer, shot and killed
! William II. Bumgarner, and fatally wound
| ed his father, Logan Bumgarner, and then
made his escape. The difficulty grew out of
a misunderstanding about small tract of
land, and is tue termination of an old feud.
The building in course Of demolition on
the northwest corner of Broadway and John
street, N. Y, fell and six men were buried
| benC ath the ruins. Daniel Mahoney was so
badly hurt that he died on the way to the
hospital Five others were seriously in
| jured, but will recover.
The legislature in joint session at Baton
Rouge, La, declared Gen. R. L. Gibson the
choice Of the General Assembly to succeed
himself as United States senator
Canada refuses to entertain the claim for
compensation made by the owner of the
American ship Bridgewater, which was
seized at Shelbourne, N. S.
Many of the Winnebago Indians around
Black River Falls, Wis, are in a very desti-
tute condition. They will not get their an
nuity until August.
The wages of the 1000 hands in the Read
| ing (Pa) Iron companys tube mills will be
"a
trade depression and low prices.
President Fitzgerald of the Irish National
league has called meeting of the council OF
the state executive of the league, to be held
at Cleveland, O., June II. The meeting will
probably call national convention to take
action on the papal rescript.
1t is learned from a member of the board
of visitors of the government hospital for
the insane that there is not the slightest foun-
dation for the representations recently made
by ''rumorn concerning DIR. Godding, and
that he has the confidence of the board and
of the secretary of the interior, under whom
he holds the office of superintendent.
The falling of the ceiling in one of the
rooms of the public school building at Bloom
field, Essex county, N. j., caused a panic
among the children, during which Lizzie
Murphy and Annie Andrews, each nine
years old, were seriously, if not fatally
hurt.
The corner stone Of the confederate monu-
ment at jackson, Miss, was laid on Friday
many pee pie being present. The ceremonie.
included a parade of military and civic
bodies and an address by Congressman
Charles F. Hooker. Miss Winnie Davis was
publicly presented with silver crown fol
ler father, who was kept away by ill-health
Hon. Charles H. Gibson was renominatec
for congress by the democrats Of the 1st Ma
ryland district.
Cardinal Gibbons has been notified of the
appointment of Dr. John 8. Foley Of ST.
Martins church, Baltimore, to be bishop OF
Detroit.
The United States cruiser Atlanta left Ha
vana on May 16. 1t was said that in tn
trade winds She was able to make seven knot
an hour under sail alone
The rainy season has set in at Havana.
is not yet known whether the rain has beel
general in the island, and whether the entir,
tobacco crop has been much benefited. Th
receipts from customs on the island durin!
!, February were 1924 357, as against 81, 145,
766 the same month last year.
The Contoocook Valley Paper company a
West Hennlker, N. H., in lot of old pape
recently found check for 100000 on th
, Suffolk National bank, Boston, Mass, givel
March 6, 1865, to Joseph Calender, teller, b,
N. j. Lund, cashier The number of tn
. check is 307, and it has a revenue stamp at
tached.
William Fl. Roe was hanged at Anderson
! Texas. The scaffold was erected one mil
south Of the town and 10000 people wer
present.
A large quantity of harness, saddlery ant
. hardware, smuggled from the United States
has been seized at st. Armand, Que. A mum
Der of wagons smuggled across the line wer
also seized at Prescott, Ont.
Several drunken Italians got into a f1gh
In Christopher Sargents boarding house a
e West Pittston, Pa, and broke kerosen
2 lamp, which set the place on fire One O
Sargent's children was burned to death, an
two othe were probably fatally burned
) Antonio Marengia, a boarder, had to jun
J from a second story window, and was fatal
8 injured.
!, A meeting of the executive officers of th
!. Irish National league Of various states ha
I been called by President Fitzgerald to b
held in Cleveland, Ohio June IL. The papa
rescript is the indirect cause of the meeting
it having stirred up much bad feeling anon
the members of the league Many of them
prominent among whom was Patrick Egar
regard Romss interference as entirely ur
called for and unwarranted.