Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-10-26
NEWSY' GLEANINGS.

CHOLERA prevails in the Philippine Isl,
ands
THE attempt to organize a grave-stone
trust has failed.
Four German frigates have been ordered
off to Zanzibar.
MINNEAPOLIS bakers fix the price CT bread
at seven cents loaf.
THERE will be a national exhibition in
Palermo, Italy, in 1891.
THE Canadian Government has ordered a
survey Of the S Clair River.
ENGLAND and Italy have formed a mari
time alliance against France.
WISCONSIN cranberries have been dam
aged twenty-five per cent. by frost.
EXTENSIVE opium smuggling across the
Dakota border has been discovered.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS tour has aroused
great enthusiasm throughout Germany.
Ton KING the once famous English pugil-
ist, who defeated Heenan and Mace. is dead.
THERE is now no lumber in the Canadian
market. Ali of next seasons cut has been
sold.
A SHORTAGE of $4O.OT' as been found in
the Office Of the Public Administrator of New
Orleans.
POISONED candy is being sent around
Canada by some unknown person through
the mail
A CUNARD steamer will shortly begin
monthly service between Halifax and the
West Indies
F. j. REEs, Chief of Police at Milwaukee,
has been removed from Office on charges of
incompetency.
THE English Currency Commission has not
been able to agree on the question of a BIZ
metallic standard.
SEATTLE, Washington Territory, is ship
ping large quantities of fresh hahut to
Gloucester, Mass.
ETHE amount of loss to creditors in Eng
land and Wales through bankruptcy last
year was $35, ,574,5 5!5.
KING OTTO, of Bavaria, is sinking very
fast and his fits of insanity are now more
frequent and violent
A BEAUTY show at Wiesbaden, Germany,
ends i'll free fight among the competitors,
the result of Jealousy
GREAT destitution prevails in Dakota be-
cause of the failure of The wheat crop, and
an appeal is made for aid.
The court house and jail at Sac City,
Iowa, has burned. A prisoner named Charles
Carson was burned to death.
PASTErR'S method for preventing anthrax
among sheep and cattle has been tried sue
cessfuly in New South Wales.
THERE are $4O2, 0O0OO0 in mortgages on
lands, lots and chatteS in Illinois, OF which
$l42,0 600 are in farm mortgages
CORNELL UNIVERSITY has put up new
building which will be devoted to the scen-
tific breeding of bugs and other insects.
THE New York Bureau of Encumbrances
has removed 2ll telegraph poles and 269, ,737
feet OF wire from the streets of that city.
AMERICANS have captured fifteen diplomas.
twenty-SiX gold, six silver and three bronze
medals, at the Brussels International Expo.
siton.
A SAN FRANCISCO jury estimates a mans
legs at $4,000, at least that is the verdict
given George Smith, whose legs were para
lyzed by an injury.
YOUNG woman Of ,twenty7twQ ,apd P.jfl-
don, England, lahoring man and went
through him thoroughly.
SAMUEL c. PRATT was parboiled in the
baths at Hot Springs, New, he having
jumped into the water, not knowing It's tenn
perature. He died Of his niuries
PATTI has concluded a contract with q
Brazilian impTesario for next season in
Bueuos Ayres for $3.50 night and further
contingent interest in the receipts.
IT is computed that this years corn crop,
If loaded for railroad shipment, would fill
2,S7S. 81 cars, and make a train that would
reach II, 449 miles, or twothirds of the way
around the world.
THE British Government will pay $3.50. 900
indemnity on account of the loss sustained
through the collision in the River Tagus of
the British ironClad Sultan with the French
steamer Vile de Victoria.