Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-24
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

At meeting of tho coal sales agents of
New York, all the large companies and
wholesale dealers being represented, it was
resolved not TO advance prices at present, as
the supply Of coal was abundant
Charles Benson, alias Burton, who victim
| lied the inhabitants of the City of Mexico
out of S25, 900, by selling bogus tickets for
Nine. PATHS concerts, has been placed in Jail
in New York, preparatory to going TO.
Mexico under the extradition treaty.
! 1t is generally admitted in metal circles
that the French syndicate has now got COM
plete control of the copper market of the
world. The copper rings recent arrange
ment with the Tharsis copper mining COM
pany to sell its output at e65 per ton, it is
said, virtually settles the question.
1t is now reported that the Hungarian
boarding house at Silver Brook, Pa, which
was buried on the 12!h, causing the
death Of six drunken inmates, was SET oil
fire in order to conceal murder. The story
is that two Hungarians had been killed in
drunken row just before the fire broke out.
An air receiver at the Hudson On. " iron
works blew up with a terrific explosion,
! fatally iniuring Patrick Buckly, and doing
over $50. 900 damage The receiver was about
35 feet high and Is feet in diameter, and was
made of boiler iron: 1t was completely
anu IuO IleteS new III tN6al ulTtC-
| tion. destroying stock houses, elevators and
machinery, and stopping the works so that
they cannot run again for some time.
General Sheridan emphatcally denies that
he is a presidential candidate
f. T. Edwards, aged IS, of Trenton, n
J., was crushed TO death in an elevator at
Rochester, n. Y.
! Western railroad capitalists proposs TO
build a road from Minnesota to Russia and
China by way Of Behring strait,
Delegates are in Washington from various
parts of the country, and will urge the claims
Of their respective sections for the national
| democratic convention.
The order for the detail of the crew for the
Swatara has been issued. The men will all
be selected from the receiving ship Wabash
! IN Boston and will be sent aboard the
, 5watara on the 1st of march.
| William Marten, a car conductor, was
arrested in New York, charged with caus-
ing tho death of Newton A. Mcclure, boy,
| whom he kicked off a Third avenue car,
under the wheels of car going in the OPP
| posite direction.
Tammany hall has appointed committee
to go to Washington to urge upon the national
committee the advis1bility of holding the
next national convention in New York.
They will promise to secure Madison Square
| garden.
Z. F. Lindsay, clerk in the United States
land Office at Denver, Col, committed
suicide recently. He was short in his ac-
counts.
A mob attacked the Galveston & Kansas
City north-bound passenger train soon after
it left Fort Worth, Tex, throwing stones
through the windows, injuring several pas
sengers, and seriously woundIng L. A. Baker
of New York, 1t is believed that the inten-
tion was to induce the guard to come out of
the car, kill him, and then rob the train; but
the train did not stop
Osceola Mills, Cearfield Co., Pa, is in q
state of intense excitement over the abduc-
ton of Gertie Walker, the 14-year-old
daughter of r. j. Walker, proprietor of a
planning mill at that place. Being missed
from home, searching parties were out all
night seeking for her. She was found tied in
an office in Osceola Mills, where she had becn
left by her abductors.