Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-12-28
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Some miscreaut threw dynamite bomb
into the oupola Of the Litchfeld Car and
Machine company's foundry at Li,chfeld,
Ill. The missile exploded, tearing the cupola
to pieces, and seriously injuring two of the
employees.
Susie King, aged 16 of New York, COM
mitted suicide by taking "Rough on Rats"
because her affection for 19-year-old boy
was not reciprocated.
White Caps appeared in Augusta, Brock
ems county, KY, recently and warned 10y
poster the editor of the Augusta Chronicle
TO leave town. The newspaper employees
have armed themselves. and propose to ex-
pose the White Caps and fight them.
A woman named Gallagher was arrested
at Queenstown when she landed from steam
er Umbria from New York. and was found
to have a number of cartridges concealed in
her dress. Shs was fined R2 los. and costs.
G. II. Lang, Jr., of Boston, manager OF
the Wakefield Rattan company, and MIR.
Coppertnwait Of the Union Rattan company
of New York, were before the Senate finance
committee and were given a hearing rela-
tive to the duty on rattan
Henry George was enthusiastically well
coined back to America by large audience
at the New York Cooper Union, Mr.. George,
in his speech, recounted his experiences in
his recent visit to England, where the single
tax idea, he said, was now coming into
practical politics and making wonderful
progress.
The chamber of commerce of Manchester
England, by an overwhelming majority, has
passed resolution holding that all foreign
goods similar to those produced in England
should pay the same proportion of the inn
perial and local taxation which they would
have paid had they been manufactured in
Great Britain.
The officials Of the Calumet & Hecla mine
have pronounced the fire extinguished.
Water is being sprayed down the heated
shafts to cool them. The mine is filed with
gas, which will have to be pumped out and
replaced with fresh air. 1t will require sew
eral weeks to put the mine in shape for work.
The present fire has been fought succ2 2SSfully,
but the amount of damage underground is
yet uncertain.
Herr Dilthy, the director Of the German
East Africa company, has returned from
Zanzibar. He denies that the company is
responsible for the rising in East Africa,
which he attributes to the slave dealers. He
: ,ar~s thn assumption of imperial sove-
reignty i'll Et,5 Africa as an imperative
necessity.
"California will send but one democrat to
the 5lst congress, " said Senator Stanford a
a dispatch from San Francisco, which states
that all of ClunIe's chances for a seat have
been knocked out of sight by a recount
Clunie was opposed by Phelps, a republican,
who is, so the dispatch says, elected beyond
q doubt.
MIR. Gladstone has gone to Naples A
great crowd had gathered at the railway
station, and the ex-premier was enthusiast
cally cheered when he departed for Dover.
At the latter place thousands oheered him on
his arrival. The trip across the channel was
made in rough sea and foggy weather.
White Caps have sprung up in Canton, o.
A. j. Gale, a wellknown grocer, has re-.
ceived a warning through the mail, signed
white Caps, Branch One Hundred" He is
ordered to quit mistreating his wife. The
warning has the usual skull and crossbones
in red ink. Other parties in the city, it is
said, have receive warning.
The letter sent by Cardinal Gibbons and
the American bishops to the pope with refer
ence to the Washington university announces
that the sum of IS, 100000 has been collected
for the new institution, and that the univer-
slty buildings are now in process Of erection.
The cardinal and bishops request the conces-
sion Of academic privileges to the university,
and ask the popes approval of its statutes.
Congressman John Nichols of North
Carolina is the latest candidate announced
for public printer He is a prominent
Knight of Labor, and, esides is practical
printer and bookbinder He has acted in
the present house with the republicans al
though elected as an independent. He was
an original Harrison man.
About roo holders Of bonds and shares in
the Panama Canal company held meeting
in Paris and decided to forego for the present
the payment of the coupons and the redemp-
tion nf tho eharnS A II rNrosant cionad ba 4 80
uments binding them to subscribe to any fresh
issue. At another meeting it was resolved
to demand that the necessary measures be
taken Immediately to safeguard the numer-
Gus interests concerned in the canal
The territorial question was brought up
at the meeting of the house committee on
territories, and it was unanimously deter
mined to call up the bill Of Representative
Baker for the admission of South Dakota on
the 18th of January. After the Baker bill
is taken up 1t is proposed to substitute for it
the Omnibus bill. The committee decided to
give hearing Jan. Q to all persons interested
in the bills for the admission of Utah.
Sir James Ferguson, parliamentary sec
retary to the foreign office in the house of
commons stated that instructions had been
sent to the British consul at Zanzibar to
protest in the strongest terms against repe-
tition Of the cruel executions which had &C.
Cured IN the streets or Zanzibar. he had
also been instructed to invite the other for
eign consuls to co operate with him in warn
ing the sultan of the disastrous consequences
that are likely to follow bis disregard of this
protest
The secretary of war has awarded to the
Builders iron foundry of Providence, R. l.,
the contract for making the iron mortar
bodies, for which bids were opened last week,
and for which they were the lowest bidders.
Their bid was Sl415 for each mortar body.
The contract for steel forgings for these NOR
tars was awarded to the Midvale Steel COM
pany Of Philadelphia, and no award has
been made for finishing the mortars. 1t
seems probable that the work will be done
by the government itself at the new army
gun factory at Troy, N. Y.
The steamer St Pierre, from St Pierre,
MID, via Cape Breton ports, reports that the
storm of last week was very severe on the
coast of Cape Breton and at st. Pierre The
brigantine Texada and the schooner Golden,
both bound to Sydney, were totally wrecked
at st. Pierre. Four of the crew OF the st.
John schooner George Lamb, which was
wrecked at st. Pierre, arrived at Halifax by
the steamer. The captain and mate of the
schooner remained to look after the wreck.
FISHERMEN PROTEST.