Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-03-02
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.


The ice in the Susquehanna river Is gorged
from McCalrs Ferry 70 Chickies, distance
of 2l miles, and is the greatest gorge in many
years, the thousands of logs embedded in the
ice increasing the danger. Reports from up
the river say that the gorge has broken at
Clark's Ferry, and serious damage is appre-
hended.
The Arabian padrOne system of begging
peddlers, which is occupying the attent on of
the New York police, has reached Provi-
dence and already two of the dirty wretches
are in custody The Arabs will be found in
southern Massachusetts i'm a few days. The
police claim that they are also sneak thieves,
One Of the most interesting announcements
to the miners emanated from the office OF
General Superintendent Whiting of the
Reading company. II was in the nature of
an order reducing the price of supplies
which the company miners secure from the
company, and the effect Is virtually to ad-
vance wages.
Detective Robert PinkertOn has been ad-
vised of the recovery by his detectives of all
the property valued at $500 stolen from
the safe in the store of Chapman &c Gale,
jewelers. Of Norfolk, We. by burglars, on
the night Of Feb. 4, and for which joe Dol
lard and Jack Walsh were arrested. The
property was found uried in a country
road seven miles from Norfolk
Charles Green, member of the New York
Cotton exchange, dropped dead on tho floor
of the exchange. Heart disease Is supposed
to have been the cause.
An elevator containing five men fell four
stories in Havemeyer & Elders sugar re6n
cry at Williamsburg, n. Y. I,rael Grant, 80
years old, received a compound fracture of
an ankle and severe internal injuries; Her
man Jerkes' leg was broken and the other
men were badly bruised.
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nn Indiana Bloomington q Western paSsan-
ger train went through a culvert There
were no fatalities, but the passengers were
badly shaken up.
! Franklin Stemp, serving out a sentence at
the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary for pass
! ing counterfeit money, attacked one of the
| guards with hammer, and was shot by the
guard and instantly killed.
Edward W. Mason, prominent member
of the Masonic fraternity of Philadelphia,
died in that city
Advices from mp the Rio Grande state that
Deputy Sheriff Coy was attacked at Ell Cuero
ranch by five bandits. He killed four Of
! them and badly wounded the other.
Judge Emilio V. Martinez, the highest lu-
dicial authority, of Matamoros, Mex, was
murdered in that city, few days ago.
At the recent meeting of the Yacht Racing
association of England, Lieut. WilliAm
| Henn's motion to allow the centreboard type
Of yacht to compete in the English races was
defeated, and such yachts as the Puritan,
! Mayflower and Volunteer cannot now ccm-
pete in British waters.
Mr. Harry Harwood, the most daring and
successful gentleman jockey on the American
turf in 1887, died at his home in Baltimore,
Nd, Feb. a. of injuries sustained by
being thrown from his horse in a race at
Washington, D, c., last October.
The safe of J. Rosendale, jeweler, at 1913
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, was broken
open and between $4,000 and $4,000 worth OF
jewelry stolen.
In the Washington police court, the cases
against Manager Charles Z. Locke of the
National Opera company charging him with
having issued checks on a bank where he had
no money on deposit were dismissed.
The strike of the furnace employees of the
Edgar Thomson steel works against a re-
duction of 10 per cent. in wages was in.
augurated on the 9th. All the men quit
work, and the company is now banking
the furnaces The strike affects nearly q
thousand men
Canada has discontinued proceeding:
against the American schoonors David J.
Adams and Ella NJ. Doughty.
Rock Island engineers and firemen leave
their engines on account of an attempt to aiG
the Burlington road.
The suspension of George II. Clark & Co
hat jobbers, Broadway, New York, with LA
bilities of about $3.50, 900 is announced