Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-09-07
NEWS IN GENERAL.

on the Libby prison property has fallen due,
and was defaulted upon by the Chicago syn
dictate that purchased it last spring The
property will be sold at public auction at the
risk and cost of the syndicate.
A recent ruling of the secretary Of the in
terror leaves the civil service commission
without funds for printing purposes
Senator Hoar's resolution calling on the
president for copies of ali correspondence
with the government of Great Britain re-
monstrating against unfair treatment of
American citizens by the dominion in the
matter of tolls on Canadian canals and in
the prohibition of entries for transportation
in bond of American fish, and of wrongs to
American fishing vessels, has been passed
after slight amendments by Mr.. Edmunds.
1t is reported that cholera is raging in
Presque Isle county, Mich, and people are
dying like sheep, with no doctors in the i'm
mediate vicinity, Nine persons have died in
one day.
VIM Simpson of New York City has lost
by death, at Woodburn stock farm in Lex
ington, Ky., the bay mare Directress full
sister to Director, 2 ~, by Dictator, dam
Dolly, by Mambrno Chief. She was valued
at $1,000.
During a Harrison and Morton pole-rais-
ing near Morris, Oswego county, N. Y, a
cannon was discharged prematurely, killing
John Dickson, Albert Sergeant and Fred
Sage.
At Kingston, Ont, the collector Of GUS
toms has notified the fruit dealers that they
must enter and pay duty upon crates and
boxes In which they receive fruit, which is on
the free list, as instructions have been issued
by the commissioner of customs that the
packages are subject to a duty of 20 per
cent. This is the first intimation that dealers
have had of the existence of any such law.
AS they will have to pay duty on all pack
ages they have received this season, and as
they have no way of recouping themselves
they are highly indignant.
Edward F. Stewart, trustee and treasurer
Of the Washington square Methodist church
in New York City, has been arrested for
stealing So, 100 of the church's which was
raised by the congregation to pay of mort
gage.
II ouble is brewing on the Shoshone reser-
ervation, Fremont county, Wyo. The Sioux
visitors Of the Arapahoes are at the bottom
of the trouble. Two white men were found
dead near Rattlesnake mountains on the
reservation, where they were doubtless mur-
dered by the Sioux, who donned war paint
after being ordered off the Shoshone reser-
vaton HaIf-breed hunters report the
presence of a band of $50 hostile Indians
within the reservation. They are fully armed,
have plenty of ammunition, extra ponies,
and no women and children along
The steamer st. Paul has arrived at San
Francisco from Ounalaska, having 100000
sealskins the seasons catch on st. George
and st. Paul islands She also has a num-
ber of other skins and furs, the value of the
entire cargo being estimated at 100000.
The revenue cutters Thetis and Bear at
last reports were in the Arctic and all on
board doing we'll No seizures have been
made this season, though it is reported by
the agent of the Alaska Commercial company
that several British schooners have been
seen taking seals within the prescribed limits.
The will of the late Charles CrocSer, sec
ond vice president of the Southern Pacific
railroad company, appoints Mrs Mary A.
Crocker, the widow, executrix. The estate
is worth something over $25, 100000.
Samuel Handbook, prominent merchant
of Kincaid, Kan, was chosen umpire of a
match game of baseball between the rival
towns of Kincaid and Bayard. A
swiftly thrown ball tipped the bat and
struck the umpire a powerful blow in the
jugular vein. He died instantly.
August Ears and Charles Lebanew were
killed at Green Bay, Wis, recently, by the
collapse of a coal shed containing l40 tons
of coal. Their bodies were hattened out
into shapelessness.
Pension Commissioner Blacks annual re.
port shows that, during the fiscal year ended
June 80, the pension rolls received &C, 252
new names, the largest annual increase in
the history of the bureau, making total OF
452, ,557 pensioners on the rolls.
Gen. Greely believes that the station on
Pixies Peak might well be discontinued, but
the senate disagrees with him, and has put
special appropriation of $4,000 in the sundry
civil bill to keep it going.
Many residents of Caldwell, O., have fled,
to avoid an epidemic Of malarial or typhoid
fever. More than 100 cases have been re-
ported, with 25 deaths. 1t is now believed
to be under control, and no new cases are
reported.
While shooting at Lake Placid, N. Y,
Daniel O'Connell, assistant United States
district attorney Of New York City, accident
ally shot John Shey, his guide. 1t is feared
that Shey cannot recover. Shey has made
statement generating Mr.. OConneu
The senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Consuls--- L. Austin Spaulding,
at Brunswick; ]. Russell Parsons, Jr., at
AK la Chappele; Charles Deblanc, at Puerte
Cabello; Ernest w. Smith, at Mozambique.
James Cray, sailor on a Cuban steamer,
has been arraigned at the port of New York
for smuggling 5000 cigars. He tried to get
them through the custom house in small
engine boiler. Surveyor Beattie says that
ures to stop the wholesale smuggling of
cigars now carried on by sailors from south
ern ports.
The Interoceanic railway company has re-
ceived from London over 1000, 900 in Mex
ican currency with which to pay the ex-
penses of the earlier months of active con-
struction ON its Vera Cruz division.
Secretary Whitney has before him the re-
port of board detailed to consider the APP
pication of the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco for an extension of the time to
complete the Charleston. The company asks
for an extension of four months and the
board recommends that it be granted. Sec
retary Whitney has signitied his intention to
approve the report.
The acting commissioner of navigation
has issued a circular to collectors of customs,
directing that French vessels arriving in the
United States shall be deemed to be of the
tonnage denoted in their certificates Of regis
>ry, and that the vessels need not be admeas-
Ared in this country. The government of
France has agreed to accept in French ports
the admeasurement Of United States vessels
as certified in their registry.
The annual report of the commissioner OF
the general land office shows that during the
year ended June 80 1888, there were So, ,095
cash land entries of all classes, aggregating
5, 907, ,254 acres, for which the government re.
ceived Sll ,2O3,O7L
The first shipment of standard silver dol
lars for storage in the large new treasury
vault was received at the treasury depart.
ment at Washington. 1t came from Phila-
delphia by express and amounted to $500
600. These shipments in lots of $50O0OO
will continue daily for about six months nm 4.
til they aggregate 500, 000,0 900, the capacity
of the vault The present shipments are from
tie mint at Philadelphia and will be fol-
lowed by similar shipments from New York,
New Orleans and San Francisco.
At special session of the United States
circuit court, held at ST. Johnsbury, Vt.