Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-03
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

pOMES 10
Two young men named W. w. Thomson
and G. H. Opdike walked from New York TO
,, Montreal, 42O miles, in lS1< days. They
rested at Saratoga three days, making 15J6
days of actual walking. They are art stu
dents in Wesleyan college at Bridgeport Ct,
and sons of clergymen. They intend walk.
ing through the White mountains to Port
land, Me-, and thence take train for home.
They experienced great hunger during their
journey where habitations were scarce.
The banking schooner Arrow, 70 tons,
owned by j. Mum q Co., of Harbor Grace,
N. F., was in collision with the bark l. w
Oliver few days ago, in latitude Az north,
longitude so west. The schooner was cut 30
the waters edge and disappeared 10 minutes
after being struck. The crew, consisting of
13 men, were rescued by the bark and landed
at St Johns, N. F. The Arrow had been
fishing all summer, and had on board all her
catch, consisting of 500 quintals. The vessel
and outfit were insured in an American
/ agency at Halifax fof $1,000
A special from Springfield No., says
Travelling Auditor Townsend of the Gulf
road arrived in that city, from the SOUTH
and verifies the report of one of the negro
county officials at Marion, Ark, having
been lynched by mob of white men.
Gov. Ross of Texas has issued a proclama-
tion establishing quarantine against the
yellow fever infected districts of Florida.
A special from Charlestown, W. Va, says
war has broken out afresh in Pike county,
KY, between the Mccoy and Hatfield fac
tons.
A freight train was wrecked near Ytan,
Neb., and six tramps, concealed in a box car
loaded with shelled corn, were smothered to
death by the grain.
AT Bentonia, Miss, the daughter of Dolph
Miles, colored, poisoned her father and three
brothers. Two brothers are already dead;
the third brother and the father are not ex-
pected to recover. The mother was at church
and thus missed her portion of the poison.
Gov. Hill asked Dist. Atty Fellows for
bis opinion as to the advisability of exercis-
ing executive clemency in the case of Chiara
Cignarale, the Italian woman under SEN
tence of death, and Mr. Fellows has recon-
mended communication of the sentence to
life Imprisonment.
The New York Worlds Washington spe-
cial says that Senator Ingalls, may be ex-
pected to stir up the senate with vigorous
attack on the entire foreign policy of the
government. He will probably speak on
Senator Morgan's motion to postpone the
fisheries treaty till December.
G. A. Lewis of Erie, Pa, scientist of
| some repute, dramatic author and until re-
Gently superintendent in charge Of the Erie
Electric Light company, fed in disguise to
escape officers who had papers for his arrest,
charging series of forgeries committed dur
ing last week.
Charles Soons and William Berry of Little
Rock, Ark, went into the cellar of friends
drug store for wine, and by mistake tapped
keg of arsenicated fly poison, and drank
freely of it before they discovered their mis-
take. Soons was dead in an hour, and Berry
died the following day.
MI UarDoo n N I,,.oIo, on+ocaJ H.
suburban residence of Hon. Columbus De-
lano, ex-secretary of the interior, and his
noise aroused the household The venera-
BILE seer etary, now in his S0th year, arose.
procured a revolver, confronted the in
truder, and drove him from the premises
The New York Herald's special from
Omaha says that William H. Moore, the
eloping editor, and Mrs. Norton, his para
mour, passed through Omaha, en- route to
Canada, and in few days they will sail for
| London, where Moore will at once become
the London correspondent of the New York
| World.
While steamer was en- route from Port
land, Ore. -, to Astoria, a few days ago, a
package containing $4,000 was stolen. The
Pacific Express company, on learning of the
loss, Immediately paid over $4,000. The
the amount stolen to catch and convict the
thief.
Judge Van Brunt has granted Col. Inger-
soils motion for a permanent injunction
against Il. 5. Fellows restraining him from
using the memoriziEg system invented by
Professor Losette. This settles an impor-
tant question of copyright law, and estab-
fishes the property of an inventor in his own
ideas.
William Stanbro, justice of the peace at
Syracuse, Neb, was severely horsewhipped
/ ortry Of bod ,;Sxhte
He was badly cut about the head and face
| His assailants claim that he enticed
young girl from her home and
made improper proposals to her. Stanbro
denies the charge, and has sworn out war
rants for the men, whom he says he can
| identify.
At the Haines Normal and Industria
school, "a colored boarding school at Augusta,
Ca, the attending physician directed the
principal to give the children a capsule of
quinine each morning. Recently new sup
ply of quinine was purchased and when the
usual amount was given the children were
found to be poisoned. 1t is stated that NOR
phine was furnished at the drug store in
stead of quinine through a mistake of the
clerk.
A double murder was committed a few
days ago at the farmhouse of John Lamont,
at Dryden village, N. Y. In the employ of
| "N' pi oOVJ Sii, o6Su 80 lalhcNi
Jennie Rote. A farm hand named Dutton
had been paying attention to the young
woman but she refused his advances, which
made him angry and jealous of Lamont who
IL is said, Miss Rote loved, and whom she
would have married in few weeks. Dut-
ton first killed Lamont and then Miss Rote,
and next morning posse found the murder
er's body in the woods with bullet through
the heart.
The most extensive and destructive hail
and wind storm ever known in central Iowa
swept diagonally across Tama and Grundy
counties last week. In Tama county the
path of the storm appeared to be from two
to four miles wide, and extended about Is
miles in length. In its path the crops are
totally destroyed. The hail in many places
has formed into drifts from two to four feet
deep. In Grundy county, the storm track
was about five miles broad where it ragged
with most fury. In its path, growing grain
was utterly destroyed only bare stalks re-
naming where stood fine fields of corn Sew
eral large barns were blown down and much
stock killed.