Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-17
Essex County Herald.
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Inspector Byrnes of New York believes
that he has unearthed a scheme TO swindle an
insurance company. The facts he claims
To have learned involve Moses Straus a deal
er in tailors trimmings at sos Broadway,
who, it is charged, induced Jacob Samuels a
tailor at 246 Bowery, to insure his place for
$1,000 above its value.
Memorial services to dedicate q tablet to
the late Senator John A. Logan were held in
Washington. Mrs Logan, her son John
Logan and his wife, and Major and Mrs
Tucker were present Addresses were de-
livered by Justice Miller, Senators Ingalls,
and Voorhees, and Representatives Long,
Henderson, Springer, Reed and Rev, j. p.
Newman.
Charles B. Franklin, ieweler dealer Of
Troy, n. Y, was arrested there on bench
warrant and taken to New York He is
charged with embezzling jewelry dealers to
the extent of $4,000.
The smallest baby in the world was born
TO Mrs. Fred Miller of Rice Lake. Faribault
county, MINI. 1t is speck of humanity
that barely tpred the beam at l 12 pounds.
Its feet are not over an inch in length, and
AN ordinary tfnger-rfng will go over the foot
and upon the ankle A small childs teacup
will cover its head. The father is large,
heavy man, and the mother very little under
the ordinary size The child is perfectly
formed and healthy
ably reported DIR. Davis resolution to pay
the Esquimaux $1,000 for having succored
the sole survivor of the bark Napoleon,
which was wrecked in the Arctic by ice.
The celebrated case of Storey VS.. Storey,
in Chicago, involving Wilbur F. Storey's
estate, has been practically brought to a ter
minatiOn by the formal order discharging
Receiver Hurlburt.
Mr. Kelley, inventor Of the pneumatic steel
process known as the Bessemer, is dead,
aged 1S. Bsssemer applied for letters patent
on the process here and in Great Britain at
the same time, and Mr. Kelley was granted
The patent on the ground Of priority. He was
native OF Pennsylvania.
The scenery and other property of the
Rice-Dixey company were levied on at the
close of the performance at the Chicago
Opera house to pay about $3.50 of "Adonis'
DlXey'S debts. Some sort of n compromise
was effected. Dixey had during the week,
paid about $4,000 on other old debts.
President Cleveland rendered the position
of sub-treasu' er in New York to Mr.. Jordan
l.. Mott the millionaire iron merchant, but
that gentleman has definitely refused.
For the first time III many years persons
are crossing the Hud son river at Nyack, N.
Y, with horses and sleighs. The ice is
nearly two feet thick along the shore, and is
perfectly safe all the way across, distance
Advices from Bronsville, Tex, give
brief account of the discovery of recent at
tempt to assassinate Gen Martinez, the
Mexican revolutionist.
Two men named Wright and Vinzant of
Smith county, Miss, had been on unfriendly
terms for some time. Recently, at dance,
Nlnzant joStled against Wright. accidentally,
it is supposed and Wright put five bullets
through his antagonist, who fell to the floor
dead.
Two men were killed at Bellevue, o., by an
explosion of nitrO-g glycerine which had been
buried for safe keeping preparatory to shoot
ing gas well. The men were digging it out
with shovels, and struck it a blow, causing
the explosion. The shock was felt all over
northern Ohio The men We're blown to
atoms.
special agent of the treasury depart
ment has been at San Francisco investigat-
ing the reported opium smuggling, and has
discovered that the old ring, which for
merly imported opium by the ton, has been
reconstructed, and is more powerful than
ever, and the smugglers have a fleet of
their own, consisting of Staunch schooners,
that run in and out of San Francisco
under the guise of seal hunting schooners
without being noticed by the custom house
officers.
John A. Benson, whose name Is unpleas-
antly associated with the enormous red tim
ber land swindle in California, arrived on
the new North German Lloyd steamship
States Marshal j. c. Franks of San Fran
cisco. The famous swindle is said to have
cost the government about $4,000, 00J and
for his alleged participation in the steal,
Benson now staggers under the weight Of "a
indictments.