Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-12-07
NEWS IN GENERAL.

turbance among crowd of dsorderly ne
groes in the western part of the city of Sa-
vannab, Ga, resulted in q riot, during
which a negro was killed, two policemen
and white man, who went to their aid,
seriously injured, and several negroes
wounded.
After simple services at the residence of
Gen. Sherman ia New York on the 10Th ult.,
the body of Mrs. Sherman was taken to the
Pennsylvania depot in jersey City, whence
Gen. Sherman and five members of his
family accompanied the remains to st.
Louis. James G. Blaine attended the funeral
services.
E. Walsh, proprietor of the People,
paper published at Wexford, Ireland, has
been sentenced to five weeks imprisonment
for making speeches intended to intimldate
the people.
Miss Fannie Keeling, formerly dining
room girl in the Stanley House in Chippewa
Falls, Wis.,, was apprised last week that she
had fallen heiress to large estate in South
America, through the death of an uncle.
The estate is estimated to be worth $3,000,-
600. The young lady is in New York looking
after the matter.
A conductor on the Canadian Pacific rail-
way named James Van Astine has fallen
heir to an estate in Scotland valued at over
100000 by the death of a near relative
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
Iron company announces that it will make
no change in the price of anthracite coal for
December.
The Window Glass Makers association of
Pittsbuig, Pa, purposes to start a national
bank of its own, and is now in search Of
suitable building. The leaders claim prom
ises of deposits from several merchants and
manufacturers.
hn alNTsat ION hxy
the Hudson guards at Manhattan Park, New
York, the explosion of a can of powder
caused severe injury to Edward Schenck,
Henry Holsapfel and jerome Smith, and a
fire which partially destroyed the shooting
pavilion. Louis Mundhauk was badly
wounded by the accidental discharge of a
musket.
The Paris correspondent Of the London
Times says: "a personal friend of Nine.
Boulanger assures me that that lady has
not applied for and refuses to consent to
divorce, and that she has retired to a con-
vent with younger daughter"
The Spanish cabinet has approved a bill
which grants suffrage to all ersons over 25
years of age who have had a residence Of two
years in the same place, except officers, SOL
diers paupers and criminals.
Senator Frye and Representative Outh-
waite will make an effort to get the Outh-
waite bill, settling the Union Pacific indebt-
edness, through congress at the coming ses-
sion. Just before congress adjourned Sena-
tor Frye had it made special order for
Tuesday, December 4, 1888 at o'clock. He
proposes to have it taken up and passed
through the senate next month. Mr.. Outh.
waite will have more difficulty in getting at
it. Its opponents in the house who don't like
the bill, because the Union Pacific COM
pany does, have better chance to beat it
there.
Francis Phillips, laborer of Boston, was
arrested in Montreal charged with playing
policeman. He drank with G. Pitman, and
''arrt sted" him and took him to Richard
sons hotel, where he locked him up in a
room and searched him, getting s25. Phil
lips then took hack to saloon, where he
spent $40, then drove to another hotel, tell
ing the driver to tell Richardson that he had
left on train. The driver gave informa-
tion to the police, and Pitman was released.
The Ball Engine Co. of Erie, Penn, is
running its plants to Its utmost capacity to
supply the rapidly increasing demand for its
excellent tvpU of engine which is used ex.
tensively by electric companies for the manu-
facture o. textile fabrics, -four milling, etc.
The works are fitted with the most approved
appliances and 80 men are employed in the
production of these popular engines.
n Vi pIOlulHeHu ldDOE loducIS VI
Pittsburg, Pa, including John Jarrett,
Charles Litchman and Eccles Robinson, are
preparing to form new and gigantic labor
organization. 1t will deal with political
questions, but its promoters claim that II
will be non-partizsn. Litchman is now at
work upon the constitution and plan OF
organization.
Recent borings in the Baku oil district oi
Russia have produced warm water instead OF
petroleum. 1t is feared that the supply Of
oil is becoming exhausted.
A farmer named Warner, living at Maple
ton, Oak, is searching for his II year ole
daughter, who has eloped with Charles Ran
kin, the hired man, 81 years old.
The British steamer Ethelbald, from ST.
AIMS bay, reports: Nov. %, lat. 32' 25', lon
IA 40, passed the Lrig Golconda, of Boston
abandoned, sails and spars hanging over the
side, and rudder gone. The hull was appar
emily intact. Her matches were batteneC
down, her boats were gone, and the genera
appearance gave the impression that the
crew had recently left her,
The story that the president and Mrs
Cleveland have determined to go abroad
next summer is a complete fabrication. The
president has heard great deal from Post
master General Dickinson about the charm
| of the Orange mountains In New Jersey, anC
has some idea Of settling down there afte
| the 4th Of Magch.
| Mr.. Thompson, the United States minister
at Port au Prince, Hayti, informs the stat
department, under date of Nov 16, that tht
schooner William Jones Of Boston, which
was captured on Oct. 20, has been released
and an indemnity of $4,000 paid to Capt
Collins.
The treasury disbursements have been un
usually large during the month of Novem
| Der, the pension payments alone amounting
| to $22, 100000. In consequence of this it /
estimated at the department that the publ,
| debt statement will show an apparel in
crease of $1l,500,000 in the debt sine
November |, instead of the usual MONTH,
| reduction.
Schooner Dallas, Hill, of st. John, wa
wrecked on Heron's Island in the late storm
| The vessel has gone to pieces. She was load
ed with lumber, and all that can be seen i
wreckage The boat and crew are supposed
to be all lost
Colonel S. H. Allen of Thomaston, Ne.
has been appointed warden of the state pri
| son.
The schooner William G. Greene of New
Bedford, out in the gale, and for which mucl
anxiety was felt, arrived safely at Baltimor
on Wednesday. The captain was out in tn
March blizzard, and thinks that storm wa
worse than this.
Joe Hornung Of the Boston base ball club
who has been anxious to get his release fron
the club, has been notified by President Sc
den that be will not play in the Boston clu
and that he is at liberty to negotiate wit
any club that may require his services.
The collector at Boston has been author
| lied to refund excessive duties exacted on a.
mpol tation of certain marble In rougI
slabs by James w. Tufts per the steame
Pieter De Coninck in April last, which
through error, was entered as containing
1903 cubic feet, when, in fact, the merchan
disc consisted Of S93 SQUARE feet.
| Joseph ID. stevens, at one Time promI
nent Young man of Wilkesbarre, Pa, VIII
was convicted of defrau ting his creditors il
New York and Philadelphia to the extent o
S12, 900, and fed pending sentence, has beei
captured at Portland, Me- He had been t
England