Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-01-27
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
CHOLERA is still raging in Chilli.

OhOLEhA ID SIiu raging IN Cnlll.
EIGHTY horses were burned to death in
Meriden, Conn
SOCIALISTS will hold an international con-
gress in London next August
FIVE soldiers we're killed by a gunpowder
explosion at fort Andulmas, New Mexico.
A COMPANY has been started in New York
LOT the purpose OF refining sugar by cleo
IT is estimated that the farmers of Illinois
lost S5O,0OO,OOo by the drought during the
past year.
THE Cooke Natural Gas Company has been
organized in Chicago with a capital stock of
$1,000,000.
CHARLES SEEBURG and Peter Yepperson
were refused license in Chicago for a shop to
sell the flesh of horses
EDWARD NEMEYER a 17-year-old drunken
boy, shot and fatally wounded Mrs Mary
Benson in Indianapolis
A JERSEY CRY butcher quarreled with an.
other man and struck him with a sausage.
breaking three of his ribs.
THERE are four naval vessels at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard which will start on
long cruises in few days.
HFNCEToRTH Mexican silver will be &C
cepted at the Treasury in Havana, Cuba, at
eighty cents on the dollar.
lHE AnarcmSt RELIEF COMMITTEES Of Chi
cago has divided $4,000 among the families
of the dead and imprisoned anarchists.
PITTsBURG feels proud over poor German
| girl OF twelve years, who is said to be grand
daughter of the last King of Wurtemburg.
THE assessed valuation of New York City's
real estate this year is 81 sos 80, 1873, an in
crease of nearly So, W0, 900 over last year.
Mrs. MARY A. KELLA, of Camden, N. J.,
tainted and fell on her face on the kitchen
range. She was so badly burned that she
died.
MANUEL LOPEZ, alias Colorado" noted
Arizona horse thief, has just been captured
| in the Dragon Mountains, with three COM
panions.
FLOODS in Montenegro have caused
| famine, and 30, 600 person are destitute. The
| Gar has sent a shipload Of corn to the suffer-
ers from Odessa.
EDWARD BURGESS, the yacht designer,
| has written TO the Burgess Testimonial Fund
Committee thanking all the contributors to
the purse of $40, l7225.
THE National Democratic Committee will
meet in Washington on February % to fix
a time and place for holding the National
Democratic Convention.
B. F. ISHMARN, q wealthy japanese student
at Gambler Ohio Theological Seminary,
became insane and was placed in Jail at that
place to await an inquest.
AN old German woman Of East Saginaw,
Mich, has forwarded to the Grown Prince
package of medicine to help cure his throat,
on which she paid ST expressage.
THE British army is the only one of the
acknowledged great powers which is not in
good shape for fighting, or being made thor
oughly available as fast as possible.
A YOUNG man named Burton, OF Atlanta,
10 yOwad ha would fXva ptv- Hy,.a
women before he was % years old, and has
succeeded in marrying five of them.
THE bodies of fourteen women have been
dug out of the snow near Flume, Austria.
Many are still missing and it is supposed
they are still buried beneath the snow.
THE Bent County Court House at Les
Animas, Col, was burned, all records being
destroyed. The loss is a very serious one, but
cannot be computed in dollars and cents.
A GANG of Iowa counterfeters are making
cast-iron dollars. They are heavily plated
with silver, stand the test of acid, are good
weight, and are detected only by the ring.
JOHN S. STAPLES, who is said to have
been the war substitute of President Lin
coin in a regiment of volunteers raised in the
District of Columbia, died recently in Dover,
N. j.
FULLER the man who murdered Arch
bishop SegherS in Alaska last year, has been
found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment and to pay a fine
of 81 200.
LOUISA EVANS of Flemingburg, Ken
lucky, six years old, was tried on a writ Of
lunacy and ordered to the Lexington Insane
Asylum. The case is remarkable because OF
the youth of the patient. She is very violent
CONGRESS has passed bill creating the
Office Of Commissioner of Fisheries, with 6
salary of $1,000. This office was filled fol-
years by the late Spencer E. Baird, who did
the work gratuitously. The bill requires
that the Commissioner shall have practi
cal acquaintance with our fish and fisheries
AN Englishman visited the tower of the
Cathedral at Cordova with a gypsy guide
Two shots were heard and the Englishmal
came down with blood on his clothes. Tn
dead body of the gypsy was found at the toI
of the tower, and the Englishman was ar
rested; but the story that he was attacked b,
the guide and shot him in self-defense was &C
eepted, and he was released.