Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-12-14

Three men named Fornia, father son ain.
nephew, left Gispe, Que, last week in
small boat for their homes on the Dartmouth
river Their dead boiies were found few
days later in the boat, which was full OF
water. Death resulted from exhaustion and
exposure.
John Dillon spys that the sympathy Of
the liberals would do more than all the
hangmen to abolish agrarian crime in Ire
land.
Judge A. w. Rucker at Denver, Col, said:
"This matter between myself and Blackburn
is at an end. / have come to the conclusion
that Blackburn's last letter was really an
apology, which puts an end to the affair"
The new Servian constitution declares the
kingdom hereditary, religion Greek, tribu.
mails independent, judges irremovable and
military service compulsory.
Considerable of a stir was aroused at
Yankton, Oak, over apparently wel[con-
firmed reports of a volcano having broke
loose In Charles Mix county. Il turned out
to be geyser, which Is thi owing hot mud
all-over the surroundl~s pra RE. Neighbor-
ing settlers are somewhat uneasy over the
situation.
It is rumored that Mr.. Cleveland's prom
ised special message will be an exposition OF
the civil service law and a laudalion of his
manner of enforcing It,.
At foot ball game at the Naval Academy
at Annapolis between the Naval Cad Is and
st. Johns college team was played with such
excitement that at its close a free fight be-
tween the supporters of the respective schools
occurred in which many students were
bruised and disfgured. The naval authori-
ties will investigate.
United States Appraiser j. B. Baker and
Ascictant TTnitaI Gtatog AnpraiSar n
Hoffman were dismissed from the customs
service at Philadelphia by order of the pres
ident. Collector Cadwailader demanded MIR.
Hoffmanns resignation on the ground that
employees of the appraisers department had
impugned his administration of his duties
Inspector Byrnes Of New York received q
dispatch from Chill stating that G. f. Han
son, alias w. A. Bushnell, had been arrested
in Santiago for embezzling money from the
firm of Butler, Stitlman 81 Hubbard, law
yers of "a Wall street. The crime was COM
mitted some 10 years ago and the amount
stolen is said to be S35, 900.
An electric railway will be constructed by
the Westinghouse Electric Co, at its work ,
at Pittsburg, Penn, for the purpose Of test
ing its new alternating current motor
Mrs. Secretary whitney, to Chicago
Tribune reporter, vigorously denies the
truth of the various sc lndaous stories that
have been rife regarding the domestic lela-
tions of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland. She de-
nounced Mr.. Depew for having, as she al
legged, given circullt on to these stories at a
dinner party in New York. Especially she
denounces the story that Mr. Watterson,
who had escorted Mrs Cleveland to the
theatre, witnessed abusive conduct on the
part of Mr.. Cleveland toward his wife, on
their return Mr.. Depew is understood to
deny Mrs Whitney's charge against him.
J. w. Powell, superintendent of electric
| lights in the treasury department at Wash
ington, D. c., is preparing plans and esti-
mates for the use of the committee on public
buildings for the lighting of the entire house
wing Of the capitol, for which about 5000
| lights will be required.
| The river and harbor DILL, formulated by
| the subcommittee, has been adopted by the
! full committee. The interests of New Eng
land have been carefully attended by Gen.
| Cogswel, and that section receives rather
more than her share of the 33 per cent. on
the engineers estimates Among the items
are $172 900 for Boston, 500 900 for Sandy
Bay, 10, 600 for Gloucester, $4,000 for Lynn
and $1,000 for Winthrop.
Maggie Baltimore, colored woman, went
to party Friday night, leaving her nine
months old baby in charge of woman
| friend The woman evidently was not faith
| full to her trust, and must have left the baby
alone, for when the mother returned she
| found that rats had gnawed the face of the
baby so badly that she could not recognize
| it. The baby will die.
At meeting of the executive committee
of the inaugural arrangements committee
the price of tickets to the ball was fixed at
s.. 1t was reported that S4S, 700 had been
subscribed to the inaugural fund and that
50 civic organizations, with membership o
Il, 1000, had announced their intention to
participate.