Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-11-23

creas1ng ever since election. Besides the
abusive letters, none Of which the president
sees, a great many kind letters expressing
personal regret that he is not to be in the
white house for four years more are coming
In. Every one of these letters expresses in
some form the belief that tariff reform was
not defeated, but only postponed, by the
election.
The official returns received by the secre-
tary of the state Of Iowa settle the closest
election contest in the history of that state
Out of a total vote of over 400,0 900 Peter A
Dey, democrat, has about 500 majority over
John Mahin, republican candidate for rail
road commissioner. The other republican
candidates, Smith and Campbell, have large
maJorities, 1t is 81 years since a democrat
has been elected to any state office in Iowa.
The governor of South Carolina commuted
to 30 years Imprisonment the death sentence
of Charley Dupree, the child murderer who
was to have been hanged Nov % The
criminal is negro boy just nine years old
His victims were two bows, four and seven
years old respectively. Two years ago this
boy attempted to cremate three children in a
house. His extreme youth saved his neck.
Lumbermen at Ottawa are considerably
alarmed over advice from the United States
to the effect that the action of the Dominion
government in incre sing the export duty on
pine logs to So per 1000 feet is to be used as
an excuse for increasing the duty on Cana
dian lumber entering the United States from
81 to 50 per 1000 by the republican admins
tration. Lumbermen there state that it
would be impossible for them to compete
with American cut lumber if the rate of duty
is increased as intimated
A Berlin dispatch announces the death Of
Nikolaus Delius, the German philologist
The desperate Queen was shot and killed
near Vinta, l. T., by District Sheriff G r
ter and posse. Frank Barber who was with
Queen, had his horse shot from under him,
but escaped. Queen was in the Missouri Pa
cific robbery at Gibson, |. T., last spring,
and was wanted in different parts of the
southwest on several charges,
Michael Healey and Mrs. Mary Hyde
were run over by train on the West Shore
railroad, one mile east of Syracuse, n. Y
Their bodies were found so mutilated as to
be unrecognizable. 1t is supposed that they
were lying across the track drunk.
At recent sitting of the revision commits.
sion, King Milan declared that he would as
little tolerate the Russian eagle at CONSTANT
nonle as the Austrian eagle at Salnnica.
Information has reached Ottawa that the
United States cutter Thetis has reached
Victoria, B. c., with the remains of Arch
bishop Seaghers on board. The archbishop
was murdered by an Indian attendant in
northern British Columbia last year.
The police have expelled from Berlin two
French journalists, NM. Latapich and
Ooriot, editors of Berlin correspondence
with French newspapers. The official rea-
son given for their expulsion is that they
made themselves obnoxious 1t is supposed
that they wrote Objectionable articles.
A sad drowning accident occurred at the
buckingham ford near Greenvlle, Tenn.
Miss Matte Woolsey and her cousin, Henry
Love, while returning from school, attempt
ed to cross the river in buggy, but missed
their course, were carried into deep water
and drowned. Miss Woolsey was daughter
of Rev. w. R. Woolsey of Greenville.
The st. Petersburg Messenger accuses
Prince Bismark of planning, in 1868, under
cover of aiding the car, for the annexation
of Russian Poland to Prussia.
The boldest burglary ever known in Con-
necticut was perpetrated in South Wind
ham. The burglars entered the store of
Backus Bros, killed bulldog on watch in.
side, and blew open the safe, but secured
very little plunder. One of the firm was
awakened by the explosion, and went to the
store TO ascertain the cause, when he was
met at the door by one Of the burglars, and
told to go home or he would be a dead man.
Mr.. Backus ran up the street, and the bur-
glar fired two shots after him, neither of
which did any injury The burglars then
away Uuo
body of the dog on the counter with this
notice: Here is YOUR dead dog. l wish you
were dead too" No trace has been found of
the thieves.
A duel was fought in Paris between the
poet Catulle Mendes and Leon Bienvenu
The latter was severely wounded in the
right arm
Emperor Francis Joseph, Crown Prince
Rudolph, Prince Regent Luitpold and other
distinguished mourners attended the obse-
quies of Duke Macmillan. The archbishop
of Munich celebrated requiem mass. All
of the princesses of the late dukes family
were present.
The government has arranged that Ger
man Catholic missionaries to China shall be
supplied with German instead of French
passports.
1t is stated that the British cabinet has ap-
proved the proposed expenditures for new
war vessels. The scheme is to build eight
first class men-of.war, score of swift cruis-
ers and many torpedo vessels.