Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-09-21
NEWS IN GENERAL.

| tlOn OF Bna1 Abraham, has been arrested at
Chicago on requisitlon from New Orleans,
to answer the charge of obtaining money
under false pretences. The complainants
are his mother-in-law and his brother in-law,
| S. S. Seligman & Brother, of New Orleans.
1t is alleged that the rabbi sold three notes
! of $1,000 each, belonging to his mother-in-
law, which had been entrusted to him.
The forest fires, which have been raging at
various points along the shore north and
northeast of Bay City, Mich, are not being
subdued, and it looks as if great damage
would result before they are checked. News
from various points up the line go to show
that the fires are absolutely beyond control
md that in the present condition of things
be gravest results are to be feared. Arenac
County is particularly heavy sufferer.
The Oldest trade newspaper in this coun-
try was recently sold 1t is the United
States Economist and Dry Goods Reporter
| IF New York City, which was founded in
/ 1876
A Toronto report says that H. J. Beemer,
manager of the Pontiac & Pacific Junction
railroad, has succeeded in organizing a COM
pany Of capitalists in Paris with capital of
| over 1860, 900 to complete the Pontiac and
| Pacific line from Pembroke to Sault Ste
Mare, to lease or purchase from the Cana
dian Pacific railway the North Shore road,
| from Ottawa to QueEec, and to obtain from
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lntercolonial railway to St John.
Pitcher, the embezzling teller of the Union
! National bank of Providence, on trial at
| Montreal, has been found guilty of bringing
| stolen money into Canada. His attorney,
! Mr.. Guerin, gave notice that he would ap-
peal Pitcher heard the verdict seemingly
| unmoved.
An immense abattoir is about to be
| erected on Herr's island, in the Allegheny
| fiHv OF ic 10 Ia oil
after the improved slaughter houses of Chica-
go and will be open to all butchers who buy
| cattle at the yards on the island each head to
be inspected before being slaughtered. The
projectors of the enterprise claim that it will
enable the Piltsburg and Allegheny consum-
ers of beef, pork and mutton to know what
kind of meat they are getting, instead of
Icing compelled, es at present to accept Chi
| cago slaughtered meat, of the condition Of
which at the time of slaughtering they know
nothing.
The Chicago Burlington g. Quincy people
are making arrangements for the Inaugural
tion of a new st. Louis & Denver route.
Four additional freight trains will be placed
or both the st. Louis, Keo1uk s. North
western and the Hannibal & st. Joseph divi-
sions
The steamer Gaelic, from Hong Kong and
! Yokohama, at San Francisco, reports that
! the Mayon, an old volcano in the PHILIPPINE
| Island, was in violent state of eruption in
July, and it is thought over a hundred per-
sons were destroyed. Further particulars of
the floods in Gifu show that $50 lives are
lost.
The loss by the Cuban flood was S1,50O,0
About 500 deaths occurred.
The national convention of the greenback
party, in session in Cincinnati has adjourned
after deciding not to put a national ticket
| in the fed and passing resolutions against
| fusion with other parties and calling ma
tional convention to meet in that city on the
first Wednesday in September, 1889.
The report from London that the cotton
mills in Lancashire and other counties are to
commence running on short time, with the
object of defeating the New York cotton
corner, is laughed at in that city. Promi-
nent operators say there is no corner in cot
ton there. The trouble with England is that
there is a short supply in that market. The
| late crops here have added to the difficulty.
novel race took place at Ell Paso Tex,
betwe n horse and a bicycle from Silver
City, N. NJ, to Denver--50 miles, The
wager was $500 and so head of cattle side.
| Kennedy, professional bicyclist from Dem
yer, Col, rode the bicycle. The horse won
the race, time 3h. 40m. The bicycle time
was Al. Som. About $1,000 changed hands
in Ell Paso.
An accident in the Erie yard at Jersey
City resulted in smashing three locomotives
and killing two men.
| Charles Bodendieck, q German anarchist,
has been arrested in Chicago for bomb max
ing. A quantity of dynamite was found in
his room. He had been prominent in many
| revolutionary demonstrations since the Hay
| market massacre, and has served year in
the penitentiary for extorting money from
! Justice White under threats of death.
Yellow fever has broken out among tho
Jacksonville refugees at Hendersonville,N N. G.
During n family quarrel at Hoboken, N.
| j., James Frey was fatally shot by his wife.
| In an ante-mortem statement Frey tried to
exonerate his wife, saying the shooting was
accidental but the police are satisfied that
it was a deliberate murder.
Fritz Theen, farmer living near Hills
boro, ILL.,, has just died from what the doc
tors pronounce genuine Asatic cholera.
A fire in Washburn, Wis. wiped out the
business part of the place. destroying in all
about 30 buildings, and causing loss of
s150000, with small insurance The village
has no fire apparatus
Alexander Goldensen, who shot and killed
| Mamie Kelly, l4year-old school girl, Nov.
10, 1885, has been hanged in the San Fran
cisco county Jail.
The rivers in North Carolina have over
flowed and done great damage. Tho Roa-
noke river had risen several feet over high
water mark, flooding Northampton and
| Halifax counties.
The corn and cotton crops in the lowlands
in the vicinity of the river are destroyed.
Houses are loose and are being tossed about
In the water, and it is feared that many
lives have been lost.
Reports from the city of Mexico, say that
the rainfall is incessant, with no signs of
abating. Many streets are flooded and the
merchants have to pump the water out of
their shops. The lakes near the city are
rising steadily.
st. Louis whiskey men have raised $780,
900 to fight the whiskey trust.
At the request of Sir John Macdonald,
number of gentlemen engaged in the for
warding business in Ottawa, Ont, have sub
mitted to the Dominion government, for
transmission to the imperial authorities,
information as to the manner in which they
have been treated in their business with the
New York canals. Forwarders in other
parts of the Dominion have also been re-
quested to state their experience. One OF
tawa forwarder says that the Erie canal
has been closed against his vessels.
The headquarters of the peach growers
bureau of information and distribution at
Clayton, DEL, is closed for the season. The
organization has been very successful, and
received encouraging cooperation from the
growers generally The season was closed
earlier than was anticipated because of the
destruction of late varieties of peaches by
the recent storm. This storm cut large
percentage from the growers profits, but the
season as a whole has been profitable, and
prices have been satisfactory. The special
peach train on the Delaware railroad has
been withdrawn, the later peaches being
hardly worth shipping.
Chief Justice Dorion has taken the motion
of Pitchers counsel for leave to appeal on
reserved points, and also a motion by Crown
Prosecutor Trenholme that the money stolen
from the Union Bank and produced during
the trial be returned to the bank. Fourteen