Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-11-16
NEWS IN GENERAL.

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down en- embankment Several persons
were injured and fight between the guards
and prisoners ensued.
One hundred switchmen on the New York
Central r. R. stru k for increased pay from
$40 per month to S45 and extras, amounting
TO $50 In all Three hundred brakemen and
pin pullers in sympathy have struck TOO. A
more extended strike is feared.
The Italian government wishes to take
part in the bloCkadlng Of tue Zanzibar coast
against the slave traders, and is negotiating
with that end in view.
Mrs Scott of Dawn g., driven insane
by her husband, who hS- ,ually came home
| drunk and abused her, oeat lin TO death
| while he lay on bed in drunk Ell stupor,
The steqmship Oteri. from Truxillo,
brought to New Orleans, Capt. H. Gaul and
crew Of the barkentine Isaac Dodge of NeYs
Castle -. which went ashore-Non Serrana'
reef, on the Mosquito coast, Oct. 23 The
vessel, valued at S24, 900, is a total loss. She
was bound from Colon to Ship Island in bal
last.
The Nach-ichten declares that the rumor
| that the German East African company
will be liquidated is without foundation, and
that the Anglo German agreement furnishes
greater reason why Germany should retain
her territory.
New York City for, and 5000 against the con-
| stitutional amendment authorizing the gov
| erner to increase the facilities Of the court
of appeals.
Mrs. Sadie Walters, of Chicago, go years
| old and rather pretty, was adjudged insane
in the county court, and will be taken to an
| insane asylum for treatment Two years
ago Mrs. Walters suffered from hay fever.
| She smoked cubeb cigarettes for relief Later
in hafi hn atalU fond
tobacco cigarettes, and in ono year she
smoked herself insane. 1t is believed that
she will not recover her reason.
| By the falling of masons' scaffold in the
Weed building at Stamford, Ct, four men
were thrown to the ground. Two were in
stently killed and two severely injured. The
boss mason was under the scaRold, but es.
capped with slight injury.
| 1t is stated in London, that in accordanca
with the decision Of the special naval com.
! mittee, the government will announce an ad-
miralty scheme to bui d eight first-class men-
| of-war, a score of swift cruisers and many
torpedo vessels
Anna Z. Dickinson, the lecturer and
actress, has begun suit in the New York su-
| preme court against the republican national
committee to recover $3.50 for services rem
| dered during the campaign. She claims she
was engaged In September to deliver 30 lee
lures in the west, and was to receive Sl25 for
| each lecture and her expenses. She has re-
ceived the $3750, but claims it was also
agreed that, in the event Of Harrison's cleo
| tion, she was to receive $5000 The COM
plaint was served on Senator Quay and his
| fellow-committeemen.
In addition to the unhidden letters from the
late Emperor Frederick found in Baron Won
Roggenbach's house, the police discovered
! in secret drawer in a writing desk two
1N,,,. k,la IzAA
| erick written when he was crown prince,
his wife, Queen Victoria, the prince Of
Wales, Prince Alexander of Battenburg, DR..
| Mackenzie, the duke of Cumberland, Count
| Won Seckendroff, DIR. Windthorst and
| others.
! The flutter in the departments at Washing
ton continues, and the clerks confidently ex-
pect general shake up next year. Several
| Democratic clerks have begun already to
make preparations for the inevitable and
| large number of republican ex-clerks, re-
| siding in this city, are making arrangements
| to be restored. In some cases their places
are said to have been picked out and assigned
| to them already.
Macon, Ca, has manufacturing establish
ments to the number of 105 which include
| cotton mills and congresses, brick, box and
| broom factories, cottonseed oil and fertilizer
works knitting mills, railroad car shops etc
The capital employed amounts to about S.
| 600 1000, the number Of hands employed is
| 3763, and the monthly pay roll fOots up 50,
| 200. The value Of manufactured products OF
these manufactures for the past year is $4 =
S22, 800, and these are sold on the lines OF
roads that reach out into what is known as
Macon's territory, and extend into Alabama
Florida and South Carolina.
Notices have been posted in the extensive
carpet mills of E. s. Higgins & Co, at West
Forty third street and Eleventh avenue,
New York, of a reduction Of the present
| working force by one-half from and after
! Nov H. which means that 600 hands, male
and female, will be thrown out of work. at
least for some time
A story is in private circulation in Wash
ington that Lord Sackvllle has, preparatory
| to his departure from this country, addressed
letter to President Cleveland in regard to
| the manner and circumstances of his recall,
which the president will not eare to make
public, and which, therefore, remains a
| private matter. The story seems to eman-
ate from the neighborhood Of the British
legation.
Steve Brodie jumped from the bridge in
course of construction over the Hudson river
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on a wager of $500
and for gold medal. When he reached the
shore, blood was running from his mouth
| and ears, but an examination showed that
he was not seriously injured. He is very
sore and weak from the shock but will
probably be around all right IN a few days.
Authority was given in the army appro-
| priation bill for sending officers abroad for
the purpose of obtaining information on
military subjects. Advantage is to be taken
Immediately Of this authority, and Lieuts
Hobbs and Crozier of the ordnance depart
ment will 60. Lieut.. Hobbs will devote
| himself to steel manufacture as carried on
in the principal establishments in various
countries, while Lieut.. CroZer. whose
speciality is gun carriages, will seek to OBJ
tain the fullest information which can be
got in regard to that subject.
On the big front steps of Bellevue hospi-
tai, New York, is bit of railing which the
hand of George Washington grasped as he
| delivered his inaugural address on April 80,
| 1889. The railing was then part of the
balcony of Federal hall. The charity com
missioners will put this railing where Chaun-
cey NJ Depey can hold his hand on it while
he delivers the grafton at the centennial cell
ebration of Washington's inauguration next
April 3d.
An unknown man jumped into the river
! from Prospect park, a few days ago at Mag
ara Falls, and was carried over the falls.
David Waxman of New York, 90 years
old, has been made crazy by the excitement
of the political campaign. He paraded every
! night for the last two weeks before election
dav and drank whiskey. He now thinks he
is Benjamin Harrison. He pretends to be
making great preparations for his Inaugural
tion. He is in the insane asylum.
It has been decided by the Old Colony
steamboat company to make Newport the
landing for all lis boats this winter, instead
of Fall River, where the docks are being re-
paired. The arrangement will go into effect
| Dec. |.
Levi McAllister, night wotchman in tho
shoe factory at Norway, Me-, got some of
his clothing caught in the shafting of the en-
gine, which carried him into contact with
steam pipe that he grasped with his bare
hands Before the engine could be stopped
nearly every part of McAnister's clothing
had been stripped off. His hands were badly