Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-31
NEWS IN GENERAL.

| w. y. DdlIenJlut, pOSbAl clerk on Un6
route between Wilmington, N. c., and Way
cross, Ga, has been taken i'll with yellow
fever and removed to his home in Black
shear, Ga. In consequence Blackshear has
been quarantined.
kilograms have been pouring into the
white house, commenting the president on
the stand taken by him in his message on the
fisheries treaty. These kilograms are from
all parts of the union, and many of them
are from well known business men.
Mrs Sheridan's pension will be fixed at
$500 a year. This is the amount agreed
upon by the house committee on invalid pen
sions as midway between the $1,000 given to
the widows of presidents and $4,000 given to
the widows Of distinguished generals. It is
all that the house will be willing to give,
and the senate will have to agree to it.
The friends of the French spoliation claims
fear that they have been defeated, for this
session at least. The item of $741 900 to pay
those already passed upon having been ruled
out of the bill on point of order, the enc
mics of the claims will have no great diff
Guilty in keeping 10 out, by breaking q
| quorum from time to time. The friends of
the claims are, however, hopeful of success
next session. The claims have not been made
a party matter, both sides having divided on
| them.
Sellers Hoffman's large four-story mill at
| Dul lllOlU D6luWdlt county, d., WAS ldloly
burned. Loss, 5000, 900; insurance, 100000.
Health Officer Townshend and Surgeon
| General Hamilton have held a conference on
the yellow fever epidemic, and decided that
q train inspection service should be orga-
nzed to inspect all trains arriving in Wash
ington from infected points. This service
will go into effect at once.
The largest of gold bearing quartz has been
mined from the workings of the Michigan
Gold company. One of the officials of the
company says there was 1876 pounds of it.
From other source it is stated that there was
| go pounds. 1t carries free gold in large
quantities, and is valued by Judge Ropes and
other reliable assayers as worth $4,000 to
| Sl5, 5000 per ton.
Cox, who defrsuded the Central bank of
Toronto last fall of $500 and who has
since been at Niagara Falls and Buffalo, has
been arrested at Niagara, Ont, by the Can
| adian authorities
Palmer and Coram, the representatives of
Boston capitalists, who We're negotiating for
the purchase of the Silver Bow mining prop
critics at Butte, NJ. T., for which S., $50, 900
was asked, have returned to Boston without
| perfecting the sale. Judge Davis, attorney
for the present owners, has also gone there,
SO that if the terms of the contract are full
filled, it will probably be in Boston.
Captain Patton, champion swimmer OF
| Canada, and Professor Donaldson, long-dis
tance swimmer of Brooklyn, N. Y, recently
swan 319 miles for a purse of 5000. Capt.
Patton won, covering the distance in one
hour and two minutes. Donaldson was three
minutes behind.
| While number of workmen were putting
| the finishing touches on the six-story brick
building No. 1876 West Eighty-third street,
| New York, four beams on the fifth floor gave
way on account of being overloaded with
materials and four men were thrown to the
lower floor, two Of whom fell to the cellar A
workman named Flynn was killed, and three
others named Durkin, McCune and Quinn
were seriously injured, and were sent to the
Roosevelt hospital.
Papers have been fled and approved by
Judge Allyn of Tacoma, Wyo., appealing
from recent decision of the supreme court
relative to woman suffrage to the supreme
court of the United States.
Lawyer Herbert Gedney of Goshen, N. Y.
one of the most brilliant and promising
young members of the Orange county bar,
turns out to be forger, an embezzler and a
fugitive from justice. The amount of his
populations is as yet unknown, but will
certainly reach ZOO, and may rise to S50,-
600.
Nine. Virginia Sherwood, the most daring
bareback rider of her time, died recently at
Pittsburg, Pa, of consumption.
Great excitement prevails at Florence, s.
c., and fears are entertained Of general
conflict between the white and black people,
because of a shooting affray which resulted
in the death of a negro desperate and re-
spectacle and innocent white man.
The town of Clinton, Ind, has been nearly
destroyed by fire. The loss is not yet esti-
mated.
Two enormous sections of rock broke away
from the side Of Peaks mountain, at Bauff,
Ontario on the Canadian Pacific, and came
tearing down a distance of 5000 feet, terrify-
ing the people of the town, who thought their
last hour had arrived. The village had u
narrow escape.
Vassila Verestchagin, the celebrated Rus.
sian artist, soldier and traveller, has arrived
in New York on the Etruria. He has come
here to study the scenery and people of the
United States.
The new stone f1re-proof building of the
Detroit museum of art, for whose erection
500, COO was recently raised in that city by
popular subscription, is now completed, and
open to the public The collection, which is
of the highest grade of modern art, includes
100 paintings loaned by George l. Seney of
New York City.
1t is announced that Josef Hofmann, the
wonderful boy pianist will make his reap.
will probably arrive about Nov. 10, and the
first Hofmann concert will be given Nov. Is.
Charles W. Waldron one of the owners
and managers of the Waldron bank of Hills
dale, Mich, is reported to have absconded,
and to have taken with him money and Sc
curities variously estimated at from $50, 900
to $500 The bank is doing business, and
depostors will be paid in full.
Ottawa, Ont, papers say that members of
the Dominion cabinet have reason to believe
that President Cleveland will put retaliation
into effect within three months. They ex-
press qualification at the unanimity of opin-
ion expressed throughout Canada and high
spirit invoked, showing a healthy national
sentiment in resistance to foreign aggres-
sion.
Tho comptroller of the currency has autho-
rized the Commercial National bank of
Boston, Mass, to begin business with cap
ital of $250,000.
At banner raising Of the Hungarian
Democrats in New York a platform contain
ing about go people fell, killing Henry
Greenbaum, years old, and dislocating AL
1man Benjamin's anklA.
In Philadelphia Pa, man suffering with
all the symptoms of yellow fever has been
admitted to the Medic0- Chirurgical hospital.
He came from Santiago de Cuba.
j. L. LEGARE, of Wood Mountain, Canada,
will give evidence before United States
official to substanLiate his claim of having
captured Sitting Bull, for which he demands
6inrr MI