Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-11-02


superntendeuts concluded their ltbors IN
New York on Friday last. They decided to
meet IN San Francisco Sept. 28 1889 The
work will be extended into the territories,
and department. viii be established at the
Paris exposition. Miss Jennie Smith was
re elected superintendent of the work among
railroad men.
Henry Granel, proprietor of small hotel
at SheepShead Buy, l.. l., q middle aged
man weighing 1919 pounds, while intoxicated
became involved in an alteration with a
seventeen-y year old jockey named Brown,
weighing only so pounds Granel struck the
boy savage blow with base ball bat, fell
ing him to the floor. Young Brown is Sc
liously injured. The villagers threatened
to lynch Granel, and the officers who took
him into custody had to draw their revolvers
to keep the crowd back.
Mary Ann Irvine, notorious and miserI,
character, who lived amid horribly filthy
surroundings, at Souix Falls, Iowa, has Just
died, aged 63. She was vicious and vindic-
tive, got into trouble constantly and kept
her own children from her door with revol-
YER After her death search among her
effects revealed deels, mortgages, notes,
bonds and cash amounting in the aggregate
to S95, 900.
The Buffalo Central Labor union has
unanimously adopted resolutions condemning
the new and disreputable system of bull
doing now being resorted 10 by unscruDu-'
ious employers by the use of pay envelopes"
IN which are contained printed polite Il
tracts and campaign literature the purpose
of which is to intlmidate, frighten and influ-
ence their employees into voting as the en-
nloyers desire
-Four men stopped train No 752 of IT, ,
Iron Mountain railroad, and robbed the ex-
press car OF $1,000. The train was held up
near Diaz, Ark. Sheriff Stephens and
posse instantly started for the scene.
Alexander Jonas, the socialist candidate
for mayor of New York, in his letter of ac-
ceptance, admits that there is no chance of
his election, but says it is wise for the party
to present candidates to the people, as a nu-
cleus around which may gather in increas-
ing numbers from year to year those who
are disguised with the corruptions and njus-
tlces OF the existing system, and finally these
will form majority of the community.
The Minnesota Knitting Co. has leased the
Fergus Falls Power Co.'S lower dam at Min
neapolia, Mimi, and win erect a knitting
mill The city gives the company Sl2, 900 TO
move from Columbus o.
The II, 600 coke workers in the Connells-
vile (Pa.) region have been notified of an ad-
vance of from to 10 per cent in their
wages to take effect on Nov. l, when the
price of coke will be advanced % cents per
ton.
The business failures occurring through.
out the country during the last seven days,
as reported to r G. Dunn & Co. and e. Rus
sell d Co. of the New York Mercantile
Agency, number for the United States, 222;
and for Canada, 32; or total of 254, as
against total Of 224 last week and 227 the
week previous to the last For the corre-
spending week of last year the figures were
ZIG, made up of 1913 in the United States and
% in the Dominion of Canada.
The city of Ottawa boasts of GO lawyers,
but when the chancery and county courts
sat the other day there were only two cases
for them to wrestle With.
The report that an English syndicate was
negotiating for the purchase of the
Clausen brewery was confirmed last week
by the registration of the deed conveying
the brewery and storage warehouse on East
Forty Seventh street and property on One
Hundred and Thirty Seventh street and the
Southern Boulevard to George Sherman,
John r. Kingsford and Isaac Untermeyer,
the representatives of an English company.
The price paid was 81 800, 900.
1t has been learned from undoubted au-
thority that Lieut. Gov. Schultz of Mani
toba, although advised a week ago to cali
tho legislature for the despatch of business,
has so far declined to accept the advice of
his constitutional advisers, thereby forcing
a crisis on the government, as it is under
stood that members of the cabinet contem-
plate immediate resignation.
The militia department. at OFT wa, Ont,
received intelligence from Winnipeg to the
effect that the Canadian Pacific railway
have notified magistrate OF their intention
to ask for the services Of troops at Portage
La Prairie should they be required.
The city of Pittsburg assessed as real es-
tate all the natural gas mains within the
city limits, but the companies refused to pay
the taxes and went to court The judge de-
clared that the iron pipes were not real es-
tate and granted a perpetual injunction
against the city. The case will go to the