Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-10-26
NEWS IN GENERAL.


Ths general executive board Of the
| Knights of Labor at Philadelphia expelled
| Thomas B. Barry, former member of the
board.
John Teemer and William O'Connor met
I'm corridor of the Ashland house in New
| York and signed articles for a race on the
| Potomac at Washington, Nov. 25 for $1,000
a side and the championship.
The entire family of Obel Olson. residing
near Ellsworth, Wis, were poisoned. One
| child is dead and the others are dangerously
! I'LL Foul play is suspected.
Mayor Boldenwreck and his committee Of
! Lake View citizens waited upon President
Herkes at Chicago, and asked that the COM
! pany carry out the settlement as generally
understood, by giving the old men full EN- EN-
| ployment instead of three-ffths time Mr..
Ierkes emphatically refused. One of tbs
new men, John Smith, alias John Bull, had
bis jaw broken by mob. He had just been
discharged for incompetency.
1t is understood that the Sioux Indians
rejected the proposition Of the president re-
gardlng the opening Of the Sioux reserva-
tion.
The stockholders of the East Tennessee,
| Virginia d Georgia railroad have voted TO
issue $4,000, 900 in bonds, to be known as the
ment and equipment bonds
1t is stated that the president has promised
to visit New York City before the election,
and make an address on the political issues
of the day.
AT meeting of leading Denverites il was
decided to hold an encampment of United
States and Canadian troops in Denver, Col,
next spring. Subscriptions will be at once
started and the arrangements perfected.
The members OF the Presbyterian synod
called at the white house in body recently
and paid their respects to the president. He
made short speech Of welcome, and shook
each one by the hand.
William Gonnell, a prominent business
| man of Scranton, Pa, has been appointed
by the Lehigh Valley railroad company to
make all arrangements towards an AMIGA
bic settlement with persons representing rel
ativeS and friends of those killed and in jured
in the Mud Run disaster.
The American Gas Light association at
Toronto, Ont, elected the following officers:
President, A. B. Slater of Provide, ce, H. |. :;
vice-presidents. E. Mcmillan Of Ohio and
j. +. Harrison of Connecticut; secretary and
treasurer, G. j. R. Humphreys Of Massachu
Setts.
The National bank at Ravenswood, jack
! son county, West Va, was raided by burg
lars but time lock was able to resist their
assaults. The gang was composed of two
| men and two boys under the management of
a New York crook, whose name is given as
Irish jack" alias Hicks. They took $500
which was in a tin box. A boy who was
captured confessed He would not give his
name, but said the others outside of "IriSh
Jack" were called "Slimmy" and "Indiana
Shirt
The president Of the Georgetown univer
sity has received information from Forencet
Italy, that Rev. John Hagen, the eminen0
German Jesuit astronomer and mathemati-
clan, member of the Royal Mathematical
society of Berlin, has been appointed to the
chair of astronomy and dictatorship Of the
| observatory in the Georgetown university.
The president has approved the general
deficiency bill.
It's Iae MsFGap ss % & or the
construction of the Transcontinental Te-
huantepec railroad. The Mexican minister
of pubic works says that no more subsidies
! will be granted to railroads.
An unknown Italian, who was picking up
coal in the railroad cut at New Haven, Ct,
stepped aside to avoid one train, and was
struck by one going in the opposite direction
and instantly killed,
The president has approved the bill to re-
tire Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, with the rank
of major.
| Warrants for the arrest of nine we'll
known residents of st. Cunegonde a suburb
! of Montreal, have been issued for outraging
in most brutal manner a young and pre-
possessing French Canadian girl named Per-
rault, who it is alleged, died from the effects
of her treatment. The doctor who issued
| the burial certificate will be arrested.
During the past year there were 24S acci-
| dents to trains upon which postal clerks were
| p,FNIn oil rlyu L. inI ,,J
injured. The service is now in operation
upon 143, 731 miles Of railroad, beside 5972
miles of steamboat routes. Only one error
was made to every 3i07 pieces handled, out
of an aggregate of nearly 1000, 200, 900
pieces
At Telluride Col, while Charles and Will
liam Weller, miners, were digging their way
! home through the snow from La Junta
Basin a snowslde carried them down the
side of the mountain for 800 feet and buried
them under 20 feet Of snow and rocks.
William managed, with the aid Of a pocket
knife, to dig himself out, and, though
wounded, made his way to town. rescu-
ing party started out, and after two hours
hard work found the body of Charles under
meath several hundred tons of snow and
rocks crushed to shapelesS mass.
The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past seven days, as
reported to r. G.. Dunn & Co, and E. Rus
sell & Co., of the merchante agency, num-
ber for the United States 202, and for Cana
da %, or a total of 224 as compared with
227 last week, and 2ll the week previous TO
the last. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were DOL made up OF
112 in,the United States and 20 in the Domin-
ion of Canada.
The corner stone of new armory on Park
avenue in New York, to be used by he 8th
regiment, was laid by Grand Master of
Masons Frank r. Lawrence The veterans
and active members of the regiment paraded
on the occasion in full uniform, and in adli-
tion to large number of military dignita-
res, Gov. Hill and Mayor Hewitt graced the
proceedings with their presence. The new
armory is to cost 100000.