Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-04-12
ISLAND POND. VERMONT APRIL H. 1889

The British schooner Carrie Dingle has
sunk, after being in collision, off Beachy
Head, with the Red Star Line steamer Noord-
land, Captain Nickels, which sailed from
Antwerp April 6 for New YORK. Ihe Noord-
lands bow was stove She is at Southamp-
ton, where she will discharge her cargo for
repairs. No lives were lost.
Fifteen men were injured by the over
turning of flat car on the Pelham Park
railroad, n. Y.
Boulangis5 journals assert that all the mem
bers of the Boulgauis5 National committee
viii be tried by the senate
Four labor union men in New York have
been arrested for attempting to blow up
David Stevenson's brewery on Tenth ave-
nue., between Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
streets, with dynamite bomb on the eve
ming Of Feb. s.
Henry ii. Marshall, formerly postmaster
at St Clair Schuykin county, Pa, was ar
rested in New York City for embezzling
| $500 from the mopey order department OF
the st. Clair postos s1lce some time ago. The
United States authorities have been locking
for him for a long time Marshall has been
living for the last eight mo sths under an as
sumed name. Headn. ~ y Sidentity before
United States Commis .----S shields and was
taken to Philadelphia.
H. e. Coddington, the cowboy who burned
hotel near Trinidad Col, and then eloped
with the 14-year-old daughter of the land
lord, was arrested in Newark, n. j., and
will be taken back to Colorado.
The Iowa cattle quarantine has been re-
voked, except as against New York Con-
necticut, New Jersey, Delaware and Mary
! land.
While the books OF Archibald st. Ledger
Ropes, bool1keeper for Todes & Thorne of
Baltimore, were being examined he went up
stairs and shot himself. His employers
! think the shooting was accidental, as the
| books were found to be correct.
The steamship Santiago, from Havana,
| landed in New York Capt. Brown and nine
seamen of the brig Taufar wrecked on the
Great Bahamas March 81
Capitals from New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Boston have been in
Charleston, S. c., inquiring for phosphate
lands. Three tracts, averaging from 300 to
! 400 acres, have been sold at prices ranging
from $50, 900 to $40, 900.
Thirteen Indians were drowned at Vic
toria, B. c., by the capsizing OF a small
schooner.
The United States ship Pensacola has sunk
in the dry dock at Norfolk, Va, where she
was being repaired for sea- Her sea valves
had been opened for inspection and another
one was being cut. The tide flooded the dock
and she filed with water; and, getting Off her
keel, sank before she could be gotten in 0
position again A diver VII have to be INT
down; hrr valves must be sopped and the
water pumped out The Simps dry dock
was flooded and the damage may reach $40,-
| co.,
The department of state has been informed
by the U. S. consul at Ottawa that the
licenses to fishing vesS als will continue to be
issued this year by tho Canadian government
on the same terms as last year. The licenses
will expire on the 3lst of December next
The North Carolina fun ling act for state
bonds having been extended to July, 1890,
the treasurer is issuing now per cents for
old ones.
A riot occurred at Harter's Greek, W. Va,
in which eight men were wounded with clubs
and stones.
Working models of all Mr.. E,lson's mani
fold inventions wi be included in the exhib.
it at the Paris exposition. For several
months he hes had corps of assistants at
work in its preparation, and already about
$50 cases of goods have been shipped to Paris
and nearly as many more are yet to go. The
extent Of the exhibit may be inferred from
the single item of fre ght which viii amount
to some $2500 The total cost, it is estimated
will reach upward of S75,OO0
Nothing but the most favorable reports
are being received from the spring wheat
fields Of the northwest.
Tennessee marble is now in the hands Of a
trust, combine to control the output OF
that article having been formed at Knox
vile with big capital.
The Chinese Government it is reported, il
neglecting to provide for the starving horde
in the Northern provinces, aud leaving the
work of relief to the missionaries.