Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-06-28
NEWS IN GENERAL.

In Paris regarding the citizenship of children
of foreigners while providing that children
born in France of foreign parents, and domi-
ciled in France, at their majority shall be
considered French citizens unless they form
ally decline such citizenship, also provides
that children born in France, of foreigners
who were themselves born in France shall
be regarded as citizens, but without the
right of protest.
The three branch lines of the Union Pacific
railrosd centering at Leavenworth, Kan,
were recently set apart to be managed as a
separate organization in the hope that they
might thus bo made profitable. On May Is
the wages of engineers and firemen were re-
duced. The grievance committee of the en-
| ployes of the Union Pacific system protested
against the reduction. General Manager
Klmball has offered to submit the matter to
arbitration, but the grievance committee
has refused to accept this proposition.
Further action has not been decided upon.
William II. Jones, aged about &c years,
who had resided in Elkton, Nd, nearly all
! his life, took his life recently by swallowing
a box Of rat poison. DIR. Howard Bratton,
who was callel in, administered emetics.
Jones was despondent on account Of being
out Of work. He was q shoemaker by trade
but had recently worked in the pulp works
Of William NJ. Singerly. He was o
veteran of the war, received o pension and
was in no danger of want. He leaves wild
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F. Y. B. Minnich, the most extensive deal
! CT in hardware in northern Indiana, has
been severely horsewhipped by James Adler.
Adler suspected his wife Of unfaithfulness
and followed her to point where it is
claimed, she was joined by Minnich. Adler
| fellupon them both with his horsewhip and
Minnich fled. Minnich is confined to his
home. He declares that the whole thing is a
blackmailing plot to injure his character
and to disgrace his family.
Rev. William e. Howard has been con-
! victe1in New York Of grand larceny in con-
nection with the Electric Sugar Refinery
company frauds, and sentenced by Recorder
Smyth to nine years and eight months i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing at hard labor.
Liout Joseph Loisinger, brother-in- law of
Prince Alexander OF Battenburg is about to
marry Louise Kopek, daughter of the head
gamekeeper Of the Dagnaisla forest in Hun
gary, thus allying the English royal family
with the gamekeaper.
An order has been eutered in the United
States court at indianapolis directing Re
ceiver McNulta of tue Wabash to turn over
to he committee of purchasers, under the
foreclosure the road and its belongings in
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and to close out
the recetvership as soon as possible.
| In Fayette county, Ia, Barbara Roster
shot and killed her husband Francis He was
of Incorporate habits, and quarrels between
them were frequent. He had often beaten
her, and to save her life she shot him.
1t has not yet been proven that sorghum
cane can be raised in New Jersey with
profit, and the secretary of the department
Of agriculture has allotted Rio Grande in
Cape May county 81, 500 to continue its cul-
tivatiOn
| The 800" line has reduced the rates on all
rail traffic from the seaboard to st. Paul to
the basis Of rs cents, flrst-class which Is the
rate from the seaboard to Chicago. This
places st. Paul on an equality with Chicago
In the mattgr of rates whether the shipments
are by lake and rail- or entirely by rail.
Railroad officials and shippers will hold
meetings in Chicago to consider the matter.
At Carbon, Clay county, Ind, Conrad
Bauman shot his wife twice through the
head and then committed suicide. Mrs. Bau-
man lived half an hour, the suicide died in
stantly. Bauman was 45 aud his wife 22
Jealousy Is said to have been the cause of
the crime.
The police have been asked to look for
W liam Geigher, 13 1-2 years old, who dis
appeared from his home, 1876 West Forty
seventh street. New York city. The boy is
four feet and six inches tall and dark. He
has a scar on his chin and over the right eye,
and was dressed when last seen in brown
mixed coat, gray vest, striped trousers, and
polo cap
cyclone recently passed over North
| western Missouri demolishing q number of
| dwellings school houses and other property.
The house Of II. P. Williams was blown to
pieces and one of his children killed.
The meeting Of the states-general 100 years
ago was scommemorated at Versailles recently
! by gathering of cabinet ministers, senators,
and members of the chambers Of deputies.
! Senator Lafayette delivered an grafton. The
meeting was followed by banquet.
One half Of the important city of Lachan,
destroyed by fire. The conhagration ragged
for four days 1t is estimated that 1900 per-
sons were killed Most of them were
crushed in trying to escape from the narrow
streets. Ten thousand persons are homeless.
A fund has been started for the relief of the
sufferers
Rob,rt Howick and Ben jamin Klinger,
| two wealthy and prominent farmers in Mer-
Ger county, Ohio, were instantly killed by
lightning while leaning against a door post
on each side. There was q flash, and the
two men fell to the floor without groan.
A committee Of citizens of Joliet ILL.,. who
visited the locked-out miners at Braidwood,
found many Of them in extreme want. The
committee has issued an appeal for aid for
the miners.
Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews of Cornell
university, formerly Of Brown university
and Brown alumnus, was unanimously
elected president of Brown university, vice
DR.. E. G.. Robinson resigned.
Ex-Gov. Hartranft Of Pennsylvania, has
been appointed member Of the Cherokee
commission and has signified his intention to
the secretary of the interior of accepting the
office. This fills the commission.
James Garvey of Milltown, N. Y, about
7 years old, was trying to show another boy
how close ho could stand to moving train,
when he was hit by a cross bar and instantly
killed.
Prof. Bartholomew, the aeronaut, made q
balloon ascension at the fair grounds in FL
mira, and owing to failure of his parachute
to work properly in descending, he was
thrown heavily against fence and his right
leg broken.
Gov. Bulkeley has appointed Senator John
M. Hall of Windham and John M. Thayer
Of Norwich, Conn, to be judges of the SUI
perior court Of Connecticut for eight years
from july 1889. Tho senate referred the
nomination to the Judiciary committee.
The police of Belgrade have seized the
office in which was printed circular incit-
ing Slavs and Servians In Austria to revolt,
and promising Russias assistance. The
authorship of the circular has been traced to
progressist editors who, 1t is said, desire to
engender in Austria distrust of the Servian
government.
At Madrid Senior Becerra, minister Of the
colonies reafiirmed that the United States
government had made no proposition rela-
tive to the purchase of Cuba. He added that
no proposal looking to the sale of the island
would be entertained by the Spanish gov
ernment.
In the throng Of over 700 immigrants
from the steamship Wyoming, were 345
men, women and children, who were bound
for Salt Lake City. They were mostly