Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01

General Charles n. Grosvenor, president
of the National Union league, has called q
meeting of the National council to be held at
the Ebbitt house Saturday, March 2, at a.
m. This meeting will be attended by prom
inent republicans from all parts of the coun-
try, and measures will be considered caloula-
ted to uphold the incoming national admins
tration and to strengthen the Union repubi-
can party, especially in the south.
At the request Of the French authorities
Eddy Guerin, alias George Graham, an
American burglar has been conveyed 70
Lyons from London, bound and closely
guarded. He is accused of stealing SOC, 900
fraacs from the Bank of France
1t is understood that the Canadian govern
ment has selected w. D. Harrington, an ex-
tensive grocer of Halifax, as collector of Gus
toms at Halifax.
Inc Mercantile Banking company or AU-
lanta, Ca, small concern without state
bank charter, but which has been doing a
collection and loan business under superior
court charter, was put in the hands OF a
temporary receiver.
g. G. Haley who issin Jail at Lagrange,
KY, for robbing h0sse there, claimed when
arrested to be the son of the mayor of ST.
CatherlneS Ont. Letters were received con-
flrming his claim, and stating that his father
had just dl d leaving fortune of 500, 600
The sheriff, on Saturday, levied on the
buildings of the Manhattan Hardware COM
pany, one Of the largest manufacturing con-
Germs in Reading, Pa. Land suitable for
building purposes was also levied upon The
court has declared the company entirely in
solvent and the claims, aggregating over
$4,000 will swallow up all its asse s.
The total amount of bonds purchased under
the circular Of April II is S108, OH 800, of
which $51, 1885, $50 were per cents and $57,-
81, $50 were ~ per cents. The total cost Of
these bonds was SIPS 284, 759, of which $685.
101, ,S77 was paid for the per cents and $62,,-
1S2, 1872 for the ~ per cents
The diphtheria scourge at Emaus a small
town in Pennsylvania near Allentown, has
numbered among its victims the entire fam
lily OF Owen Sterner, with the exception of
one child.
An American, who is supposed to be
George S. Driver, cut his throat with a razor
in the Angel hotel at Islington, England.
Upon his trunks are the labels of several
American railways, principally Chicago
roads. Among his effects We're found pho
tograph Of himself and beautiful woman.
He Is not expected to recover.
Intelligence from the Connellsville. Pa.
coke regions indicate that excitement is high
among the cookers, and that the probabilities
of strike are growing.
In Oglethorpe, Ga, four small children,
who were left In the house by Mary Porter
colored, while she went to work, were
burned to death.
While the White Star steamer Republic
was making fast at her dock the other day
some accident occurred which caus d the
boiler room to be filled with steam, and all
the engineers and firemen were scalded some
of them very seriously 1t is thought all
will recover, with the possible exception of
two, whose lungs are injured by inhaling
steam.
The Jewish workmen of New York City in
various trades are organized and have a fed
GRAFTON known as the United Hebrew trades
The business of the organization is conducted
III such an exemplary manner that it is held
up as pattern to other organizations.
The facts about the violation of the laws of
New Jersey regarding child labor in factor
les are being procured by the state bureau of
labor statistics. 1t is believed that over 5000
children under the age prescribed by
law are working in the New Jersey factor
les.
About 300 men are engaged in the strike
at the Wellington coal mines, near Victoria,
B. c.
Strikes ordered by the International Typo
graphical union in 1887, cost nearly $4,000
Three members of the Cigarmakers' Inter-
national union are members of state legisla-
lures two of them in Michigan and one in
Missouri.
The Brewery Empl yes Protective asso-
citation boasts that through its efforts the
daily hours of labor In breweries have been
reduced from IA to 10, VIII le at the same time
wages have be n advanced from 50 to SIS
per week.
The Feather Workers union of New York
have secured pay according to the schedule
| nd al of ba
are IS Father factories in that city en-
ploying about 1900 women and girls, most
of them organized into an enthusiastic
union.