Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-06-28
ISLAND POND, VERMONT, JUNE %, 1882

Inc IourUeeIl-yeaf- sou Ol y. myers, eA-
press agent, fell from a dock at Haver-
straw, N. Y, and was drowned.
10. McMasters, ex-assistant cashier of
the defunct Farmers and Mechanics bank
at Pittsburg, Pa, has been arrested on
charges Of embezzlempr possessing himself
of money belonging to se bank, fals1fying
the accounts and making false entries. He
was held in $4,000 bail.
The internal revenue collections for the
first eleven months Of the past fiscal year
were S5, 934, 208 greater than for the cores
ponding period of the previous year.
Several families were recently evicted on
the Ponsonby estate in Dublin The tenants
offered stout resistance, and in some cases
the evictors had to use battering ram to
effect an entrance into the cottages Several
persons were injured while resisting the
bailiffs Six arrests were made.
At Prescott, Arizona, Chief Justice Wright
has sentenced Dan Har'yicl1, VIM Stein and
James Halford, the Canon Diablo train rob
bers who robbed an express train on the
Atlantic and Pacific railway in April last to
25 years each in the penitentiary.
At Ascot, London, the race for the gold
cup value 1000 soverelgns added to a sweep
stakes of 20 sovereigns each, has attracted
immense crowds,
A strike or lockout involving 5000 men is
expected at Pittsburg.
Floods in France have done great damage.
Ii Hung Chang has accepted the control
of railways in the north of China, and it is
proposed that Chang Chi Tung shall have
control in the south. 1t is stated that tenders
will oon be invited for the construction of
railway from Pekin to Hankow. Tie gov
ernment appears tomean business.
A battead used as a ferry near Grand
Piles, on the St Maurice River, Quebec, was
swept from its course by the swift current,
and six persons lost their lives and eight
Others had narrow escape. The drowned
We're Joseph Rivard, his son and daughter,
George Hamelin of ST. Etienne and Paptiste
Bellerive and his sister, Angelo Bellerive.
The bodies Of Rivard and Bellerive were dis
covered below the falls horribly mutilated.
All those who jumped overheard managed
to reach shore
Reports from Braidwood, ILL.,, the scene of
the great coal miners strike, say that there
are 5000 women and children in that town in
want of food, and some of them are actually
starving.
People below the dam at Lake Hopatcong
N. Y, are anxious as to the stability of that
water barrier.
Seventy miners were entombed in pit at
New Castle, N. s. W., but all but two were
rescued
Miss Taschereau of Ottawa, niece Of
Cardinal Taschereau and daughter Of Judge
Taschereau of the supreme court has eloped
with young Englishman named Beard, who
is Protestant.
1t is rumored that frauds have been dis
covered in contracts for Montanas territOr-
ial purchases and that at least $50, 600 has
been diverted from its proper channel.
1t is now definitely known that prior to
the arrival Of the commissioners at Pine
Ridge Agency Oak, a combination was
the lead, pledged to oppose the bill and not
even consider it. This explains the reluct-
ance on the part Of many of the Indians to
talk about it. 1t now seems as If some pro-
gress was being made. Indians are signing
slowly, and the prospects are more favor
able than at any time since the commission
arrived.
The reports of crop correspondents indi-
cate that whatever else may prove a failure
oats will be good crop. The present pros
pect Is the best in years at corresponding
season except in Kentucky and Dakota
where the spring drought was most severe
and prolonged, but even in these states, if
wet weather continues, there is time to re-
cover from the effects Of unfavorabe condi-
tons earlier in the season. The cool, damp
weather, which has been so propitious for
oats has been discouraging to corn.
At Schenectady, N. Y, Miss Mary
Hughes, daughter of George Hughes, com
mitted suicide by hanging. The deceased
was pretty girl not quite % years old, and
was subject to fits Of melanchOlia.
Russia has occupied Deer Island in Corea,
as q coaling and naval depot. There is
Russian man-of-war there and nobody is al
lowed to land or leave without permit from
the admiral The possession of the island
gives Russia a great advantage over Eng
land.
Fire broke out in Vancouver, Wash, and in
less than two hours swept over nearly four
blocks in the business portion of the town.
These blocks, fortunately, were covered with
small frame buildings, and the loss will prob
ably not reach $4,000. The insurance is
very light
Two young men and two young women In
q row boat on the Schuylkill river, Pennsyl-
vania, were carried over Fairmount dam and
drowned. The bodies of the young women
were recovered but not identified.
Thirty-one persons were poisoned at Find
lay, O., by eating corned beef. A half
dozen physicians were kept busy for several
hours, and it is not thought all will recover
The persons poisoned were members of
twenty different families.
During the past week DR.. AL Watts of
Boston sold to Mr.. L. M. Mann Of the Des
Moines Wis, geological gardens one ele-
phant four lions ono Bengal tiger, one
black leopard, ten monkeys and twenty
muscovy ducks.
The Chattanooga Mining and Manufactur-
ing company, composed of Chattanooga,
Boston and Lynn (Mass) capitalists, has
purchased 1000 acres of manganese and
brown hematic ore land adjacent to Tunell
Hill, Ga, and 20 miles from Chattanooga,
and have commenced mining the manga
nese.
Advices from Pangani are that the Arabs
have rejected Capt. Wissmann's terms and
that an attack is imminent
r. L. Johnston, presiding Judge of Cam
bria county, Pa, issued an order closing all
saloons and liquor places in Johnstown and
surrounding boroughs and townships until
otherwise ordered. Unless the order is
strictly obeyed, the court says the license Of
the violator will be revoked.
About five weeks ago Eberhardt Teuchter
bricklayer, 60 years old, residing in Cary
vile, Ohio, was bitten by q mad dog. A few
days later spasms set In, and he was unable
to swallow. The old man at the slightest
touch of the attendant snaps like dog and
turns black in the fore.
Curious Freak of an Old Man.
"Gould's express" passed through Mystic,
Conn, recently, en- route to California. This
express was founded and run by Barney
Could a man now 70 years old, over 80
years ago, when he walked from Philadel-
phia to Baltimore and return, carrying par
cells and letters for people and doing other
jobs which he struck on the way. Four
days ago he started for California across the
plains, over which he claims to have made
several trips on foot and alone. He app ,ars
to be man with a sound mind, and well