Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Up TO the LIST of November there were in
existence 1913 national banks. PENNSYLVANIA
leads in point of number, Massachusetts SO
Tar as capital is concerned, and New York in
respect to deposits and volume of business.
Capt. Wheat Of Wisconsin, candidate for
doorkeeper Of the House, won his title in the
"a massachusetts, cavalry during the war,
and, In consequence, has some votes in the
Massachusetts delegation.
In an interview recently. Mr.. Dibbs, for
merly prime minister of New South Wales.
declared that it will be impossible to form a
colonial federation unless a common fiscal
policy is adopted by the whole of Australia.
Lyman X. Casey was elected United States
senator at Bismark n. D., on the first ballot,
being the 10th ballot taken on the second
senator. The vote at the end of the roll call
stood ~ for Casey and 80 for johnson, with
the other votes scattered among candidates.
Casey is brother of L. b. Casey, the well
known Minneapolis banker.
A stock train on the Illinois Central rail
road. running with two engines, broke
through culNert over small stream near
Arlington, La. The first engine got over
safely, but the second and five cars broke
through. Engineer Dubois and his firemen
were killed.
Abraham Lichtey of Mt. Carroll, ILL.,, adj
ministrator for several large estates, and
guardian for number of heirs, is said TO be
defaulter for from $4,000 to $4,000.
News has reached Raleigh, n. c., of fatal
cyclone which swept through Bufort county,
causing terrible destruction. AT CampbelPs
creek, six miles from Aurora, several houses
were blown down, and Dick Phillips (col-
ored) was killed and also his five children,
and several others were badly hurt.
Henry T. Schall the young man employed
in the Cashiers Department of the North
western Road. who left Chicago last January,
after taking $4,000 of the Company's funds,
has returned to that city. An indictment
against Schall was returned, and he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced TO two years in the
Penitentiary.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's
new 81 100000 steamer. the China, before
reported aground near Yokohama, has float
ed of and proceeded without having sustain
ed any apparent damage.
Rev. NJ. Little of Elizabethton, Tenn, shot
and fatally wounded Daniel Hyder, a we'll
known young man of that place, recently,
for betraying his daughter.
A special from Hopkinville, KY, says
Joseph A. Smith, the man who killed w. S.
Williams, Town Marshal of Trenton, a
village on the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, two weeks since, was taken from jail
at Elkton, county seat of Elk county, by
mob and hanged to tree. lie shot Williams.
who was unarmed, while writing warrant
for his arrest.
The stockholders of the defunct Lawrence
Bank Of Plttsburg, met and submitted 1--WE
names to the board of directors for the selec- |
ton of an assignee. The bank will probably |
30 into liquidation at once. Cashier Hoerr |
was not present at the meeting, but it is un- |
derstood that he has returned to the city. |
The depositors are arranging for q meeting |
in few days. No statement of the eondi-
tion of the bank has yet been made.
N.
lum was destroyed by fire. The fire was /
caused by defective fiue in the basement. |
Ffty-seven out of 65 inmates were rescued, |
while two women and two men are known |
TO have persisted, and four are yet missing |
and are supposed to have been burned. The |
building was partially and its contents totally |
destroyed. The loss is estimated at 100000.
Senator Frye's friend Page, who had the |
control of the Senate restaurant during the |
last Congress, may have to make a fight to
retain !, in the coming Congress. An inter
esting candidate for the lease is Mr.. Ralph /
Meyrick, who was steward on the special
train which bore the Pan-American congress
excursionists through their recently con-
Guided tour.
A coal train and work train on the Cleye-
land. Lorain & Wheeling railroad coided at
Ohio, the other day. Engineer A.
II. Myers of the coal train was killed. Jerry
Page. conductor, and Charles Beesie, cngi-
neer of the work train, were seriously in-
jured, as were also several train men. Both
engines were ruined beyond repair and %
cars were piled as high as the telegraph poles
In his annual report to the postmaster
general, Chief Postofice Inspector Rathbone
shows that during 1889 there We're sol arrests,
l47 convictions, and $50 eases are awaiting
trial, S14,jl1 recovered and restored 10 own
ers. The increase in burglaries of postofiices
was "A per cent. over the preceding year.
Mr.. Rathbone recommends that reward be
offered for postofiice burglars.