Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-24
GENERAL NEWS.


have given that district quite a boom.
Amos j. Cummings has been nominated
for congress by the Tammany convention of
the ninth district, formerly represented by
the late S. S. Cox.
C. II. Ring, aged As, manager of the New
ark, N. j., office of the U. s. Express Co.,
is missing. He has been with the company
% years and enjoyed the full confidence OF
its officials. Cashier Sanford of the company
says he does not believe Ring is an embez-
zler.
The steamship City of Alexandria, from
Mexico and Havana, brought rs passengers
the crew of eight men of the barque Barbara,
Capt. Staundt, wrecked near Falmouth; the
crew of eight men of the brig Alpha tBr.),
Capt. Howe, wrecked ut Laguna, and the
crew of nine men of the brig Brodrene
DAM, Capt. Beaumont, from Laguna.
The export of machinery from this country
70 Mexico has been increasing very rapidly
of late years. From less than 100000 in
value in 1881 the export had arisen to 81 ,O00,-
600 in 1887, and is expected TO reach $6,OOO,-
600 in 1899.
1t Is estimated that 3.125,000 pounds OF
vol are annually exported from South and
Southwestern Persia of which about quar-
ter goes to Bombay and the rest to Bnsrah,
where 1t is cleaned and mixed with superior
sorts from Bagdad, aud thence shipped to
France, England aud America.
The stockholders Of the Reading, Pa, Iron
Co. in voting to increase the indebtedness of
the company $500, 900 find such movement to
be necessary In order to make improve
ments and TO purchase two additional fur
naces. The present Indebtedness Is over
100000. 1t Is thought that the plant OF the
new company, with the upward rise IN the
iron market, will represent value OF nearly
81, 100000.
The steel oil tank steamship building by
the Columbian Iron Works Of Baltimore, Md,
for the Standard Oil Co., will be $40 IT. long,
SO IT, beam and % ~ feet deep In the hold.
Her carrying capacity will be 500 900 gallons.
Mayor Hunt of sandusky City, o., has tel
egraphed in regard to smallpox ravages Mt
Peee Island, the famous fishing resort In
Lake Erie. The despatch says the widest
excitement exists, owe 100 cases OF small
pox having developed there within the last
four days. The island has about ,OO0 popu-
lntion, every one OF whom, It Is feared, VIII
contract the disease.
Robert Berrier, young white man who
last week murdered his mOther-in-law Mt
Lexington, N. c., was taken from Jail there
by a masked mob and lynched. He was taken
TO an oak tree ut the outskirts of the town to
a limb of which n rope was adjusted. Berritr
placed on a horse and the rope tied about his
neck. After making request that his child
should be looked after, the horse was snatch
ed from under him and his body left hanging
between heaven and earth.
LAWYER w. L. Murray of New York was
committed by Surrogate Ransom for contempt
of court. Murray was somewhat intoxicated
and called the surrogate "an Infamous and
corrupt judge.r The lawyer declined TO
make an apology and was sent to Ludlow
Street Jail for 10 days.
c. W. Laster, coored. 10 wears oil, walked
into the station house at Tacony, Il suburb OF
Philadelphia, and related that he poisoned
w. II. Giddings at so Burlington street, near
jackson avenue, Providence, K. l., IN April,
1885, by putting arsenic in bis tea, and wanted
to give himself up. The chief of detectives
communicated by telegraph with the Proyi-
dence authorities, and Laster will be held
pending reply
Prof. A. Agassiz, of the Museum of Com
paratve Zoology, Cambridge, Mass, recently
wrote to the treasury department In regard
to certain proposed notifications Of its In
structons of July 3, last, relative TO the free
entry Of books and other articles imported
for educational societies. Assstant-seeretary
Tchenor declines to modify the Instructions.
The annual meeting of Pullman's Palace
Car Co. was held in Chicago the other dry,
over SIT 100000 of capital stock being repre-
elected: G.. NJ. Pullman, John Crerar, Mar
shall Field, J. w. Doane, Norm IN Williams,
O. S. A. Sprague Of Chicago aud II. G. HUI
bert of New York. The usual quarterly div
idend of 81 per share from net earnings was
declared, payable Nov. Is to stockholders of
record ut close of business, Nov. L.
The Richmond Terminal, Georgia Gem
trial, East Tennessee, Louisville & Nashville,
Southern Pacific and other Southern and
4 81
TEN of railroads and steamships, have united
In movement to make Tampa, Fla, the
shipping point for all freight handled on
those lines, a large part of which now goes
via New York and Boston.
An officer of one of the leading banks in
Washington has offered $50 for a check for
80 cents bearing the signature Of Benjamin
Harrison, which is in circulation. A check
for so cents, carrying the same signature, re-
Gently passed through one of the local banks.
About 400 cases of fever and 40 deaths have
occurred among the 1900 workmen of the
N Y Central X. X. at West Albany during
the past few months. The epidemic is at
tributed to defective drainage.
In his forthcoming book Cardinal Gibbons
argues for the prompt execution Of criminals
after the sentence of death has been pro-
nounced, and deprecates the increasing delays
that are made in criminal cases In the hands
of the law.
The scaffold erected at the Bethlehem Pa.)
Water Works by Mckee & Nilsson, boiler
makers, fell CARRYING with it nine men, who
were at the height Of As feet. George Wor-
man, foreman, was killed; George Murphy
and Cornelius McGettigan fatally injured,
and six others seriously.
A messenger from Bishop Bosse of the
Labrador coast has arrived at Quebec with
The news that the fisheries have altogether
failed at Esquimaux Point, and that over 100
families are starving. The local government
authorities will send sufficient food to Relieve
their immediate wants.
Three young men, residents Of Hudson, n.
Y, about Is years old, while proceeding up
the track of the Hudson River Il. R.. were
run over by locomotive. They were killed
instantly.
Atchison and st. Paul officials request
denial Of the rumored consolidation of the
Atchison, st. Paul, Southern Pacific, Missou-
ri Pacific, Wabash, Denver & Rio Grande
and Denver & Rio Grande Western, publish
ell in the Tribune. They declare there Is not
aparticle Of truth in the report.
A movement that promises to be national
in its character, and which has already at
tanned large dimensions, was inaugurated by
w. d. Matthews Of Washington, In recent
letter to Hon j NJ Inn0sfOn He called at