Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-11
NEWS IN GENERAL.


ing home at night. He paid no attention to
the wound until last week, when he was at
tackled with nervousness and sent to the
hospital The Pasteur remedy was tri. d.
but without effect. Bell suffered all the
horrors of the mysterious malady, and ed
six hours after the conS ulsions began.
Two men were instantly killed. another
was fatally injured, and about 20 more or
less hurt at the bottom of the Calumet g.
Hecla perpendicular shaft by a dynamite
blast which had failed TO explode. IL was
caused by one of the miners accidentally
striking the charge wi his pick. The ac-
cident took place 1000 feet under ground.
The Joseph r. Foard Transportation com
pany, agents in Baltimore Of the steamer
Earnmore which belongs to the Earn Linz
Steamship company Qimited) of Phil ltdel-
phia, have received the following telegram
from the owners: ''Eeanmore foundered
during hurricane Sept. 5. Fir t officer,
second engineer and five of the crew saved
and arrived here in dying condition" The
Earnmore left Baltimore Aug. ~, for Rio
Janeiro with a cargo consisting of $4,000
bushels of wheat and miscellaneous merchan-
disc, valued at so, ZOO insured. The vessel
W valued at Sl35, 000, and insured for
S120 600. The Earnmore was built in 1887,
and had grcss tonnage of POLO tons
Articles Incorporating one of the largest
coal mining organic ttions in this country
have been Issued by the secretary of state
of West Virginia. The incOrporators in
clude Abram s. Hewitt of New York, Levi
P. Moreon and his partner, Mr.. Bliss, the
New York banker and n large capitalist of
Ansted, Fayette county, w. Va. They
have leased the Hawk Nest Coal company in
Fayette county, on the line of the Caesa-
peake & Ohio, and will at once construct a
broad gauge railroad TO take the place of n
narrow gauge line now in use connecting
the mines with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the
distance TO be covered being AZ miles. The
mines will have a capacity of 5000 tons
daily, and this output will b. increased.
Three children named Walton obtained
access TO the powder houee of the gypsum
mine at Cayuga, N Y, and one of them
lighted a match and iynited a quantity Of
powder. One of the children was literally
blown to pieces and the others were 50 badly
injured that they died.
Near Geneva Mimi, $500 acres of land
have been burned over, and 5000 tons of hay
destroyed. The fire is in the peat, under the
surface, and it is unsafe to drive team near
it. Experts estimate the value of the de-
spoiled land at 500, 600 and the damage by
burning Of hay at 10000.
Annie Louise Cushing, a pretty organist
of Utica, N, Y, "A years old, has been mar
". y.
of the same place.
A priest, FIR. Boyle, has been convicted in
the Wake superior court, at Raleigh. N. C.,
Of charge of criminal assault on Miss Ge-
neva Whitaker. The jury had the case four
hours. The crime of which Boyle is con
victed was committed last May. He was
sentenced to be hanged Nov. 20.
Mrs. Turnstall Smith, of Baltimore, Md,
while suffering from nervous depression,
committed suicide by shooting herself. She
was one of the most beautiful women in Bal
timore society, and was a near relative Of
Secretary Bayard's first wife. The cause OF
the deed was melancholia, which developed
into temporary insanity.
Justice Bradley of the supreme court has
handed down an opinion dismissing the fa-
nous electric light case of Westinghouse
against Edison The suit was brought two
years ago by the Westinghouse interests
against the McKeesport or Edison Electric
Light Company, to restrain the defendants
from using the fibrous carbon or incandes-
cent conductor in the air tight globe The
p int at issue was the form and substance of
the conductor. 1t was claimed by the plain
tiffs that they had been granted patent on
the tlbrouS carbon while upon the other
hand, the Edison interests claimed that they
hal filed an application for a patent month
before the application Of the plaintiffs.
From present appearances, there are a
great many dead yet i'll the river at Johns
town, Pa, and the time allotted by Gov.
Beaver for the work will be sufficient tC
have enough rubbish re moved that they
may be taken out.
The strike of the coal miners at Scranton,
Kan, has been annie lbly settled. The EN-.
ployers granted the miners an advance of II
cents per ton in mining.
~, l,,,A
of the boldest desperadoe, in the Indian ter
ritory and the leader Of a noted band of
horse and cattle thieves has been shot and
killed near Fleetwood, l. r., by deputy
United States marshals while resisting ar
| rest.
The Great Falls & Canada Railroad com
pany has been incorporated at Great Falls,
Mont with 81 100000 capital. The com.
pany will build a railroad from Great Falls
to the Canadian line, whence the same par
ties will build the coal mines at Lothbridgo,
Can, which is connected with the Canadian
Pacific, by railroad ITO miles long.
The Indian conference at Lake Mohawk,
N. Y, Prof. C. C. Painter read paper OIL
1.-THE Indian and his Property" pointing
out certain grave defects of recent legisla-
ton. He said that under the reservatio4
system the Indians property is no. only use
less but hindranee to his civilization; a
temptation to the white; the provoking
C use of removals, which destroyed the be
ginnings of civilized life. Under the new
severality law his title is protected for TWEEN
ty-fve years, but his use of the land is rem
dered almost impossible by the restrictions
of the Indian bureau. Fearing that he may
misuse it, he is virtually prevented from
using it at all Prof Painter gave instances
of recent experienc among the Winneba-
goes and Sisseton Sioux, showing the impos
sibility for the Indian TO cultivate his allot-
ted land because of certain rulings under
the new law.
A desperate street duel took place recently
at Llono, Texas between two men who had
| formerly been sheriffs of the county. Poi
tics in the last campaign was at the bottom
of it. They used revolyers, and both were
killed
Mrs. Kate NJ Nye of Louisville, Ky,
committed suicide by jumping from a'third
story window. A little boy entered her
room with some towels, and Mrs. Nye asked
him if he would like to see her jump out OF
the window. He replied that he would
Mrs. Nye said: "All right: | will do it. But
| you must kiss me good-by.' The boy kissed
her, and she sprang out of the window. She
was instantly killed Marital unhappin ess
! was he cause.
For the fourth time in five years and the
second time this year, pending strike
! conducted by ID. A. 49, knights OF Labor,
dynamite explosion has been resorted to-
and as yet the police have convicted none
of the dynamilers. The latest explosion
wrecked the office of the big slaughter
house and wool pulling establishment of j.
d Nj. 2, Seaman. No one was hurt. The
Scanlans' place has been boYcotted by the
Edison ass citation, wool pullers and mem
bers Of D. A. ~, K. l., since February
last. The new men went out ON a strike
then, and the Scanlans have since refused
to treat with them. Time bombs have
been used in all the explosions that have
occurred in 49's boycotts The dates OF
these explosions are: Feb. l. 1885, Garry
Bros, store on Grand street; Jan 81 1887,
| Old Dominion steamship Guyandotte; Feb.
| g. 1885, Stevenson's brewery; Oct 3, 1880,
| j & NJ 2 Scanlnnis slanrhter house