Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-02
NEWS In SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
INA FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
from Many Redundant Columns

The banking house of w. r. Morse, at
Clark's. Neb., closed its doors. The liabilities
are $4,000; no assets.
The foods on the Isthmus. caused by the
overflow Of the Chagres River, have subsidized.
The running of trains ON the Panama Kali
road have been resumed
The large tobacco factory of ]. w Easley,
at South Boston. Va, was burned. The fac
tory was occupied by Norman 4 Evans, and
contained stock of old tobacco valued at
So, 900.
Robert Hull fireman on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad. and a brother of Allen
Hull, general passenger agent of the same
road, committed suicide by taking laudanum
at the Norvie, Arlington, Hotel.
Bessie Van Wycke the young daughter
ofJ T. Van Wycke. of Cold Spring, Ny, was
alone in the house preparing the dinner, when
the fire became low, and Bessie poured kero-
sene on the embers. The house and all of its
contents, including $500 we're destroyed,
leaving Mr.. Van Wyeke homeless and penni-
less
Richard Berry. of Chicago found a bottle
filed with red liquid on the shelf in the cup
board of his home. He drank the stuff, and
then asked his wife what kind of wine il was.
The terrified woman said il was embalming
fluid. Berry died soon after.
The body of q man was found in the cleft
of a rock near Stony Point, n. y, about
1000 feet above the level of the Hudson
River. BY his side lay 32-caiibre revolver.
The coroner gave it as his opinion that he
must have committed suicide early in Sep
TENDER.
Two sacks. containing the head trunk
and limbs of a man. were found in East Fair
mount Park Philadelphia. murder has
been committed and the police are on the
track.
A grny-haired man. over GO years old,
was arrested at New Madrid Mo. for robbng
the Sheriffs office of $500 He had COM
plete outfit of burglars tools, including large
punches of keys and several yards of fuse,
and is thought TO be an old professional.
-Fountz Holmes. of Charleston, w. Va.
got crazy drunk, and securing a large club,
ran through the streets. knocking down
several people, among them three ladies.
Edward Aiines, the last man struck, killed
Holmes with a knife. Aimes was arrested,
but was soon discharged
--George b. Renou and Brnte I. Renou,
father aud son, and Anmon Neasey were
drowned in Round Bay, n. H., while skat-
ing.
The passenger and freight steamer Silver
Star, of Bar Harbor struck Il rock and sank
near Portsmouth, Ne, Capt. w IL. Parker
and her crew of eight men took to their boats,
saving only the clothes they had Oh.
"A dynamite bomb was thrown into the
car works of the Litehfeld foundery 1t ex-
ploded seriously injuring three persons.
The boiler in Emmells' factory, North
Vernon, Ind, exploded, killing james Lett
and wounding four others.
The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown GU
the suit of the State Railroad Commissioners,
declaring it has no standing in court, as it
had been withdrawn in the lower court
-Freights will be restored after January !
by the Western Association.
Mssour's Supreme Court has decided that
st. Louis has no right to fix the maximum
rate of telephone tolls.
Susie Monroe King, 16-year-old school
girl of New York, committed suicide because
of disappointment in love.
The test of the new gunboat Yorktown at
Philadelphia was satisfactory.
Thomas McConnelly, school teacher ut
Audale, Kansas, was struck on the head with
poker by one of his pupils. lie will die.
The Canadian farmers supposed to have
been lost in the blizzard have been found.
The fire in the Calumet and Hecla NINE in
Michigan is out.