Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-13
NEWS IN GENERAL.
New York is to try the experiment Of
branch postoffices in stores


den fame, gives the bulk of the property to
the city of st. Louis.
In the United States circuit court at st
Louis NJ, Judge Thayer rendered decis.
ion to the effect thai the cJunterfeiting OF
the union label used ON cigars cannot be pre-
vented or punished. The ruli will affect
the cigarmakers' organization in the United
States and Canada, it is claimed, very seri-
ously, as it practically decides that their
label is of no value whatever.
No. 2 colliery of the Delaware and Hud
son Railroad company at Olyphant, Pa, is
on fire and it is believed that 20 acres of the
inside workings are in flames. On account
of smoke it is almost impossible for the work
men 10 make any headway in flooding the
mines. Three hundred men are thrown out
OF work by the fire.
Bark Don Jacinto is reported wrecked off
Hatteras, April Z.
Mrs. Henrietta Cook has been pardoned
from the Kansas penitentiary, after serving
IL years of a life sentence on the charge of
poisoning her husband The case is interest
ing from the fact that the board of pardons
believe the woman is innocent.
Frederick E. Richards, a cook, and W.
Kuhne, a sailor, on the schooner William
Rice of Rcckland Mass, came before the
United States marshal in New York and
asked for libel on tn schooner for wages.
The men said that they shipped at Rockland,
and came to Hoboken, wher4 they got a load
of coal to so back with. When they were
well off shore, the captain, Charles Jameson,
treated them so brutally that they were
forced to seize a dorY and row for their
lives to the Shore The libel was granted,
and United States officers sent TO take
charge of the schooner which lay off College
Point, L. l.
Graylight is the largest horse on the turf.
She is nearly II hands high.
Mr. Stuart Robson and his company have
listened to the reading of Steele Mackaye's
new play, "An Arrant Knave," in which
Mr.. Robson is to star this year in connection
with his old success, 1.-THE Henrietta" This
new play, which Mr.. Robson thinks will
be great success is a very pretentious
piece of work, written as ma ch to the old
time comedies of Shakespeare's time. The
scenes are laid in the 18th century, and
nearly every part in the piece is said to be
very strong. 1t will be seen in Boston later
in the season.
confidence man in New York has sue
ceeded in getting some money out of Herr
mann, the magician, for some worthless
stock
A dispatch says that 90 negro rioters have
been kill d at Greenwood, Miss. The cot
ton planters report that out of 1000 hands
only go are at work.
The new North German Lloyd steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm H. has made her first voy
age to New York and it was practically a
trial trip. She is to be run on the company's
Australian line. She is 460 feet long, 81
feet beam and 81 feet Deep measures 5000
gross, and has 1000 horse power.
Fire in a lumber yard at Winona, Mimi,
destroyed % 900, 0)0 feet of lumber, Z, 900, 900
shingles, a three-story brick warehouse and
other property. Loss, $314,000
Delaware, b1ckawana aneI-VvessorsA
train struck a carriage at a crossing at Brick
Church, N. j. The carriage contained Mrs.
Willis of Newark, her baby, and clerk for
a Newark coal dealer, to whom the horse
and carriage belonged Mrs. Willis and
Marshall were seriously hurt. The baby
was carried on the engine for distance of
about fifty feet. 1t was wrapped in heavy
woolen shawl, and escaped injury. Witnesses
say that the engines bell was not ringing.
The gateman, according to custom, went off
duty at about o'clock.
The New York Memorial Arch fund has
now reached $50, 0,099.22, and it is hoped that
the total 800, 900 will be subscribed in time
for work ON the arch to be begun in the
spring.
George A. Treadwell of New York says
he purchased the Phoenix mine in Arizona
Territory for ]. M. Seymour of Orange
county in 1879 with the understanding that
he was to have one-third of the amount
which should be realized from the property
He alleges that the defendant sold the mine
for 81, ,200,C0l, and did not give him penny.
The Thermometer has fallen 30 degrees at
st. Paul, Minn, and the mercury stood at
AZ degrees Quite cold snap has been ex-
perienced all over the northwest, culminat-
ing Ia a severe frost at Cheyenne. The fact
that migratory birds are rapid Y leaving
southwark is considered to augur an early
winter.
Robert Anon of Syracuse, N Y, an ap-
prentice boy ON the United States steamer
New Hampshire, died at Newport Hospital
of typhoid fever. This is the fourth death
from the disease among the apprentices.
The court house at Carthage, N. c., has
been burned, and all the records were totally
destroyed.
A boiler of the North Mine. at the Ports
mouth coal mines expl 0ded with tremend-
night. Charles Morgan fireman, who was
in the pit under the boiler was scalded to
death. The work of the mine will be de-
layed four or five weeks.
The visitors in the American Museum Of
Natural History Central park, New York,
on Labor Day, numbered more than 5000.
Horace II. Stratton, a member of deer
hunting party in the wilds of Sullivan coun-
| ty n. Y, was accidentally shot by Henry
| Fountain one of his companions. Fountain
was carrying his gun on his shoulder, with
| the barrel pointing down and backward
when suddenly the weapon was discharged,
the contents striking Stratton in the groin,
from which ath resulted in an hour. 1t is
| thought that the gun was discharged by a
twig catching the hammer.
An Ontario and Western night despatch
freight train struck an extra West Shore
freight train on cross over at Danton, near
Weehawken, N. Y. Eight cars were broken
up among them two cars OF merchandise
The accident was caused by the heavy fog
One brakeman was slightly hurt.
Bob Younger the Missouri outlaw, is
sinking rapidly. He Is liable to die at any
time from heart failure though he may lin
ger along for WHILE
John McClelland of Jeffersonville, KY, was
bitten by mosquito shortly after he was
seized by convulsions. His right side is
paralyzed and he is not expected to live.
Justice Mayham in the supreme court at
| Albany, N. Y, handed down a decision, an
nnlling and reyoking the charter of the
Broadway railroad company of Brooklyn.
He holds that the company has surrendered
all the corporate privileges and franchises
| granted to it by the act of the Legislature
April 16 1860. Justice MAY ham perpetually
bars the company from exercising any of its
corporate rights and enjoins and restricts it
from constructing any railroad under or by
virtue of any of the provisions of the act
The company failed to lay tracks or main
tain railroad as agreed to.
The Brooke Iron company at Birdsnoro
Pa, has advanced the wages of the puddlers
from 1926 to 50 80 per ton. Nearly 300
ham are affected 1t IS estimated hera that
1000 puddlers in the Schuylkil valley have
had their wages increased, the advance also
affecting 5000 men employed in other de-
partments
George Herbich who shot at his wife
twice in Brooklyn, n. Y, without hitting