Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-07-26
NEWS IN GENERAL.


side, but the extent Of his injury is not
known. Two carpet sacks of counterfeit $40
bills have been found, and the search is not
ended The hotel belongs to Nelson briggs,
an aged and noted counterfeiter.
The Columbus river at Columbus, Tex, is
81 feet high and still rising. The lowlandS
are inundated and crops entirely destroyed.
The damage to cotton crops in the county is
estimated at $500 000 People have fed to
the mountains for security from the floods.
1t has been raining there for three weeks. A
further rise Of one foot will cut off railroad
communication.
Twenty women visited the gambling house
of John Lewis at Evanston, Wy. T., and
gave Lewis a thrashing with whips as pun
1shment for his habitual beating of his wife.
Some OF Lewis friends undertook to rescue
him from the women, and the male friends
of the latter also took hand in the affair.
In the shooting which followed two men
were severely wounded.
Woodruff, one of the supposed Cronin
murderers, has made another confession.
The English government has accepted ten
ders for the construction of seventeen vessels
on the Clyde, Tyne and Mersey.
Arsenic was placed in the food of the four
children of Joseph Hunter, a planter living
near Star City, Ark, and three of them
have died. Tho criminal and his motives
are unknown
Paris papers consider that the King of
Hollands address to the States General, in
which he asked that &c, 900 troops be kept
armed to defend Dutch neutrality, is a
grave event, indicating expected German
action.
1t is reported that the Manitoba and
Northwest Canadian wheat or D is a failure.
Members of the Toronto board of trade have
received information that the total Weld
will be little less than half last years crop,
and the disaster i so widespread that there
are thousands of acres which will not be cut
at all. The damage is the direct result of
drouth.
The Egyptian government has notified the
French government that the latter's refusal
to accept the conversion scheme will cost
Egypt nearly GOO, 000
The state officers of Indiana have succeed
ed in negotiating the sale of the 50, 900, 900 of
bonds issued for the purpose of refunding
the school fund loan. The discovery has
been made, however, that the state will lose
instead of gaining Sl1T,000 annually by the
transaction owing to a peculiar provision of
the act authorizing the refunding of the loan.
The Atlas line steamship Ailsa which
recently sailed from New York for Haytien
ports, carries one of the largest consignments
of firearms and ammunition that has been
oCub w Ild1 u oluCS Illt biOuDlt DSbW6el HID
polyte aud Legitime first began. The Ailsa
is a floating armory She carries round
million cartridges and a thousand rifles The
latter are of the latest improved Remington
style. With them Minister Preston says
Legitime can easily put an end to the trouble
between him and the rebels of the north
The government has accepted a proposal
by Mr.. John Morley that an increased al
lcwance to the prince of Wales, enabling
him to provide marriage portions for his
children be substituted for the proposed
special grants.
The famous Corliss engine, the largs st ever
constructed and the one used to drive the
machinery in the great hall at the centen-
NAL OF 1876, is now In the shops of the Pull
man Car Co, at Kensington, near Chicago,
LII. 1t is generally supposed that the empe-
ror of Brazil bought the engine and removed
it to his own country, but the bargain was
not consummated. This tireless giant works
IN an upright p sition, is 40 feet high, of
l40O horse power, and has two 40-inch cylin-
ders and 10-foot stroke
Officials of the Chicago & Alton road as
sert that there is no truth in the rumor that
negotiations are in progress for the sale of
that property to the Chicago g. Northwest
ern and the Missouri Pacific. They declare
that the road is not for sale.
The papers in the Burke extradition mat
ter have been received at the department of
justice at Ottawa from Winnipeg. A lapse
of time being provided for by law, an order
for extradition cannot issue until the Goth
inst, and in the meantime the minister Of
justice will have an opportunity of consider
ing the merits Of the case.
AT council Of 10 chiefs of the Chippawa
tribe on Bad River Reservation, Black Bird,
Red Cloud and other leaders stated their
numerous grievances to Capt. Leahy, United
States Indian agent. They want S125 600
annuities and back dues which the govern
ment owes them. They will send delega-
tion to Washington to press their claims
1t is officially announced that the queen
will confer dukedom upon the earl of Fife,
who is to marry Princess Louise of Wales
Col. Gray Of the state accounting depart
ment who had charge of all the state books
at Johnstown Pa, has completed his report
of the money expended. Col Gray has
vouchers for every cent of the money that
went through the hands of the state author
tiles during the time that they had Charge of
affairs at John,town, The grand total
shown by Col. Gray's cash book is S248, 935-
81. He has balance of $1,000 in hand
Every cent is accounted for, and the account
is backed by sworn vouchers.
At Charleston s. c., DR.. Mellow the
slayer of Captain Dawson has been expelled
from the South Carolina Medical society.
The Allan Steamship company intends TO
increase the number of its passenger and
freight vessels, and to effect various inn
provements in its present feet. The COM
pany has been released from its contracts
with the English and Canadian governments
Anita and Miriam Boggs, maiden sisters,
living near Point Pleasant, Va, committed
suicide by taking arsenic They left u letter
signed jointly saying that there was nothing
in life for old maids and that they were
tired of it, They were in fair circumstances
but had no relatives living.
The Paris newspapers most inimical to
Gen. Boulanger condemn the Indictment
against him as weak, wordy and Ineffective.
The only serious charge is that of embezzie-
ment, which the general declares is easily
refutable.
The porte will send several battalions of
troops to the Island of Crete in consequences
of threatened rising of the people there
The Dominion government has baen noti-
fled that R. G. Gibbs, lumberman, OF Manis-
tee, Mich, intends this season to Test the le-
gaity of Cauada's action in imposing exS
port duty ON Canadian sawed logs The
duty was levied by the Dominion govern
ment for the prevention of the d apletion of
bringing 3S0j0,000 feet of Geor ian Bay
logs to Bay City for saving. They con-
tend that through treaty be- ween tho
United States and Canada, signed in 1865,
they will not have to pay the duty of S! per
thousand feot
The Ital' AN government has withdrawn its
vessels from participation in the blockade of
East African ports near Zanzibar.
A cruel experiment was made at Niagara
Falls to satisfy an idle curiosity. A barrel,
so constructed that it was expected to pass
through the rapi Is safely, was set aaoat
with Newfoundland dog fastened insd,
The barrel was smashed to pieces and the
dog was killed.