Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-25
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Rev. DR.. John Mcdowell Leavitt Of New
York, for over 40 years a clergyman in the
Protestant Episcopal church, publicly an
nounCes change in views. He will here
after be Reformed Episcopalian.
DIR. Talmage's congregation viii build
new tabernacle at once
A New York policeman is under arrest
for shooting a passer-by while firing at
burglars.
A band of highwaymen robbed a North
Dakota elevator agent of $500.
Eighteen prisoners in the Newcastle DELI
Jail effected their escape through a sewer.
The female giraffe at the geological Gar
den, in CINCINNATI, O., has given birth TO a
male. This is said TO be the first giraffe bora
in captivity in America. The youngster is
nearly 81 feet high and his estimate weight
is $50 pounds.
The death of Babbitt, the millionaire soap
manufacturer is announced.
A clerk of the Western Union Telegraph
company at New York has been arrested for
stealing $500 from the company.
A Brooklyn lady, slightly demented
jumped from third-story window and was
killed.
The temperature is steadily approaching
zero in Minnesota.
young white man at Greenville, Ala, named
Roberts resulted in the negro pouring gaso.
line over Roberts. Another negro touched
off the fluid with lighted lamp, and in an
instant Roberts was envelopad in flames
He ran wildly up and down the main street
Of the town, but there was no one awake,
and he was literally roasted alive. When
discovered he was in critical condition.
One of the negroes has been arrested; the
other has escaped.
The boiler in Walton's saw mill at An
derson, Ind, has exploded The mill was
torn to atoms and pieces OF the boiler scat
tered over three squares of the city. Horace
Kuhn and Walter Mingle were killed and
William Rumer and Sam Cook were badly
injured E, G. Barlow, William Stanley,
John Biddle and Perry Denny were severely
hurt
The workmen at the Nattoon Glll gas
well have struck strong flow of pure gas
100 feet under ground. The blaze shows the
flow to be stronger than any yet found il
that locality.
Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll, son Of ex-Gov,
John Lee Carroll and grandson of the late
Royal Phelps, the wealthy New York
banker. has gone to Africa to hunt lions.
He has ju,t returned flom Montana, where
he spent several months hunting.
H. Fl. Bigeow of Boston, agent of the
English syndicate, has completed the pur.
chase of the three breweries of indianapolis,
Ind. Their annual output is 1876 900 barrels,
and it is understood the price paid for the
three was g., 000 900.
Mrs. General Grant has been much i'm
proved in health by her visit to Vienna,
where her son, Colonel Fred Grant is United
States minister. Her life in Vienna was
quiet and uneventful. She was received Ell
famille in the royal household.
Rev. DR.. Charles O'ReilIy of Detroit,
treasurer of the National League fund and
Col John Atkinson the Irish patriot, sud
denly started for London. IL is understood
that they go to confer with Mr.. Parnell and
other leaders of the Irish movement
Frank LOTUS a brother Of manager Tom
LOTUS of the Cleveland base ball team, has
been shot and killed, it is said, without prov.
ocation. LOTUS was fireman on duty. He
stepped across the street to saloon and
bought a cigar. As he was coming out the
door he accidently stepped on Paul
inent attorney, and, although but q, is
noted tough. He followed LOTUS out on
the sidewalk and shot him dead.
r. J. Warner, the missing Wagner palace
car conductor, has returned and admitted
the pocketlng of days earnings of the cars
that ran to the Jerome park race track. He
said nothing in justification of his conduct,
but as his brother offered to restore the
missing funds nothing further will be done.
The boiler in a sorghum factory located at
Bueyrus, o. exploded and killed three men,
including the engineer
The solicitor of the treasury has given an
opinion that woman, now de aimed in New
York on her arrival from Scotland as being
unable to support herself and two children,
cannot be sent back because one of the child.
rem was born in this country when the
mother was living in New Jersey about two
years ago, and is therefore, an American
born citizen, for whom in the absence of her
husband, who deserted her. she is the nat
ural guardian.
The total receipts from internal revenue
during the first quarter of tha present fiscal
year were 1874, 6S4 526, or So, 770 S07 greater
than the receipts during the corresponding
period of the preceding fiscal year. If tho
receipts increase at this ratio during the re-
mainder of the year, the total receipts for
the year will aggregate about $l45, 600, 000or
$4, 900, 900 more than the receipts during
the previous year.
The annual report to the secretary of the
treasury of the supervising surgeon general
Of the marine hospital servica John B.
Hamilton, for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1885, shows that during the last year nearly
80, 900 seamen have been treated at the diff,
ferent hospitals and relief stations through
out the United States.