Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.

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her oft-annouBced intention OF not shaking
hands. BY the aid of a large boquet held in
both hands she warded of the most invet-
crate hand-shakers.
Mr.. Shame Fun, the new Chinese Consul
in New York, has arrived, and attended
banquet In his honor at which he was re-
qured TO have an interpreter at each elbow.
He required a Chinese interpreter to give
him the substance of the Cantonese dialect
spoken by the Cinnamon in this country, as
he is from another province.
Mrs Todd, the wife Of the Amherst astron-
omer who has gone 10 Africa to observe the
eclipse, helped her husband wonderfully in
his preparations. She read every book con-
corning the coast TO which the expedition
is going, and read to him selected passages
daily. She also worked up formulas and
details of geography for him.
The President has appointed o. f. viii
liams, of Rochester, N. Y, to be United
States consul at Hayre, France.
A syndicate has offered s2,275,O0O for the
car-wheel and locomotive works of John
Bass, at Fort Wayne, st. Louis and Chicago,
and his extensive coal and iron mines in Ala
bama. Mr.. Bass is holding out for $3,OOO,-
900 and will probably get il.
The American steamship Tonawanda Is
now nearly 10 days overdue from Darien, Ga.
Several vessels have arrived and reported
passing a sunken lumber-laden vessel on
Body Island, and from the description given
it is feared the craft is the T0nawanda, and
that her officers and crew are drowned. The
Tonawanda had a full cargo Of lumber for
Brooklyn. She was a wooden vessel, built in
Philadelphia in 1854.
Gov Foraker's condition is still a matter
OF serious apprehension TO his friends, al
though he is reported as convalescing. I'm
pr0vement Is not so marked, and it is reason
ably certain that he will not be able to fill
any Of his appointments.
Mary E., better known as Minnie Palmer,
who was accidentally shot in New York city
last May, and who recovered, shot herself
at her parents home in Port Jarvis, N. Y.
The shot will probably prove fatal, the bull
let grazing the heart. The only reason as
signed for the act is that her mother had
been scolding, and threatened TO put bullet
in her. Minnie said she would shoot herself
and thus save the old lady the trouble.
The citizens OF Johnstown have raised
$4,000 to continue the search for the dead.
James McAiillen of the Cambria Iron Com
pany, and A. j. Moxham Of the Johnson
company subscribed $1,000 each.
The administrator of Lena Weinberg, W no
committed suicide last May, in Winona, Mimi,
has found in the false bottoms Of four trunks
belonging TO her S12,1l6 in American gold
and bank notes, English soyereigns and other
foreign money. No heirs to the property are
known.
The account given by correspondent Of
the reception accorded to Minister Phelps by
Emperor Wilhelm at Potsdam is very pictur-
esque. The Minister passed through series
of long halls until he came into handsome
room filed with smartly uniformed officers;
aud after waiting few minutes with them
the door of an inner apartment opened, the
officers suddenly disappeared and the En-
peror came forth. The conversation was
principally on scientific and social matters,
and lasted nearly an hour. The Emperor
showed himself exceedingly well informed
about American affairs.
The scarcity of railroad cars at Pittsburg, is
causing an advance in coke. Furnace men
through the Ohio valley are offering 80 per
ton for it and cannot get full supply at that
price. Three months ago it was 81. The
lack Of shipping facilities is not only forcing
consumers TO pay big price for coke, but it
is also entailing direct loss to shippers.
The proprietors of the Grant Locomotive
Works at Paterson, N. j., intend to establish
plant near Chicago, and subscriptions are
now being taken in that city. The company
proposes to invest S1,000,000 ON condition
that another S1,000,000 is subscribed In Chi
cago. The works there will employ about
1900 men. The plan is to purchase large
tract of land, using a portion of it for the
works and remainder for building lots. A
town of 5000 or 6000 people will be established
in reasonably short time, II present plans
are carried out.
The report that the Prince Of Wales has
Bright's disease is confirmed by a dispatch
from London, which says that his physicians
have informed him that there Is no hope for
him. His royal mother is much alarmed by
the intelligence.
Prof. Englisch, the chess champion, lately
played no less than thirty games Of chess
simultaneously at the Vienna Chess Club,
against the most experienced members, and
won them all in less than five hours.
A strange atmospheric phenomenon was
observed at Pittsburg. The sun was sinking
toward the horizon and the sky was hazy,
when a brilliant rainbow, a quarter circle,
appeared in the zenith, being visible for an
hour.
Horace Phillips, formerly manager Of the |
Pittsburg Base Ball Club, who has been con-
fined in the insane asylum at Merchantville, |
n. j., for the past three months, has entirely |
recovered his reason, and will be released |
from the asylum at once. DR.. Foster his |
physician, says his malady was not paresis, |
but acute mania.
A report that Wilson Howard, with 100 |
men, is besieging County Judge Wilson |
Lewis in the court house at HarlantOwn, KY, |
was brought to Louisville on Tuesday by two |
men who just came in from that sec
ton. Lewis is said to have 80 men, and to |
be fortified in the court house. Howard is |
the man for whose arrest large rewards have |
been offered, both in this state and Missouri. |