Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.

wharves, aad there IS suppo ed to be no loss
OF life. The estimated loss to the company
is $4,000.
A ge tlema1 who | as carefully looked over
the Ate ison itua ion says people selling
their Sonora bonds seem to forget that tnt re
Is subsidy due the road from the Mexican
government amo min, to S3,O00,00J or
81, 00000
Samuel Rothschild, Hartford hotel pro
prletor, went to New York last Saturday
and disappeared. His family received on
wednesday by express new trunk contain
ing the clothing and personal effects, includ-
ing watch, chain, diamond stud and ring,
worn by Rothschild when he left home The
key was attached to the trunk. The police
are trying to solve the mystery.
The steamer Haytian Republic, which was
the cause of so much trouble at Port-au-
Prince, will soon sail for home. She isnow
loading with logwood and the latest dis
patches to the owners in this city state that
She would clear for Boston on the Goth She
will arrive about Feb. l.
The San Diego Land and Town company
have ploughed and sowe 300 acres of land at
Chula V ,sa, leaving 100 ceres yet TO be
treat d In q like manner. Work will be re-
sumed as sDol as the weather will permit
AL thr ugh the Tia Juana valley new land
is being place under cultivation and at the
next harvest large shipments of CEREALS aud
Fred Perry Powers. the Was cor
respondent of the Chicago Herald, has been
awarded the New York Reform club prize Of
s25O for the best say on tariff reduction as
affecting local interests
Thomas B. Wanamaker of Philadelphia
mot he seeker for cabinet ace) has prom
1sed to Princeton college fund for the es-.
tai iishment of prize in tn English depart
ment TO be known as the Thomas B. Wana-
lich I,oV1C or, ppi1
Official announcement i, made at Havana,
that the rObber society, Los Manigos," has
been dissolved and that its bands or sets
Guegos), of which there were thirty in the
association, have disbanded. The leaders
surrendered to the chief of police and gave
up the ster Of members and all parapher-
ralia and properties of their secret work. In
the popular mind the society was regarded
as an aggregatiO of baniits and assassins,
and its destruction is hailed with delight.
A Adspatch from GAINESVILLE Tex, says: A
company Of Unitel States troops arrived at
Purcell, /. t. from Fort Reno, crossed the
Canadian riv and proceeded to put the
'boomers" out of the Oklahoma country
Over 800 families were driven out and they
are now eOCamped around PURGE l. Some of
the p ople rs sted and had to be tie1 to
wagons and were pulled out in this way.
A recent traveller in Africa, Carl Strekle-
MAJ of Columbus, Ind, has brought home
as a curiosity son Of the king of the Le-
van 20 country, whom he purchased from his
fat er The prince is 13 years old aud
thorough type of the negro. He is well
versed in tie native tongues of his country
and is now adding English to his other lin
guistic accomplishments
The St. Paul earnings for the third week in
January, 1889, were $34S 900 against $276-
3T for the corresponding week in 1888, an
increase of S7l, 623. This statement is not so
favorable as would at first appear, for the
reason that during the third week in Janu-
airy, 1888 earnings were $276, ,377, a decrease
of S50,53S from the corresponding week in
1887. Thus it will be seen that the earnings
just reported are only about S21, 900 better
than the average weekly earnings for the
month of January, 1888.
Jacob Tome a Maryland millionaire, has
given 500, 900 for the creation and main
tenance of the Tome Male and Female Semi
nary at Port Deposit, Md. The institution
is for white children between the ages of 10
and IS, and everything is free. The curricu-
lum will include manual training and In
struction Of practical kind The first pref
erence in the rules of admission is in favor of
orphans of Port Deposit
The king of Ravutu and the queen OF Ri
matara pray for British protectorats over
their islanis
1t Is said that the P ris police are trying
to bring about emeutes which will give q
pretext for the arrest Of General Boulanger.
The Scotch papers recently recorded the
marriage, at Inverness, Of Miss Edith Bry-
done. Not many readers of the announce
ment, probably were aware that she Is the
daughter Of conspicuous actor in one of the
most dramatic episodes of modern history.
Dr. Brydone was the one solitary survivor of
the Afghan massacre of January, 1912, and
his arrival at the frontier fortress Of Jellala-
bad is pictured in vivid prose by Mr.. Justin
Mccarthy In his "History Of Our Own
Times" and by Mrs Butler on her canvas,
''The Remnant of an Army"
During the trial of Mr.. William O'Brien at
Carrick-on-Suir the prisoner, with the aid OF
friends, escaped from court
The Pullman Palace Car company has OBJ
tanned control of the Union Palace Car com.
pany.
There will be a considerable decrease il
the sugar crop at Havana, compared with
that of 1888. This is due particularly to the
lack of rains after the hurricane of Septem
Der. The mai rity of planters of Sagua com
plain of less number of canes in their field
and less quantity of juice in the cane thar
last year.
A meeting of the National Union League
council is to be held at Washington, which
will be attended by prominent republicans
Mrs Roger Lanlson, wife Of o wealthy dry
goods merchant, and well known in society
was knocked down and robbed in New Yors
few days ago, by two men. She was ren
dered unconscious and has sinc3 been very
i'll at her residence in Larchmont.
Conferrees on g amendments to the in
terstate law are unable to come to unani
nous agreement.
Representative Thomas introduce in con
gress some fighting + solutions anent tn
Samoan matter. The government has ha
dispatches from Minister Pendleton at Berlin
but they are withheld. Bismarck's orga
takes a somewhat defiant attitude.
Senator Quay is quoted by friend as hay
Ing said to him just before he left for Florid
that he had received telegram from Wana
maker which indicated that the latter ha'
been offered, and had accepted, the secre
taryship of the navy.
James Mcmillan, he new sen to- fror
Mich an, is id 10 BE- a deci led acquisitio
t. the good looks of the senate He is tai
and lie der, with curly gray hair, ca eful
dressed, h avy mustache md small goatef
brigh eyes swapping through spectac es, an
more of t general air of New Yorke
than citizen f the west.
Allison Is still undetermined, apparentl,
as to what he will do with Harrison's invita-
tion to the treasury department. He tol
Clarkson before the latter went home ths
he would stand by him. But he has been in
portuned by other senators, representative
of Harrison, to consider Harrison's offe
further and if possible, favorably. He
still considering it.
Two men went into a new and unoccupiC
building ON the Kin4's Bridge road, near
thur avenue, New York, few nights ag
seeking shelter In the morning one of theI
named Harry Edwards, was found dea
while the other, alth ugh alive was unco
scious This was due to the inhalation
coal gas from stove in the building.
Fred A. Robinson, the messenger from Il
New Hampshire electoral college, called upC