Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-08-02
NEWS IN GENERAL.

tute, not having received their pay, is oti-
cially declared to be false. Every man to
whom the government was in debt has been
paid in full, and 1t IS shown that the few
malcontents who are trying to create SYM
pathy are deserters.
William O'Brien has donated to the fund
for national memorial to John Mande-
vile, who died in the Tullamore Jail, the
9100 which he obtained from the Cork con-
stitution last July for libel.
Late news from Ounalaska by the
steamer Bertha confirms the recent reports
of the loss Of three whaling schooners-
James A Hamilton, Otter and Annie No
trace of them have been seen in the Arctic,
and it Is generally believed they are lost.
The vessels carriei about sixty officers and
men.
A final decree has been rendered by Judge
Blodgett, In the Federal court, In the long
pending litigation between the Bell and
Cushman telephone companies. The Bell
company brought two suits against the
Cushman company for infringement OF
patent. The decree intboth suits is against
the Cushman company. A fine of 81 is as
sessed against it, and it is ordered to turn
over all of its telephones to the Bell com-
pany.
Edward E. Shemo, an insane colored man,
confined in Jail with q white prisoner at
Asbury Park, N. j., became violent and
was heavily ironed AT noon the follow ng
day he rushed upon the white prisoner,
Randolph, and frightfully beat him over the
head with his heavy menacles. Tho white
man would have been killed had not officers
overpowered the maniac.
The death is announced Of Frank Thimm,
the well-known foreign bookseller Of Brook
and Bond streets, London. Mr. Thimm was
himself both an author and photographer.
1t is understood that he has left in manu-
script continuation of his 'Shakespeariana
from 1864 to 1871, and also large materials
for photography of Goe he Mr.. Thimm
died In the 10th year of his age.
News comes from Geneva that the govern
ment by order of the bundesrath, has ex-
PEELED large number of nihilists, French
anarchists and German socialists. the per-
sons expelled were residing there without
regular papers.
George Lewis, a negro, living near Belden
| Tex, was lynched for poisoning the well of
William Shaw.
The report to the effect that Mrs Heron
was under sentence of death IN Corea for
preaching Christianity was without fCunda-
ton.
The project of forming a syndicate of
paper manufacturers in London has been
abandoned.
New York is growing very enthusiastic
over the proposed exposition there in 1892.
The creditors of Lewis Bros & Co., the ex-
tensive commission merchants, will urge a
speedy settlement of the firms affairs that
the business may be resumed as speedily as
possible. The firm hopes to pay 100 cents on
the dollar.
A son of Marshall II. Twitchell United
States consul at Kingston, Ont, has been
arrested on the charge of being the masked
burglar who entered the residence of Mrs.
Martin there recently. He is mere boy
and up to the present time bore good
character. He is said to be insane.
The trial of the strikers arrested at Bres-
lau, Germany, has resulted In the conviction
of 32 of the prisoners. Henkel, the ring
leader, was sentenced to seven years penal
servitude, and TO be deprived Of his civil
rights for seven years. Nine Of the strikers
were sentenced to terms of Imprisonment
ranging from IS months to five years at hard
labor and % were sentenced to imprison-
ment from a year to four years without hard
labor
In the coming general elections for mem
bers of the chamber of deputies Henri
Rochefort will contest the seat for Belleville,
a Persian suburb
A report from Hayti states that there has
been battle in which Hippolyte was driven
from his position.
A mortgage given by the Chicago, Mil
waukee 81 st. Paul railroad company to the
United States Trust company of New York
has been filed for record in the office of the
circuit court at Galena, Ill. The amount of
track covered by the mortgage is 1868 miles,
and the amount of money represented is
b150, 600, 000
AT the meeting of the Union Railway and
Transit company and the Terminal Railway
company of st. L5uls, the stockholders of
! tha two oOmno nieS XyOtad for cOnSOlida tiOO
and the new company will be known as the
st. Louis Terminal Railway association.
Another attempt has been made to wreck
train on the Whee ing and Elm Grove
railroad which was returning from Wheel
ing Park with the cars crowded with pic
nickers. A rail was placed on the track in an
open field, and short di-tance away man
was found driving spike between the ends
Of two rails He was captured amid some
excitement and is now in Jail He is sus-
pected of being the man who made two at
tempts at train wrecking on the night of the
Fourth of July,
Mr. George w. Childs has received from
Col. Fred D. Grant, United States minister
to Austria, communication enclosing q
} contribution Of S142 subscribed by the peo
pie of Carlsbad for the sufferers at Johns
town, a subscription of $40 from Colonel
Grant and one of like amount from his
mother, Mrs, U. S. Grant,
Joseph Albert Kelley of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has been appointed cadet at the Military
academy, West Point, from the fourth con
gress district of New York.
The Florida Manufacturing company has
been L, Gently incorporated at Albany, N. Y,
with a capital Of $3.50, 600, for the manufac-
ture of cotton seed oil and other bY-products
} of cotton seed, also commercial fertilizers
and cotton yarn and its products
Fr Delles, Catholic and member of the
Protestant party, has been elected member
Of the German Reichstag for Metz, to take
. the place of Herr Antoine, who relinquishet
his seat and returned to France.
/ The suspension of Lewis Brothers & Co.
commission merchants of New York ant
J Philadelphia Is announced. The liabilities
are estimated as $4 300 600 and the assets a
g.. 600, 900. The embarrassment created grea
surprise in business circles.
The civil tribunal of Paris has decided
that the Panama Canal company canno
compel the holders of lottery bonds to pay
: the outstanding installments but that th
holders Of such bonds are still liable to b
called upon to make pro-rata payments t.
5 the extent of gu lrter of the nominal valu
o of the bonds. Where installments have beei
S paid in advance the company must refunC
/. the money,
n The department of fisheries of Canada
4 advised that mac1erel are schooling OF
0 Prince Edward Island, but they have no
0 yet been taken in any quantities.
The Turki,h cabinet council has decides
not to send a squadron to Crete, nor to tax
:. active measures for the repression of the re
!. volt in that country, pending an endeayQr +
!. arrange terms with the malcontents.
!. Deputy Sheriff Warren Moore was sho
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