Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-08-30
NEWS IN GENERAL.


marry her on three different occasions, his
last vow being made on the 4th of July. He
| now refuses to marry her because she docs
not get homo from her wo k at o'clock in
the evening, at which time he is ready to
begin his courting. On the other hand, she
claims that, having to go out washing for a
| living, she is obliged TO stay out some even
ings until 8 o'clock or later. She likewise
alleges that she has lost much valuable time
with Daniel under his promise of marriage,
when she could have had her choice from
score of aspirants for her hand. For al of
which she wants $4,000.
E. G. Loverid ye and Wilson H. Sherman
have bsCn found guilty of charges of fraud
ulent and irregular transactions and ex-
PEELED from membership in the Buffalo Mer-
chants exchange.
| The Keystone Furnace company of Penn
| sylvania has made an assignment to the
Readin Trust company for the benefit of
creditors. The company has been losing
money for some time, and having a number
of large notes to meet, and n money with
which to pay them, an assignment was
decided up n. 1t il believed that it will
fall into the hands of thu Reading railroad
company and becOme part of the Reading
Iron company
Calumet and Hecla mine proposes to run
a tunnel to Lake Superior for a water sup
ply.
DR.. Robert Lowry of Canton, and Miss
Mary T. Foote of Oakland, Cal, were mar
red at Jackson, Miss Miss Foote who is
daughter of Henry S. Foote one of the
! California state supreme court commission
ers and formerly a citizen of Mississippi, was
visiting in Canton, where she met young
Lowry, q son of Gov. Lowry and a practis-
ing physician Of that city. An attachment
sprang up between the two and it is sup
posed that On account of the youth Of the
lady her relatives objected. AT any rate
the couple elopod to Jackson. Gov. Lowry
has eleven children. One OF his daughters
and two of his boys eloped.
Keefe, New Yorks pitcher, was quietly
married TO a sister of Mrs. Helen Dauvray
! Ward on the 24th.
The largest sale Of tobacco ever made by
auction in one day in the United States and
probsbly in the world has just been made at
Louisville, KY. The total number of hogs
heads sold was 1,002 This amounts to about
q million and half pounls, worth in the
| hogshead more than $4,000.
A white haired man of about 70 years COM
mitted suicide from a Hoboken ferryboat
Two deck hands on the steamship Ems saw
the suicide throw himself from one Of the
cabin windows.
A gasoline still at the oil refinery of A. D.
| Miller in Allegheny, Pa, exploded with a
| frightful noise, and the entire plant was i'm
mediately fired and rapidly DESTROYED. The
engineer is mi sing, and a watchman was
blown many feet and badly burned and
! bruised. The property destroyed was valued
at S225, 0OO The bones of man, supposed
to be those of the missing engineer, were
found in the ruins.
| The loc Il Letter Carriers association of
Minneapolis, Mimi, proposes to meet in
milwaukee, during the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic, because
| of the low excursion rates, to perfect a
national organ zation. The purpose of the
national association will be to secure the acts
of congress to protect carriers in their rights
under the present laws, and also to procure
the passage of still more salutary acts. 1t
seems that a misunderstanding has arisen
among the carriers and the government, or,
| more properly, the carriers and their SUI
| perior officers in the United States mail SER
vice, concerning pay for overtime work.
The Laura Bellini Opera company is
stranded high and dry at Minneapolis, MINI.
The principal trouble has been the money
! quest on. The chorus and others owe board
bills and cannot get away.
The building of the st. Louis elevated
railroad is now assured beyond question. For
several days New YOrk cap talists, accom-
panied by civil engineers and experts, have
been there and, under the guidance of Col.
| S. F. Scott, one Of tire originators Of the
enterprise, have surveyed the route and
made the necessary inquiries to satisfy them
selves as to the desirability of the invest
ment.
white Horse, " the chief of the Crow In
dian tribN, has b7en murdered by an un-
known assassin. His remains were thrown
| into the Yellowstone river, where they have
| just been found The tribe has been aroused
| to high indignation and swears to have re-
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command of the English language and was
well liked by most of the ttlers throughout
the country adjacent to the Crow reserve
| There is story tlat "White Horse" entered
q church at Buffalo several years ago during
a communion service and partook OF the
holy bread and wine in such quantity that
there was not enough left for the rest of the
congre CATION.
William Johnson bookkeeper for George
Parker, produce merchant in New York
| has been arrested on a charge by his EN-
ployer of embezzling $1,000. johnson, it is
said, bet on racing events Parker trusted
johnson implicitly. John on received from
bis employer from time to time checks to
pay for goods and, it is said, forged the
name of the creditors on the checks. Par
ker's credit was good, and the creditors did
not press for paI ment, johnson squared
his accounts by entering the checks on his
books as pad.
Information was received at Kansas City,
Mo-, of the arrest of Bentonville, Ark, of j.
r. Cunningham the postmaster at Golfers
burg Mo-, who absconded with S. coo ON
June last, since which time the detectives
have pursued him as far west as San
Francisco, east to Illinois and north to
| Manitoba.
The business failures reported to Brad
streets number 218 in the United States last
| xuaaL ouainSt ICY Of ba ,,raIrio11c vuoo1y md
157 last year. Canada had 18, against "a.
The total Of failures in the United States
since January is 7427, against 65S5 in 1888.
When John McDermott a Harlem, N. Y,
milkman went to his stables he found them
ablaze. He tried to drive his three horses
and 10 COWS outside. All but two were so
scared that they would not bulge, and were
burned to death. The two which were
driven from the sheds were so badly bnrned
that they had to be shot.
The laundry girls of St. Louis, Mo-, are to
form into a union, so that they will receive
fair wages from the laundry proprietors.
Chairman Blanchard Of Chicago has given
notice that extraordinarily low rates on tea
are being made by Suez canal steamers with
the evident intention OF taking the business
from the transcontinental lines. He sent out
with the notice to all central traffic and trunk
lines a blank vote on the question of reduc-
ing the present rate of 81 to 70 cents, Pacific
coast to Atlantic seaboard.
Lieut. Gov. H. G. Davis of Nevada fell
dead in his garden from heart disease on
the 23rd. His family was visiting in the
east at the time
A war of races has broken out at St
Louis, Mo, thnt threatens to bankrupt the
Chinese laundr, men During the last four
years the Chin,so C lony has grown with
alarming rapility Every new Chinaman
opened laun Try. Finally the home
laundries made combination with the
object of driving cut the Chinese. The news
PAPERS were filed with tales of woe, indigna-