Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-22
NEWS IN GENERAL.

row with a negro named lsaan Woods and
two colored women at Greenville, Miss The
negroes were armed with kniv and razors
aud Scott had a shot gun. He shot Wonds
IN the leg, but the latter closed in on him
and cut his throat from ear to ear. The boy
George was alsD frightfully cut.
At Norfolk, Va, William Buffalo, colOred,
hut six years of age, has be n arrested
charged with the mu der of Riddick Harr-
son, 10 years of age, also colored.
William Flowers house was burned Mt
Hollow Rock Tenn, and Flowers, his
wife and two children perished.
The famous Duiferin mino at Salmon
River, n. S., the richest in the country, has
been sold at auction for Sal, 900 to he ArcGi-
bald family. The mine was sold on account
of the death of Capt Archib ID who was
one of the principle ow-strs.
A soldier named Ve~ ii, has been som
fenced to death ln Oran, Algeria, for throw
ing a quid Of tobacco into the face of Col.
Thierry while Vertjoie was being tried by
court martial for an attempt to desert.
A Winniper Man) dispatch says that
Tascott, the supposed Chicago murderer, has
been captured, and is now on his way home
in charge of "A detective.
T. R. Evans and ]. Walsh miners, at
Scranton, Penn. while trying to detach
large slab of roof coal, the mass ipped and
lell upon UIeul. ENd'S w = cru DeCl 10 O6dU0.
Walsh suffered probably fatal injuries.
Edward Broderck, aged II, and John Tro-
gan, aged "A, were rece ptly taken from Sing
Sing prison to the Auburn Insane asylum
for convicts. Principal Keeper Connaugh-
ton says That the men are going insane ow-
ing to their having no work.
The arrangements for a glove fight between
Jem Smith, champion of England, and
Charles Mitchell for 94OO ha, e been made.
The men are to meet on tie 23d in a ten
round glove contest.
At Italian Canon, 10 miles from Austin,
New, Samuel Rundle killed his father-in-
law, George Hosling, and his brother-in-law,
aged Is, by shooting them with a shotgun.
A boy nqmed Jon King, hearing the shot,
came toward the hou7e. He was met = Rr'-
de, holding the gl'. The latter ask the boy
t. shoot him. The boy refused, and Run
die then took the boys horse and rode three
miles to the lower ranch, entered the kitch-
en- OF the house and shot Mrs. HoslIing in the
head and then shot himself. The shooting
was the result Of a family quarrel over the
division of property.
Richard Roche has posted forfeit of 500
and issued a challenge to match Jake
Schafer, the champion billiard player,
q ainst any man in the world to play from
800 to 800 points for S2500 to $4,000 a side and
the championship.
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man., says:
Word has been received here that Lord Ions
dale has arrived at point in the Arctic cir
Gle known as tho Ramparts, which is the last
outpost Of the Hud,on Bay company. He
and his party are well and his lordship is in
fine spirits He will remain there for few
weeks and then pass on north. He does not
expect to get back to civilization for nearly
year and half.
Russia demands the exclusive right to
navigate rivers flowing into the Caspian sea,
and to build railways throughout Persia.
A silver bell has been p &C lin the Charlow
Cathedral to commemorate the Borki dsas-
ter. The bell will be toled for FIVE minutes
every afternoon at o'clock, which was the
time of the accident.
The phonograph is in practical, satdsfac-
tory use daily in several business and law
offices in Wall street, New York; work that
would consume an hour to write out in long
hand being dictated to the machine in five
minutes.
The bark Fannie Skolfeld, from Calcutta,
has arrived at New York with scurvy-
stricken crew.
Diphtheria has again broken out in a most
ma ignant type in Lehigh county, Penn.
Consul Vohsen, who represented the Ger
man. Africa company at Zanzibar, has been
returned to Berlin and has published a re-
port of the doings at Bagamoyo He says
that the responsibility for the occurrences
at that place rests with the German consul
general and not with the East African COM
pany.
The North Chicago Rolling Mill company,
the Joliet Steel company and the Union
Steel company have consolidated. The name
of the new company has not yet been deci-
ded upon. The capital will be 500 900, 900.
The combined works will probably rank sec
ond only to the establishment Of Krupp in
Germany.
The Buffalo and Niagara Falls Drainage
company of Buffalo, N. Y, has been incor-
porated. It's capital is So, 900, 900 and its OBJ
ject to construct a ditch via TOnawanda, to
the bottom of the Niagara gorge, which will
be used as tail race for water motors.
The youngest couple ever married in West
Virginia state were recently made man and
wife at Keyser, Mineral county. Their
names are Chloe Poland agel 13, and Joe
Snow, aged IA. They had been lovers for
four years, and after frequent entreaties, re-
ceived parental consenC to marry. The
bride was attired in short dress.
William H. Davis, well-known Chicago
builder and real estate dealer, has been ar
rested, charged with victimizing D. H. Toll
man, president of the Trust and Savings
bank. The purpose was to hold Davis for an
each Of a number of p ople the same piece Of
property. The prisoner quickly gave bail
for the forgery and disappeared.
H. P. Butler, agent of the Chatteroi rail
road at Ashland KY, has disappeared. He
left note admitting n shortage of $4,000.
Butler is believed to have lost heavily on the
last presidential election.
The strike at the Wheeling (W. va) steel
plant, which has been in progress since JAN
l, has been settled, the employees signing the
agreement as individuals This is a defeat
for the Amalgamated association.
The electric light controversy at Lockport,
N. Y, has been practically settled by the
common council taking a two years' con-
tract with the gas company for lighting the
streets at the following figures: For each
! gas lamp, SIS a year; for each incandescent
electric lamp, 20-candle power, $14 year, for
each arc electric light, 2000-candle power,
$50 year.
A statement comes from Vicksburg Miss
that syndicate, composed of G. P Hunting
ton, Mrs. Hopkins wife of the late million
nalre, and Leland Stanford, have bought
million acres of lard in Lower Cal fornia,
and are buying more Their object is said to
| be to develop that section Of country, AMI a
part of the scheme is the building of 1900
miles of abroad, some Of which is being
built.
The committee in New York City on trans
porl alton for the delegates to the worlds
! Sunday school convention, to be held in Lon
don in July have secured the Cunard steam
ship Bo hnia to carry the delegates and their
friends as far as Liverpool The vessel will
sail from here June 49, ard upon arrival at
Liverpool the delegates will DO taken by spe=
cial train over the midland railway to Lon
! don.
President Oakes says of the Northern
Pacific that his road cannot get emigrant
cars enough to accommodate the people. The
emigration centres at Tacoma. There seems
to be little doubt, he claims, that Tacoma
will be the commercial metropolis Of the