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

Robert Sigel has pleaded guilty of forging
a blind pensioners name to two checks. The
penalty for each offence is 10 years i'm
prisonment Sentence was deferred. By
this plea Sigel will doubtless escape punish
ment for the other offences with which he is
charged. The young man seems completely
broken down.
Correspondence from the Northwest terri
tories reports that the Indians in Peace and
Mackensie districts are in deplorable condi-
tion, many of them having starved to deata,
while many cases Of cannibalism are men,
toned.
The New York board of aldermen have
heard arguments for and against the grading
and paving of 18th st. through the polo
grounds No decision was reached. The
baseball lovers made a big protest against
cutting through the grounds,
The magnificent steamer Puritan will soon
be ready to take her place on her regular
trips between Newport and New York She
has been newly refurnished with carpets and
is in perfect order, making hec more elegant
than ever
VIM. Burgess, dealer in canning supplies
at Mimico, n. Y, who fled week ago with
S37, coo of his creditors money, has been ar
rested. He imagined he saw a chance of
making a lot of money by corneriug all the
canning tin in Canada. The scheme, how
ever failed, and Burgess became bankrupt.
An open switch caused collision between
east and west bound freights on the Mani
toba road at Howard Lake MINI. The en-
g3nes and twelve cars Of wheat were wrecked.
The engineers and firemen saved themselves
by jumping.
General Diaz de Vega of FL Naconal
(newspaper), Mexico, has been released after
of a fine of $1,000.
The life-saving department of the United
States have forwarded to Walter Claus of
Cedar Springs Ont, silver medal, for res
cuing several persons from drowning off the
American schooner o. NJ. Bond, wrecked in
October, 1887, near Rondeau Point
The following message has been sent to
President Harrison by Oklahoma Hill and
party: 'The situation in Oklahoma is criti-
cal. 1t is national necessity to take action
at once in Oklahoma. If the thousands Of
actual, honest settlers clamoring for admis-
.i"'n ire GeI"jved of the right to settlement
til 30 lat, t. r}a,lo & crup,it will be severe
disappointment and will cause actual starva-
ton on the border"
John McUarihy, a freight brakeman on
the Dayton & Michigan railroad, put several
tramps off the train near Anna station O.
boose with a club ia his hand. Mccarthy
grappled with him, but he was powerful
fellow and in the tussle threw Mccarthy
from the top Of the train to the ground, fa-
tally injurlng him.
The steamer Walla Walla of San Francis
co, plying to Puget Sound has been seized
by customs officers for emitting proper en-
tries Of freight on inward manifests She
carried four barrels, supposed to contain
sauerkraut, which were taken through tO
Tacoma without being entered on the Gus
toms record. The freight list at Tacoma in
dicated that the barrels came from San
Francisco, consigned to Ellenburg. Shortly
afterward the barrels We're seized by the Gus
toms officers and found to contain opium
valued at 10000. The barre were put on
board the steamer at Victoria and secretly
taken through to Tacoma
The will of w. NJ Merriam of Riverhead,
T. T., who diod foSv months ago leaving
bonds, cash and other property amour ing tC
SSl, 900 to the United States government i,
being cor es ID by Two sisters residing in
Massachu ett .
A dispatch from Tien Tsn to the Hamb4ra
correspondent says it is reported there that
the natives have risen on the Kwang S
frontier, and that they have destroyed II
block houses and killed 100 Frenchmen
D. W IGOscOe, Guy JreaSufGr-eleCJ or syria
cuse N. Y, was indicted by the grand jury
for bribery in procuring his appointment
He gave bonds in S5000
The movement recently started by Severa
prominent steamboat men at New Orleans
La, to establish an independent cottonseeC
oil mill in that city is assuming definite
shape.
The Chinese ambassador at Washington
has been notified Of the disturbances that o
CURED in Milwaukee, Wis, and has sent
word through Chow Tai, the representative
of the six companies, that the Chinese gov.
ernment will insist upon full indemnifcator
for any damage that may have been done t.
the property of the Cinnamon during the dis
turbancaS