Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-02-28
NEWS IN GENERAL.

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n departure from the St &c IS said to be tb
m danger Ofinsanty.
v The Saloon-raders % Trenton, Mo. hav
been finei e. zach and costs for dtStrOvin.
ct private property.
Two sisters both school icarherS. Wen
II killed by runaway at Newark. y j.
No ice famine for New York this year
The storage dam built across the Hasa
l.. Ntmua rivtr near Prescott An. gave wa,
~ "n the I'D under the presSure of great
flood and swept everything before il Forty
le persons are known to have been drowned.
u John Jacob Astor is deal He was horn
Y in ISL
=, Ghe tracks are free and travel is again in
~ terrnpted IN the Sierras and on the western
Il roads.
\ boiler in the government distillery ot
:, Salisbury. y G., exploded killing four
> aud wounding six.
Jay Gould has bought another railroad.
al,2si shares of the International d Great
. Northern Railroad for $50 So.
Cameron & s zer's tobacco factory at
Richmond, Va, is burned, loss So. Op
Barnums animals are on their WY
home.
by AN explosion in the packing house Of
Armour & Cudahy at Omaha Neb, eight
or 10 were killed and large number IN
iured.
\ syndicate offers 81 OOo 90 Tor the fran.
chise of the National League Clubs.
The Siberian Exile Petition Association
has met in Philadelphia and agrees ON the
text of an address to the car, TO be signed
throughout the country.
II is estimated that 1000 90 tons of steel
rails will be needed by the railways of the
country for 1880. The bulk Of them will
c used IN replacing old rails
The surface roads of Newark, y. J.. have
been purchased by a syndicate for a., 100
900.
Treasurer Hemingway Of Mississippi is re-
ported short $50 900 in his accounts He
has held the office for / years and enioyed
the greatest confidence Of the People The
affair has caused great sensation.
Short crop and speculation are the re.
ported causes of the recent rise in rubber
Miss Harriet O. Drury, % years of age A
graduate of NaSSar. has been adiudged m
sane and removed to an asylum. She owns
! considerable property in Wisconsin and has
travelled great deal. He deluslon was
that their was young man at the house /
where she boarded who wanted to marry
her but was kept away by jealous rivals
! i is reported that an English syndicate is
| to buy controlling interest in the Union I
stock Yards at Chicago.
Coasting vessels have had hard experiences
with hoatlng ice during the recent storm
and cold weather.
forepaugh circus has been bought by J.
T. cooper, former partner of Barnum's.
The accounts Of Agent Futvoye of the
furneSs Line at Baltimore Md are found
to be $50 900 short
Miss Emma Fischer of Erie Pa was
badly dlstgurcd by some miscreant throw.
ing yitriol at Ecr, her eyes fortunately es-
capped injury. Her lover was shot while
trying 10 find the rascal.
sensation was created at jamestown.
Pa, by an assault on cx- Congressman Wal.
ter l.. Sessions by Frank Griffith who struck
MN twice on the head with an iron cane.
Mr. Sessions silk hat broke the force of the
blows, but his scalp was badly cut Several {
wears ago Mr. Sessions lost suit at law for (
Gnt1th, and the latter, whose mind j, not t
very strong, has borne him a grudgc ever
since Griffith was locked up. =
At the meeting of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers in New York, a c
paper entitled The Practical Working of |
Electrical Subways Of New ork city" was =
read. II IS estimated that subway uapahle O
of containing all the electric wires and tho h
gas and water mains of New York city Fl
would cost Sl30DO a mile. This for Broad. ;,
way alone from Bowling Green TO Central 81
iark, would mean an outlay of s. l.DNu Il
such tunnel throughout the route Of the fl
electric subways now cvlsting would cost Ii
nearly SO OOOOc G,
Marion Harland in her magazine. is max. +
ing an attempt to restore, or rather to COM Ii
plete, at once, the monument TO Mary fine y
~ Washington, dead now over 100 j
years The effort takes up work begun tif,y /
seven years ago when the corner sione of -
the shaft WHICH never Tosc was laid IN the b'
of fredericksburg Va re
The South Dakota legislature has passed Se
a Joint resolution admitting that dcstitution
exists IN many parts Of the state. and that y
he farmers must he furnished with seed ~ ~
wheat by public and private substitution -
The resolution declares that under the state io
constitution state and county are powerless i"
o render aid, and that al assistance must ri
ONE from outside sources The whole W, w.
natter is placed in the hands of GOV Mel. ~
cite who Will appeal to the East for aid -,
Susqnehanna county, Pa. is greatly in en-
crested in queer lawsuit Philandrr 10
'rown and his wife of Tathrop township NJ
we're brought before ESQUIRE Courtright in ,h,
lontrose, charged by Paul Hill Of T.athron
'ith iieeclng him out of 500 Hill saws On,
nat brown and his wife claimed TO be sea
Mrlurhsts. they represented TO him that Bc
eSns Christ was in need of kprre sum of nm
honey, and that Hill must supply il,
rown also SAID he had received letters ask.
* tor money and signed Jesus
hrist," and that he had also received Flo
tiers purporiing to have come from n de.
'ased relative Of Hill, saving that she was
cry much IN need Of money and clothes
Ter one OF the most exciting trials ever
cid IN this county, Brown and his wife
ere held to b il, in default of which tbey
ere sent to Jail. Brown now brings sui. Coz
'ainSt Hlll and A. II. McCollum. his at
rney, for damages amounting to 500 90
~ also against Constable Orlando Watrous
"a Esquire COPYRIGHT for 1000 each for
lse imprisonment. Ry
News was received at Raleigh, n. C., of n O"'
rlcS OF lnCendiary fires ut Rocky Mount ,
ne trouble seems to have grown out of Oa'
me unpleasantness in connection with the
gro emigration mater.
The 6prague Electric Railway and Motor NIL
'mpanv has closed a contract with Thns
1wry OF Minneapolis for the equipment of
e entire street car systems Of MINNEAPOLIS
a -. Pau, embracing 800 miles of tract
ana between the two cities This will be
G, largest electric equipment ever installed
Il involves an expenditure of S2,00CCO
After March all beef and mutton from But
ler States must be inspected before being
on sale in Virginia H
Wolfe Corwn Of Shelbyville, Ind. bos
en- married for the ninth time. This is
? woman over whom husbands Nos Gand
ought IN front of her house few weeks
J. as recorded in the newspapers at The
lie; No. the same night eloped with
other woman Wv"
fugh w: Hughes, the dead slate king of
ahvllIe, n. Y, leaves fortune of SiOO
; lie Wits $500 to each of three sisters
use OF StO 900 to bis wife, and 5000 for
lonument '''