Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-05-30
NEWS IN GENERAL.

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A telegram received at Topeka kan, from
Dover, Indian Territory, states that the
Rev. ;. +. Griffin, cOlOrcd, has been shot
by Samuel Moore No further particulars
are given Griffin was well known at To.
peka lie went to Oklahoma about six
months ago, and there secured claim. lie
organized quite a large colony of ColOrcd
people in Topeka. all of whom he located
near Dover. lie was q popular leader
among the cOlored people, and took prom.
mcnt part IN politics.
The Montreal post Of the Grand Army
formerly installed its officers at Il recent
meeting OF the order. United states Consul
General Knapp delivered an address, urging
The members to remember that the nited
states and tauada were neig hbors II" also
lrged the members 10 make the post an in
,trument for maintaining and fostering good
feeling between the two countries
\ mare belonging to William Barnes. near
Etmwood, Mo-, fOaieA Il trio of colts recent
". The triplCtN are doing nicely. 1t is be
leved TO he the only ease on record
One hundred members OF the New York
md Brooklyn Coal Exchange recently took
.hree days excursion through the coal re-
iions of Reading, Pa
Il. J. Cunningham. who travels as a sew.
my machine agent In the county was visit.
Ing house of iIl-iamc at Rocky Mount. Va.
n company with others, and when ordered
% leave by uctavil Hodges, 3-vear-o!d
innate of the hOu-c, he refused. The girl
.ired upon and instantly killed him. Gun.
uingham WAS welt connected. but had been
IN spree for several days. lie leaves
wife aud five children. The woman was
arrested.
The biggest landslide ever known on the
'a>t branch of the Baltimore * ohio Rail-
road occurred near Confluence. Pa. The
rack was carried away and the rOadbcd
'oN cred for 4 quarter Of mile.
Miss Jennie TuN. aged Is. daughter Of
squire Joe Fox of johnson township. H.,
received a cheek for 81 10000 lcft her by
he death u an uncle at Galveston, Texas.
This Is Clark county's first millionaire.
susan Benedict, a sixrccn-ycar old girl,
lied at Lancaster, Pa, from Il fatal do>r of
audanum, taken because her mother r..
fused 10 let her 20 out nights.
Henry Wink,lbeck lumber dca'cr and
sawmill operator OF lusausport, Ind, j. hc.
ievcd to bc in Clnada. having pcrpetratc,l
extensive iurgcric>. About Sl0.WO Of the
fraudulent paper have already come to light.
EN-Attorucy-Genrra Baldwin holds S:Bn.
Il. :. Murdoch 5000, the National Bank
$1,000, and more OF II i, out. Winkelblcrk's
family is left destitute.
Mr.. Pill,bury is about tn bIild at Kansas
City 4 system OF Hour mills similar 10 those
recently sold by him 90 the English syn.
ticatc. Mr. PiIlsbury with other Minneapolis
capitalists, have already built one grain
elevator here with a rapacity II ,jon o"0
bushels, and have completed arrangements
for the construction OF u loo-barrel mill.
During quarrel over ,omc work, Felix
Spitznalc threw large clinAcr at John BogcI
fellow workman in the Newark. y. j..
steel Works. 1t struck DuIcl on the head
and fractured his skull. He cannot live.
sptlnac escaped.
Giuseppe Car,si alias count MonterCole
pleaded guilty before Judge Thaver at rhia
dclphia la libcl. The defendant on April l.
issued circulars winch contained defamatory
statements regarding III, Wiic. Virginia
knoN Carusi Of Pittsburgh. The Count WAS
sentenced TO siN month imprisonment.
rhc bundsmcn ot rN-~tatc Treasurer NO..
and "f Missouri will make good the deficit in
hlS accounts.
The warm WrathrI hl, raised the water in
the sacramento and >lu joaquin Rivers.
al. aud the IccNes are IA .rrat danger.
several had breaks have occurred. fioodin.
i'Hn acre. Of gram. The water ! four inches
higher than ever before.
Mrs WIhchIiuA Fielder. who ha, been
missing from her home ia Newark. y. j .
Wa fuuud dead IN i swamp on the poor farm
at Milburu She was Il wears old and VIZ
slightly drmcntrd. Il is thought that she
died OF exposure and lack of food. Her
children madc every effort to iind her.
\ freight wreck at Elizabeth Furnace
three miles east Of Altoona. Pa resulted in
dcmUlishing seventeen ears. an engine and
Killing many hr.! Of cattle.
| The inromln. limited train from Chicago
| 10 kan-aS City on the Chicago and Alton
| road WAS run into Uy freight train eight
miles east of Kansas city. \ sleeper aud
dinn. car were ditchcd. hut none Of tn,
occupant, was seriously and but three slight
| ly hurt.
John MhaIrn, resident OF Auburn
| y. y. was found hanging by the neck in
cow shed. 1t was case or suicide caused
! by diseased mind. supcrinduced by pro-
lOnged i'll health.
Lieut.. Gen. Middleton. who looted turs 81
! half breeds during the Northwest rebellion
denies that he has any intention OF rrsigninl
! the command OF the Canadian militia,
Detectives have returned from 4 fruitle'
! trip To Mexico in search of the man whC
drove Dr. Crunn to hi- death chef q
Police Marsh, in an interview, said that h,
| knew positively that the man was in Mexico
and that he had received warming and mad,
| good his escape through the Carelcssncss o
some of DE- CrOnin' friends.
I John Wright blacksmith, cOmmittc,
suicide by throwing himself in front OF thu
Atlantic express on the New York Contra
road, at Tarrytown, y. Y. The cngin,
threw him high in the air, and hr was dcaC
when picked up.
Gov. Campbell has granted rcpricvc t,
Charles Blythe, the Cincinnati murderer. VIII,
was TO have been hanged in the pcnilen
tiary, until June 20, when there will proha
bly, he double hanging. as that ~ the ia,
| fixed for the execution OF Otto Lcuth. tn
boy who assaulted and murdered little MAJ
gle Thompson In Cleveland
During recent thunder storm that paSset
over Marlboro county, s. G.. a stroke O
lightning did unusual execution. As SOoi
as il began raining number of negroes VIII,
were working in a field took refuge under
shed at the foot of a hickory tree. The tire
was struck, and the lightning. passing dowl
through the shed, killed Smart Patterson AM
John Brown. knocked two other men sense
less and stunned several mules.