Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-12-05
NEWS IN GENERAL.


y. j., have been burned, rendering 81 fami-
4 lies homeless. The loss is about eSO, 900.
The entire street car equipment Of Owens.
bOro, KY, including mules, cars, stables and
other buildings, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, eco, 600; insurance unknown.
The buildings of the Oregon Pottery Com
pany and the Northern Pacific Hotel have
been burned at Portland, Or. Loss, slJ,OOO;
fully insured.
The stock and building of the Powers
Dry Goods Company, at 81. Paul, minn.,
have been damaged by fire TO the extent OF
$3.50, 600.
Edward Holbert, Charles Berg, John Berg,
John Olsen and John johnson, left Bayfield,,
Wis, few nights ago In small sailboat,
and have not since been seen They are
thought TO have been drowned.
A big five-story brick building, which was
being erected on Wright street, Chicago, fell,
demoIishing four smaller buildings. Fortu-
uately nobody was hurt. The loss will
amount TO s75,000.
The handsome summer cottage known as
the Towers, owned by Minnie Cummings,
the actress, at Elberon, n. j., was almost
totally destroyed by a fire, caused by de-
fective fiue; loss, $1,000. Miss Cummings
had arranged for Thanksgiving party on
the evening Of the fire.
For the first time this winter Saranac
lower lake, New York, has been frozen all
ponds are ice covered. Zero was recorded at
the signal service station on recent morn
ing.
The carriage factory Of George NJ. Brown
4 Co. of Clayville, n. Y, has been destroyed
by fire. together with = large amount of
stock An office building and q tenement
house were also burned. Loss $4,000.
Hon. w. +. Cody, Frank Powell white
Beaver, and "Pony Bob" II. ii. Haslam.
have gone to the camp Of Sitting Bull on
Grand river. 1t is expected that Buffalo
Bill Is sent out to get at the bottom OF the
Messiah craze, with almost unlimited author
ity to act.
Three boys, Willie and Milard Tally, aged
respectively 0 and years, and Fred Hawiey,
aged 0, were killed by the caying In Of the
bank Of an abandoned sandpit in which
they were playing, at Atlantic, la. The
bodies we're recovered ater a half-hours
digging.
The Argentine premium on gold is
rumored TO have reached 300, the advance
being due to the governments buying up all
the remittances It could lay Its bands on to
remit to Europe to meet the January cou-
pons.
The corporation counsel at New York
has declared j. II. Haffy and X. ID. George,
the Alabamans who got the better OF green
goods men in the early part of October to
be the owners of the SiT00 which they sue
ceeded In obtaining from the swindlers.
At St. John, n. b., Jewetts mill, which
was partly wrecked by explosion q day or
two ago, has been burned down. There was
an insurance Of $15, 600 on the building, but
rs little damage was sustained by fire then.
the insurance companies were not liable to
any extent. The cause of the flames starting
up anew Is rot known, but the underwriters
intend to have an investigation.
Gov. Campbell Of Ohio has respited Henry
Popp and Isaac Smith, sentenced to hang.
Popp was resplted once before, and Smith
has now been respited seven times.
While the farmers In the South Carolina
Legislature are preparing to turn Senator
Hampton out of his seat In the United States
Senate. that veteran soldier and statesman
lies at his house on Mississippi plantation
suffering from painful and serious gunshOt
wound In the head. Senator Hsmpton's
son-in-Iaw, Col. Haskell, has just received
information that while the senator was bird
shooting with his son on the plantation the
latter accidentally shot his father in the
head.
The committee appointed TO fix up some
plan for stopping the decentralization in rates
from st. Paul 10 Chicago, growing out of the
selling, at cut rates, OF tickets issued by the
Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City road, will,
il is understood, recommend taking the
block OF 1000 ST. Paul & Kansas City tickets
off the market, and pooling the business be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul, and dividing 1t
according to agreed percentages.
Day, the Wcllaud murderer, will be
hanged at Toronto Ont, Dec. 1s, unless the
minister of justice intervenes. In the court
of Queens bench, the reserved points in the
case came up before Chief Justice Armour.
The question was as to the sdmissibility of n
statement made TO detective officer by the
prisoner after his arrest. After all the argu-
ments had been made the chief justice in
summing up, said: 1--WE have looked into
all the cases and authorities on the question,
and we cannot but hold that the evidence Is
admissible"
Dennis Chesna and Mike Hordurick were
| caught in the act of placing obstru:tions on
the Delaware, IRckawanna and Western
track, near Plymouth, Pa, just before fast
passenger train was due. Both are Hunga.
rians.
Frank Gault, Richard Hayes and Patrick
Lynch, who were injured In the Jewett's
mine explosion at st. John, n. b., have
died, making the total list of victims eight,
The disaster was undoubtedly due to weak
and old boilers.
The war department has received news
that the Cheyenne river Indians have aban-
| doned the ghost dance and come in for
rations. This is regarded as most hopeful
sign Of abatement OF the excitement Great
benefit Is believed TO have resulted from the
employment Of friendly Indians as govern
ment scouts. and the department has just
authorized Gen. Miles to increase the num-
Der Of such scouts in the department Of Da-
| kota to 1900.
| At New York. Judge Fitzgerald has de-
MED motion by Charles Brooke to dismiss
the indictments against Henry s. Ives Of the
firm Of Ives & Stayner, who Is now under
bail on eight indictments for the alleged
fraudulent issue Of stock Of the Cincinnati,
| Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. Mr.. Brooke's
motion wns based on the facts that It Is now
over q year since Ives was tried, that the
| Jury disagreed, and that no further action
| has been taken.
The Canadian fisheries protection cutter
| Cruiser has seized "A number of American
boats and nets in Georgian bay for Illegal
fishing.
The steamer Pennsylvania, from Liver
pool, which recently passed Delaware Break
water, DEL, signalled that the British steam
er Falcon had been abapdoned by her crew.
The Falcon sailed from New York for Glss-
gov on the I'd inst.
The case Of r. N. O'Brien, charged with
| libelIing Prince George of Wales during the
latter's visit to Montreal, has been put over
TO next term.
j. T. Andrews, the man who built the
Grand Central depot and the Fourth avenue
tunnel In New York city is dead at New
burg, n. Y.
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