Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Brief Record of Important Events Durins
the Past Seven Days.


fsit in Lisbon.
Cardinal Alimonds, Archbishop of
Turin, is dying.
The U. S. cruiser Baltimore has ar
rived at Lisbon from Sweden.
A slight fall of snow was experienced
throughout England Saturday.
Sir Charles Pearson has been APP
pointed Solicitor General OF Scotland.
There are Two feet of snow on the
ground at Ste. Anne des Monts, Que
Persistent rumors are ahoat that the
strike in Sydney, New South Wales,
has been settled.
Three locomotives of American make
& Jaffa railroad.
The Secretary of the Interior has
accepted the resignation OF Pension
Agent Barclay of Pittsburg.
Hon. Isaac Holden, NJ. P. of England /,
has donated 81 900 to the fund of the
Irish National Liberalists.
The report that Gov. Campbell will
retire from the Gubernatorisl Office of
Ohio is denied by that gentleman.
The Corville Soap Compsny's works
at Ssco. Me-, valued at $4,000, were en-
tirely destroyed by FIRE. insured.
Cholera is gradually disappearing in
Yokohama. There have been "a, 900
cases and 90, 900 deaths up to death.
The bronze statue of Ma or- Ge neral
John Stark, 1.-THE hero of Bennington"
has been unveiled at Concord, n. II.
Burglars stole package of regis tered
letters and a sum of money from the
postoffice at Belmont, w Va, Saturday.
Russian advices are to the effect that
the cholera has extended from Persia
to Bsgdad and is destroying many vic
Tins.
Baron Wissman. of Berlin, has h ad
o farewell audience with the EN-
peror prior to his departure for East
africa.
The Navy Department is informed
Mat a squadron of Brazilian men Of
war sailed for New York from Rio
psneiro
1t is announced in Berlin that Count
Herbert Bismarck is engaged to Rus
alan Countess residing at Mitau, in
Eourland.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight committed sui
lcide at Chester. Pa, by taking lauda-
mum. Family troubles and drink were
1.-The cause.
Ebenezer R. Bassett. Secretary of the
United States Legation at Hayti, has
sailed from New York for his post at
lPort-au-Prince.
Alonzo II. Laws, carpenter and
builder, Boston, has gone into insol-
vency, owing $4,000, with no unen-
Numbered assets
William Welsh, of Albany, a COM
mercial traveller, died at the Woodruff
House in WATERFOWL, N. Y, of heart
failure Thursday.
The Union Baptist Society of Ire
mont Temple, Boston, unanimously
accepted the resignation of Rev. Emory
J. Haynes, their pastor.
The steamship Majestic of the White
lStsr line, just arrived at New York
from Liverpool, made the passage in 8
days, hour and minutes.
The famous Baby Bunting case of
Campbell vs.. Arkuckle was argued be-
fore the Court of Appeals at Albany,
N. Y, one day last week.
One man was killed and six injured
by the collision of the Pottsville and
philadelphia express with a coal train
Saturday near Reading, Pa.
The potato crop in Vermont which
promised well, is found to be seriously
affected by rot, and digging has in
many cases been abandoned.
4 A very prolific yield of petroleum has
been discovered at Kilkeel, County
Down, Ireland, and a company is being
formed to develop the product.
The machinery of the State fair at
Birmingham, Alabama, was started
Hast week by Mrs. Cleveland, who
lpressed 8 button at Lenox. Mass.
Rain considerably married the out
door exercises of the celebration at
Berlin Saturday in honor of Count
Won Moltke's birthday anniversary.
Burglars at Jacksonville, Pa, broke
into the Office of lumber firm, sand
dragged, gagged and bound the watch
man. and robbed the safe of s., 900.
Arthur Lumley, the well known ar
tist and illustrator of New York city,
has become totally blind through the
growth of cataraets over both ewes.
L. F. Letter the Chicago millionaire,
denies the reported engagement of his
daughter to Sir Charles Hall, the boon
companion of the Prince of Wales.
One man was burned TO death aud
policeman severely injured by fire
which broke ont in tenement house
in Brooklyn \. Y, early Thursday
morning.
The total catch of the twenty-seven
schooners that left Victoria this year
for Behring Sea and Northwest coast
was 5,5l6, making valuation of about
s404, 600.
/ A large fly wheel, twenty feet in
Idiameter. exple ded Sunday in the
Lynn. Mass, Gas and Electric company,
causing a loss of $4,000 No one was
injured.
William Taylor, convicted at Albany.
IN. Y, of killing his mother nea
West Troy in the spring of 1889.
lids been sentenced to life imprisonment
An Dannemora.
Representatives from the leading ex-
press companies Of the country held
meeting At Chicago Friday TO COM
plste the schedule for the advance in
eastern rates.