Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Indian scare along the Manitoba
frontier is over.
Baron Schmidt, the noted architect, Ia
dead at Vienna
The Balfour Irish relief fund now
amounts to 100000
The resignation of the entire ministry
is reported from Rio Janeiro.
Gen. Lees birthday was celebrated in
Richmond and other Southern cities.
In London the verdict of death from
starvation is returned in numerous cases.
Meissonier, the Industrious French
painter, is seriously i'll with bronchitis.
Messrs. W. Parker & Sons of Lowell,
Mass, have refused to enter the bobbin
trust.
The reported death of "Doc" Wilson in
Arizona is not believed by his friends in
Boston.
The New York Central Labor Union
has begun boycott against the Clark
thread.
Frank Sayles, aged Is, was drowned
while skating at Fall River, Mass, We'd
nesday.
Cardinal Simon, Primate of Hungary
and Archbishop Of the free city of Gran,
is dead.
The discount rate of the Bank of Eng
land has been reduced from per cent to
S1-2 per cent.
The grip has again appeared at Nays
Landing, n. j., and is spreading to an
alarming extent.
Smallpox is becoming raging cpl
demic throughout the central and south
srn parts of Texas.
The American National bank of Kan
sas City has suspended. The bank had
a capital of $l,25O,OOO
Ex-Postmaster Elisha johnson of
Thompsonville, Conn, is dead in that
village, aged so years.
John CoaklSy was thrown from a sled
while coasting in Boston and died of his
injuries Tuesday morning.
w. H. Luce of Maine has been appoint
ed Collector of Customs for the Dis
trict of Marlborough, Maine.
Ezra ]. Cady, of Centreville, R l., has
died of injuries inflicted by his insane
brother of whom he had the care.
The English tourist who insisted on
climbing Mount Vesugius without a
guide has been found safe and sound.
The general assignment of Charles
H. Barrett, prominent shoe manufact-
urer of Rochester, n. Y, has been filed.
Capt. NJ. w. Quinn. proprietor of the
Hotel Richelieu, st. Louis, is dead He
was well known to the travelling public
The sudden and rapid thaw caused a
landslip at Folkstone, England, which
buried cottage and killed three per-
sons.
jeremiah Sullivan of Providence, R l..
for killing his wife In drunken row on
Nov. 81 last, was sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
David Emery, well-known oil pro
ducer, is dead at Titusville, Pa He WIS
once member of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature.
The will of Alexander Bavis, OF larry.
town, N. Y, has been filed with Surro-
gate Coffin. He leaves $4,000 to his
family.
A dispatch from Zanzibar states
that Baron Wissmann, the German Com
missioner to East Africa, has become
insane.
The President has appointed David NJ
Benjamin Worlds Fair Commissioners
from Wisconsin, vice j. L. Mitchell, re-
signed.
= Baggagemaster Swasey, who was in
jured in the Boston Maine railroad col
lision at Scarboro Beach, Me-, Thursday,
is dead.
About 100 of the alumni of Williams
College participated in their annual re-
union at the Parker House, Boston,
Thursday.
A bill has been introduced in the Penn
sylvania Senate that not more than So a
month shall be charged for the use of the
telephone.
By the will of the late DR.. Alvan
Talcott of Guilford, Conn, Yale College
will receive $25, coo and a valuable medi-
cal library.
The chess game between Steinitz and
Gunsberg in New York for the Worlds
championship, was won by Steinitz,
Thursday night
The employee of the Great Western
Railway Company of England threaten
to go on strike in order to secure better
hours of labor.
Ex-President Cleveland has contrib
uted $25 to be used to assist the school
for instruction Of colored children at
Vicksburg, Miss.
The wife Of ex Senator Griggs, the Pc
publican leader in New Jersey, died sud
denly Thursday night in Paterson of neu-
ralgia of the heart.
While it is true that many strikers on
the Scotch railway have gone back to
work, the majority ars still out, and the
fight is not yet ended.
David Shiwinski, New York sales
man, hung himself at Dudley, Pa,
Thursday night. Blighted affections was
the cause Of the suicide.
The death OF Prince Bandoin, heir to
the throne of Belgium, last Thursdy, has
caused much comment, and it is reported
that he took his own life.
President Harrison has appointed
First Lieutenant H. d. Smith of Massa-
chusetts TO be captain in the revenue
service of the United States.
Loecatia Harrington, an ex-actress Of
%, killed herself 10 New York Wednesday
with 22-calibre revolver, after carefully
putting on her newest fHery.
The glass trust is already failure and