Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-01-02
NEWS IN GENERAL.


miles OF railway track we're laid in Thu
country during the past year.
Martin Schearny was killed, Frank Genier
fatally scalded and Thomas Fox, en"ineer,
was scalded and had both legs and one arm
broken 10y the explosion OF a boiler IN drill
house at the works OF the United Salt Com
pany on the Lake Shore at Cleveland, 0. 1t
Is feared that another man who Is missing
was blown into Lake Erie.
The Carpenter steel works, at Reading.
Pa, subjected a One-inCh steel bar Of it, own
make to n teSt before government officers.
The bar broke al strain Of 233. S33 pounds,
being about 10000 pounds in excess of the
highest record authOrIal:ye.y known.
The Canadian government has decided not
TO grant the petition Of the Ontario aud
Quebec Indians 10 revert TO the old system
OF electlng their own chiefs, on the ground
that perfect satisfaction is given by the In
dian advancement act.
The schooner Katherine, arrived at Victo-
ria, Is. c., from the west coast of NancOu-
yer. had on board Capt. Moshcr and the
crew OF II men of the bark Atalanta, which
was wrcckci during n frightful gale on Dec.
10, while on her way 81 san Francisco with
r cargo Of lumber. The crew were taken
from the rigging In a terribly exhausted con-
dition 10y the Indians on the 10Th, having
hA'i AA'lNh'i lpu'lt VI ltlN llbl NlFtp IDI IOuT
DAYS. The AtaIantl, which was owned in
san Francisco, is a total loss.
John George kunz. who has lived In Pitts
burg for % Years, went 10 Germany last
spring to visit his mother. He bad savei a
little money, AID his mO,her sent him about
$3.50 10 pay his expenses. 4 few days ago he
returned To New York on the Spree, TO find
that he was a man without a country. lie
Ind spent all his money abroad, aud the
barge Office authorities would not permit
him TO land. kunz bal neglected to take
out his first papers for naturalization. He
has also lost his citizenship In Germany.
He will he sent back to Germany
At Clinton. Ky. a-year-old child OF w.
T. Walker, while playing in the yard, fell
into an abandoned well, which had been
carelcssly covered. He fell G5 feet into IS
inches of water. The child was missed al
most Immediately. and the brofcn cover of
the well signifed it, fate. A l6-year-old boy
was lowered into the well by a rope tied
to his waist snd -ftrr half hour OF careful
and anxious work the babe wss brought 10
the surfrce unframed, suffering only from
the effects Of It's involuntary bath in the icy
water.
Three brothers. Dave, Jim and George
Lille, have been arrested for placing the
obstruction on the track which wrecked the
Union Pacific passenger train near Holmes
vile, Ncb. They have confessed.
Fire destroyed the stables Of the st. John
Street Railway Company at Quebec, eau.
Twenty horses, carriages and all the con-
tents OF the buildings were burned The
loss will be about So. 900; insurance I'M
known.
Mr.. Nalente, the Brazilian miniser at
Washington, has been notified by his gov.
eminent Of his recall and the appointment
OF Mr.. Mendonca, who represent ed Brazil Ut
the recent international American confer
ence, 20 his successor.
kinch freeman, negro, charged with the
murder of y. Is. Atkins and his aged mother
near Auhnder, Berthe county, y. c.. Oct l.
vas banged in his cell In the Jail at Winton,
Va. by party Of % or 30 masked men, who
forced the jalcr to give up the keys
Samuel Malone and John Hicks, his broth
er-In'law, were burned TO death in the for
mer's house at Holden, Mo.
Ben Sharp and Marshall Quilian, two
negroes, had a whiskey drinking contest In
a saloon at Chattanooga, Tenn, several white
men having bargained to buy all the whiskey
they would drink. Each easily drank mint
and had begun on the second pint when
Sharp fell TO the floor dead Quilian stag
Gered into the back yard and fell into the
mud, where he was found an hour later in
sensible and almost dead. At latest accounts
he was supposed to be dying. The white
men who furnished the liquor have fed, and
their names could not be ascertalned by the
police
Pedro Antonio Lopez, aged 1l5 years, Ia
d al at Santa Fe, n. VI. He had been
soldier under the Spanish kings, and remem-
6cred when Louis XVI. and Marie Antol-
nette OF France were beheaded.
At great Liberal demonstration in favor
OF unrestricted reciprocity with the United
States, held at Charlottetown, p. L. l., Mr..
W elch, member OF Parliament for Queens
county, declared that under the influence of
national policy, farm property had decreased
IN value 20 per cent, and the farmers were
almost paupers.
passenger train and wrecking train
collided on the Grinnell & Montezuma
branch OF the Iowa Central railroad, near
Grinnell Ia One engine leaped square on
top OF the other and both were badly wreck
cd. Six passengers were injured, but not
fatally, and one OF the engineers was badly
hurt internally by jumping.
The entire plant OF the Varwlg Mauufac-
turing Company, at Cincinnati, has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000 fully in-
sured.
John Prentiss Matthews, the Republican
postmaster of Carrollton, Miss, was shot
and killed in the street by w. s. Mcbride, a
wealthy and prominent druggist, with whom
Matthews had qIarrelled.
Private dispatches from Rutland, Vt, an
nounce the death OF Judge Hines He had
lived at indianapolis, Ind, for 30 years and
was for 10 years the law partner of Prcsi-
dent Harrison and Atty.-Gen. Miller, the
firm name being Harrison, Hines & Miller.
He was stricken with apoplexy some days
ago.
The board Of railroad commissioners has
handed down an important decision In the
'ase OF j. X. Mavberry Of Emporla, Kan,
against the Kansas City Fort Scott and Mem
phls railroad, which was to the effect that
The company must furnish carsto transport
coal, even though the haul over its line TO
The connecting railroad was not sufficient to
pay the expenses. This is the first decision
On this point made by the hoard, and was
bitterly fought by the railroad company.