Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Brief Record OF Important Events During
the Past Seven Days


visit to London.
Celine Montaland, the actress, died in
Paris Thursday.
The great shoe strike at Rochester
n. Y, has been declared of.
John Mahanoy, the oldest pensioner OF
Bangor, Me-, died Tuesday, aged l0j.
John Dillon, the Irish envoy, sailed
from New York, Saturday, for France
The Balfour Irish Relief Fund now
amounts to seventeen thousand pounds
The body of the dead historian, King
lake, was cremated in London Wednes-
day.
Count Louis Alexander Foucher de
Careil, a member of the French Senate,
is dead
United States Marshal Andrew H. Dill
is dying of kidney disease at his home In
Philadelphia
The Republican State Committee OF
Maine reelected Hon J. T. Manley chair
man Wednesday,
A reorganization Of the sugar trust has
been successfully accomplished under the
laws of New Jersey.
Father Pasquale, the noted monk, died
day, aged ITO years.
The President has appointed John B.
jackson of New Jersey Second Secretary
of Legation at Berlin.
Bradstreet's reports 39l failures in the
United States during the week, against
303 in the preceding week.
The Rhodes Manufacturing Company
of Philadelphia has made an assignment
for the benefit of creditors.
James E. & John Garlick, dealers in
nuts and dried fruits, Washington street,
New York city, have assigned
Paterson, N. j., street drivers and
conductors had their working time re-
duced from Is to ~ hours day.
The Westinghouse employees at Pitts
burg propose to accept half pay until the
complications of the concern are over
come.
The creditors of Norton g. Sons, cloth
iers, of New Haven, Conn, have agreed
to accept so per cent on the liabilities of
$25,000
Andrew NJ Bryden's ale brewery at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has been closed by the
sheriff on executions amounting to
$4,000
The Missouri Legislature was organ
ized in both branches Thursday. Wilbur
R Duttle of Pettis county was elected
Speaker.
At the regular weekly meeting of the
directors of the Bank OF England Thurs
day the rate of interest was reduced to
4 per cent.
John NJ Tilford, the founder of shs
large grocery firm of Park g. Tilford, of
New York, died Wednesday morning OF
heart trouble.
Attorney General Tabor of New York
condemns assessment societies which
issue endowment certificates" as being
against the law.
Christian Joss, a farmer Of Carlstadt,
N. j., cut off three Of his toes while
chopping wood in the cedar swamps at
Seacaucus Friday.
While chanting the "Last Rose of Sum
mer" in Beverly, N. j., hotel, John
Smith was called out, and three men beat
him into insensibility.
Charles ]. J. Witt Of Nordhoff, N. j.,
sold his wife for $50 to his stepbrother,
who married the woman without the
formality of divorce.
Reporter Smith of the Buffalo Courier
staff has received the appointment of
private secretary to Speaker Sheehan of
the New York Assembly.
Passaic, N. J., is excited over the des-
titution of the Schmidt family in that
city. Mrs. Schmidt is the sister Of John
Radel Newark millionaire.
Joe McAuliffe, the heavyweight puKil-
list, was passenger on the White Star
steamer Britannia, which arrived in New
York from Liverpool Friday.
Representative Turner, of New York,
reported favorably from the Committee
on Pensions the bill granting Gen. Franz
Sigel 500 per month pension.
The Phoenix Iron Company of Lancas-
ter, Pa. obtained judgments for 81, 500
against Theodore +. Rutterson, manager
of the Safe Harbor Rolling Mill
Grand Secretary and Treasurer Debs Of
the brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
has arranged to remove to New York city
and establish a labor newspaper.
A Rome dispatch says that on the oc-
casion OF the Qualification Of Columbus
the Pope win address pastoral letter to
the Bishops of Italy and America.
The Rev. Howard MacQueery, popu-
lar Episcopal clergyman, of Canton, o.,
is on trial before an ecclesiastical court
at Cleveland on a charge of heresy.
The strike of Hungarian laborers at
Carnegie's Braddock works near Pitts
burg, Pa. is total failure. The for
eigners are leaving in large numbers.
Emma Abbott, the great American
prima donna, died at Salt Lake City,
Utah. Monday of last week Of pneumonia.
She was born in Chicago, Ill, in 1851.
The Board of Pardons of Pennsylvania
have recommended that the death SEN
tence of Sidney Ware of Dauphin county
be committed to imprisonment for life.
Democrats and Republicans organized
separate Houses in the Montana Legisla-
ture, but the Senate and the Governor
recognized only the Democratic House.