Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
NEWS IN GENERAL.


scrip, representing earnings, and four-nfths
Of the holders have nssented TO the winding
up of the concern. The risks viii be rein
sured In other companies. For 3S years,
with the exception Of two the Commercial
has paid 8 per cent. dividends.
The legislation enacted by the past Con-
gress in the ratification OF various treaties
heretofore concluded between commission
ers on the part of the United States and the
various Indian tribes Will result In the open
ing up OF over 5000. 200 acres OF the public
land to settlement. The aggregate cost of
this land TO the government will be about
s9O00.0OO
The Farmers Alliance organizers have
been working quietly throughout West Vir-
ginis for several weeks past. 1t has now
developed that the membership in some
counties is nearly as great rs the combined
strength of the two old parties.
The damsge in the vicinity of Clifton, Ari.,
resulting from the recent floods, will amount
TO 100000. The loss is principally on the
homes of laborers The San Francisco river
shifted It's channel, leaving the bridges over
dry land.
The Vanderbilts object to the government
taking their propei ty on Bowling Green,
New York, for the new custom house.
A large Newfoundland dog, supposed to
be mad, ran amuck through Woonsocket, IL.
u
which seven bullets were fired into hm.
Twcnt; other dogs we're bitten. The animal
came from Blackstone, having bitten seven
dogs and a man there.
Ten thousand men and women are locked
out in Rochester, y. Y, by the action of
the clothiers' exchange which refuses to
recognize the clothing cutters union.
Lena Cunningham threw yitrol In her
sister Matilda's face while she was sleeping
r. ID
l.. terribly disfguring her features. Matli-
da is employed in seed house, and Lena
was Jealous because her sister was more sue
cessful in finding employment than she.
Secretary OF War Proctor has issued an
order for the enlistment Of 1000 indians in
the regular army.
The house of John Babcock was burned at
BAY Roberts. Y. F. Mrs. Bibcock went
through the flames six times for her chill
dren, rescuing one each time. and then had
TO leave one to its fate and jump breaking
one Of her legs.
A Mexican woman and five children were
drowned at Solomonville. Ari.. while en-
deavoring to cross the Gila river on q raft.
The Methodist Episcopal conference of
Philadelphia decided against admitting
women delegates to the electc al and general
conferences OF the church.
". D. y
p'oye Of Jutte & c., Pittsburg, Pa, coal
operators raised check on the Central
bank of that city from S42 to 1920, secured
the money aad left the city.
George F. Work anl James s. DUNCAN,
the convicted wrcckers of the Bank of
America and the American Life Insurance
Company, were sentenced at Philadelphis
to four and three years, respectively, in the
penitentiary. Louis +. Pfeitier, the prcsi-
Of ha ~ S9nth0ce0
two years.
The cost of the Philadelphia city hall up
to the present time has been SA.1l9. 5i027,
aud not more than one-third OF the 800
rooms in il nre ready for use.
The American Export and Trading Com
pany of New York has entered into colon
ization scheme with merchants and capital
lists in Japan for settling n colony OF Japan
ese on lands in Mexico.
The fast passenger train on the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad left the track on
n curve at Havana, 40 miles south OF Peoria,
III. The fireman was instantly killed, the
engineer aud twelve others fatally injured.
One highwayman "held up a stage In
California, containing a lot of money, but
the horses ran away and the robber got
nothing.
The terrible trichine are doing deadly
work In Ida county, lows. Two Germans
have died, making five altogether in the past
week. II Is thought several more will die.
About dozen Of the afflicted ones are I'M
proving and will probably recover. A lead
Ing physician has examined the patients
thoroughly, aud says that about $4,000 of
these deadly parss tes exist in every cubic
inch Of muscle in the patients bodies.
There are very few men living today who
served on the oit frigate Constitution more
than half a century ago. There Is one, how
ever, who Joined t'Old Ironsides' in 1886.
Mr.. Raphael Coll, who keeps a barber shop
on Main street, Charlestown, Mass. lie en-
| lis ed on the old frigate as seaman's ap-
prentice at tue age OF eleven years, in Port
| Mahon. Spain, ut the time the Incident Is
supposed to have occurred which formed
| the subject of Colton's poem, The Main
Truck, or A Leap for Life,' with which
every Yankee school boy Is familiar.
In Pawtucket, II. l.. Frank Mohan, IA
| years old. was playing with toy balloon
whistle. lie sucked 1t into his throat. Ef-
| forts to relieve him proved uuavailing, and
the lad died few hours later. The rubber
bag was found 10 have been carried to the
right lung.
John K. Carr, a prominent farmer of
North Haverhill, n. H., was fatally gored by
a bull.
Mrs. Henry A. Miner OF New Haven,
Conn, dressed rs if to go for visit. wear
ing one of her best dresses, gold watch,
diamond ring and other jewery. When her
husband, who is an official in the employ OF
the New York and New Haven road, came
home at noon he found note written by
his wife, stating that he would never see her
again. Since then he has searched for her.
Her body was subsequently found In the
West river, frozen stiff.
Anson Brywn, aged 90, OF East Bar
| - tnI ha nf 10, nj
Catskill, n. Y.
A Citizens caucus, composed OF those op.
posing an abatement of taxes, has nominated
for mayor of Belfast, Me-, W.P Thompson,
late Democratic nominee for governor.
of Worcester Mass, has been fed. BY its
provisions, t250,0O0 are left to his family,
aud the Home for Aged Females gets $1,000.
james Costello, charged with defacing the
Mansfield (Ct) Congregational Church edi-
fee with vile caricatures and writings, had
n hearing at Willimantic and was held for
trial In bonds Of 300.
A young woman of II, under treatment
with Koch's parataloid for consumption by
DIR. Leonard Wheeler at the Washburn Nc
mortal Hospital, Worcester, Mass, was
given an injection OF six miligrammes, and
consequent very severe and satisfactory
reaction ensued.
A woodcock was received In Boston day
or two ago from Sandwich, having been
found beneath a telegraph wire, against
which II had presumably flown. The ap'
pearance Of this bird so early as March In
Mass achusetts Is almost unknown.
Two silly Fronch boys followed the exam
pie OF their elders and arranged q duel, In
which one was mortallY wojlndej
More Boomers.
The passage of the bill opening the Coou,
d'Alene, Wash, reservation to settlsmen
has created q stampede almost equal to tn,
Oklahoma craze. For sCveral mon the l,r r,,,