Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-22

the amount.
The case of the State of Maryland
against the bondsmen OF ex-State
Treasurer Stevenson Archer for 1921 900,
which has been on trial at Towson for
two weeks, mas been concluded The
jury was out twenty-eight hours when
they returned verdict of 500, 200 for the
State.
George n. Bartholomew. formerly the
president of the Charter Oak Life Insur-
auce Company of Hartford, Conn, who
fed to Canada some years ago, returned
voluntarily on the 18th inst. and pleaded
guilty to the embezzlement of $4,000,
the proceeds of the Charter Oak Life In
surance Company, which was discounted
at the Hartford Bank. He was sentenced.
to one year in State prison. The pris-
oner is over 70 years of age.
The attention of the State Department
has been called by the American Council
of the Board of Foreign Missions to the
recent outrages perpetrated upon the
missionaries and natives on the Caroline
Islands by Spanish troops. In the sew.
eral battles many of the natives and
Spaniards were killed and the mission
aries houses were looted and burned by
the Spaniards A demand for reparation
will likely be presented to Spain.
The telegraph operators and station
agents on the entire line of the st. Paul
road sent in their designations to
take place on the 10Th inst. This course
was taken, instead of striking, to protect
the bondsmen of the men, who would
otherwise have been liable. In accord
ance with their notification, about fifty
OF the operators quit work. The COM
pany declares that all the places have
been filled and that they have many other
application on fila. The walk-out APP
pears TO have been failure
The Financial bill passed by the Senate
Wednesday night provides that the unit
of value in the United States shall be
the dollar, and the same may be coined of
312 1-2 grains of Silver or % $40 grains
of gold The said coin to be legal tender
for all debts public and private. That
any owner of silver or gold bullion may
deposit same at any mint of the United
States to be made into standard dollars
or bars for his benefit without charge,
but il shall be lawful to refuse any de-
post of less value than 500 or any bull
lion unfit for the operations of the mint
James NJ. Dougherty. the lunatic, who
escaped from the Flatbush Insane Asy-
lum on October z last, and returned TO
the Office of the asylum the evening OF
the 9th and shot young DR.. Lloyd dead
and then went hunting for several other
asylum physicians to meter to them
similar fate, was convicted of murder in
the second degree in Brooklyn, Thursday,
and will be sentenced to the criminal in
sane ward at Auburn prison for life.
Dougherty is the man who annoyed Miss
Mary Anderson for a year or more, labor
ing under the delusion that she was in
love with him.
The Election bill is again being con-
sidered in the Senate. A motion was
made Wednesday night in the Senate to
take it up on Thursday. The vote on
the motion was a tie; the Vice President
cast the deciding vote in the affirmative.
The Senate was in session all Friday
night and Saturday until 6 p. m, con-
sidering the measure From midnight
until noon a quorum was secured only
at intervals, aud then only for few
minutes each time. The members would
come in and then slip away again. The
Sergeant-at-Arms was kept busy hunt
ing the members.
Prof. Koch made public Thursday the
secret of the ingredients of his curative
lymph He says the lymph is composed
of pure generated tuberculosis bacilli in
a solution of glycerine which forms 40
TO so per cent. of the compound
The substance is derivative from al
bumen, but not tox-albumen, that agent
contains mass of necrotic substance
attacking even certain sound tissues.
The doctor recites his operations
while experimenting with guineapigs in
order to show the manner in which he
arrived at the discovery of the lymph. It
Sas, he says, by this means that the
basis for a curative process against tuber-
culosis was finally established.
Senator Quay introduced in the Senate
a substitute Tor the Lodge Federal Elec-
tion bill the 18th inst. The bill is materi-
ally the same as the Lodge bill. The
only material change from that of
the Lodge bill is contained in the
last section which reads as follows:
When it shall appear to the satisfac-
tion of the President of the United
States that lin any locality the provis-
ions of this Law cannot otherwise be exc
cuted it shall be his duty and he is
hereby empowered to suspend there the
writ Of habeas corpus and to employ the
armed forces of the United States, naval
and military, for its enforcement and for
the protection of the officers whose
duties are herein provided for"
The New Jersey Legislature convened
Jan. ~ The Senate organized by elect
ing the following officers: President,
Robert Adrian; Secretary, John Carpen-
ter; Assistant Secretary, Samuel g.
Thompson; Engrossing Clerk, John J.
Matthews; Sergeant-at-Arms, George K
Coleman. In the House, Mr. Bergen was
elected Speaker on the sixth ballot and
the other officers are: Clerk, Thomas J.
Noonan; Journal Clerk, w. S. Naugh-
right: Reading Clerk, P. W. Stage; En-
crossing Clerk; John H. Demott; Ser
geant-at-Arms, William Harrigan. Mr..
Mcdonald was restored to his seat in the
Senate by a vote of u to z, all the Demo-
Gratis voting for the resolution and all
the Republicans against it. The Governor
in his message recommended economy in
appropriations, favored legislation look
.ng to the proper representation of the
State at the Worlds Fair and praised
the workings of the new ballot law.