Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-11-17
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Brief Record of Important Events Durrni
the Past Seven DAYS.

The business portion OF Camden, Me-
was visited Friday morning by hal
million dollar fire.
IS. Adamowicz. Pole. was crushed to
death Tuesday, at Tompkins Cove Lime
Works. Nyaek, n. Y.
Henry Fulmer's school slate factory al
Slatington, Pa. WAS destroyed by fire
Saturday Loss, 100000.
Charles Neundorf, Councilman, Of
Toledo, o., pleaded guilty to charges OF
soliciting brides in court.
A syndicate is negotiating for the pur'
chase OF the street railroads in Herkimer,
lion and Frankfort, n. Y.
The President has recognized Hermo-
genes Rivero Saldiyia as Consul General
OF Venezuela at New York.
The Democracy of Western Pennsylva
mia held monster jollification meeting
in Pittsburg Saturday night.
Superior and Duluth capitalists have
bought from Proctor Knott's syndicate
$50 acres of coal land in Kentucky.
Two fremen lost their lives in the fire
at Harbecks stores, Brooklyn, N. y,
Saturday night. The loss is $500, 900.
The United States protected cruiser
Cincinnati was successfully launched from
the Navy yard at Brooklyn, Thursday.
.-Burrell Houghton g. Co, manufacturer
of shoes, have failed, at Boston. Their
assets are $780, 900 and liabilities sl30, 900.
Twenty four Cinnamon are in Jail in
Detroit under sentence of deportation.
They tried to evade the Chinese Exclu
sion act
George T. Tart,a section hand in the EN-
ploy of the Central Vermont Railroad, at
Rutland, was run over and killed by an
engine.
Corporal james Tanner of Brooklyn has
been appointed Judge Advocate General
of the G. A. r. by commandments
Weissert
The Egyptian cotton crop will exceed
100000 cantars, about 495, 600, 900
pounds, greatly exceeding the best pre-
vious records.
"A fire in the large wooden shoe factory
owned by Myron Woodbury. at Beverly,
Mass, Monday night, caused a damage OF
about 100000.
Anna Bramble, the racing filly owned
by j. W. Levy, of Nashville, Tenn, died
NJ WNSb fDiIt dlh 9uutlh9 QUO was
valued at So, 600
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
directors have declared the regular
quarterly dividend of IA per cent, pay
able December 10.
H s. Sanford was elected mayor of Long
Island City. He defeated Patrick Glea-
son, the famous present incumbent, by
& very small plurality.
"A fire in Waterbury, Conn, destroyed
the whole interior of the store aud ware
house of the Waterbury Furniture COM
pauy. Loss, $4,000.
Peter Father, a miner, fell down the
shaft of the Pettebone mine at Kingston,
Pa, and every bone ia the unfortunate |
mans body was broken.
Fire destroyed the big planning mill |
owned by Paseo Brothers in Warrens-
burg Warren county, y. Y Loss, $40,
600; insurance, $1,000.
The boiler in the kindling wood factory |
of Blaisdeil Brothers at Austin, Pa, ex-
ploded Friday. The factory was badly |
wrecked and one man was killed.
The trial of the Rev. Charles A.
Briggs, charged with heresy by the Pres
byterian Church, has been adjourned |
by the Presbytery until Nov. 2S.
The Dominion Government has asked |
the Imperial authorities for an extension |
until the 21st inst, OF the time in which |
live cattle might be shipped to England |
Executions amounting to over S175 600 |
have been issued against Joseph b. MUIR
ply, cotton and wooden manufacturer Of
Philadelphia. The plant employed 600 |
hands.
The advance guard of the Government
Rainmaking Expedition has just arrived
at San Antonio, Tex. and begun prepara-
tions for series of exhaustive expert
ments
"A despatch from ST Johns, N. F.,
states that as result of the gale of Oc-
tober 10, ten vessels were lost or are
missing and twenty-five lives are known
to have been lost.
ID. E. Sibley, the oldest and largest
Epeculator on the Chicago Board of
Trade, closed out Wednesday. He had
been carrying about ! 900, 900 bushels of
grain, and was swamped.
Charles Kamerer, of Philadelphia. has
been acquitted at Vienna of the crime of
having shot a man mistaken for a burglar
at villa in Mauer, six miles southwest
of Vienna, in September last.
Later reports from the bloody battle
in Bledo county, Tenn, between the Toll
lets and Spaifords, says A. Spafford, his
son James and Moses Toilet are dead, and
two other Toilets are wounded.
Hon. George w. Eddes is dead in
Mansfield, o., aged GS years. lie served
four terms in Congress from 1878 to
1856. aud was once Democratic candidate
for the Supreme Court bench of Ohio.
u Doyle and wife, an old couple who
registered at the International Hotel. San
Francisco, from Davenport, Iowa, were
found dead in their bed Tuesday, having
been accidentally asphyxisted by gas.
by the latest advices from the Arctic
whaling feet. received at New Bedford.
Mass, by telegraph from San Francisco.
barks Mermaid, William Rallies and Cal
ifornia are reported with five whales each.
"A heavy snow storm with freezing
weather and accompanied by gale from
the northeast ragged throughout Arkansas
Wednesday. This storm is unprecedented