Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-01
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Brief Record Of Important Events During
the Past Seven Days.

Pa, is seriously i'll.
Indiana railroad telegraphers may
strike for higher wages.
A slight earthquake shock was felt at
San Francisco Thursday.
The Fountain. a new theater, has just
been opened in Cincinnati.
Emigration from about Rome, Ga, to
Texas has become a craze almost
The President has appointed William
B. Barker postmaster of Fredonia, n. Y.
William Mayer, the wife murderer.
was hanged at Wheeling, w. Va. Fri
day.
The steamer Empress of China at Van
couver from Yokohama brings 200 tons of
silk.
The big steamer Matra ashore at Ash
tabula, o.. win probably become total
loss.
John Moser, the Reading, Pa, youth
who fired bullet into his head, is
dead.
Mayor Grant of New York will make
no appointments during the remainder of
his term.
Five Gloucester fishermen, lost from
their vessel in fog, have landed At Mon
hogan Isle.
The Republic of Bolivia has passed a
conscription law making military service
compulsory.
The Methodist Episcopal Church Con-
ference of North Alabama has decid ed to
erect college.
Twenty horses persisted in fire early
Friday morning in Tillarer's stable at
st. Joseph, No.
The First National Bank and other
buildings at Vermillion, N. D., were
burned Friday.
The Carnegie strike at Homestead, Pa,
has been declared off by the Amalga.
mated Association.
Sheriff Robert Hand, of Cape May
County, N. j., has resigned from the
Board of Freeholders
"A fire Saturday at Buena Ventur a, in
the United States of Columbia, destroyed
nearly half the town.
United States Senator Colquitt is rally
ing from stroke of paralysis, while his
wife is dying from one.
The commercial treaty between France
and Canada is said to be ready for con-
firmation by both countries.
Two colored lads of Harrisburg, Pa, !
carry bullets in their flesh as result of |
Thanksgiving scrimmage.
Miss Blanche Meyers, young. pretty and |
a graduate OF Lebighton. Pa, High School, |
is in jail an incorrigible.
-Yale's football team won the Thanks
giving Day game at New York from
Princeton by score of IL to 0.
Losses by the hurric lne of Friday night
around Chesterfield, N. H., will amount
TO several Thousand dollars.
An artificial dam has been built Mt
Lock Haven, Pa, to Splash" 10000, 900
feet of logs to Wiliamsport.
The loss by the burning of the Ply
mouth, Mass, Unitarian Church. Tuesday
night is now placed at $50, 900.
The trial of the first of the Homestead
murder cases at Pittsburg ended in tho
acquittal of Critchlow, the accused
Wallace Strohm has been sentenced at
Carlisle, Pa, TO three years inlprison-
ment for criminal assault on girl
I'm a fit of jealousy, at his home in
Chicago Charles Brown shot his wife
and John Leavitt, the latter fatally
The Salvation Army Congress wound
mp in New York Wednesday by "Conse-
Grafton Meeting" in Association Hall.
e Momner & Co., importers of ladies'
dress and cloak trimmings, New York
city, have assigned without preferences. I
The man killed at White Haven, Pa, '
by Lehigh train last week has been
identified as John Fowler of Montgom-
cry.
Camden City IN. J) Council has passed {
an ordinance providing for a $50 license /
for every bill-poster who enters the
town. /
"A slight fire in Robinson's Opera House I
at Cincinnati, Sunday night, caused a
panic and several persons were more or
less injured,
The Ontario government has sent doc 4
tors TO the Madawaska lumber camp, {
where black diphtheria is carrying off n
many people.
have just unearthed on Sixth Q
avenue, New York, a den of a gang of 2
thieves and recovered over So, 600 worth y
1f stolen goods.
One man lost his life and five were Ii
injured by the burning, Thurs +,
lay, of the Milwaukee (Wis.) Bedding il
Cos establishment.
William B. Walker, the young negro
wanted at Niagara Falls N. Y, for the C
murder of William Weaver has been d
arrested at Washington. n
The cemetery at Stinesville, Ind, has i
1een ruinously desecrated by unknown
larties. Soldiers tombstones were
broken and others defaced = =
"A German Anarchist has just been ar o
ested in Paris Many pamphlets, some "
# which advocted the use of dynamite, Il
we're found in his possession. p
PROF. Gainard, his wife aud son and ,
diss Thompson, all musicians, and Henry !,
.eary, a sailor, were drowned in Puget NJ
ound by their yacht capsizing. n
Annie Plummer, aged 10, well known F
ociety girl of Lowell, Mass, committed 0;
uicide last week at her home by taking OF
hloro form. Her father died four weeks al
go
The eighth annual horse show at Mad m