Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-15
NEWS OF TIE WEGA.

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town, Pa.
The Government Of Switzerland ha
ratified the treaty recently negotiated
with France.
-Mahanoy City, Pa, people viii vote on
December 20 to adopt or reject watel
works to cost S9s.000.
The lawyers who secured Mrs. Florence
Blythe Hinckley an Inheritance Of 1000
600, will divide 100000
The Mediterranean moth has appeared
in the flour mills of California, causing a
loss of thousands of dollars.
The Georgia militia may disband be
cause the Legislature refuses an appro-
priation for an encampment
DIR Philo R. Hoy, one of the best known
physicians of Wisconsin, died suddenly at
Racine, Thursday, aged rs years.
John f. Calligan, a miner in the Jack
son mine at Homecoming, Nd, was killed
Thursday by fall of breast coal.
1T cost William E. Russell nothing TO be
e-elected to the Governorship of Massa-
nusetts, according to his affidavit.
Mayor j. B. Atchison, of Toledo, H.,
has fed from the city, being charged with
White Caps are driving the negroes from
plantations owned by Hebrews in Amite,
Lincoln and Franklin counties, La.
Col John Ryan, who fought with Sam
Houston for Texas independence, died a
pauper in the City Hospital at Kansas
City.
1t is now thought that no effort will be
made by the Democrats in Congress to get
New Mexico and Arizona in as States this
session.
Charged with embezzling 5000 Treas
urer Christian Koonrad, of the Pittsburg
branch of the Catholic Mutual Benefit
Association, is in Jail
Frank Kerner committed suicide in the
Berks county, Pa, Jail by hanging him
self. He was serving a l2-year sentence
forthe murder of his wife.
The strike in the Maring- Hart window
glass house at Muncie, Ind, whereby 300
employees were affected, has been adjusted,
and the men have returned to work.
DR. Hale, quack doctor from Phila-
delphia, was sentenced to 1S months inn
prisonment in London for obtaining money
from patients under false pretenses.
"A $4,000 fire occurred in the stable of
A. L. Tiplin at Newark, N. j., Thursday.
The live stock was all saved, but the
building and contents were destroyed.
--Seventy-four convicts in the Penitenti-
airy at Chester, Ill. refused TO do some extra
work Thursday, and it became necessary
TO place them in solitary confinement
Near Brennan, Tex, 16 persons were
hurt, one fatally, in Tuesdays cyclone
Near Denison, Tex, cattleman named
Wismer was killed by stroke of light
ming.
The Secretary of War states that a bal
ance of 49, 1872 is still due the State of
Pennsylvania for moneys expended by that
State for the use of the United States in
1894
-Volney E, Gushing, of Bangor, Me-,
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Maine in 1888, left Clark tavern in Bos.
ton last Tuesday, since which time he has
not been seen.
Hon, Rutherford B. Hayes was reelected
president of the National Prison Associa-
ton and Rev. John L. Milligan of ALE
gheny, Pa, was chosen secretary, at
Baltimore, Nd.
While Jacob Stout and Jonathan
Roland were helping to erect boiler at
the Diamond steel werks, Reading, Pa. it
fell Stout was killed, and Roland was
fatally injured.
Pension payments by the Treasury De-
partment continue TO increase. and so far
This month have exceeded the aggregate
receipts from internal revenue by more
han 81, $50, 900.
AT Biddeford, Me, Michael Hotter aged
10, was fatally shot by a younger sister,
who playfully pointed rife that she
thought was not loaded at his head and
pulled the trigger.
BY fall of roof coal in Lackawanna
eolliery, at 0lyphant, Pa, David Davis
was instantly killed and John Williams
received injuries which may prove fatal.
Both were miners.
Joseph G. Willard and Frank McWil- |
liams, both young men, are under arrest
ON the charge of flooding st. Paul, Mimi,
with bogus checks. Willard has made a /
partial confession.
The appeal of Mrs. Deacon against the
Jurisdiction of the court at Grasse to try |
her on the charge preferred against her by /
her husband, came up at AK, and was
postponed until Feb. 1. !
Francois, the Anarchist, charged with
the explosion in the Cafe Very, Paris, was
taken from London to Paris under close
guard, his extradition having been granted |
by an English magistrate.
Miss Emma Van Norden of New York,
the eldest daughter of Mr.. Warner
Van Norden, president of the Bank of /
North America, who is well-known in So
eiety, has joined the Salvation Army, and
is full-fedged uniformed soldier.
Lawyer 0ishei of Buffalo, n Y, has
succeeded in obtaining pardon for Angelo
Aonico who was sentenced in 1885 to ~
years in Auburn prison for the murder of
Dominica Pratto in that city The ground
taken was that the shooting was entirely
accidental.
The juryin the case of Nelson f. Evans
late director of the Spring Garden Ma
tional bank, of Philadelphia. charged
with misappropriating the funds of the
bank, was out but ten minutes when the