Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-11-17

with members or the bfOOkiYn, ~ 4.
Chess Club simultaneously Saturday, won
twelve games and drew two.
The Detroit, Mich, Board Of Education
| rescinded the resolutions requiring anUi-
Catholic qualifications OF applicants for
positions as teachers in the public schools.
The Boston Board OF Fire Underwriters
have issued a circular announcing an ad
vance in the rate of 80 per cent. OH all
1 risks not insured to so per cent of their
value.
Col. T. H. Watterson, for 20 years
| travelling passenger agent of the Louis
Vile & Nashville Railroad, and uncle of
Henry Watterson, is dead at Little Rock,
Ark, aged SO years.
George H. Appleton, 80 years old, a
wealthy rubber dealer of Boston and
| Hayerhill. Mass, committed suicide at the
| Narragansett hotel at Providence by
| taking laudanum.
Policeman Isaac B. Coleman, 81 years
old, was found dead Friday on Seventh
avenue near Both street, New York, with
bullet wound back of the right ear.
Suicide suspected.
Lewis T. Brooke, a we'll known real es.
tate broker, was stricken with heart dis
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delphia, and died while being taken to
the Hahneman hospital.
"A steady rain fell in the section around
Camden, Ark, for twelve hours Monday
accompanied by cold wind. Great dam
age will result to the cotton in the fields,
as it will rot in the ball.
An explosion of natural gas in an ex-
cavation in Chicago, ILL.,, demolished
every window for a block in every direc-
ton. Two men were injured. The value
of the glass destroyed is about $25, 600,
Near junction Crossing. Idaho, on the
Clearwater river, Zachrowski, Hungar-
ian, was murdered by a countryman
known as Peter the Hun" who poured
molten solder into his ear while he
slept.
John Vaughn Darling, one of the lead
ing lawyers of Pennsylvania. died in New
York Friday. He removed from Read
ing TO Wilkesbarre in 1874 He was
former editor of the 'North American
Review
The house in St. Louis in which the
late Gen. W. T. Sherman lived, and
which was presented to him at the close
of the war by number of citizens, has
been sold to f. A. Drew, manu-
facturer, for $3.50, 000
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
has confirmed the decree granted some
time ago to the Edison Electric Light
Company against the United States
Electric Light Company because of an
Infringement on patent rights.
1T is reported that an English syndicate
has purchased ninety thousand acres OF
mineral lands in West Virginia, where
it is PROPOSED to establish iron and steel
works such as those owned by the Car
negie Company in Pennsylvania.
--Budd Doble has shipped five head of
horses to Nashville, Tenn. TO start this
week against records. Martha Wilkes
2:0S and Reina 2:13 will go against the
worlds pole team record. Nancy Hanks
will not be started again this season.
I'm an officially inspired article on
the German Army bill, the Berlin
POST states that since 1883 the Russian
force ON The Prussian frontier has been
increased by sixty-two battalions of in
fantry and forty-eight squadrons of cav
airy.
The steam whaler Orca has arrived in
San Francisco from the Arctic Fifth |
Mate Ward of the wrecked whaler Helen
Mar, OF the five survivors of that vessel
was taken on board Oct. ~, six days after
the wreck He died from the effects OF
the exposure
Physicians at the Massachusetts, Gen.
cral Hospital Boston, where Mrs. Lowell, |
wife of exJudge John Lowell, is lying |
injured, as the result of being thrown /
from her carriage Saturday night by
being run down by motor car, fear that |
her left side is paralyzed.
Joseph Townsend and his wife. aged |
81 and 90, while driving across the I
Moulthrope, N. Y, bridge over the Calli-a
con creek, were suddenly Drecipitated |
into IL inches of water. The horse fell /
upon them pinioning them face down |
ward in the water, where they were
drowned.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. d., |
preached in the Unitarian Church in Ber-
lin, Mass, Thursday afternoon to large
Ii was the fiftieth ami /
yersary of his first sermon in that church. /
In his sermon he spoke of the changes
the half century had made in the State
and nation.
The official Inauguration of the Mexi-
can Southern Railway, which is one OF
the most important and valuable com
mereial enterprises ever undertaken in
Mexico, and which will form link OF
the proposed Pan-American railway, oc-
cured Saturday.
Judge Putnam of she United States
Circuit Court has ordered a re-hear-
ing on the indictment of Asa F. Pot.
ter, ex-President of the Maverick
National Bank, of Boston. The in
dictment charges Potter with making
false entries in a report to the Comptroll-
er of the Currency, and also with making
false entries on the books The report
was attested by Potter as director and not
as President. l.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, during Tues,
day afternoon, John Wall entered tie
saloon of Martin Moran and demanded a
drink on credit, which was refused by
the proprietor. Hot words ensued. and I
finally the men came to blows. Moran
caught Wall around the waist. threw
him violently to the floor, aud kicked
him savagely. When Wall was lifted