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

J -Oustaye bayiies, formerly a prosperous
merchant OF Columbus, o., is under ar
rest at St. Louis, Mo-, on charge Of
forgery.
Alarming reports are current regarding
/ further discoveries Of cases Of pleuro- pneu-
monia among Canadian animals landed
at Dundee
The employees OF the Bass Brewing com
pany, London, 10 the number of 5000,
/ have struck against new regulations the
company has adopted with re gard to the
working hours.
The Yorktown has sailed from San
! francisco 10 join Admiral Gherardis
! Squadron in South American waters and
/ accompany it to New York.
"A. d. Darling, raisin grower and
shipper Of Fresno, Cal, has filed petit
ton in the superior Court asking 10 be
declared an insolvent debtor.
-Laporte, Ind, inaugurated the auto
matte system Of telephoning Thursday. 1t
does away with the "hellon girl, the
switching being done automatically.
The Park building, the Billet and Pot
ter buildings on Broad street, Whitehall,
~ Y, were burned Wednesday morning.
Loss on buildings, 10000; on contents,
SO, 600
Mrs. Sidney w. Brewster, wife OF
Auditor Brewster, of the Adams Express
Company at Bridgeport, Conn, who was
overcome by gas Wednesday afternoon,
died Thursday.
General r. Williams, Adjutant- Gen
eral OF the Army, in his annual report
recommends that the appropriations for
the National Guards be increased TO ST.
600, 600 lie also recommends that 200
Indians be enlisted.
james Lee, sentenced to ten years al
Auburn prison for attempting to kill an
officer, broke j,S at Lockport, n. Y,
yesterday, and escaped by removing the
cell roof, stone tagging weighing 1,400
pounds laid in cement
The Adams Express Company has
taken the lines Of the Burlington road
west OF the Missouri river away from
the Wells-Fargo Company, and east Of
the river from the American. The con
tract is to take effect Jan. /.
News Of a cyclone at Old Providence
and san Andrea. in the caribbean Sea,
on October Q, has just been received. The
cyclone Frustrated many houses aud de
vastated cocoanut plantations. The loss
amounts to many thousands Of dollars.
George r. Brokins, OF Meriden, Conn,
has issued a card saying that George
Brokins OF New York, who is visiting his
brother Harry in that place, is not his son.
The father has also disowned his son
Harry because the latter said that George
was his brother
Charles Brooks, Fletcher Williams and
Moses Brown, men. and Joshua Barnard,
Louis Benson, Henry Hurtt, Frisby Come
gys and Charles S, Emory, boys, all con-
yicted OF the murder Of DR.. James H. Hill,
near Millington, Nd, April % last, have
been sentenced to be hanged
Losses to Hartford insurance companies
by the great fire in Milwaukee are as fol-
lows: Hartford Fire. $50. 900: National.
$50, 600; Etna, 1000; Phoenix, s45. 600;
Orient $50, 600 The Scottish Union and
Lion companies, Of Great Britain, whose
agencies for the country are in Hartford,
lose so, QUO each.
AT Wittenberg, Tuesday, Emperor VIII |
liam and his wife, three of his sons, the |
Duke OF York and a number OF o5her
titled personages took part in the rededi- |
cation or the church to the doors OF |
which Luther nailed his thesis against |
Pspal indulgences. A pageant in which |
royalty figured was one OF the features
The fight between George Godfrey and |
"Joe' Choynski at the Coney Island 4
Athletic club resulted in victory for the I
latter in the fifteenth round Godfrey |
had the best OF the fight up to the last /
round, when he became angry and started /
in to rush matters. Choynsk was wait
ing for this very thing, and soon settled /
his man by terrific blow on the jaw.
"A despatch to London paper from /
Hong Kong states that the same storm
which wrecked the Peninsular and Orien-
tai steamship, Bokhara, at the Fishers
Islands, off the coast of Fokien, wrecked
at the same time a Norwegian steamer,
the Normand, in the same vicinity.
1t is believed that only two Of those
who were on board the Normand survived.
DR. Theodore Hertaka. of Berlin,
the political economist and writer on
the subject of money, in letter anent
the Monetary Conference in Brussels this
month, suggests the replacing OF gold
coins with coins composed of silver and
gold, mixed in the proportion of six to
one, on the basis OF international agree
men..
The opinion of the Michigan Supreme
OOuib uleu natufuAy Ab Lansing IN
the case OF William McRae and Michael
Lally against the Grand Rapids, Lansing
and Detroit Railroad Company is of far
reaching importance, as it holds the Act
OF 1861, authorizing q trial by jury of a
.ess number than 10 in circuit courts and
six in justice courts, which has been ex-
tensively followed in the State, to be
james Brown, Portuguese sailor, who
was sentenced to Imprisonment for life
for numbering two sailors on a ship
years ago and suck ing their
blood like Il vampire has been removed
from the Ohio Penitentiary, to the
National Hospital for the insane at Wash
ngton, d. c. He is insane and will be
cared for the rest Of his life at the Ma
tional institution.
An opinion has just been given by the
Supreme Court at jefferson City, No, to
the effect that official notices published |
n a sunday paper are not legal The ]