Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-11-18

John lIOcy, eNpresident OF the Adams
Express Company, was very low on sunday
at his home in New York, and was not ex.
pected to hive.
At Savannah. Ca, Carolina Holmes,
co!orcd deputy sheriff. was shot and killed
while trying to protect Edward Bennett
from his half brother Lewis Brown.
BY the blowing out OF a boiler bead in
freight engine near Teunillc, Ga, Engineer
John Grayson and Brakeman Robert Middle
brook were scalded to death.
While Mrs. Beck of South Josephine
street, Ptts5urg, Pa. was absent from home
her two children, John and Joseph, poured
oil on the kitchen stove. Both were burned
to death.
At Austin, Pa, boiler In kindling
wood factory exploded, killing two EN-.
ployes named Brunnon and Rondo. A man
named Sullivan has not been seen since. and
is supposed to have been blown to atoms.
In Syracuse, Andrew Baldwin shot Mrs.
Frances Titus, and then attempted to COM
init suicide. Mrs. Titus was married week
ago, and this angered Baldwin. with whom
she had been keeping company. Both par
ties are seriously wounded.
David NJ. Cooley, prominent banker and
business man of Dubuque, Ia, and a cousin
of Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley, exchairman OF
lUt lultl Is lying
ut the point of death at the residence OF Mr..
John F. Douglass in New York city.
Ex-Assemblyman J. X. O'COnnor OF
Utica, who this year deserted the Republl-
can party, wagered that IL Cleveland did not
receive plurality OF $4,000 in New York
he would push barrel Of apples to New
York city on a wheeIbarrow. OConnor
says he will start on his journey In a few
days. II he does not he forfeits $50.
DR.. Abraham Reeves Jackson. president
of the College OF Physicians, and one of the
most prominent physicians In his special
line, gynaecology, in the United States, died
in Chicago Of apoplexy at the age of 65. He
was the original of the character, MY
Friend, the Doctor" In Mark Twain's I'm
nocents Abroad"
Three train robbers held up the Western
and Atlantic train at Adarsville, Ga, lat
night, but were successfully held off.
| Twenty shots were fired. The passengers
were badly frightened. All the robbers es-
capped. The fagman claims to have killed
one Of the robbers.
During the political celebration at West
Point, Miss, in which an old cannon was
| being fired, the cannon exploded, blowing
| off both legs OF Warner Ware, mayor of the
town. He will die. Mrs. o. A Joiner, Mrs
Gibson and John f.. Caruthers were also
seriously wounded.
Mary Gillespie Ewing, wife OF Judge p. B.
Ewing and first cousin Of James G. Blaine,
died recently at Lancaster, Ohio. She was
81 years old.
A portion Of the timbers OF Gen Benedict
Arnold's flagship Congress, sunk IN October,
1776. In Lake Champliin, has been raised by
Capt G. w. Adams of West Addison, VT
The timbers are of oak and are sound.
The steamer Fuerst Bismarck, which ar
rived at New York, reports that when about
10 miles south of Fire Island, she saw an
| unknown steamship drifting about, as
| though disabled. Capt. Albers could not
make out the name of the drifting vessel.
At Gurley, Ala, fire destroyed the Gurley
Hotel, recently completed, two dry goods
stores and saloon. Loss 10000
Indications point to an early settlement of
the miners lockout In Pennsylvania. From
information received from inside sources
there Is every reason to believe that the 1st
of December will see all the river mines In
operation at the Old rate.
The president has appointed William II.
Estes Of Minnesota consul at Hamburg. Mr..
Estes was United States consul at Kingston,
Jamaica, and was transferred to Brunswick,
Germany. the vacancy at Kingston being
| filed by Louis Dent. Mr.. Blaine's private
secretary. Consul johnson at Hamburg had
| sent In his resignation some months before,
but action upon it was deferred during the
cholera Epidemic,