Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-05

proving.
Navigation on the Hudson has closed
for the season.
Mrs. Lirl Lesczynski Russian, is dead
at New York, aged IA years.
Augusta, Ga. was visited by the heay-
lest snowstorrn in five years.
-Havre striking lockers accepted in
creased wages and ended their strike.
Fire destroyed the Milwaukee street
railway company's plant. Loss, SOLO, COZ.
john Rasmussen, his wife and Child.
were asphyxiated by coal gas near Bardley,
S. d.
j. j. Gibson was shot and instantly
killed in Chester county, S. c., by j. ii.
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-Haue's Hotel at Montvale station, near
Roanoke, Va, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss $40, 900
The body of John Noble was found
frozen stiff on the railroad tracks at Hair
rlson, n. j.
Five persons We're killed and many in
| jured by an explosion of dynamite at
Long Island City.
Edward Parker Deacon has begun suit
for divorce from his wife in the Supreme
Court at New York.
There is to be IA 25 per cent. reduction
in the wages of iron workers at Whining
ton, Newport and Marshalltown, Del.
AT a dance given at the home of Walter
Green, colored, at Dover, KY, four
negroes were shot, two fatally.
Mr. Circero ]. Hamlin, the famous
horse owner, and Mrs. Hamlin, celebrated
their golden wedding at Buffalo last night.
The gross earnings of the Ontario &
Western railroad for the third week OF
December were S54, 242, an increase OF
$2S.
Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Mich.
igan will probably not hold State Fairs
next year on account of the Columbian
Exposition.
-President-elect Cleveland has formally
announced his opposition to the election
of Edward Murphy as u S Senator from
New York
The Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio
rivers are frozen over and river traffic is
entirely suspended for the first time in
many years.
The jury in the case of Mrs Anna
Makepeace, who is charged with killing
hNl nhnbhhAlg MEIb uldblt 70 agree III
Dedham, Mass.
On Jan. 8 The Pope will personally re-
ceive New Years greeting from 1000
Roman children. He will give each child
a little present.
Professor Andrews, of Brown University,
one of the American delegates TO the |
Monetary Conference, left Paris ON his re-
turn to New York.
The house occupied by Mrs. McClaire mt
Tresckow, Pa, was destroyed by fire
The charred body of the aged occupant
was found in the ruins
"A sledge hammer deity applied to the |
door of the Bonham, Tex, Jail prevented /
seven prisoners from perishing ia fire |
which they themselves started.
The Bessemer rail, converting, billet |
and pudding mills of the Bethlehem |
Iron company, Bethlehem, Pa, have |
shut down for an indefinite period.
Charles Gardner, Pennsylvania rail |
road engineer, slipped from the step of his
engine at Sayre, n. Y. Both arms were
severed and he died from his injuries.
Patrick H. Griffin, who died at the
City Hospital, at Newark, N. j.,
left letter declaring that his body
should be given to some medical college
Attorney General Miller is somewhat
disturbed by the report that Bill Dalton,
the notorious outlaw, has been appointed
a deputy United States Marshal of Cofrey-
vile, Kas.
Frederick II. Frisch, who misappropri-
ated SIG, 600 while New Orleans manager
of the cotton firm of Gassner & Co OF
Liverpool, Eng, has been convicted OF
embezzlement.
The First National Bank, of Appleton,
Mimi, capital $50, 900, and the First Ma
tional Bank, of FL Reno, Oklahoma Ter.
capital $50, 900, have been authorized to
begin business.
John d. Rockefeller, of New York, has
made another huge gift to the University
of Chicago. The sum is understood to be
over 81, 600, 900, but the exact figures are
not given out.
1t is said at the Treasury Department
that the drafts for 1856, 500 in souvenir
coins which were supposed to have been
lost in transit from Washington to Chi
cago, must have been receivad there.
The entire management of the CONNER
cial affairs of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal and Iron company including its
iildnttSf Will III Dt GOnQuCicu ID.
the Finance company of Pennsylvania
The body of Robert Cults, after whose
from Ardmore, l. T.,
week ago a delinquent postoiiice account
was discovered, has been found near his
home. He had evidently committed sui
eide
"A tenement near Greensburg, Pa, il
which about l2 Italian families lived, was
burned. James Anglico, an old man.
was burned TO death, and it is feared
several small children will die from their
injuries.
John jackson, colored, who eloped with
Jessie Hinkle, pretty white waitress,
was taken from the Jail and tarred and
at West Liberty. o. The girl
claimed that she had been held against
her will.
AT Boston the bitter litigation grow
ing out of the will OF the late Fire Com
missioner Edward A. White, has been
settled bV a comDromisp The cont.sf IN |