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

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President Harrison will appoint Chiel
Justice for the island Of Samoa
Albert Becher, the well-known mechanl
cal engineer is dead in New York
Hon. Alonzo Mute is dead at his home
in birmingham, n. H., aged 81 years.
The Chemung river is frozen over fol-
the first time in three years at Elmlra,
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Eight ex-officers of the Nebrala State
Insane Asylum have been indicted Tor
embezzlement.
Burglars made an unsuccessful Ittempt
to rob the National Bank at Naugatuck,
Conn, Sunday.
Stables and nine horses Of james Far
rell, Albany, n. y, burned Monday.
Loss, So, 900; insured
During fox hunt at Newton Falls, o.,
Daniel Lester was fatally shot by com
panion, accidentally.
Report of New York State Treasurer
for fiscal year ending Sep. 80 last shows
receipts, $15, 222, 1865
The strike at the Blackstone Wooden
Mill, Providence, has been settled, both
sides making concessions.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
rejected the Commercial Convention be-
tween Switzerland and France.
August Smodell is in Jail at Ballston,
y. y, charged with incestuous inter
course with his 17-year-old daughter.
The clerks employed in the Internal
Revenue Department in Berlin, have gone
on strike against reduction Of wages
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! the United States, to be held in Chicago
during the Worlds Fair, has been issued.
East Camden, N. j., has a ghost. 1t is
soaring lots of people, and has been FREE
| quently seen by early morning milkmen.
Secretary Charles Foster has compro
missed the claim Of the United States
against General Adam Badeau for 81 00U.
The Cramps declare that they will as
sert their right TO build the Iowa and
Brooklyn, as they were the lowest bid
ders
The people in Coloma, near Kalamazoo,
Mich, are becoming aroused against an
eccentric religious sect known as the
''Chosen Seven.
The New York State Board Of Worlds
Fair managers has decided TO ask the next
Legislature for an additional appropria-
ton of $500, 900.
The Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending December 2lst were
S402, 600 a decrease of $27, 900 over the
same week last year.
Secretary Thompson Of the Duluth
Chamber of Commerce has issued call
for National Ship Canal Convention to
be held in Washington Jan. II, 1893
The Naval cadets imprisoned on the
Santee for eseorting Fred l.. Perkins, a
dismissed naval cadet, to the main gate
have been released from imprisonment,
III. Stanley Goodwin, Burgess of South
Bethlehem for eighteen terms, and General
Eastern Superintendent of the Philadel-
phia g. Reading Railroad system, is dead
j T. Buckhout, builder of the ice yacht
lcicle, champion Of the world, Jack Frost,
Hoxe, Reindeer, Great Spott and other
famous ice boats, is dead in Poughkeepsie.
The jury has disagreed in the case Of
Mrs. Annie Makepeace at Dedham, Mass,
charged with manslaughter in shooting
her husband at Avon, in September 1891.
-Ex-State Senator Robert Kiehnert of
Cincinnati, o., who disappeared last We'd
nesday owing s43, 900, has not been found
yet He lost his money in reckless specu-
lation
-Ex-Freight Agent McCourt of the L. T.
n. railroad, surrendered to the authorities
in Cincinnati aud gave bail in the sum Of
$40, 900 TO answer to the charge Of embez-
clement,
Destitute negroes who have arrived in
Denison, Tex. say Texas offers a better
home for poor negroes than Oklahoma
where the best lands have been taken by 1
the whites
st. Augustine's Catholic Church at
Newark, n. j., was burned to the ground I
at AN early hour Sunday morning causing /
a loss of $4,000. The fire was caused by 1
the heating apparatus.
The post mortem examination of the I
remains of Mrs. Anna Tomlinson at Fall /
River, Mass, revealed nothing to warrant
the suspicion of the police that the woman
came to her death by foul means.
American exhibitors at the Madrid
Columbian Exposition have been awarded
eight gold medals, fourteen silver and
fifteen bronze medals, besides receiving
honorable mention in numerous cases
-Wearied with what seemed TO be an
endless struggle with a wasting disease,
Jarvis w. Hand, an eighteen-year old
student at the Philadelphia Dental Col
lege from Ludlow, Ne, blew out his
brains.
Thomas Collins, one Of the men who
killed passenger ON the G. & o. road
near Huntington, w. Va, Dec -, while
robbing train, has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment. On account of doubt
AS to who fired the shot his neck was
saved.
Emma Goldman, the autonomist, OF
New York, is said to be at the head Of a
movement TO secure a Communication Of
for Alexander Berkman, the
Anarchist who shot II. c. Prick chair
man of the Carnegie Company, in Pitts
burg, Pa, last summer.
The West End Street Railway Company
has notified the families of the four EN-
ployes who lost their lives while trying TO
save the company's property in the fire at
Everett Mass "Wednesday niVhf that il,