Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-30

designated thursday, April y, a. -ts- Day
The House in the Pennsylyan'i l.esis
lature has pss.sl the Anti-Pinksrtoi Dill.
1t is reported that the playing clrl and
label manufacturers of this country are
forming a trust.
Fire Tuesday at louisville, Ind, de
stroyed five business blocks Loss esti-
mated at 10000
The First National Bank OF Tonawanda.
n Y, has been authorized b. the govern
ment to begin business
The viii of Dr. Andrew p Peabody Of
Harvard leaves his entire property in trust
for his three daughters.
The Big Four switehmen strike has
come to an end By the switchmen declaring
the strike off Internationally
-Pugffist Chas. Mitchell accompanied by
the body of Squire Abingdon sailed for
England on the Majestic Tuesday.
The gross earnings of the Lake Erie &
Western road for the second week Of March
were S35, $50, an increase Of Sl6,913
Rev. Albert Won PuttIamer. the first
German to be baptized in the Baptist faith
in America, is dead M West Farms y y
The Italian Chamber of Deputies hes
voted 211 90 lire. equal 10 10000, for the
Italian share in the Chicago WorlIs Fair
John A. Markham, convict at the
Massachusetts State prison, committed
suicide By hanging himself in his cell Mon
day.
Gertrude Eaton. aged q. is under arrest
in Boston on charge Of numbering her
new born child by strangling She is nm
married
Robert Louis Stevenson has sailed from
Sydney, \. 5. W.. for san Francisco,
whence he will proceed, via New York, to
England
-R. B. McDonalds distillery mill, cooper
shop, dwelling hOuseand Office at Falmouth /
Ky, have been burned Loss 1000; no
insurance.
The Hoag manufacturing block Chi /
cago, occupied by anumber of small con
Germs. was destroyed by fire Tuesday 1
Loss, $4,000.
John Merry and Ben Mccoy, negroes.
were hanged at Hazlehurst. Miss. Mon /
DAY for murder and robbery in Copiah /
county last October.
The town Of Purvis, Miss, on the New
Orleans Northeastern Railroad, one hundred
miles south of Meridian, was destroyed by
incendiary negroes Tuesday.
The large wholesale grocery concern of
iompkins, Fassett & Croker has failed at
Elmira. \. " Liabilities, Sl2j, 900. The
firm hopes to pay its debts in full
Gov. Flower has signed the bill amend
ing the factory inspection law generally
and providing for six additional male
factory inspectors and two female.
-Erq,stus Durnin Webster. for 40 years
prominent in public life. and who held
many important positions under various adj
ministrations, is dead in Washington
There were $40 Italian immigran
landed at Ellis Island Tuesday Nine
hundred and forty on the steamship
Ems and 90S on the Alesa from Naples
Anxiety for the safety Of the British ship
Morayslire increases ut Vancouver The
ship is now 149 days out from Samarang,
with cargo of raw sugar for this port
Charles Gaskins, the colored porter at
the store of Horace Partridge & Co., who
was burned at the Lincoln street. Boston,
fire, is dead. This makesthe sixth victim.
George f Randolph, first assistant gen
eral freight agent of the Reading company
has been appointed general traffic agent OF
the New York & New England railroad
Nickel Company, which
owned the great nickel mine at Riddles,
Southern Oregon. has sold out TO an Eng
lish syndicate, which is capitalized for
So 900 900
Hannah Raleigh of Brockport, n Y, a
single woman, 40 years OF age, in comfort
able circumstances, hanged herself on Mon
day in her house. No reason for the sui
eide is known.
john W. Mackay's physician reports that
his patient sleeps well and is feeling much
better; that his pulse and temperature are
normal, and that he shows rapid aud steady
Improvement.
-Myron Gardner. 35 years old, who was
lrawn between the steel rollers OF paper
machine in the mills of Rowland 4 Co, at
sandy Hill. \ Y, Tuesday afternoon, has
lied from his injuries.
The city of Cleveland has released the
)ondsmen Of its defauting treasurer Ak
worthy, from all claims upon final pay
nent yesterday of SEQ Alb. The total
lefalcation was 100000.
The annual catalogue Of the Yale divinity
'chool, published Tuesday, shows the
number of students to be: Total, 1903;
'enors. 80; middle class, %; juniors, 81; /,
graduate and resident students, is.
The United States Consul at Rotterdam
Informs the State Department that there !
mas not been case of cholera in Rotter- /.
lam since November II, 1892 or in the :
whole Net herlands since January II, 1898
John Hill. colored, Is years old,
s to be hanged in Camden, n j.
IN April a. A petition in favor of com
nuting the sentence TO Imprisonment for =
ife has been dismissed by the Court OF
'ardons
The Womens Wheel and Athletic club
# Buffalo. formed for the mutual bene-
it and enjoyment by its members of
yelling and other athletic exercises has
,een incorporated with the New York Sec
etary of State.
a relay bicycle race between Boston and
,hicago is being planned in which some of