Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-02


-The New York aud New Jersey Bridge
Bill has passed the House without the
yeas and nays.
The New Jersey Senate has passed a
bin allowing the sale of newspapers and
milk on Sunday.
Gov Flower has signed chapter 40,
providing for the construction of sewer
in Newburgh, N. Y.
George E. Desborast, the well-known
printer and publisher, is dead at Non
treal. He was 80 years old.
Gen. Buffers will Of ancient date was
probated Monday at Lowell, Mass, and
executors have been appointed.
The Czarewitch telegraphed his con-
gratulctions TO the Pope on the OCCASION
Of the Pontiff's Episcopal jubilee.
The hearing on the "Greater New
York bill in the New York Legislature
has been postponed till March s.
The total amount Of gold dust exported
during ne ye.tr 1891 from the gold mines
If Briusa Guiana is s., BOB, l6s IS
Spotted fever has been epidemic in
Marshall county, Kentucky, for several
weeks and 30 deaths are reported.
LIN the new Franco-Canadian Treaty o.
commerce Canada ENGAGES to subsidize
direct line of French packet boats.
The coal-dealers Of Boston and vicinity
hlye reduced the price OF anthracite coal
50 cents a ton 10 take effect at once.
Three million five hundred thousand
dollars in gold hts bean engaged for
shipment from New YORK to Europe TO-
day
BY cave-in in a shaft ut the South
Joplin tAlo) eompany's ground Tuesday
four miners were killed and another IN
iured
pr Wm S Todd Of Ridgeaeld, Conn,
and we'll known throughout Connecticuf
and New York States, is dead Of pneu-
monia
-The Arkansas House passed bill Tues
day by large majority, PROHIBITING
the sale or giving away Of cigarettes in
tie State.
twenty-five valuable horses, belonging
to Israel Underwood, OF Lena, ILL.,, were
killed in railroad wreck near that place
Tuesday.
Madame Modjeska the well known ac-
tress, Will deliver an address at the
Columbian Exposition on the subject Of
~ omen on the Stage
AT the Grenoble Assizes Blanche
Deschamps, a l3-year-old French girl,
was placed on trial for having robbed and
drowned younger girl
The Augusta, Gibson & sandersville
narrowguage railroad, Georgia, was
sold at receivers sale Monday. The
price paid was S250,000
Work on the capitol at Albany, n Y,
is 10 be stopped on account Of lack Of
material caused by the blocking Of trains
by th heavy snowstorm.
"a Missouri inventor has devised
method by which pictures and autographs
can be traced over the wire by electricity
just as messages are licked
Last fall. Mrs. Lorens Zeis Of Waterloo,
ILL.,, cooked a lot Of apple butter in
copper vat Three Of her family have
since died from eating of il.
The postofiice at Bath Beach, L. l., was
entered by burglars some time Thurs
day night; the safe blown open and its
contents Of stamps and cash, amounting
10 about s., 600 carried off There is no
clue to the robbers. The postofice was
robbed Of 81, 100 in a similar manner last
fall, but the burglars were never cap
tured.
Gov. Flower of New York has
concluded not to interfere at present
with the sentence of the court in the case
Of James Hughes, the master-workman
Of the Clothing Cutters branch of the
Knights of Labor who is serving a sem
tenoe of one year for the crime of extor-
tion in the Monroe county penitentiary.
The offenss was committed during the
last cloakmaker's striks in Rochester.