Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-19
The News of the Week.

/ been cured.
I The House of Representatives has
passed th- District of Columbia Appro-
priatioa bill.
-ES Governor Ordway will not make q
fight for the United States Senatorship for
North Dakota.
Coils r Huntington has given 100000
to the Huntington Free library at Nest-
chester, y. Y
! The Marine Hospital Service will make
a moae or Ellis Island for exhibition at
4 the Worlds Fair.
The Atehison gross earnings for Decem-
ber, including all lines, were $4,000, IA;
increase, $40, 1871.
u X. johnson, of Maine committed
suicide near Savannah, Ga, because he
failed to find work.
/ -Slas RUSSELL prominent farmer Of
/ Hartfeld, n y, committed suicide Sat
urday night by hanging.
i Steamer New Mary Houston was struck
J by large piece Of ice at Cincinnati and
sank. Loss, $50. 600.
The Harvey Worlds Fair Hotel in
+ Chicago was destroyed Tuesday by fire,
causing a loss Of 500, ,000
] -NFbi-t - klAlHs VI NtNUuikut ~ -
a well-known merchant and formerly
4 Aims House Commissioner, is dead aged
/ 81 years.
/ AT Cleveland, o., John Woodley, a
/ shiftless fellow, cut his wife's throat
+ Tuesday evening, and then severed his own
+ iugular with the same weapon, dying in
short time
4 According TO the vote cast in all the
~.
4 plurality over Harrison is 132 and his
majority over all l0S
The plan 10 organize new Western
railroad association TO take the place Of
the Western Traffic association mas been
definitely abandoned
Vice Admiral Fairfax has been ac-
quilted of the charge of neglect Of duty
in connection with the stranding Of the
British warship Howe.
The Yale Union has agreed To Harvard 5
proposition TO introduce the custom OF
having judges at the future debates be-
tween the two colleges.
The Missouri State Board OF Health has
asked from the Legislature an appropria-
tion to be- ready to fight possible epi-
demic of cholera next summer
Mrs Wool, of Willsville, n. Y, hanged
herself Saturday Her brother com
mitted suicide few months ago, and a
nephew hanged imself last fall
-Congressman John l.. Mitchell, of Wis
consin, candidate for United States Sen.
ator, who has been seriously i'll for the
past week is now out of danger.
Elk Merchant Prince Steve Ryan, after
a years Imprisonment, for contempt of
nj has haan roll .aIf frn4s 1afl a
lanta, Ga, under bonds of 100000
Oliver NJ Sheldon, at one time one OF
tine foremost men of Illinois, and the
confidential friend of Abraham Lincoln,
is dead in Chicago, aged IS years.
"A fly wheel at Oliver Brothers steel
works, Pittsburg burst Tuesday. Ten pee
pie were seriously injured, one was
killed outright, and two OF the injured
will die.
Herbert Warren, proprietor OF the Bos-
ton Butter store at Bridgeport, Conn, is
missing, and creditors who are said t.
have claims amounting to 81, 800 are look
ing for him.
John w. Cree, an expressman Of Eliza
beth, n. j., has been arrested, charged
with putting S400 of the funds OF Court
Columbus, independent Order of Forest
ers, to his own uses.
The Jockey club of Vienna was raided
by the police and large sum of money
and gambling outfits seized Many
of the city S aristocratic residents were in
the place at the time.
The Jeiry's Point On. H. Life Saving
C.ew rescued the master, his wife, two
small children and two men from the
schooner May Day which went ashore in
binding snow storm.
The United States Consul at Pernam-
buco wires the State Department that
the American merchant steamer York
town was wrecked in Brazilian waters.
All on board were saved.
The numerous reports that have been
recently circulated in regard TO the re-
tirement of the Guion Line of steamships
from business are denied by the agents OF
that line in New York
Mary Price. of Corning. n. Y. 20 years
old. married when she was 10. and, al
though her husband is still living, mar
ried again two months ago. Her nus
band hes just secured an indictment for
bigamy.
&C R. Carter, who six years ago was
sentenced at Mt. Vernon No, TO be /
hanged LOT lut ilutUtI vi hODtci lfoth- I
ett, aud who escaped from custody before
the sentence could be executed, has been 4
arrested at Portland, Ore.
a valuable discovery OF old graves.
weapons and implements of stone and 4
copper has been made in the coast noun 4
tains of California. The characters /
carved on the stones resemble those used /
by the old Egyptians in designing their
tombs
That the signature Of the purported
will of the late Senator Mcdonald. oil In
diana. was forged, Henry Tolmsn, micro
scopist and handwriting expert. will tes-
tify, he says, in the hearing at Mobiles
vile, Ind, on the a3d inst, whittier the
venue was taken from indianapolis
-Despatches have been received in Wall i
street stating that the Bank Of Franc.
has removed the premium it has been
paying for gold. The news is considered
of great importance, as the heavy and un-