Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-23
The News of the Week.

-Whi.elaw Reid aud d. o. Mills Of New
York have arrived in San Francisco and
will spend the winter in Marion county.
Lady Aberdeen is making tour of the
South of Ireland to arrange for exhibits
Of Irish industry at the Worlds Fair
The powder mill of E. T. McCabe &
Co.. of Verona, Pa, exploded Thursday,
killing one mal and injuring several
Others.
The towa meetings in Onondaga county,
! n Y, resulted, Republican Supervisors
II, Democrats ), gain of one for the
Democrats.
After lunching with party of English
/ judges, Justice Harlan OF the United
| States Supreme Court, left London for
Paris Friday.
The striking Berkeley mill spinners
/ have returned to work. The company
officials say matters in dispute will be
amicably settled.
Both Houses of the Oregon State
/ Governors veto bin appropriating S4O,-
900 for the Worlds Fair exhibit.
Lawyers Joyner and Parkhurst, Of
/ Pittsburg, counsel for Murderer Coy,
who is to be hanged on the oath, have
determined to ask for new trial.
1T IS stated that the Northern Pacific
railroad company has sold all Of its st.
Paul & Northern Pacific stock estimated
at from 81, 900, 600 to 81, 00O,0 to syn
dicate
The British Associated Chambers of
Agriculture has adopted resolution
pointing out the necessity of continuing
the inhibition of the import of Canadian
cattle.
The bill providing for the purchase by
New York State OF Fire Island to be used
for quarantine purposes, was ordered TO
third reading without amendment in the
Assembly.
1t is announced in Brooklyn that Dan
ny Richardson has been signed by Mana
ger Byrne Of the Brooklyn Baseball club
to play second base iu the place OF Ward,
who goes to New York.
DIR. Blount, State Quarantine Inspector
at Galveston, Tex. has received a telegram
from DIR. Sweanngen, Texas Health
officer, directed him to inspect all trans
atlantic steamers for cholera.
-Goy. Flower has signed the bill repeal
Ing the law providing for a chief inspector
of police in New York city. Also the bill
appropriating IS, 00U for a fish hatchery
on Cold Spring creek, Steuben
county.
The finance committee of the Atlantic
City, n. j., city council has been in
structed to recover about 500 900 short
ages fouad by specially appointed expert
accountants to exist on the books of the
ex-city officials.
"A cayeat has been filed by the daugh-
ters of the late EXCHANGE llor William
son, Of New Jersey, against admitting
his will to probate Mr.. Williamson's
estate is valued at about $1,000, 600,
and the bulk is left to his sons.
The steamer Empress of China at
Vancouver brings news from Japan that
struggle is going on between the
lower House of the Diet and the EN-
peror's Cabinet and that House sittings
have been suspended for 10 days.
The farmers of Queens, Kings and
Suffolk counties, New York, are asking
the passage of legislative act appropri-
ating $l0,0 for the establishment OF
State agricultural experiment station on
Long Island, the same as those at Geneva
and at Cornell University.
The Niagara Reservation Commission
ers and others are at Albany arguing for
an increase IN the appropriation for the
park from $50, 0J0 to 500, 000 They claim
that a larger amount will be needed this
year because of the increased attendance
drawn by the Worlds Fair.
Wallace Bruce of Poughkeepsie, ~ Y,
United States Consul at Edinburgh.
Scotland, has just been elected to
succeed the late John Greeuleaf Whittier,
as life corresponding member of the Scot
tsh Society of Literature and Art at
Glasgow.
The jury in thetrial of James
Duggan, at Buffalo, N. Y, for election
frauds, came in with verdict of not
guilty The verdict was received with
cheers and hand clapping by the crowd
which filled the court room, and it was
some minutes before order was restored.
Father Thomas Adams, of Brook
lyn, the suspended priest, who
achieved considerable celebrity by
cures of sick and disabled people
which he claimed to effect by the use of
molly relics, mas Deen restored 10 the
priesthood with full faculties by Bishop
Mcdonnell, of Brooklyn.
White Caps are again at work in Indi-
ana. Tuesday night band of them
visited two houses in the neighborhood of
Lynchburg. At one place Sam Anderson
and Thomas Mullins were taken out and
violently whipped and maltreated The
White Caps then visited the house Of Kel-
sor Smith and subjected him to the same
treatment.
There is no more secrecy attending
the selection of the members of which
President Cleveland's Cabinet will be
composed. The gentleman so far selec-
ted by the President-elect are: Walter
@. Gresham, Of Illinois, Secretary of
State. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, |
Secretary of the Treasury. Daniel S.
Lamont, Of New York, Secretary of War. |
Wilson S Bissell, of Buffalo, Postmaster
General. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, Sec
retary of the Interior.