Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Brief Record of I'm portant Events During
the Past Seven Days.


has vetoed the three Parker Racing bills.
Barney Erich. prominent dry goods
merchant of Elmira, n. Y, died We'd
nesday mig bit.
Several new emeralds of great richness
have been discovered in the district OF
Esmeralda. Ecuador.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has de-
feated the Woman Suffrage bill-91 nays
to So yeas, with IA pairs
Thomas Fox, 90 years old, of 107 Green
witch Street, New York, was burned to
death while intoxicated.
Port Deposit, Nd, has again been Wis
tied by a goodly sized food, the winter
reaching 30 feet above normal.
The worst fire for years visited Ne
braska City Wednesday. Total loss will
exceed 800, 900. Well insured
The cable tower of the Western Union
Telegraph company, Communipaw, N. j.,
was burned out Thursday night.
Fire Thursday in Liyingtone Brothers
clothing store, at Claremont, n. H.,
caused loss Of $50, 900; insured.
The Delaware s. Hudson directors have
declared the regular quarterly divid end
of / "a per cent, payable out OF the
earnings OF 1891.
The bill TO wipe out the insurance sys-
tenn of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany was read a third time and passed in
the Indiana House.
Col. w. B. Hayes has been found guilty
OF perjury in the second trial brought by
the New York City District Attorney.
The jury was out forty minutes.
President Parsons of the New York s.
New Engla railroad has rendered his
resignation as president of the road which
has been accepted TO take effect March IA
The island Of Nofou Of the Samoan
group has again been swept by a terrific
hurricane lasting 60 hours. The old
Wesleyan church was swept away.
Five hundred houses the village
OF Kadikey, across the Bosphorus from
Constantinople, were destroyed by fire
Thursday, The Sultan has sent assist
ance.
John Petite, r. A, the painter, is dead
In London He was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland. in 1889, and exhibited his
earliest works in tina Royal Scottish
Academy
Benjamin Osborne, contractor and
builder OF New Haven Conn, has volun-
tarily assigned His liabilities are placed
at about Sl4, 600 The value of assets is
uncertain.
Edward Feeny of Brooklyn. N. Y, sue
cessor TO f, +. Donovan, as member of
the Senate Board of Mediation and Arbi-
tration, assumed the duties of his posi-
tion Saturday.
Mrs Mary Marshall de MitkiewicE, the
wife of Count Eugene de Mitkiewicz,
died in Washington Wednesday night.
She was the grand daughter of Chief JUS
tice John Marshall.
Mrs A. II. Ahlers, 70 years old, who
was going back to Germany to end her
days, fell dead on the Red Star dock in
Jersey City Saturday afternoon. She
came from st. Louis.
Rev Dr. Hugh Johnston, a leading
Methodist divine, of Toronto, has re-
ceived and accepted an invitation from
the Metropolitan church, Washington,
ID. c., to become its pastor.
The Yale Academic Department judges
announced that NJ. L. Thoms, of Water
bury, Conn, and J. l. Chamberlain OF
New York City, will represent that de-
partment in the Yale Princeton debate.
Hugh O'Donnell. on trial for murder
at Pittsburg, was acquitted Feb. Is.
0'Donnell was leader Of the workmen at
and he was charged with
urging the men on during the bloody riot
with the pinkertons
The Polsion Telephone Co Of West New
York, to operate in Erie, Niagara, Cha
tauqua and Cattaraugus counties, the
telephone lines TO be private lines and
not connected with any general Office,
was incorporated in Albany Saturday.
In the six-dsys' contest, light hours
q day race which ended Saturday
night, at Syracuse, "Aggie Harvey
Of Pittsburg Pa, broke the worlds
record for women for that time and style
VI walking, by walking 200 miles and
one lap.
"A strong concerted movement is being
made by the citizens of st. Louis to have
bhs honor of naming the first American
line steamer built in shis country by the
new company which has bought the City
IF Paris and the City of New York, alter
heir city.
The Hamburg American line steam
ship Bohemia, which sprang leak as she
vas about to sail on Monday by the loos-
sning of some OF the plates on the after
part of the vessel, is being repaired at her
look in Hoboksn, n. j., and will sail to-
afternoon.
In attempting to drive across the track
II the Ohio Southern Railroad, near Fruit
lale, Ohio, Monday, Capt. James c. |
crawford, prominent farmer, and his
on, William, aged II. were run down
md instantly killed. The horse was also
lillsd and the buggy demolished
The car shortage reported at
Kansas City is as bad as ever The |
Western roads are cramped for transpor-
alton facilities because Eastern roads |
lave been holding cars for storage pur-
'oses and in many cases for local BUSH
less The shortage Is mounting up |
sPidlF. Western roads are short about
% oars \ day.