Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-01-20

John Tobin, aged Is. a prominent citizen
OF Donaldson, Pa, was found dead In his
house, aud is supposed to have been frozen
to death.
John Toothman and his stepson, William
Stagdale of Buckeye City, o., were frozen to
death while returning home from Mount
Vernon.
The scourge OF diphtheria and scarlet fever
that has been ravaging Danvlle, Pa, and the
vicinity has within the past few days spread
with alarming rapidly.
Mrs. NJ NJ Anderson of Pulaski, Ark. was
elected assistant sergeant alarms of the
house This is the first time woman has
been elected to that position.
Gov. Buchanan OF Tennessee signed the
resolution authorizing committee to go to
! Winchester, the home of Governor-elect
| Turncy, who is still i'll, and administer the
oath Of Office there
| While Joseph Graddock and another
workman, whose name could not be OBJ
tanned, were thawing 20 sticks Of dynamite
| IN the tunnel on the state line extension of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad near Union
! town, Pa, the dynamite exploded killing
| the two men and injuring several others.
A fire in the heart of the retail district OF
Kansas City, the other day, caused loss Of
upward of s245. 600
Reports from all over Kansas are 10 the
effect that the worst blizzard of the stormy
winter Is now raging. Snow is drifting and
! all trains are late.
Joseph Springstein, deaf colored man,
65 years old, was found in the road frozen
| to death near his residence In Undertook,
~. y.
John +. Gage, proprietor of the Gsge
| Machine Works OF Waterford, \. v, which
has hppn in ODpraIiOn more thnu Gb years
has made an assignment TO Horace Mcknight
| OF BallstOn Spa
Mrs. McLan of Almira saturated her
clothes with kerosene oil recently and set
them on fire. The flames were eXhnguished
by friends after she was badly burned. She
is demented.
Two Swedcs. Frederick Allchrist and
Charles Bukeson, OF the crew of the sloop
Shawmut from New York, which was
burned at the Commercial wharf In Boston,
| persisted in the flames.
Thomas Caruthcrs OF the firm OF George
II. knzie & Co. of Cincinnati, and wealthy
and prominent citizen OF Walnut Hills that
cit;' fashionable suburb, was found dead in
his room at the Bates House, Indianapolis.
An emissary OF the Worlds Columbian
Exposition Commissioners will leave Chi
cago next week for England, to invite the
Prince OF Wales to visit Chicago during the
Worlds Fair. The invitation will be pre-.
scented to the Prince personally.
Koch the German bacteriologist, is to
have laboratory dedicated in his name in
the United States army hospitals at the
Worlds Fair. In ii will be shown com.
plctely the great investigators methods. The
laboratory will be In charge Of DR.. Lagarde
Director Denver of the n Y. State LIZ
brary reports that the library now contains
164, 100 volumes, of which 1895 are in the
general library aud 47,785 in the law library
Last year the total number OF volumes was
1855, showing an addition during 1892 OF
1904.
George Hemstreet, an employee of the
Battenkill Paper Company OF Middle Falls
Washington county, n Y, was terribly In.
jured by being wound around a shaft at
the works. Both ankles were broken and
one arm was torn from the socket. lie will
probably die.
Justice Herrick has granted decree OF
divorce to Gussie Shaw, wife OF George
Shaw, who Is now in the State Reformatory
at Eimra, on the ground OF homage On
Nov. IS, at the juil at Albany, where Shaw
was confined on the charge of horse steal
ing, the couple were married. The bride
wns hardly more than child.
Levi Coke, Treasurer OF the branch of the
Iron Hall IN EImIra, N. Y, was arrested on
bench warrant. lie was indicted by the
grand jury on the charge OF grand larceny
In the first degree for misappropriatng funds
Of the order. Mr.. Coke claims that he Is
only holding the funds until It is decided to
whom they shall be given up.
David Crowl va teamstcr, employed by
the Standard Oil Company, was instantly
killed at New Brighton, Staten Island He
was loading his truck with barrels of oil
when his foot slipped and one of the barrels
rolled down upon him, crushing him to the
earth. He was i8 years old, aud he lived i'm
Burgher avenue, West Brighton, with hi
wife and three children.
While Sheriff Lee was taking four hand
: cufed prisoners across the river at Cum.
minis, Arkansas, Ed Taylor. ono of the
prisoners, capsized the boat in midstream
Taylor and his partner Walker Woodan
were drowned The sheriff and the others
had narrow escape. Taylor had sworn
that he would never be taken to the work.
house alive.