Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-04-13
CONDENSED NEWS OF The DAY.
Domestic News In Brief

was burned and 80 horses perished.
James Gardner, ex-assOclate justice of
Blair county, Pa. aud head of banking
house, rs dead, aged 81.
The unknown" commander of the COxey
forces at Denver. COL, is Major W. P. Clarke
Of the Second battalion, &. \. &.
Five fishermen were fishing in the Chatta-
hoochee river near Columbus, Ga, when the
boat cspsized. and all except one man went
down. =
President Tracey has called special meet
ing OF the national republican league eXecu
tive committee to meet at Washington ON
April 23.
Governor Hogg Of Texas has issued proc
lamation deelagtng quarantine, to take effect
May !, against all places south Of 25 degrees
north latitude.
Attorney A. s. Trude Of Chicago, says that
the prosecution in the Prendergast case may
ask the court to deal with the ASSASSIN aS II
he had escaped.
Broker Herman Clark Of the firm OF Hunter,
Clark Il Jacob of New York. * charged hy
Frances X. Hunter, senior member OF the
firm, with embezzling 100000.
Taylor, the Cornell student. who refused to
testify In the recent cOrOner's investigation.
has been released from jail. He says he will
endeavor to he reinstated In the university.
1t is not known how much longer Congress
man Wilson will remain Mt San Antonio, Tex.
He continues to improve and has gained sew
eral pounds in flesh but the cough has not
left him.
Ben King, the poet and humOrist was
found dead in bed at his room in the More
head House, ut Bowling Green, Ky. His
body was sent to his home at st. Joseph,
Mich, for hliial.
The funeral Of Mr.. William Weggs was
stopped at New York city and her husband
and Joseph Reinwuld arrested. The polio"
suspect that Mrs. Weggr died under suspi-
clous circumstances.
The Boston Tow-bOat company, for the
fruitleSs eifor to save the Kearsarge, has
been paid ~. 800 by the government In reim-
bursement for the expense OF sending the
Orion 10 ROncadOr reef.
McLendon will be held for the killing Of
Norment; Cay for the killing OF Redmond;
Redmond killed Pepper These are decisions
Of the coroner's Jury ut Darlington, :. C.,
anent the distilery war.
Richard wstar, the remaining one OF the
eccentric millionaire Wistar Bros. died sud-
denly at Atlantic city, y. j.. from the effects
Of Brights disease. His estate Is Nalued at
from IS, ,OO0, 600 to sl0, ,000, 900.
The coroner's jury examined witnesses at
Kansas City, Mo-, to iix the responsibility for
the death Of Callahan, killed in the election
riot. The jury brought in II verdict that Cal
lahan had been killed by unknown hands.
John Smith. n baker. aged 30 years. fatally
injured his wife by fracturng her skull with
II hammer, at Brooklyn. y. \. He then COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with T.
raZDr. No cause cIn hc assigned for the mad
act
William Rooney, one Of the election inspeo-
tors who were convicted several weeks ago
at New York, dropped dead In the peniten
Iiary at the sight OF his father, whom he had
not seen sin =" his confinement on Blarkwelis
Island.
l.orin A. Thurston. Hawaiian minister.
married Hattie +. Potter at ~. Joseph, Mich.
The wedding was informal. Mr.. and Mr.
ThurStOn. accompanied 10y the latters
mother, left for Washington. Tney will sail
for Honolulu shortly.
The lower house of the Iowa legislature
passed joint resolution for the resubmission
Of constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture aud sale of liquors in Iowa.
The senate amended 1t to allow manufacture
ing Of liquors, aud passed 1t, ~ to II.
The Iowa senate passed the house bill con
ferrlng on women the right to vote for town,
city aud school officerS, and on all questions
issuing bonds This Is the first time women
have been given this right in Iowa. The
vote was q TO 20. with three absentee-
The grain laden steamer Majestic has ar
rived at Detroit, Mich. with the forward rgt
ging OF the schooner Theodore Noges caught
upon her forward upper works. Hugh Nc
Cafrrey brother Of the Noges' captain, WAS
struck by some of the rigging and killed.
The police OF Troy, " Y, have discovered
IN organized gang who have been robbing
freight cars. Eugene Z. Mcclure confessed.
and implicated Bat Shea and John Nc
Cough both implicated In the Ross killing.
Two police officers are named as a0complice
OF the thieves.
Joseph Jentick and family, residing in
Washington county, Texas, sent their l2-year-
old daughter Marie to neighbor. and not
returning. search was Instituted. resulting
in the finding OF her body mnngled beyond
recognition. She had been attacked by u
pack OF mad dogs and literally devoured.