Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28

The body Of Joaquin Miller. the
poet Of the Sierras, was cremated. The
ashes will be scattered to the Winds.
Mayor Gaynor promised to review
the St Patrick Day parade in New
York. He said he is fighting harp"
Cardinal Farley. Archbishop of New
York, received an enthusiastic vel
come at San Juan, Porto Rico.
The Singer Manufacturing Co. has
obtained 10000 acres of hardwood
timber land in Louisiana.
The Illinois Supreme Court decided
that butcher shops and moving pic
ture shows must close Sundays.
The Wilson inaugural committee
voted to exclude all donkeys and
"houn' dawgs" from the parade.
Mrs. NJ Van Rensselaer,, aged 104,
oldest woman in northern New York,
died in Saratoga.
President-elect Wilson gave out a
statement defending the antitrust
statutes for New Jersey that he has
Just signed.
n Dlll dbOlloillIS Tic utdNu
was defeated by the Tennessee House.
similar bill was killed in the Arizona
Legislature.
Frank Romea, a miner, convicted
Of murder, was shot to death in the
Utah penitentiary. He tainted when
he faced the rifles.
The South Dakota House and Sen
ate have passed a resolution, for the
direct election of United States Sen
ators.
Miss Clara Foy, a school teacher of
Boise, Idaho, tried a forty day fast to
relieve stomach trouble. She's dead.
The Philadelphia mint has begun
work on the new five cent pieces and
they will be ready in two months. The
coins will not fit in slot machines.
Many witnesses, who appeared be-
fore the Pujo investigating commit
tee in Washington, are unable to col
lect expenses for the trip.
Torbert Lanston, inventor of type
setting machine which bore his name,
died in Washington. He had been
stricken with paralysis three years.
Among the new bills in the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives, is
one which prohibits the working of
horses more than II hours day.
Four children of Joseph Hatfield of
Brookville, KY, were burned to death
when the house in which they had
been locked was destroyed.
Whalers at Amagansett, L. l., sank
a harpoon into a 50-foot humpback,
which broke the line and got away
with it's $1,000 worth of oil and bone.
George D. Farovid, one of the lead
ing druggists of New Haven, was
fined $500 for selling cocaine without
out doctors prescription. A clerk
was fined 800
Ed. Mcnamara, Ed Gallagher and
James Kelly, auto bandits, who killed
Patrolman Leroy Bouker, in Cleve-
land Thanksgiving Eve, were SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
Mrs. Ernest Sill of Atlanta saved
her baby by putting him in a steamer
trunk and dragging him through a
burning room. She was badly burned
herself.
The seven children of George Smith
of Harrisburg, Pa, were burned to
death, when their home was destroyed
by fire. The parents returned home
and found the bodies.
Edouard F. Myths, who was con-
victed and sent to prison in England
for libelling King George, was admit
ted to the country by Federal Judge
Noyes after the immigration authori-
ties had sought to bar him out.
The Senate passed a bill so strin-
ent that saloon keepers say it will re-
duce saloons in the District of Column
bia, exclusive of hotels and clubs,
from 800 to about seven, if it becomes
law.
c. w. C. Lee, eldest son of General
| Robert e. Lee, who served on the
staff of Jefferson Davis, died in
Ravensworth Va, aged so. He was
president emeritus of Washington and
Lee University.