Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-01-03

Rain Eoll=s snow in the streets
OF New York saved the city sl25.0OO
Gov. Woodrow Wilson was received
with enthusiasm in Stanton, Va.
where he was born ffty-siX years ago.
Former Congressman Alvah A.
Clark died at his home in Somerville.
y. j., of pneumonia.
John =. MoHenry. Congressman in
the Sixteenth district OF Pennsylvania,
is dead.
Simon Cadors, negro murderer,
was hanged by mob in Baton Rouge,
La.
Albert T. Patrick, pardoned by Gov.
Dix, met his 16-year-old daughter
in ST. Louis FOR the first time since
she was four years old.
A, ]. Marley, a New York taxicab
chauffeur who. while drunk, ran over
and seriously injured a woman, was
sentenced to one year in Jail
The authorities of Cumberland. Nd,
are investigating an "elopers trust in
which cabmen. ministers and train
men are united to aid Cupid.
Samuel B. Gray, aged IS, who
served during the Civil War, died of
scurvey, in York, Pa, contracted in
the Andersonville prison.
J.. Frank Hickey, slayer of Joseph
Josephs and other small boys, was
sentenced in Buffalo to not less than
20 years Imprisonment
Robbers blew" the safe in the Or
angeburg, N. Y, postoffice and escap-
ed in an auto with $4,000 in stamps
and money.
Scores of business men of Kansas
City went about the city in automo-
biles distributing baskets loaded with
food and clothing among the poor.
Mrs. K. E. Cleveland, died in Lin
coin, Neb., from the effects of hemor-
rhages Of the brain brought on by a
dream that she had been poisoned.
Engines ON the Pennsylvania lines,
west will be smokeless in year and
a half. The engines are being equip
ped with mechanical stokers.
A prairie fire destroyed a strip Of
wheatland near Centre, N. D. Thou
sands of tons of hay were destroyed
and many head OF cattle were killed
John Hazel, a negro, received ten
lashes at the whipping post in Balti-
more for beating his wife. He was
sentenced to so days.
Fink Maddox, bad man boss of
Oak Grove, La" was shot to death in
a fight with a posse after he had
killed deputy sheriff.
Captain L. E. Yates, one of the best
known planters and oyster shippers of
Bivalve, N. j., was drowned in the
Maurice River
Alfred j. Richon, former star ath-
lete CT Richie, H.. was killed by the
fumes of smoldering oil lamp in
his home.
Grace Trimble, aged Is, a Brooklyn
nurse, confessed she started six fires
i'll the apartment house in which she
works.
San Francisco's first municipal rail-
way, which has four miles of track,
was opened officially by Mayor James
Rolph.
Exhibition in all Washington hotel
lohbies of pickpockets and other
thieves so that strangers may know
them is the police plan for protecting
inauguration crowds.
The Navy Department received an
ensign which had been flying on the
Maine when she was blown up. The
fiag was sent from the Key West nav
al station.
William H. Thompson, United
States senator-elect, was severely
burned in Garden City, Kan, while
playing Santa Claus. His makeup
caught fire.
All the passengers, 81 in number, of
the stranded liner Turrialba were
landed in New York City by the dere-
lict destroyer Seneca. The captain
and crew remained aboard the steam
er, which struck the sands within a
few miles of Atlantic City.
President Charles S. Mellen of the
New Haven, President Edison j. Cham
berlin of the Grand Trunk and Alfred
w. Smithers, Chairman of the Board
of the Grand Trunk, were indicted in
New York for violation of the Sher-
man Antitrust law by the Federal
Grand Jury.