Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07


The annual dead letter sale in
Washington netted the United States
S1O.S61.
The election OF Senators by the
people direct. was favored by the Ne
vada Assembly and the Idaho Senate.
Chinese, Japanese and other orien-
tai athletes have gathered at Manila
for the far eastern olympiad.
George S. Legare, Congressman
from the First South Carolina district,
died in Charleston.
The CITY Council of Philadelphia
voted to educe the price of gas to so
cents a thousand.
Lake Superior is frozen over from
Grand Marais to Duluth for the first
time this winter.
The five members of the family of
Major Harris, Richland, Iowa, died
in a fire which destroyed their home.
After having a monument erected
for himself, Joseph S. Smith, farmer
of Greenville, Ga, committed suicide.
The ordnance department will be-
gin work soon on the new cavalry
sword. The long straight blade will
replace the slightly curved sabre.
Mrs. Annie Dobkin is suing the Chi
cago Cubs for $4,000 for injuries sus-
tanned when she was struck by foul
ball.
Governor Wilson conferred with the
Democratic members of the New Jer-
sey Legislature on the bills he has
recommended for passage.
George Kestach's monoplane was
sold at public auction in Chicago for
$3.50. This is the first time an aero
plane has been offered at auction.
Colonel George w. Goethals, chief
engineer of the Panama Canal, hopes
to send a ship through the canal be-
fore the end of this year.
Joseph Guyer and Henry Frank,
each rs years old, fought duel with
canes in the Soldiers Home at Leav-
enworth, Kan. Guyer was killed.
The House passed the annual rivers
and harbors appropriation bill, the big
gest of the so-called Pork barrel
measures. 1t carries $40,S00,000.
Thomas ]. O'Connor, a young civil
engineer, fell from the top of a steel
tower 125 feet high he had just COM
pleted at Arlington, N. j., and was
killed
Three undergraduates at Princeton
have established bootblack stand to
help pay their expenses through col
ege. Italians were imported to do the
actual work
Ernest Carpenter, a boilermaker of
Newport News, Va, was hurried to
ocal hospital for an operation. When
ne saw the instruments he walked
1ome, ate breakfast and returned to
work.
Lieutenant J. L. Weir of the 18th In
tantry, U. S. A., was arrested at Fort
Mckenzie, Wyo., charged with the
theft of goods valued at $1,000 from
the home of a brother officer. Lieu
tenant Weir was captain of the West
Point football team in 1910.
Captain Eliot of the quartermaster
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tailed to assist refugees in the flooded
sections of the Ohio Valley, reports
that at Calhoun, KY, there are 1900
people in need of aid. He sent rations
for 10 days 10 the town.
Miss Martha Bowers, of Washington,
was seriously injured when her horse
bolted in Rock Creek Park in the ma
tional capital. Miss Bowers was rid
ing with Miss Helen Taft, daughter of
the President, when the runaway &C.
cured.
Samuel H. London, who for seven
years has studied the social evil here
and abroad, told the Curran commit
tee that 100 policemen assist white
slavers" in keeping their victims in
subjugation. He said the white
slaves" support 6,100 men in New
York.