Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-14

The plant OF the Avery Manufactur.
ing Co. of Peoria, ILL.,, was burned, the
loss being estimated at S250.O00.
The woman suffrage bill will be re-
ported favorably by the committees of
the Missouri Legislature.
Judge Bruse of Maiden, Mass. ruled
that hen forfeited its life when II en-
tered a neighbor's yard and scratched.
George NJ. Shippy, former chief Of
police of Chicago, was adjudged in
sane and committed to an asylum.
The Ohio Senate passed bill pro-
viding that the State dairy and food
commissioners be appointed instead
of elected.
Both houses of the Legislature of
Missouri took a recess of 80 minutes
in order to allow Doctor Anna Shaw
to deliver a suffrage address.
The Cornell authorities have placed
the ban on the turkey trot," bear
hug" grape vine," tango" Boston
hop" and several other freak dances.
Teachers of the New York public
schools are planning a union, the prin-
cipal object being to secure represen-
tation on the board of education.
The West Virginia Senate approved
a resolution asking Congress to pass
the bill prhibiting the shipping of in
toXicating liquor into dry territory.
A bill introduced in the New York
Assembly provides that an official
handshaker be appointed for the gov
ernor and other public officials.
A Chicago restaurant keeper has
started sending lunches by parcel post
to nearby buildings, the packages
being mailed so that they arrive just
before noon.
The Paterson IN. j. Business Mems
Association has compiled list of 300
persons, in all walks of life, classed as
dead BEATS" and will sue them for
the payment of long disregarded bills.
E. W. Decker, president of Min
neapolis bank, asks the cooperation
of the Minnesota and North Dakota
Bankers Association for the purpose
of reducing the high cost of living.
State Senator Murtaugh of New
York has introduced bill authoriz-
ing a hydro-electric plant on the
Mohawk River to supply light, heat
and power to the district.
Seven bills regulating the New York
Stock Exchange, all favored by Gov.
Sulzer, were introduced in both
houses at Albany. There was no pro-
vision for incorporating the Exchange.
Everybody at the wedding of the
Rev. A. ]. Vanden Heuvel of Passaic,
N. j., wore mourning, including the
bride, Miss Van Lonkhueizen. This
was done in memory of his first wife.
Survivors of the pioneer band of
Death Valley argonauts," who
crossed the desert into California GO
years ago, held reunion in Santa
Cruz, Cal.
Tuberculosis will exterminate the
native population of Alaska in the
course of 60 or 70 years if not eradi-
Gated at once" says Doctor Emil Kru-
lish of the public health service, re.
porting to the United States commits
sioner of education.
A. r. Burgess, an Ell Paso attorney
acting for several claimants of dam
ages growing out of the Mexican trou
bles, told the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs that American officials
at Ell Paso were at "the beck and CALI
of the Madero Government.
Edward C. Vogel said that he gave
Jesse d. Frost, a former Warden OF
Sing Sing, $1,000 to hasten a prison
er's release; that the release was mo-
fastened, but that Frost retained
$4,000 Notwithstanding, and refused tt
return it. The prisoner is Vogel's son
in-law, Wider, sentenced to eighteen
years for stealing 100000 from the
New York agency of the Russo-Chi
nese Bank.