Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-01-10

The ole frigate jamestown. for
many years quarantine ship at Hamp-
ton Roads, was destroyed by fire.
Five male children. all perfectly
formed, we're born TO Mrs. Audrey
Lassen, of Abbeyville, La.
Colonel Goethals says ships will
pass through the Panama Canal by
October next.
John Clamp of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y,
drank pint of whiskey to win a bet.
He lived about eight hours.
William Sulzer was inaugurated as
Governor of New York at Albany, and
pledged himself to give an economical
administration.
The wireless station at Sayville, L.
T.. will have a new system installed tn
make it the greatest wireless station
in the world.
DR.. Frank Mallory, associate pro-
fessor of pathology at Harvard. has
isolated the whooping cough germ.
He calls it the bacillus pertussis.
Among the 10000 employees in the
Panama Canal Zone. only As deaths
occurred in December. The death
rate for 1912 was 25.46 per thousand.
Mrs. Emily Sawyer, a trapeze per-
former, fell through an unfastened
gate in a Pontiac, Mich, theatre and
was killed.
The parcel post mail became so
heavy at the New York post Office that
rs clerks were picked from the civil
service list and appointed.
Charged with embezzling $4,000,
William Redolheim, brother-in-law of
Governor Sulzer of New York, was
placed under $1,000 bail in Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. E. Keller Spencer, a nurse,
who was known to Civil War veterans
as the Florence Nightingale of the
Civil War, died in Oswego, N. Y, at
the age of a.
President Taft and his brother, Hen
ry w. Taft, were riding in an q ltou:o-
bile in Potomac Park, Va, when it
stuck in the mud. A farrs}r pulled
the car out with his horses.
The brief in behalf of Edward F.
Myths, whose deportation is sought
on the ground that he libelled the
King of England was sent to Wash
ington.
During the past year, 221 persons
were killed by autos on New York
streets. Of these 103 were children.
nthnr al 4Ia TOD to
532.
President Taft granted a pardon TO
Michael Youtelamee, an S0-year-old
Flathead Indian, who was indicted in
Butte, Mont, for introducing whiskey
among the members of his tribe.
Michael Slater, a riverman Of
Brownsville, Pa, entered livery sta
BILE, wrapped blankets around the
stove and took it away. He said no
one was using the stove and he uee1
ed it.
The deadlock in the New Hampshire
House was broken by the election of
William J. Britton as speaker. Britton
is a Progressive and was elected by a
coalition of Democrats and Progress
siEes.
A sixty-mile gale with rain swept
down on the coast of Virginia, caus-
ing great damage to shipping and tel
egraph wires. Several small craft are
reported to have sunk with some loss
of life.
The Woman's Suffrage party sent a
delegation to attend the funeral of
General Merwin E. Lee, who, as act
ing Governor of Wyoming, signed the
bill giving the women of that State
the right to vote. The funeral was
held in New York.
Senator j. w. Bailey of Texas re-
signed as a member of the upper
house of Congress, in letters sent to
Governor Colquitt of Texas and to the
president pro TEN. of the Senate. The
resignation is to take effect imme-
diately.
Tire Commissioner Johnson in a re-
port to Mayor Gaynor said that one
fourth of the fires in New York are
caused by incendiaries at an annual
loss of S4,000,000, due largely to the
failure Of insurance companies to
make investigations before issuing
policies.