Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-05-02
Nearly 1923 grain boats are held fast

Nearly 123 grain boats are held fast
In the ice at 500. Mich.
The powers warned King Nicholas
Of Montenegro to siye up Scutari.
A cage containing II men fell in a
mine near Butte, Mont, killing them.
Matilda Wayne, a negress scrub
woman of oyster Bay, L. l., left an
estate of $4,000.
The Italian Chamber OF Deputies
has assembled at Rome for the first
time since the eastern recess.
All the employees of the Columbia
Rope Works, at Auburn, N. Y, have
returned to work, ending the strike.
Three men were killed and ten seri.
ously injured by an explosion in a
powder mill at Lake Hopatcong, n. ].
The State school building and two
houses on the Onondaga, n. Y, Indian
Reservation, were destroyed by fire.
Demanding more pay, $50 truck
drivers in Rochester, N. Y, have gone
on strike.
The campaign to raise funds for the
erection of hospital at Montclair, N.
j., closed with a total of $225,000.
Nathan Straus has given to the
Bezall School at Jerusalem $4,000 to
promote the teaching of trades.
The plant of the Canton Iron and
Steel Company, at Baltimore, was de-
stroyed by fire at loss OIL 100000.
Mrs. Emma Robinson, of Vintage,
Pa, was held for trial on the charge
of using cancelled postage stamps.
President Wilson attended the ball
game between the Boston and Wash.
ington American League clubs.
John w. Fletcher, palmist, known
in New York, killed himself with
poison when arrested In Boston on a
serious charge.
Henry Clay Pierce testified in st.
Louis that he had been the victim of
misplaced confidence to the extent of
nearly 100000.
A bill providing free admission of
all exhibits imported for the Panama
Fair, was introduced in the House by
Representative Kentner, of California.
Loans by the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad to President Mel
len totaled $14,O0O,OOO, according to
testimony given in Boston,
The Honor Legion of the Police De-
partment of New York City will be
| presented with the stand Of colors
given by Vincent Astor on May 8.
DrociJnnt onnannnod bo will
be unable to attend the congress of
Governors at Colorado Springs on Au-
gust &C.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad will
build a double-track tunnel through
Rogers Pass, British Columbia, at a
cost of sS,OO0,000
The marine barracks at Sitka,
Alaska, have been abandoned by the
Navy Department, and will be used as
home for INDECENT prospectors.
More than $4,000 Pittsburgh school
children marched through the streets
refusing to attend school until Super
intendent S. L. Heeter was removed.
The Duchess of Marlborough has
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as home for working women and
girls.
arson squads" of suffragettes
burned a boat house at Birmingham
England, and tried to set fire to the
parish church at Minster-in-Thanet.
DR.. w. E. Fernald, superintendent Of
the Waverly, Mass, State Hospital fol
| the Feeble Minded, states that fifty
per cent Of the men and women sent
to prisons are feeble minded.
"Jack" Johnson, the negro pugilist
was fined $1,000 and compelled to for
felt diamond necklace valued at 81,
900 in Chicago for smuggling the neck
lace into this country.
Two persons were killed, two others
perhaps fatally injured and two more
cut and bruised by an explosion O
dynamite which destroyed the home
of Michael Petron near Uniontown
Pa The dead are Michael Petron, 8;
years old, and Joseph Petron. 28
Observation-Disclosures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS!