Middletown transcript., 1874-10-24
General News.

At Milford, N. H. on Monday night.
six masked men entered the house Of
the cashier of the Soubcgan National
Bank. gagged him. and tied rope
around his neck, shut his wife, four
children and servant in closet. and
then dragged him to the bank and COM
PEELED him to open the vault. They
took from the vault about $4500 in
currency and about 800. 900 in secur-
tiles They then led the cashier back
to bis house. tied him to a bedpost.
and escaped. About four o'clock in
the morning the family forced open the
closet and gave the alarm. but too late
to discover any trace of the robbers
Part Of the stolen securities are register
ed Government bonds. W. A. Towne.
j. Flemen and G S. Averill. who had
securities deposited in the bank for
safe keeping. lose heavily. According
to Boston dispatch the robbery was
evidently planned beforehand The
cashier had been in the habit of leaving
the keys of the bank with the postmas-
ter Of the town, whose Office is quarter
of mile from the cashier's house.
This was done to guard against such a
scheme as that carried out by the rob-
bers The latter, however. knew Of
the disposition of the keys and forced
the cashier to 60 with them to the post
Office by threatening to kill his infant
child. They got into the post-of6ce by
cutting pane of glass with diamono.
and thus secured the keys before going
to the bank.
MARRIED IN MID-AIR.-Charles M.
Cotton. ticket agent Of Barnum's hippo
drome. was married to Miss Mary E.
Walsh, equestrienne, on Monday after
noon, during an ascension from Cincin
natti. in Donalson's balloon. Their at
tendants were Mr. W. G Coup. Bar
NUNS manager and Miss Anna Yates.
The officiating clergyman was the Rev.
H. B. Jeffries. Swedenborgian min
lister, Of Pittsburg The master Of cere-
monies was Mr.. D G.. Thomas. Bar
nuns press agent The party, consist
ing Of seven persons, all ascended from
the hippodrome. in the presence Of near
ly City thousand persons. The party
landed in about half an hour, utter
which the high contracting parties
drove to the Cincinnati Cathedral and
were remarked, to satisfy the bride.
by Rev Father Quinn. This Is the
first bona-ide marriage in mid-air ON
record.
Colonel Thomas B. Whitmore. chaile
man Of the Democratic Committee Of
Sumter county, Alabama, vas ar
rested on Saturday, just before the as
of Democratic meeting, the
charge against him being conspiracy to
injure detective named Hester. He
is to be taken to Mobile for trial. al
though there are two United States
in Sumter county -
Hester has also had sheriff Dosse of
fifty men arrested in the same county
For quelling colored riot. land ar
rests are still being made" So says a
Montgomery despatch to the Associated
Press.
A Tricycle. Society has been formed
% England. and ladies are especially
invited to become members. There is no
ndelicacy. say the promoters, in lady
,sing one. One gentleman and his
wife did" North Wales last summer,
lie taking the luggage and she the baby,
ind their pace was from eight to ten
niles an hour.
A despatch from Cincinnati, dated
be 10th inst. says: "A very success
ul ascension was made here this after
loon. by Professor Donaldson, who was
accompanied by bridal party Of six
,ersons At the height of about mile
bove the city the marriage ceremony
vas performed. The balloon landed
afely about three miles from the place
f ascen9ien.
A train, containing battalion of the
thirteenth Infantry, was wrecked near
Oyer. Tenn. on Thursday night Of
ast week by the breaking Of wh eel of
be engine truck. The engine. four
aggage cars and a passenger car were
emolished Two soldiers were killed
md several injured.
The horses attached to a stage which
arries employees from the piano factory
o the ferry, at Astoria, New York.
ook fright on Thursday evening week.
nd plugged into the East river There
ere four men in the stage. who, with
,e horses, were drowned.
At recent meeting Of representa-
ives of the leading western railroads.
! was resolved to adopt the European
Ian of charging extra for all baggage
{ m ore than one hundred pounds to
'ach passenger.
The National Local Preachers Asso-
iation of the Methodist Episcopal
hnrch began Its seventeenth annual
at Baltimore, on Saturday. |
bout 13O delegates were present at
,e opening Of the session. Among |
IL States represented are Pennsyl- |
ania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Undertook has written a long, ram
ling letter, addressed ITO the World"
,sertiug that he is innocent of the
urder for which he has been sentenced |
} be hanged.
LITTLE Delaware is composed of but
,ree counties. Kent, Sussex and New
astle. The election on Tuesday last
as for the choice of election officers,
nd the retusns show that n all three
ounties the Democratic ticket was vic
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