The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-20

ougs were used TO prevent the wHter lrolh
flowing into the city.
WHEN the body of a man buried two
years ago at Bedford, Ind, was disinterred
the other day for removal! to another grave
yard, it was found TO be rapidly petritying
and already weighed 700 pounds.
president ARTHUR has been visiting the
orange groves of Florida and enjoying camp
life there.
A CONSTRUCTION train struck a horse near
Beaver, Texas, and was wrecked. Conductor
Everett and four train hands were killed.
A HURRICANE has don't great damage to
property and caused some loss Of life beyond
the Ouachita river, in Arkansas. John
Neusch and wife were killed by fallen tim
Der, and another man was crushed to death
by his falling house. Many houses, with much
other property, were destroyed.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire has been rag
ing in the vicinity of Lincoln, Neb. Mrs.
Dalton, a farmers wife, was suffocated while
fighting the fire. Many other accidents are
reported. Barns, houses, granaries and
haystacks were licked up by the flames. 1t
is estimated that fifty square miles of terri
tOry have been burned over.
HENRY w. CoLDURN and Bernard Ashley.
keepers of a fog signal at Point New Year,
Cal, attempted to row ashore in n skiff with
two friends, Clayton A. and Frank Pratt. The
boa capsized and all were drowned. The
wives of the keepers were eyewitness of the
accident.
Two men were burned to death and nine
teen buildings, including a Lutheran church,
destroyed by a fire in Westminster, Md.
The fire resulted from a fight over a game of
cards between -four negroes in a stable.
During the fight a lantern was knocked over
and broken, the light setting fire to the hay.
All four were arrested.
A CAvE-IN at the Red Ridge mine near
Quinnesee, Mich, carried down the engine
house and buried eight men 100 feet. One
man was taken out fatally injured.
STILwELL II. RUSSELL, late United States
marshal for the western district of Texas,
has been sentenced to two years imprison-
ment for d%efrauding the government of
nearly $4,000.
AFTER numerous ballots for the nomina-
ton of a successor to Governor Stephens,
the Georgia Democratic state convention at
Atlanta found itself unable to agree, the
votes being about equally divided between
the two prominent candidates, Messrs.
Bacon and Boynton. A committee of
eighteen was then appointed, and it recon-
mended the nomination of Henry ID. NJ. G.
Daniels, who was thereupon nominated by
reclamation. The Republican State com
mittee decided not to name a candidate.
SITTING BULL, the renowned Indian chief,
has become a Catholic.
A CYCLONE passed over Milan, Ohio, killing
two men and badly damaging buildings anC
crops.
WILLIAM NJ. CROCKETT, in Jail at Wythe
vile, Va, for murder, was taken out by {
crowd and hanged to the beam of an old mil
near by.
The steamer Wylley, while on a trip from
Columbus, Ga, to Eufaula, Ala, struck {
bridge pier in the C~hattahoochie river and
went to pieces, leaving the passengers ant
crew struggling in the water. Twelve per
ons, ten of them colored, lost their lives.
CAIRO, ILL.,, has been shaken up by q heavy
earthquake shock.
oNiihD oIAIES oENATOR BAYARD, eX
Senator Lyman Tlumbull and other promi
nent Democrats spoke at the dinner givel
by the l%roquois club, of Chicago, in hono
of Thomas Jeferson's birthday.
CHARLES SMITH, a well-to-do farmer Twin!
near Carlville. Iowa, went to the barn anC
killed his two sons, aged nine and thirteer
years, with an ak; returning to the house N
killed his wife with the same weapon, AM
then attempted to murder his two daugh
tiers, but they escaped to a neighbours house
Smith then killed himself. No motive i
assigned for the mans terrible work.
AT Lake City, Col, the jury in the case {
Alfred G. Packer, charged with murderin.
five companions in 1872, returned a verde
of guilty. Packer was one of six composin.
a mining party, and he murdered all hi
companions and subsisted on their flesh.
JAMES L. ROBINSON was hanged at Car
~rollton, Miss, for the murder of w. II
Adair, with HhOm he had Quarreled and o.
the same day Robert Massey suffered a sim
liar punishment at Fort Smith, Ark, TO
numbering Edwin p. Clark, the motive i
his case Icing robbery.
TRAVEL in the Black Hills has been gel
orally impeded by a heavy snow storm.
coLoRED man imprisoned near Windsor
n. c., for an attempted assault on a youn
white girl was taken out of ;ail by a crow
and hanged to a tree.
SIXTEEN buildings. including two new
paper offices, were destroyed by fire q
Crisfeld, Md, causing an estimated tot
loss of 100000.
BIG trees swapping off like pipe-stem
houses blown away, several churches d.
stroyed, and a number of people killed an
others injured, sum up the record of a to
nado IN Arkansas. Hailstones fell as lars
as hens eggs.
THREE boarders in the Atlantic hotel
Abba, Iowa, lost their lives in the fam,
which destroyed that building.