The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-11
Six PERSONS were killed by IN accident in

Six persons were killed by an accident in
a Nova Scotia mine.
yellow FEVER is raging in Rio Janeiro,
Braz ]. Ninety deaths occurred in enc week.
Two hundred persons are said TO have fed
from county Armagh, Ireland, to escape
arrest.
THG German steamer Africa, Captain
Buchholtz, which left New York on March q
for Leith aud Hamburg, is considered to be
lest.
COLONEL HICKS, commander of the Egyp-
tan troops operating against the rebels
under the False Prophet, reports having had
an engagement with 5000 of the enemy.
The battle, which lasted half an hour, re-
suited in the defeat of the rebels, with 501
killed, including the acknowledgement OF
Ell Mahdi, the False Prophet, and many
wounded. The Egyptian loss was slight.
The Dublin grand jury found true bills
of indictment for murder against Peter
lyman (the mysterious Number One"),
John Walsh and p. j. Sheridan, and against
Fitzharris as an accessory. Messrs. Wash
and Sheridan are in America, and Mr.. lyman
is supposed to be there. 1t was understood
that if the bills were returned against them
the British government would demand their
extradition from America. The grand jury
also found true bills against Lawrence
Hanlon, James and Joseph Mullett and
Daniel Delaney on a charge of attempting
10 murder juror Dennis Field. They found
true bills for conspiracy to murder against
the two Mullets, Lawrence Hanlon, Edward
McCaffrey, Edward O'Brien, George Smith,
Peter Doyle, Thomas Doyle, William Moo
ney and Daniel Delaney.
The British house Of commons has again
refused to allow Mr.. Bradlaugh to take his
seat.
MIJNHEER REMoRG, n corn dealer of Ant
werp, Belgium, has failed for 100000. A
lady whose husband is ruined by the failure
committed suicide.
FIVE socialists have been sentenced in
Hamburg to terms of Imprisonment vary
ing from one to three months for circulating
pamphlets slandering Prince Bismarck.
AT the st. Vincent de Paul penitentiary,
Montreal, F. A. Leblanc, a highwayman, as.
sisted by four other c~onvicts whom he re-
leas | by means of skeleton keys, overpow-
cred their guard, tied him hand and foot and
gagged him. Leblanc then undressed the
keeper, donned his garments and took charge
of his revolver. A~tmidnight when two other
keepers commenced their rounds the five
desporadoes attacked them. Leblanc held
the revolver at the head of Convrette, one of
the keepers, and demanded his surrender.
The next instant a heavy paddock in the
hands of Gadbois, the second keeper, crashed
into the skull of Leblanc and he fell dead.
The Others were quickly overpowered and the
keepers found Rodgers, the keeper who had
been bound and gagged, just in time to save
him from death by strangulation. The in
tention of the convicts was to liberate all the
prisoners had they captured Convrette and
Gadbois.
REWARDS are offered in Russian regiment
10 induce the soldiers to denounce any of
their comrades who are known to be Nihilists.
The greater part of ~Koniginhof, Bohemia,
a city of 1000 inhabitants, has been burned
10 the ground.
AN entire family of white persons, with
two exceptions--a boy of fourteen years,
who secreted him self in a fo1r barrel, and a
girl of three years-was murdered recently
near the village of Palacios. CUBA. The
murders were committed with knives used
in cutting cane, by unknown parties.
TWELVE Apaches were killed and many
wounded in Il battle with Mexican troops.
Three of the troops were killed and five
wounded.
LATER details in relation to the burning o |
the steamer Grappler are given in a Victoria
British Columbia) dispatch, which puts
the number of lives lost at seventy-fve.
AN earthquake has visited the city of
Iabseez, Persia, destroying a great many
houses and killing a large number of people.
FOURTEEN hundred striking bakers in
Vienna attacked the Assembly rooms and
the building occupied by the employing
bakers association, breaking doors and
windows. They also threw up barbados in
the streets, to re sist the police, but were
finally dispersed.
AN accidental explosion in the government
powder magazine at Portsmouth, England,
instantly killed two persons, fatally injured
five more and completely demolished the
building.