The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
Foreign News.


perished by the earthquake on the island OF
Ischia, near Naples. Most of the victims
are women and children. Only five houses
we're left standing in the town of Cassamic-
cola. All the hospitals in Naples we're
crowded with the injured, and the dead
houses we're filled with the bodies of VIC
tins. Cries could be heard from the ruins,
and large force of sappers was put to work
to rescue thoe who were still alive.
Eight hundred more troops went to the scene
of the disaster. Fifty wooden huts were
built Immediately for the accommodation of
the survivors. Professor Palmieri, director
of the meteorological observatory on Mount
Vesuvius, states that the disaster was notdue
to an earthquake but to the subsistence OF
the ground.
JAMES CAREY, the Irish informer in the
Phoenix park cases, was shot dead while
landing from steamer at Port Elizabeth,
South Africa. The murder was committed
by a fellow-passenger of Carey's named
O'Donnell, who was arrested. The English
government had taken special and expen-
sive measures to protect Carey. O'Don-
nell had logged Carey from London. The in
former was travelling under an assumed name
with his family. News of his shooting created
intense excitement in London and Dublin.
A large crowd gathered at night in front OF
James Carey's house, in Dublin, cheering
loudly because the informer had been killed.
Carey, it will be remembered, was member
of the Dublin municipal council and promi
nently connected with the Irish 1nvinci-
bles," secret society. After the assassina
ton of Lord Cavendish and Mr.. Burke Carey
turned informer, and it was mainly through
his testimony that five members of the en-
vincibles we're convicted and hanged for
the crime.
A WOMAN named Paquet and two children,
of Montreal, and two boatmen we're drowned
in the lower st. Lawrence by the capsizing
of the boat in which they we're attempting
to cross the river during a storm.
A NAPLES dispatch says that Mount Vesu-
vius is in state of eruption. Lava is de-
scending from the crater in the direction of
the town of Tore del Greco, at the south
west foot of the mountain. The inhabitants
of Tore del Greco are fleeing to places of
safety.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, directed
that the four hundredth birthday of Martin
Luther be observed by all Protestant schools.
GENERAL PRENDERGAsT, captain general
of Cuba, has resigned.
THERE were III deaths from cholera in
Cairo and twenty-one other places in Egyp
on Sunday.
O'DoNNELJ, the slayer of Carey, the Dublin
informer, is cleared to be tn American
citizen and a native of Ohio
xl.o4 Al L.
quake at Ischia some days before the great
upheaval, but that the fact was hushed up by
the authorities for f. ar that if report of il
was sent abr Dad visitors would cease visiting
the island.
CAREY's assassin will be taken from South
Africa to England for trial, the shooting
having occurred on the steamer just outside
of colonial jurisdiction. During the voyage
across ODonnell and his victim were OIL
very friendly terms, often playing cards to-
gether.
The total number of deaths by cholera il
Egypt up to the I'd was 1000. Twelve
English doctors have arrived in Cairo.
ANOTHER severe earthquake shock on the
island of Ischia compelled a suspension o.
the search for bodies among the ruins
man with four children, a man eighty years
old and two youths were taken out alive
fir, Ne the ruins week after the calamity.
Kir Ill m1ert visited the scene of the earth
quake and went over the ruins of the de
stroyed towns. The latest estimate puts the
number of deaths in the destroyed towns a
500.
INDICATIONS point to larger crops in Eu
rope this year than ha' prevailed in som,
time.
EXTENSIVE forest fires, owing to absenc,
of rain for two months, prevail in Victoria
A powder mill near Yale was ignited b.
sparks from a forest fire and blown up.
SIX pers ons were killed and several in
jured by an explosion in a powder mill a
Angoule me, France.
KING TUDUo, of AMMAN. is dead, and Phu
Gac has sue ceeded TO the throne.
, SEVEN Englishmen were killed by tn
earthquake on the island of Ischia.
THE trial of the ten Jews at Nyeregyhy aza
Hungary, who were charged with murderin
1 Esther Sylymosi, Christian girl, in tn
{ synagogue a. Tisza Essler, in order to Pre-
4 cure her blood 10 mix in lass over bread ha
2 been concluded. A verdic. of not guilt
was returned. The state was ordered to pa
4 tie costs of the trial The public prosecute
] announced that he was satisfied with tn
e The result of the case. Counsel for Esther
/. relatives will appeal. This trial was one @
D the most extraordinary of modern time,
f and excited great attention throughor
Europe. The evidence disclosed that tn
trial was the result of a conspiracy 10 eycit
Christian feeling against the Jews.