The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-27
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

lot orato-, was refused permission to speak
at a meeting of the Central Labor Union in
New York, and thereupon he'd meeting
on his own account.
PENNsYLvANIA's tobacco crop is being at
tackled and seriously injured by the army
worm.
The Massachusetts, house of del egates
raised b II increasing the compensation
of the members from $500 to 500.
roILER in the Glens Falls IN. W paper
mill exploded with such force as to COM
pletely wreck the building and injure
ten persons, two of them with fatal result
Flames from the ruins set fire to other build
ings, causing loss of about 100000
UNDER the name of the North American
Saengerbund, the German singing societies
of the country have been holding, in Buffalo,
their twenty third annual saengerfest.
A CHILD with four legs, four arms and one
bead with two faces was born dead the other
day in New York.
In the Massachusetts senate the house
bill to increase the compensation of men,
bers of the legislature to 800 was defeated
by vote of 28 to 4.
A FREIGHT train ran over COW near
Shamokin, Penn, and was badly wrecked
twelve cars being thrown from the track.
William Thomas was killed, and James
Huffman, a brakeman, was seriously injured
The first arrest under the new anti Chinese
law has been made by United States mar
shall in Boston, where Captain Douglas, of
the English bark Erne, was taken into Gus
tody on the charge of having struggled into
the city Chinese carpenter who had been
on board his vessel.
President Soro, of Honduras and suite
arrived in New York few days since.
A HORSE standing in front of dwelling in
Syracuse, N. y, was stung by bee. The
horse ran into yard and upset several bee
hives. The bees swarmed upon him, and
etung him so that he died in few hours.
EMPLOYING cigarmakers in New York
locked out about 10000 of their employees on
account of differences which arose between
rival organizations of the workmen. One
organization insisted that number of
workmen belonging to the other organiza-
ton should be discharged, and the employ
ers thereupon closed fifteen shops.
EDWARD HANLAN, of Toronto, easily de
the four-mile boat race at Ogdensburg, n.
Y. The race was for $4,000, and Hanlan
rowed the four miles in p min
utes, 5715 seconds, leaving his competitor
far behind and making the best time on
record.
WoRKMEN while digging pit in Maulins,
N. Y, unearthed the bones of mastodon.
The animal must have been fourteen feet
high, a third larger than Jumbo.
JOSEPH STAEGMAER, Philadelphia saloon
keeper, shot and killed his wife Caroline and
then killed himself. Money matters are
supposed to have been the cause of the
double tragedy. Mrs. Staegmaer was the
widow of florist of Newark, N. j. stacy
maer who had been her husbands hired man,
married her several months ago
FLAMES broke out in Harbeck's stores, on
the water front of Brooklyn, and before they
could be subdued property worth half a
million dollars was destroyed, at least two
men lost their lives, and about eleven fire.
men we're injured by the fall of shed.
Three vessels loaded with combustible car
goes were among the property burned.
ONE of the most formidable strikes ever
inaugurated in this country was that ordered
by the Brotherhood of Photographers in the
United States and Canada. The organiza-
ton demanded shorter hours of work, the
same pay TO both sexes for equal work, and
an increase of fifteen per cent in wages. A
committee of telegraphers had made this de-
mand upon the president of the Western
Union telegraph company in New York, with
out success. Thereupon at noon about 400 op-
orators in the Western Union company, at a
signal gwen by one of their number, left
their positions and marched into the street.
The employees in other offices throughout
the United States and Canada also quit
work. The number reported on strike was
posted in many of the Offices that mes ages
would only be received subject to delay.
The strike extended to other telegraph com
panies beside the Western Union.
The curious suit of Edward Banks against
o. F. Gutenberg, to recover $3.50 for the loss
of some blood, has been decided in New
York. The defendant, a clerk for the West
ern Union telegraph company, was found
in his room at hotel on February II, par
eihiiy o'Phy AfueSd ~ escaping SdSs Ihtcc
physicians, who had been unabla
to restore him to conscious
ness, after a consultation agreed
that the only hope of saving the mans life
was by the process of TRANSMISSION of blood.
Banks, who is a colored servant in the hotel
offered his services. Eight ounces of blood
were taken from his right arm, and Oxen
berg's life was saved. Banks testified that
Gutenberg promised to pay him $40 for his
services. The judges decision was in favor
of Banks for $3.50, and $40 costs.
The Manchester steel and iron company
of Pittsburg, Penn, has made an as
signment, its liabilities being about S1,CO1,-
COO.
DENIS KEARNEY, the San Francisco sand
lot orator, presented his views on the labor
question before large audience in the
Cooper Institute, New York.
f. w. HoLBRooK g. Co., large New Yorl
wholesale dry goods house, have failed fci
$75O,0OQ, with assets of half that sum.