The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15

NUNS main tent, dresses and pharapher-
MALTA, causing u loss of about $4,000. The
canvas destroyed covered six acres of ground,
and is claimed to have been the largest tent
in the world.
MORE than LOCO doctors attended the
thirty-fourth annual meeting of the American
Medical association, held this year in Cleve-
land, Ohio.
FOLLOWING is the ticket chosen by the Ohio
Republican State convention at Columbus:
For governor, J. B. Foraker, of Cincinnati;
Acknowledgements, William G. Rose, of
Cleveland; judges of the supreme court, w.
H. Epson and John H. Doyle; clerk of the
supreme court, Dwight Crowell; attorney
general, U. B. Earnhart; auditor, John f.
Oglevey; treasurer, John g. Brown; commits
sioner of common schools, ID. F.. De Wolfe;
member of board of public works, Leo Weltz.
The platform adopted favors a tariff
for revenue and the protection of American
labor. the formation of a bureau of labor
statistics, the submission of the temperance
question to the people of the State in the
form of constitutional amendments, taxa
ton of the liquor traffic, the abolition of
contract labor in prisons, reform in the civil
service and a repeal of the law limiting the
time within which applications may be made
for pensions.
THE Barber boys, Western desperadoes of
the regulation pattern, were captured near
Tripoli, Iowa, after q desperate resistance,
during which they killed one man and
wounded four others, one MORALLY.
An fha Tou-o Dor,oorot;o convention ha1A
in Des Moines the following ticket was
nominated: Judge L. G.. Kline for gov
ernor Justus Clark for acknowledgements
and Edgar B. Farr for superintendent Of
public instruction. The platform adopted
favors the extension of the civil service laws
to every department of the government; ar.
raigns the last Congress for its extravaganza
and demands economy; indorses a tariff for
revenue only, and a gradual reduction of pro-
t%ective duties; d%enounces the tariff legislation
of the last Congress as "the result of cor
rupt and disgraceful intrigues and shameless
attempts to perpetuate existing evils under
p~retense of tariff reform !" favors a we'll
regulated license law with the penalty of for
fixture of the license for its violation; afirms
the right of Legislative regulation of rail
ways, demands that the government protect
its citizens from Imprisonment by any
foreign government without charge or right
of trial, and cordially sympathizes with the
oppressed of all nations struggling for their
constitutional rights and liberties.
CHARLES G. FULTON, editor and proprietor
of the Baltimore daily american, is dead in
his sixty-eighth year. Mr.. Fulton was a
delegate to every national Republican con-
vention with one exception since 1864.
WHILE two Mexican horse thieves were
being conveyed from Gonzales to San Diego,
Texas, twenty-five men overpowered the Off
Gals and lynched the prisoners.
In an interview Brigham Young declares
that the Mormons will obtain 10000 con-
verts from America and Europe this year.
Two successive attempts were made to
burn Silverton, Col, with the evident object
of creating a stampede of the citizens to the
limits of the town and then rob the First Ma
tional bank. Nearly 100 indictments have
been found by the grand jury against gam
blers and Others connected with these incen-
diary plots. The city was patrolled at night
by bodies Of armed men.
A POWDER company's magazine. contain
ihS i,'OO pOuiNo VI pOWNCls Woo bbluCh "
lightning at Hutchinson, Kansas, and the
explosion which followed broke nearly every
glass front in the city and wrenched several
buildings from their foundations. An ex-
plosion in a powder company's works near
San Pablo, Cal, on the same day, killed two
Cinnamon.
HENRY AND WILLIAM TEMPLE and Auguste
Kaike upset q skif on the Missouri river,
near Glasgow, Mo-, and we're drowned.
OHIo's wheat crop this year will probably
be 20,250,0G0 bushels, against 45, 100000
bushels in 1882.
ELBERr NJ. STEPHENSON was hanged at
LawrenCeville, Ga, in presence of SEQ peo-
pie, for numbering his aunt.
LARGE crowd of men proceeded at night
to the Jail at Waverly, Iowa, attacked the
place with crowbars, picks and all kinds of
weapons, finally e~ffecting an entrance, tcok
out the two Barber brothers and hanged the
desperadoes to a tree.
A HIGH license liquor bill has passed the
Illinois house, and is deemed certain to go
through the senate.
LAWRENCE L. MCKINNEY, treasurer of Mon
roe county, Ind, has been found to be 3d.
900 short in his accounts, of which amount
his bondsmen have to make good $1,000.
Mckinney speculated in stocks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Bryant celebrated
their golden wedding at their home in
Princeton, Iii. About S0J guests we're pres
ent from Illinois and other States. Mr.. Bry-
ant is a brother of the poet, William Cullen
Bryant.
From Washington.