The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle states.

Eastern and Middle states
A FIRE distillery near Belle Vernon,
Penn, destroyed the building with $4,000
| gallons of whisky.
The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner,
James A. Garfield, arrived home minus six of
her crew, who had been lost while visiting
| their travis.
New York city Germans have contributed
100000 marks (about $25,O00) for the relief
Of the inundated people of Germany.
A GREAT ice bridge has formed at niagara
tails The ice formed in the gorge imme-
diatey below the falls, and the mass is two
miles long and fifty feet high.
DIR. GEORGE M. BEARD, prominent New
York physician and frequent contributor to
leading magazines-his subjects mainly be-
ing nervous diseases and kindred topics
died few days since, aged forty-four years.
BILL has been introduced in tie Con-
necticut Legislature requiring citizens to re-
move their hats when voting.
THIRTY-sEyEs students of the Pennsylva-
mia Military academy at Chester, Penn, who
attended theatrical performance against
orders, were suspended and commanded to
GO to their homes.
W1LKEsBARBE, Penn, has been badly
scared by the caving in of a disused mine
under the second ward. The entire extent
of the break comprised a space of nearly
forty acres, most of which is covered
with dwellings and other buildings. Large
assures appeared in every direction, under
mining the houses, and for a time the widest
excitement prevailed. The foundations of
hundreds of dwellings were torn apart by
wide seams balconies removed from their
bearings, ceilings destroyed, chimneys
careened, sidewalks thrown over as though
by an explosion, and many small bridges
wrecked. Most of the families endangered
removed hastily to safer quarters. The dam
age to the property of private individuals,
many of them poor miners, is heavy.
PROFESSOR SAMUEL S. GREENE, professor
of mathematics in Brown university, Provi-
dence, r. l., is dead.
The vote by which John R. Mcpherson
was reelected to the United States Senate in
Joint meeting of the New Jersey legislature
was: Mcpherson, - Hobart, Sc; Lud-
low, 9.
AT the grand Ensiage congress of the
United States, held in New York, about lis
persons, representing various States, were
present The preservation of crops by press
ure was discussed and the ensilaRe system
Endorsed.
A PH1LADILPHIA election inspector who had
wager on the result of the last election was
sentenced to lose his right to vote for four
years, pay $50 fine and be imprisoned three
days.
The National Association for the Protec-
ton of the Insane and the Prevention of In
sanity held their annual meeting in Phla-
dolphia.
AT the Washington penn crematory the
body of the three-year- son of the late
DR.. S. Hawn was reduced to ashes. The
child's father was cremated in this furnace
in March, 1880 This has been the first case
of child being cremated in America. Six
teen bodies have been incinerated thus far
at Washington.
HUNTERS on Chesapeake bay who kill
ducks at night with cannon are being
raided.
Hon. LEWIS SELYE ex-member of Con
gress from the Rochester On. W district,
slipped on the ice receiving injuries which
resulted in death.
DURING 1882 there were 2001 fires, result
ing in a total loss of 81, 1911 800, in New York
city.
THIRTY TWO persons were arrested for dis
turbing meeting of the Salvation army in
Allegheny City Penn