The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

injured two others.
ALBERT BEA1, of Pickett & Beal, spice
dealers of Boston, shot and killed his part
ner, A. Perley Pickett, on the Fall River
steamer Bristol from New York. The two
men occupied a stateroom together, and
about 1:30 A. NJ. Pickett arose from his berth
and went to the window. Beal was awakened
by the rafting of the blinds, and thinking
that some one was tring to enter the room
he drew a revolver and fired a bullet which
entered Fickett's forehead and caused his
death.
ADvIcEs from Pittsburg, Penn, state that
5000 railroad coal miners struck against a
contemplated reduction in the price of
mining. The general opinion is that the
strike will be long and bitter.
The Vermont NJ. Z. Conference has 3D.
b53 members, "a local preacl ers, 172
churches, valued at S674, 95s; 1877 parsonages,
valued at S1CS, $50, and an irdebtness of 49,
SOL.
MORE than 12,CCO people, including
General Grant, witnessed the first game of
baseball played in New York between the
New York and Boston clubs, the former
being successful by a score of seven TO five.
The st. Adams iron and steel mills, at st.
Adams, VT, have gone into bankruptcy, with
liabilities of over 100000.
The New York board of health stopped
the sale of several thousand packages of
adulterated tea.
SHERIDAN AND WALSH, two of the men in
dicted by the Dublin grand jury for murder,
stated in an interview in New York that
they would be found ready to answer the
charges against them whenever a warrant
was issued.
JOSEPH BoRK, from 1872 to 1876, city
treasurer of Buffalo, N. Y, has been sem
fenced to five years imprisonment at hard
labor for mi~sappropriating nearly 100000,
about one-half of which he restored to the
city.
FRANCIS MALLoN, a New York policeman,
was shot and instantly killed by discharged
lunatic, whom he told to "move on"
JOSHUA CLIFFORD, ~seventy-seven years old,
was sentenced to be hanged June % at
Oswego, N. Y, for the murder of his wife.
WHEN the New York legislature adjourned
n number of important Offices were left
vacant, the governors nominees having
been rejected by the senate.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT has resigned the
presidency of the New York Central and
Hudson River, the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, and the Michigan Central rail
roads, the roads with which the interests of
the Vanderbilt family have for years been
identified. Mr.. Vanderbilt remains a di-
ractor and his soma xuara aIapta1 pbnirp1an
of the board of directors of the three COM
panies.
OFFICERS of the postofice department say
with regard to proceedings recently taken to
close the private postal companies in New
York city, that the prosecution of this unlaw-
full business not only results in a loss of large
revenue, but materially and in many ways
interferes with the proper conduct of the
United States postal business, and brings I'M
deserved discredit upon the United States
postal administration Investigation shows
that in many cases lu 'iness men
in New York have given letters, ETC., to sub
ordinates to mail with money to pay post
age at government rates, and that such sub
ord n ltes have given them TO one of the
private postal companies, which would de-
liver them more cheaply than the govern
ment, and have pocketed the difference be-
tween private and government rates. Many
of these letters have been lost or delayed.
and the writers, attributing such loss or
delay to the United States postal authorities,
have made complaint of bad service to the
department. During the recent raid on
these private companies many thousands of
letters, circulars, etc., were seized.
PROFESSOR HENRY E. PARKER, of Dart
mouth college. had his skull fractured by a
falling chimney while assisting to extinguish
a fire at Hanover, N. H.
A sIx-DAY contest in Boston, between a
man riding horses and two men on bicycles
resulted in favor of the horseman, who COW
cred 921 miles against 500 miles for the
bicyclists.
SIX buildings in the business portion of
Tarport, Penn, were destroyed by fire.
George O'Neill, sleeping in a saloon where
the flames started, was burned to death. At
Kingston, N. Y, OF the same day, seven
frame buildings succumbed to the flames
and two children-Rosa and David Cohen,
twelve and five years old respectively-lost
their lives.
The ocean steamer Alaska, on her last voy-
age from Queenstown, Ireland, to New York,
made the trip in six days, twenty hours and
forty-fye minutes, the fastest time ON record.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY, the we'll
known revivalists, have returned home after
an absence abroad of eighteen months, dur
ing which they held many meetings in Eng
land and Paris. In the latter place Mr..
Moody's sermons were translated to the
large audiences by an interpreter, and both
English inc French hymns were sung. Their
purpose in coming home is to take a rest,
and they will return to England in October
for a last campaign in London.