The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-02
Foreign News.

AT fire in the village of Radford, Eng
land, five persons were burned to death.
The Yellow river, near the city of Wutung,
China, has burst its levees and flooded an
area of 10) square miles
MANY lives have been lost and much de-
sruction of property has been caused by
earthquake shocks on the island of Formosa.
MoR& than $4,000 have been received by
the pres. dent of the German reichstag from
American contributors in aid of the sufferers
by the floods.
TWENTY persons in Malaga Spain, have
been attacked by trichinosis-several with
fatal resuts-caused, it is alleged, by eating
American hams.
A FRTGHTFUL disaster occurred Mt the Dia-
mond coal mine near Bradwood, ILL., While
ooo men were in the various shafts the
ground suddenly sagged in under the weight
OF the water that had at once saturated a; d
loosened it. Sixty-two persons were in one
shaft which caught the bulk of the falling
debris, and which was instantly flooded.
Every one of them was either drowned or
smothered inside of five minutes. Their
bodies were buried beneath many tons of
earth. The scenes which followed the ace
dent are almost inde cribable. Men, women
and children were almost frantic with glief
over the disaster which robbed them of those
they held most dear. One man is reported
to have rushed into the mouth of the nine
to save his little son, and neither father nor
son returned
THE United States iron steamer Ashuelot,
attached to the Asiatic squadron, has been
lost. Eleven of he. crew were drowned.
A FIERCE attack was made in the British
house of commons by Mr.. Forster late
chief secretary for Ireland, upon Mr.. Par
nell, the land league leader, who was charged
with melting 10 murder and conniving at
outrages. Mr.. Parnel refused to reply az
the time, but Mr. O'Kelly, an Irish member,
several times accused Mr.. Forster of lying
and was suspended.
TURooMANs attacked the secretary of the
British embassy while travelling on the Tur-
conan steppes. Eleven of his escort were
killed and nine wounded.
| OK his way to the witness stand at the third
hearing of the men charged with conspiracy
TO murder government officials i'll Dublin,
Town Councillor Carey, the informer was
strIck at by Mullet, one of the prisoners,
and was Kissed by the spectators. In his
cross-examination he said that he belonged
to the Feniars but not to their supreme
council, and that he had no idea Lord Caven-
| dish was to be murdered when Mr. Burke
was attacked. Twenty-one of the prisoners
have been committed for trial TO answer a
charge of numbering Lord Frederick Caven-
dish and Mr.. Burke. These include all who
were under examination except Wneelan.
If Il e evidence already presented is &C
cepted on the coming trial by the jury all
the prisoners, the watchers, and all present
or participating in the assassination will be
sentenced to death; but if the Maamtrasna
precedent is allowed, in which those only
we've hanged who had directly hand in the
murder of the Joyce family, the principals
only in this case also will suffer death, and
the others will be sentenced to penal servi
tude for life. The principals are: Joseph
Mullett, who ordered the assassination as
president of the circle styled the Assassin
alton Clubs" James Carey, who gave the sig
nal with white handkerchief, but who has
turned informer, and Joseph Brady and
Timothy Kelly, who in this case, as in the
attempt to assassinate Juryrnan Field, APP
pear 10 have done the actual stabbing.