The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

NlClnlty Oh VOL borough, N. L., THIJleu
windows and or 1ckery.
NEAR Titusville, Penn, tank containing
$4,000 barrels of oil burst and was set on fire.
Two men. one woman and a child were
burned-two fatally.
Mrs. YOU'VE, n wealthy widow of Fall
River, Mass. has presented the city with
100000 10 be used for educational purposes
in memory of her son.
ACCORDING to the reports of the mine in
spectors there were 296 persons accidentally
killed and LOLA injured in and around the
mines in the anthracite coal region of Pom
sylvania during the pact year.
A MAN in New York has defed Indigestion
and proven himself the possessor of tough
stomach by eating two quails day for
thirty consecutive days. The gastronomic
feat was performed on large wager.
ALL but three ringleaders of the thirty
seven cadets suspended from the PennsyI
rania Military academy at Chester, for in
subordination, have been reinstated.
ROBERT j. SMITH, a carpenter, twenty-seve
years old, entered the Noyes house at
Lowell, Mass, where his wife was employed
rs domestic. Without word he shot the
woman dead and then put bullet through
his own brain. The couple had frequently
quarreled.
DURING the temporary absence OF the as
sistant postmaster of Brooklyn from his
Office man entered the room and walked
off with $1,000 lying on the officials desk.
HEAVY blast in colliery at Centerhill,
Penn, brought down portion of the mines
roof upon seven miners. burying them under
about ten tons of coal and rock. Two of
the miners were taken out Dead and the
other five we're fatally injured.
THE Cinnamon of New York and vicinity
celebrated the Chinese New Year, which be-
gins February I, by making calls and per-
forming peculiar ceremonies. The festivi-
ties continued for three days. In China the
New Year celebration is the greatest feast of
the year, and is often prolonged for
month.
ONa recent coroner's jury in New York,
called to investigate the killing of one pa
tient in the alcoholic ward of Bellevue hos
pitll by another, three ex-mayors, an ex-
Congressman and general served. General
Grant, Jay Gould, william II. Vanderbilt
and two eX-mayors were also called to serve,
but were excused.
WILLIAM L. DODGE one of New York s
best known merchants and philanthropists,
md a prominent temperance advocate, died
suddenly the other day in his seventy-eighth
year. Mr.. Dodge was prominently identified
with many leading business and charitable
enterprises, and left fortune variously esti-
mated at from $5,c0o,c0) to $10,OGO,OOO.
The census OF Providence, r. l., just
taken, shows total population of ,765.
PROFESSOR WIGGINs, the Canadian weather
prophet, predicted a terrific storm along the
Atlantic coast on the 9th but dispatches on
that day from all points showed that clear
weather was prevailing everywhere. On the
day after the terrific storm was to appear the
New York papers published facetious dis
patches from numerous parts of the country,
inquiring what had become of Virgins and
his cyclone.
A RING" for the extortion of money from
business men DESTROYS of being exempted
from serving on jures has been discovered
In the New York commissioner of jurors
office. The ring was composed of the deputy
commissioner of jurors, two clerks in the of
nee and an outsider, who acted as 60
between. The method employed was for
the go-between to notify persons enrolled
ON the jury list that by paying sums
of money, all the way from $40 to 500
they would be excused from jury duty for
year, from such persons ms were willing to
purchase years freedom from jury duty
the money would be collected by the 90
between and divided among the four con
spirators. In this way since 1877, when the
ring was formed, many thousands of dollars
have been nefariously collected. The -four
men were arrested and bailed for trial.
CATTLE train of forty-two cars was
wrecked near White Haven. Penn. Nine cars
killed.
FIRE at Rondo 1t, n. Y, destroyed the
Cornell Steamboat c)mpany's buildin :, an
ice-house ooltaiailg 2,0J0 tons of ice.
the steamer City of Catskill and other prop
ery, causing a total 10 of about $780,, 900.
Hon. MARSHALL JEWELL, G lirman of the
Republican National co nmittee, died at
Hartford, Conn, of bronchial pneumonia,
aged fifty eight years. Mr. Jewell WIS three
times governor of Constellation 1861
to 1872 andin 1873 was appointed minister
to Russia by &c, al Grant, id after
his return in 1874 G;ant made him postmas
ter-geI eral, which position he ID SEQ lily
resigned.