The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-29
South and West.


DURING heavy rainstorrn in Kansas,
Thomas Walkers and his family attempted
to leave their home, near Bakers Ford, and
to take Mr.. Boranes wife and children along.
There were eight in the wagon, which was
caught in the current at Turkey Creek and
upset. Seven of the party were drowned
Mrs. Borane alone escaping.
CHESTER II. KRUM, the prominent St.
Louis lawyer whose sudden disappearance
and alleged defalcation created great ex-
element, returned to the city and made a
general denial of the accusations agains
him.
GREAT damage has been done by heavy
rains, followed by floods, in portions of Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Michigan. Nearly all
railroad traffic in some places had to be
abandoned, and many bridges and some
houses were swept away.
ARCHBISHOP BLANCHET, a Catholic miss
ionary in Oregon for over fifty years, is
dead.
EXCITEMENT in Chicago over the failure of
the lard ring had hardly abated when there
was almost a panic in the wheat market,
caused by the failure of M. S. Nichols e. Co.,
city. July wheat, which recently command
ed $1.lS, dropped to $L1114. Nichols d
Co.'s losses are put at 100000.
FURTHER failures of lard and grain deal
ers in Chicago have occurred, and CONNER
cial circles there have been we'll shaken.
A MONUMENT to tho Confederate dead,
erected by the women of Kersaw county, S.
c., was unveiled at Camden in presence of
5000 persons, including Governor Thomp-
son and Senators Butler and Hampton, the
latter being the orator of the day.
By decree of Chicago court Mrs. Frances
Maria Scoville, sister of Charles j. Guiteau
and the divorced wife of George Scoville,
the assasin's counsel, has been permitted to
change her name to Frances Maria Howe.
Z. L. STEWART, an aeronaut, made an as
cension at Fayette, Mo. When at the height
of about 1000 feet the balloon burst, and
Stewart plunged down the fearful distance
with terrific force into a creek and wa
killed.
The eighth annual convention of the
American Association of Nurserymen, Flo
rists and Seedsmen was held this year at st
Louis, about $50 delegates from various
States attending.
AN explosion of the boiler attached to n
steam threshing machine near Greenville,
s. c., injured seven colored men, three or
four with fatal effect
AT the Ohio Democratic State convention
in Columbus, Judge Hoadly, of Cincinnati,
was nominated for governor.
A TORNADO ravaged the country near
Chillicothe, Mo-, sweeping away about thirty
farmhouses, killing two men and iniuring
twenty or twenty-five others.
The Washington Light Infantry, of
Charleston, s. c., and the Continental
Guards, of New Orleans, were the recipients
of much attention during their visit to
Hartford, New Haven and other Eastern
cities.
Two colored men who had been arrested
at Veto, Ala, for supposed implication in
the murder of young man, were taken
from the Jail by a crowd, and after confess
ing the crime were hanged.
LEWIS CARTER, negro wife-murderer, was
hanged at Franklin, Va.
AT the Pullman (Ill.) regatta the three
mile race for professional oarsmen was won
by Hanlan.
THIRrY-FIyE tons Of molten iron were
scattered in every direction by a terrible ex-
plosion in blast furnace at Chicago. Two
men were fatally burned, and fifteen others
injured in lesser degree of severity.