The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern II Middle states.
TIE arrival of twenty-five almost destitute
emigrant girls at Saratoga, N. Y, from
New York city, expecting at once to fill
places as hotel servants, for which they had
paid Il fee, disclosed the fact that they had
been made the dupes of swindlers in the
metropolis.
PRINCE DUEL, who died the other day at
Greenfield, N. Y, lived in one house over
eighty-seven years.
The house bill to establish the contract
system in prisons, and n bill prohibiting
political assessments, have been passed by
the Pennsylvania senate.
A NEGREs died the other day in New York
at the alleged age of ia years.
The jury in the inquest held on the bodies
of the twelve victims of the East River
bridge panic rendered a verdict censuring
the bridge officers for not having the ap-
proaches properly guarded.
The father of the late James Fisk, Jr.,
dice a few days since in B~rattleboro, Vt.
MASS meetings of Irish societies were held
the other evening at Philadelphia. Boston,
Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Chicago, New
Orleans and other cities. The action of the
Philadelphia Convention was ratified, and
steps were taken to organize the branches of
the new Irish national league.
Two petroleum tanks-each containing
35,OO0 barrels of oil-were struck by light
ming near Titusville, Penn, and destroyed.
MANY people have been overcome in New
York by the severe heat, and a number of
deaths are reported.
WILLIAM COLLINS, fifty years old, while
drunk, went to his home near Chester, Penn,
and trampled his wife to death,
SIXTY Jersey cattle, sold at auction in New
York, brought an average price of S5o5.66'
The imported bull Rayon Dor brought
$3.50, and the imported COW Lady YER
tumnus, $1,000.
Four tenement houses on the mountain
top near Ashland, Penn, were struck by
lightning during a thunderstorm and totally
demolished. A woman was killed and four
mel. injured with probably fatal effect.
BARTHOLOMEW NEALoN, who murdered his
wife Sarah, in Boston, by cutting her throat
from ear to ear, and then cut his own throat
with a pocketknife, died a week afterward
from his ~self-inflicted wound.
The body of William Stevens, a veteran
oarsman of considerable repute, was found
floating in the Hudson at ~Poughkeepsie, N
Y. He had been missing since last Decem-
Der.
Or. ELIrHALET CLARK, the Oldest homeo-
pathic physician in Maine, and founder
with DR.. Gray, of New York, of the American
institute of homeopathy, died a few days
ago at Deering, aged eighty-two years.
THE buzzing of an insect frightened a lit
tie girl in one of the New York schools, and
her screams were followed by a panic among
the children which might have resulted in
another catastrophe similar to that on the
East River bridge. Many of the
children ran for the doors, parents and
relatives of the scholars came rushing to the
front, demanding admittance, and for a
time great excitement prevailed. Happily
however, the prompt arrival of many police.
men and firemen, and the GOODNESS of the
teachers, prevented what might have been a
frightful disaster.
LIGHTNING destroyed three OF the mills be
longing to the large powder works near New
burg, n. Y. Other buildings were partly de-
molished and one employe was killed.