The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24

asleep and crushed their skulls with an al.
He then rified their pockets, obtaining about
$50, and escaped. Nixon sent his whole force
in pursuit, and Slagel was captured.
AT meeting of the Georgia State Agricul-
tural society in Atlanta President Hardiman
spoke in favor of diversified farming and
home manufacture of cotton goods
PRESIDENT ARTHUR caught some fine trout
and members of his party killed several ante
lopes and other game near the forks of Wind
River, Wyoming Territory.
REV. r. G. SEwELL, a Methodist minister
at Luling, Texas was shot and killed by Law
renee Denman. The dispatches announcing
the tragedy say: "The causes leading to the
shooting are of a domestic nature and can
only be published on the trial of the case. No
one blames Denman, and yet the Rev. Mr..
Sewell is regarded as the victim Of a conspir-
acy, as he asserted in an ante-mortem state
ment."
THE " straightout" Republicans of vir-
ginia, composed largely of colored men, held
a convention at Richmond and adopted a
platform favoring a strict adherence to re-
publican principles and a protective tariff
indorsing J. G. Blaine for President, and con-
demning Malone.
WHILE thirteen men were being hauled to
the surface at a mine near the town of Red
ruth, Cornwall, the rope attached to the car
in which they were standing broke. Twelve
of the men were precipitated to the bottom
of the shaft and instantly killed.
BAND of Apaches attacked small State
It'll. a. Al.
They were pursued pluckiy, having several
of their number killed, but being in strong
force the troops were compelled to retreat.
The Indians drove off large herds of cattle.
THE Farmers bank at Richmond, Ind, has
uspended.
As a stock train was passing through Pa
cifc City, Mo-, about forty miles west of st.
Louis, eight cars were derailed and thirty
head of cattle were so badly crippled that
they had to be shot
EIGHT men, arrested in Banks county, Ga,
for outrages upon colored people, have been
held in the United States court to answer
a charge of conspiracy
FIRE in the works of the United States
Rolling Stock company at Chicago, destroyed
property valued at between 100000 and
100000. The property burned included
sixty complete cars valued at $500 each.
OFFICIAL returns make Proctor Knott's ma
jority for governor of Kentucky about 49,,
600.
A. BURMANN has been nominated by the
Minnesota Democratic central committee as
candidate for governor in place of w. w.
Nair, declined. Mr. Burmann accepted.
THREE men were hanged the other day in
different States. At Little Rock, Ark, Demo
Casat was legally strangled for the murder of
George l.. Barnes. Casat's father had been
discharged from the railroad shops at Au-
gusta, and had committed suicide in conse-
quence. Demo thereafter lounged around the
shops, waiting for revenge, and one day
while drunk, shot and killed Barnes, the time
keeper. At Greenville, S. c., Ben Perry was
hanged for killing his neighbor, Perry Ander
son. At Scottsboro, Ala, Taylor Bangs suf-
fered like penalty for numbering Turner
Woods, at the instigation of his victims wife.
The two last named murderers and their vic
tins were all colored
REUBEN ROBERTSON, the second colored ac-
complete of Fulford, the white Georgia muir
derer, was killed by crowd in Miller county
Jail. Fulford and one colored accomplice,
Harry Bradley, had previously been lynched.