The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-16
NEWS SUMMARY:
Eastern and Middle States

WOMEN have Ibeen refused admittance as
students to Columbia college, New York.
MUNICIPAL elections have been held
throughout Maine. In Portland John w.
Deering (Democrat) was elected mayor by
IVA majority over Libbey .(Republican), the
present incumbent At Bath there were
three tickets in the field and no choice was
made for mayor. Lewiston elected DR.. Gar
celon (Democrat) by 219 majority. In Au-
burn George A. Woodman (Republican) was
elected mayor by 10 majority. Rockland
elected George Gregory (Democrat) mayor
by 30plurality. The Republicans in Saco re-
elected Mayor Owen by 1893 majority. Al
Gardiner Perkins (Republican) was elected
without opposition.
CAPTAIN MACKENZIE, of New York, the chess
champion of this country, will contest in the
international chess tournament to take place
next month in London.
HE secretary of the interior, the commits
sioner of Indian affairs, Senator'S Hawley
and Logan and others have been on a visit
OF inspection to the Indian school at Carlisle,
Penn.
SPRING charter elections have taken place
In various cities and towns of the New Eng
land and Middle States. At Utica, Ithaca, and
Newburg, N. Y, the Democrats elected a
majority of their candidates, and at Oswe-
go, N. T., Republican mayor and Demo-
cratic council were chosen. Burlington, VT.
elected Republican mayor. DIR. Garvin,
leader of the equal rights movement in
Rhode Island, has been elected to the State
Legislature over his Republican competitor
GOVERNOR CLEvELAND's veto of the bill re-
ducing the fare on the New York city elevated
railroads was sustained in the assembly by
sixty-six to fifty-fve votes
URIAH MoYER was hanged at Middleburg.
Penn, for the murder of John Kintzler and
wife in December, 1877. The condemned
man confessed his guilt on the gallows. His
brother, Jonathan, was hanged in March
1882, for participating in the crime, and a
man named Ettinger, also convicted as a
participant, died in Jail in 1881.
The Cambridge" one of the large
apartment houses or fashionable flats now
80 numerous in New York city, was almost
entire'y destroyed by fire, and two of the
inmates-Mrs. Mary H. Wakeman, ifty-six
years of age, and her daughter Rosa, twenty
one years old, wife and daughter of the ex-
surveyor of the port-lost their lives. The
loss on building and to the ten families
occupying the flats is about $4,000.
The seventeenth body cremated in the
Washington Penn. furnace is that of Henry
Seybert, wealthy resident of Philadelphia
Mr.. Seybert was born in 1901, was without
relatives, and his vast estate, amounting to
over S1,20O,OOO, has been left to
charitable and educational institutions.
The total number of requests is seventy
nine, amounting to 81 ,246, 900, the largest of
which is $120, 200 to the University of Penn
sylvania for the endowment of chair of
mental and moral philosophy, and the en-
dowment of ward for chronic diseases. In
1876 Mr.. Seybert presented Philadelphia with
an elegant clock and bell, which were erected
in the steeple of Independence hall at cost
of $4,000.
A SUDDEN caving in of an old mine at
Mt. Carmel, Penn, endangered twenty
houses, the public road and railroad depot.
There was only thin shell of frozen earth
left between the houses and the mine. Some
of the houses had to be pulled down and car
ried away.
MICHAEL McGLoIN, a young man under
twenty-one, and Pasquale Malone, an Ital-
ian, were hanged in the New York Tombs.
McGloin murdered a French saloon keeper
whose place he was robbing, and Malone
killed his wife and mother-in-law in fit of
jealousy.
WHILE four men were at work in quarry
near Pittsburg, Penn, an explosion of a can
OF dynamite, which one of them was trying
to thaw out, instantly killed one man and
fatally injured two others.
THE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing interests
have suffered to the extent of over $125,O0o
on account of the scare caused by the pre-
dicted great storm of Virgins, the Canadian
weather prophet. Many vessels could not
get crews and were forced to lay over trip.
A CARRIAGE containing four men was run
into by train near Somerville, N. j., and
two of the occupants-ex- Sheriff Peter A.
Voorhees, and Abraham Voorhees-were in
stantly killed. the third man had his collar
bone broken and received internal injuries,
and the fourth, after being thrown thirty feet
in the air escaped with ali pht bruses