The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25

army, died the other day i'll Tuscaloosa, Ala,
aged sixty-five years.
NORTHERN Ohio, Southern Illinois, In
dianapolis, Ind, and portions of Virginia
have been visited by severe wind and hail
storms. Several persons were injured in
| OHIO, and in Virginia crops of fruit and
early vegetables we're greatly damaged.
Tn international convention of the
Young Mems Christian association for the
United States and the British provinces
openedin Milwaukee with 500 delegates in
attendance. G.. L.. Colby, of Milwaukee, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
THE trial of Congressman Phil. b. Thomp-
son at Harrodsburg, KY, for the murder of
Waller III. Davis, a prominent merchant,
ended in a verdict of not guilty by the jury.
Thompson charged Davis with having led
his wife astray. TIL counsel of Thompson
on the trial were Senator VOORHEES,, of Indi-
ana, and Congressman Blackburn. When
the verdict was rendered the spectators in
the crowded courtroom burst into deafening
cheers and overwhelmed the accused with
congratulations.
TN secretary of the Kansas State board
of agriculture reports that the farmers of
that State hold over 100000 bushels of old
wheat and over 81, 900, COO bushels of old corn.
ABOUT 200 delegates were present at the
thirty-first biennial convention of the gen
eral synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
church of the United States, held in Spring
field, Ohio.
FoE beating his wife to death with a leather
.X.u.. un-.... Wall, ra, on,Naopa1 ot IhI-
cago to thirty-ive years imprisonment.
GENERAL JOSIAH GoRGAs, a native of Penn
| sylvania and an officer in the Confederate
army, died the other day in Tuscaloosa, Ala,
| aged sixty-ive years.
NORTHERN Ohio, Southern Illinois, In
dianapoiis, Ind, and portions of Virginia
have been visited by severe wind and hail
storms. Several persons were injured in
Ohio, and in Virginia crops of fruit and
early vegetables were greatly damaged.
WHILE Mr.. Charles R. White. sixty years
old, was visiting near Leicester, Nd, at the
house of his friend, Charles E. Hanson,
thirty-two years of age, he was fred upon
by the latter, who had been concealed be-
hind some bushes, and killed. After shoot
lIlH I'LL W ttl thiloD lCll uDOIii iC vi %
and hacked the throat with a knife. The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict that Han
son was insane. Both belong to old Mary
land families, are of the highest social posi-
ton, and the affair caused great excitement
in Baltimore, where both are known.
HENRY FLEMING was hanged at Pitts
borough, Miss, for the murder of w. Gard
nor in nracpnpa of n croyxd Numbering nhOut
one thousand persons. The condemned man
was cool and self-possessed and made no
confession. When on the scaffold, and be-
fore his hands were %pinioned, Fleming at
tempted to kill himself with a pocket knife,
and succeeded in cutting his throat in a
horrible manner. The wound was not fatal,
however, and as soon as a bandage was
hurriedly placed over it the moose was ad-
justed and the hanging finished.
A ToRNAD which struck Racine, Wis, as
a bout Z p. NJ, passed through a part of the
city thickly populated by working people
and resulted in q terrible destruction of life
and property. From fifteen t. twenty-five
persons were killed or fatally injured, many
more were badly hurt, and about 100 buildings
were destroyed. What was probably tho
same tornado also struck Springfield, ILL.,,
and vicinity, causing some loss of life and
doing much damage to property. At Har-
ward, III a number of houses were com
pletely demolished and several people killed.
Destructive tornadoes also occurred at about
the same time l.. -,ebraska and Texas, houses
in many cases being moved from their foun-
dations. At Valparaiso, Neb., two school
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destroyed and three persons fatally injured,
and at Denison, Texas, a Baptist church and
other buildings were blown down and sew
eral persons hurt.
JERRY Dunn was acquitted at Chicago Of
the murder of Elliott, the New York pugilist.
There had been bad blood between the two
men, and it eliminated IN Dunn's shooting
Elliott in a Chicago restaurant.
THOUSANDS of persons witnessed the hang
ing of John C. Jones, a colored wife-mur-
derer, at Lexington, Ca, the gallows having
been erected in a valley a mile from town,
where it could be seen from all sides. Way
cross, Ca, was also the scene of an execution
of a colored man on the same day, the
criminals name being Henry Knight, and
his victim being Edward Hunter, a fellow
member of a brass band. Hunter was the
bands instructor, and seeking to collect his
fee from Knight, the latter became incensed
and shot him dead.
DEADwooD, Dakota, and the surrounding
country have been visited by a most disas-
trous flood. Melting SNOW from the noun
tains formed i~ivulets which soon increased
into raging torrents. Whitewood creek,
which runs through Deadwood, overlooked its
banks, and soon one-half of the city was
swept away. The nearby towns were also
badly damaged, and all the mines in the
vicinity of Deadwood had to shut down.
The Rapid City valley, more than forty miles
in length, all of which had already been
seeded, was entirely submerged. The
damage done in Deadwoo1 alone is
more than 100000, while the destruction of
property and crops in other places will swell
this amount into the millions.
GREAT excitement has followed the dis
,ovor- &c rich cold NINA in Tanwer Cali