The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
Foreign News.

RENEWED earthquake shocks have been fell
at Murcia, Spain. Portions of Hungary
have also been well shaken.
MICHAEL KAvANAGH was added to the list
of men, eight in all, charged at Dublin with
the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr..
Burke.
CzAR ALEXANDER has issued a manifesto
giving notice that his coronation will take
| lace at Moscow on May 27.
PRINCE SERIOUS OvRoUssoFF. Russian
privy councillor, senator and secretary of
state, is dead.
The steamer Kenmure Castle, from Lon
don bound to Shanghai, has been lost in the
Bay of Biscay. The captain and first mate
and thirty of the crew, oil Asiatics were
drowned. The eight passengers and eight of
the crew were rescued By passing steamer.
JOHN G.. BUCHAN HEPBURN, son of Sir
Thomas Buchan-h epburn, Scottish bar
onet, was murdered by miners in Pines
Altos Mexico. Five of the murderers were
tried and sho. on the following day.
SCHOONER has been wrecked near Port
aferry, Ireland. and another near the Shet-
land Islpnds, Scotland In the first instance
five sailors lost their lives, and in the latter
the whole crew was drowned.
Mr.. MICHAEL DAvrrT, Mr.. T. NJ. Healy NJ.
p, and Mr.. Quinn, who were arrested some
time ago for making inflammatory speeches
and required by the court of queens bench
to give bail for good behavior or go to prison
for six months, were arrested in Dublin for
refusing to give bail and conveyed to Kill
mailman Jail.
A FIRE destroyed the Royal Opera-house in
Toronto; loss, $4,000.
The Spanish ministry has decided to treat
as freemen 10000 Cuban slaves whom the
plan ters hoped to keep in slavery by not Ell.
tering on the census as required by isv.
II is asserted that during this winter $50
bodies have been stolen from graveyards in
the vicinity of Montreal, one-half of which
were sent to medical schools in the United
States.
A STEAMER has been lost with all on board
off Harwich England.
LONDON dispatch says that by an accident
in the Severn Tunnel works four men were
instantly killed and several Others fatally
mangled.
LIME NAfOLEDS, recently arrested III
Paris for issuing manifesto to the French
people, has been released, the indictment
against him having been quashed.
THIRTEEN men-Joseph Brady, Timothy
Kelly, James Carey, the town councillor:
the carman, Fitzharris, alias "The Goat"
Lawrence -Hanlon. Joseph Mullett, James
Mullett, Edward O'Dren, William Maronev
Daniel Curley, Pagan, Thomas Doyle and
Daniel Delaney-wore placed in the prisoners
dock at the kilmainham court, Dublin
charged with conspiracy to murder Mr.
Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish, and
to attack Mr.. Field. A great commotion was
caused in the crowCel courtroom when
Michael kavanagh the driv of the car in
which the alleged Phoenix Park assassins
10 lie, having turned informer, was called
upon to testify. Kavanagh testified in effect
that on May 6, 1882, he drove four men,
Brady, Kelly and two stsangers-to Phoenix
Park; that Carey and Delaney were seated
in the park awaiting their arrival; that an
other cab driven by Fitzharris, and cor
tanning four men, soon arrived from another
direction, and the four men alighted that
soon after two gentlemen Lord Cavendish
nd Secretary Burke) approached, arm in
arm, that Carey and Delaney then joined the
group of waiting men, and that some ore
said, mind il is the tall man !" that as the
two gentlemen came along either Carey or
Delaney raisel a white handkerchief; that
he next heard one of the victims cry
"Oh.' that the tall victim Mr.. Burke) was
lying in the road after this exclamation. and
w af ri tk. ba. ,ot,,,
also lying in the road. Witness further
testified to his driving away from the scene
Of the mu dsr with four men, and that his
cab was again engaged by Brady on the
night of the attempt to kill Mr.. Field. He
also deposed that he had been initiated by
Kelly into the society started for the murder
of prominent men, and that he had been in
formed lot of big people belonged to the
society. Further evidence of confrmatory
character was given by other witnesses hut
the testimony of Kavanagh was felt to be
conclusive, although all the prisoners, ex-
cept CIrey, preserved defiant demeanor.
EDWIN BooTa, the American actor, has
achieved great triumph at Berlin. After
recent performance of "Othello," he was
presented with silver laurel crown amid
storms of applause.
A COMPANY of Mexican citizen soldiers
have had three desperate battles with ma
rauding Apache Indians. In the first en-
counter twelve Indians were killed, thirtv-
three taken prisoner, and large amount of
sroils was captured. In the second battle
the Mexicans although fighting against in
ferior numbers, killed four more Indians,
but lost six of their own men. The third
battle resulted in n decisive victory for the
Mencans, who killed more than 100 Indians.