The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-17

dollars and watch. He asserted his inno-
cence, but forgave everybody.
The losses by the recent hailstorm in
Iowa will reach 100000.
RUNNING BIRD, a Cherokee Indian, was
hanged at Talequah, Cherokee Nation, for
the murder of Running Water, another
Indian, in Delaware District, Indian Nation,
last August.
AT fire in the training stables of j. B.
Shockenay, Lexington, KY, seven fine
horses-each worth from $1,000 to $1,000
were burned TO death.
FREIGHT train ran off an open switch
five miles south Of Massillon. Ohio, and
Gradam, the ent ineer, and Wilson, thu
fireman, we're killed. Others were injured,
but not fatally.
REUNION of the survivors of the battle OF
Wilson's Creek, at which General Nathaniel
Lyon was killed, was held in Springfield,
Mo. Several thousand persons were pres
ent, including veterans of both the Union
and Confederate armies from Missouri, Ar
kansas, Iowa, Kansas and Louisiana.
In connection with an important opium
smuggling case on trial in San Francisco an
ment stated that during the last ten years
over S6OoO.OO0 worth of opium has been
Struggled into that port. The business has
been systematically carried on by a ring OF
smugglers, SISTED by prominent govern
ment officials, who have been receiving
thirty per cent of the spoils.
President ARTHUR and party while al
Fort Washable. Montana Territory, were
visited by al o II five hundred warriors OF
the Shoshones and Arapahoes tribes OF
Indiana. Am ong them were Washakie, the
remarkable chief of the Shoshones, and
Black Coal, ch:es of the Arapahoes. The
President thanked his visitors for calling on
him, and congratulated them on their fine
appearance. His address was interpreted
10 the Shoshones by an English speaking
member of their tribe, and to the Arapahoe
by one of their number who was educated
at the Carlisle school. Replies were made
by O h chi ifs. and the tribes departed cheer
ing the President.
WHILE workmen were repairing a bridge
fifty feet high, on the Kentucky Central
railroad, near Lexington. KY. scaffold-
ing fell precipitating them into the
depths below. Four of the men we're killed,
be terribly mangled by the sharp rocks
the others escaped with slight injuries.
FEARING the introduction of cholera from
China and japan the San Francisco board
of heath adopted resolution that all
Asiatic potts be declared Injected, and tina
all vessels arriving be qua antined.
FIRE at Danville, Va, destl Dyed the
cotton factory of E. l.. & A. Gerst, the
tobacco warehouse of S. H. Holland & Co..
the tobacco fac. cries of Hale, Hickey & Oyer
and w. F. Low, and several outhouses. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The First Nat. onal bank and the Indiana
Banking company, of indianapolis, ILL.,,
with combined capital of $780, have
c o ed their dpors.
C~TlRELL BROTHERS, doa lers in agricul
turAl implements, Sioux City, Iowa, have
failed, with liabilities at 100000 and assets
about $4,000
The steamship William Lawrence collided
with the schooner Lovina in the Oh ssapeake
bay, near Point Lookout, and the schooner
sunk in ten fathoms of water, carrying down
the wife and two children OF Captain W. II
Anderson, of the schooner, and Joseph Low
EFT, the colored cook