The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Eastern and Middle States.


LIGHTNING killed Mrs. Wheeler, of Am
herst. N. H., and set fire to the premises
Water being scarce, her husband extin-
guished the flames with milk.
SEVERAL witnesses before the United
States Senate committee on education and
labor, sitting in New York, urged the estab-
lishment of industrial schools and more
healthy homes for the poorer people.
Two passenger trains coided near Fort
Plain, N. Y, with such terrific effect that
both engines, two baggage cars and smok-
ing car were completely wrecked. Engineer
Michael Lyons and James Whitock, pas
senger, were instantly killed, another passen-
ger had his skull fractured, and about twenty
more persons were injured in different de
grees of severity.
THE Athletic baseball club, winners of the
American association cham pionship, upon
their return to Philadelphia from their
Western tour, were received by procession
estimated to contain 10000 persons and re-
viewed by the mayor. Thousands of people
thronged the streets, flags were displayed in
profusion, and a banquet was given the vic
torious club
GENERAL ROGER A. PRYOR, of New York,
has been retained as counsel for O'Donnell,
slayer of Carey the Irish informer, and has
sailed for London.
NEW York newsdealers to the number of
several thousand held a parade and mass
meeting to protest against the reduction in
price of several leading newspapers and
consequent reduction in their profits.
THE machinery of paper mill at Man
chester, Mass, was stopped by four large
eels blocking the wheel One eel was three
feet three inches long, and weighed nearly
five pounds.
NORTHERN New HAMPSHIRE and Vermont
Rave been visited by quite heavy snow
storms.
AT the Pennsylvania state department
Harrisburg, the South Pennsylvania railroad
company, belonging to the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn, filed notice of an increase of capital
stock from $4,000, 600 to 20,00O, 600, and an
issue of S200O0,0O0 of bonds.
EXTENSIVE frauds in the bureau of the
New York water register have been I'M
earthed
THE centennial convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal church of the United States
met at Philadelphia. A procession of sixty
bishops clothed in full canonicals entered the
church. The opening sermon was preached
by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island. The
house of bishops and the house of deputies
both organized.
JAMES MCSTEEN was hanged at Pittsburg,
Penn. for the murder of his wife.
AT Allegheny City, Penn. John Brown en-
tered the house of his pai tner, Henry Weaver,
and without provocation killed him, and
then beat his brains out in the presence of
his wife and child Brown is twenty two
years cd, and Weaver was two years his
senior. They were engaged in the business
OF buying and selling horses Brown com
mitted tine murder because a woman of be-
reputation, with whom h had become in
fatuated, and whom he had brought to
Viewers house, had been ordered by the
latter to leave upon discovery of her true
character.
AN express train at Philadelphia ran into
street car, knocking it into splinters AMI
scattering the thirty-tve passengers, consist
ing of working people, in all directions
Four of the passengers were killel and ten
injured.
CHINESE gambling houses in New York
are being raded by the police.