The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Hon. CHESTER w. CHAPLIN, ex-member of
of the richest men in New England, died a
few days since at Springfield, Mass, aged
eighty five years.
BENJAMIN MORLEY, of Syracuse, N. Y, shot
and killed his step-daughter, Mrs. lucia
Hynes, and then put n bullet through his
own brain. Family Discussions we're the
cause of the deed.
THREE students of a religious institute at
Cleveland were drowned while swimming in
Cuyahoga river.
HEAVY rains have flooded the country for
many miles in the vicinity of Springfield,
Ill, and done great damage to the crops.
AT Vincennes, Ind, Charles Pollock, son
of Mr.. James Pollock, of the Broadway
Touring mills, shot and killed his beautiful
wife and then ended his own career by firing
a bullet into his body. The two had been
married only a few months. and there was
no trouble between them, but the husband
was suffering from depression caused by
heavy drinking.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has taken up his resi-
dence at his summer cottage at the Soldiers
IlOlllty WDtTt nt Will TeLld1H unI1l ABOUT tne
10th of July, and then proceed to Newport.
LOCAL boards of civil service examiners
have been appointed by the commission for
New York, Baltimore and Portland.
CANADIAN steamers carrying passengers
between American lake ports are to be
stopped as prejudicial to American interests.
SECRETARY CHANDLER approves of the
recommendations of the navy yard COM
mission in their forthcoming report to Con-
gress. They favor the closing of certain
yards and concentration of the organization
and reduction of expenses in the remainder.
A REBELLION has broken out in Hayti.
TEN soldiers and seven civilians were killed
and forty soldiers and fifteen civilians wound
ed by the explosion of the powder magazine
in Scutari through a lightning stroke.
TIMOTHY KELLY, convicted of participa-
ton in the Phoenix Park murders, was
hanged in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin. He was
the fifth man executed for those murders
and was the last one convicted. There was
a large crowd of people outside the
prison, hut there was no disturbance.
1t is believed that Kelly died with
out making any statement. Mr.. Varian
q MEMBER OF tne dublin Gr1SOner'S Ala SOcl-
ETY., called upon Earl Spencer, the lord lieu
tenant, late the evening before the execu-
ton, and gave him his personal assurance
that at s o'clock on the night the Phoenix
Park murders were committed Kelly was
present at a meeting of the society. The
next morning Varian stood in front Of the
Jail and stated that he expected every mo-
ment to Lear that Kelly had been reprieved.
MINISTER Hunt and Admiral Baldwin have
received the large gold medal commemora-
i've of the cars CO -onation. Admiral Bald
win has received a gold snuff-box, with a
portrait of the car setin brilliants, to mark
the cars personal appreciation of the cour-
tesy of tie United States in sending a special
naval mission to Moscow.
A BANQUET was given in London by the
Irish members of parliament to United
States Minister Jones, of Florida, who is a
native of Dublin. Mr.. Parnell presided.
SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, formerly
governor of Vancouver and ldtely governor
of Queensland, is dead.