The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-16

A. H. JOHNSON was shot dead in the court
room at Texarkana, Ark, in the presence Of
the Judge, jurors, attorneys and over 100
spectators by @. L. Dixon, sheriff OF the
county. The trouble was caused by Dixon's
making war on gambling institutions in
which johnson was silently interested.
WILLIAM LANE, a well-known auctioneer
of Cleveland, Ohio, dangerously wounded
his divorced wife, who was about TO marry,
and then killed himself.
AT midnight fire was discovered in the
house of Simon Cronise near Newmarket,
Md. Mrs. Cronise helped save six of her
children, throwing three of them out OF n
window to her husband standing below, but
persisted with one child whom the heroic
mother refused to leave without an effort to
save. An old deaf mute in the house also
lost his life.
JOSEPH B. LOOMS was hanged at Spring
field, Mo-, for the murder of David Levett.
Robbery was the motive of the crime.
THREE men were crushed to death by n
falling wall during a fire which destroyed
Watkins block, Nashville, Tenn, doing
damage to the extent of $250,000.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM SPBAGUE, of Provi-
dence, r. l., was married at Staunton, Va, to
Dora Inez Calvert, formerly of Connecticut
The bridegroom gave his age as fifty-one and
the bride hers at twenty three. Both parties
have been through the divorce court.
GOVERNOR CRrrTENDEN, of Missouri, has
pardoned Clarence Hite, one of the Jesse
James gang, reported to be in the last stages
of consumption, and it is supposed that he
will now be used as witness against Frank
James.
MORE than 5000 people-fully $4,000 of
them visitors from outside the city-were
present in Atlanta, Ga, during the memorial
services held in the capitol over the remains
of Governor Alexander H. Stevens. General
Gordon read resolutions of respect to the
memory of the deceased, and General
Toombs, the lifelong friend of the dead gov
ernor, delivered the eulogy. Other speakers
followed. In the afternoon the funeral ser
vices were conducted, the Rev. DIR. Talmage,
of Brooklyn, delivering the closing address.
The funeral poo ession was mile and half
long.
"BoB" Cochran (colored) was hanged at
Clayton, Ala, for numbering NJ. s. Drew, a
storekeeper.
CORRESPONDENT who reached Helena,
Ark, by a Mississippi steamer from
Memphis, says that at many points there
we're not more than two or three spots of
dry land for forty miles inland between the
two cities. Scores of the best farms in
Arkansas and Mississippi were under water
and most of them had been abandoned, the
owners and laborers having fled to higher
ground. In many places the cattle were
standing in water which overlooked the plat
forms, and almost every clubhouse was filed
with colored people.
Four men on a train near Van Buren,
Ark, suddenly drew revolvers, shot the con-
ductor and brakeman, inhcting mortal
wounds, and then started through the cars
brandishing their weapons, their intentions
being to rob the passengers; but the en-
gneer put the train at high speed and the
robbers became alarmed and jumped off.
Rewards amounting to $4,000 were offered
for their capture and the country was
aroused, 200 people joining in the search.
All four were captured.