The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-30


Montana, we're summarily ssnt to another
world by vigilance committee.
In Orangeburg county, S. O., William
Trezevant lay in wait for Frank Mitchell
his rival in love, and as he was approaching
the house of the young lady whom they we're
counting sprang from concealment and
killed him with club. He then buried his
victim in forest. When Mitchell was missed
suspicion fell upon TreJevant, and he was
arrested and confessed the crime.
GENERAL PoRTIR1o DIAz, ex-president of
Mexico, and party arrived at Chicago, where
they were formally received by the mayor
and committee appointed for that purpose
From Chicago the party proceeded to Wash
ington,
GOVERNOR PORTER, of Indiana, has made
visit to the lately submerged towns and
villages along the Ohio river. He found
that the damage occasioned by the floods
was, in many places, far greater than had
been supposed. Much suffering had been
caused among the people from restitution.
Two oyster pung ies collided at the mout
of the Wicomco river, Virginia, and one o,
them went to the bottom. Five Of the
seven men on board lost their lives.
Two brothers named Feete, cashier and
paying teller, respectively, of the Second
National bank in st. Paul, Mimi, have
been caught in Systematically robbing the
institution Of over $4,000.
A CONVERTER in the Bessemer steel works
of the Cleveland Rolling mill in Newburg
Ohio, containing from seven to eight tons of
molten metal, was suddenly overturned,
owing to a sudden cessation of the hydraulic
pressure by which it was being moved. The
great mass of fiery liquid was poured into
the pit beneath, exploding with great force
About twenty men we're standing about, and
all of them we're more or less injured, one or
two with probably fatal effect
ABOUT | 400 sheep we're burned to death in
prairie fire near Arkansas city, Kansas.
A VIGILANCE committee hanged the post
master at Green Horn, Montana, for barn
burning.
A nARN with 1876 head of cattle was de-
Etroyed by fire at Shipman, Ill.
A BAND of twenty Indians attacked party
Of whites working around some newly-dis-
covered coal fields near Tombstone, Ari-
IONA, and killed several.
FIRE in Columbus, Ca, destroyed the
Fontaine cotton warehouse, containing {. 400
bales of cotton and other property. The
total loss is estimated at 100000.
FIGHT between cattlemen and Mexicans
in Arizona resulted in the death of about six
of the participants.
JOHN f. BURRILL, ex-grand secretary OF
the Illinois grand lodge of Masons, was
sentenced at Carinville, H.. to five years
imprisonment for embezzlement. The
amount embezzled from the lodge was be.
tween $50, 900 and $4,000.
CREE Indians are on tho war-path in Mon
tana. Ten white workmen were found butch.
cred on the prairie noar Fort Conrad. A
party of friendly Piegan Indians started ii
pursuit and had a fight with the Crees, il
which the latter were routed, both sides LOSING
two men. The marauding Crees, who mum
bored about 200, came into Montana from
Canada.
THREE white men and an Indian were
playing cards in the Indian Territory, whe,
dispute which arose ended in a free fight
The Indian killed two of the whites, and thu
third white man was accidentally killed 10,
one of the others. Next day two friends O
the slain whites killed the Indian.
FLED. L. WAITE was hanged at franklin
Texas, for numbering deputy sheriff Will
tying to escape from the Franklin Jail
another prisoner who had participated i'll III,
attempt to escape and in the murder being
respited by the governor for thirty days
while third participant was sentenced t.
life imprisonment. Nick. Walker (colored)
was hanged at Little Rock, Ark, for the
murder of another colored man. Jerome
Holt (colored) suffered like punishment at
Graham, n. c., for assaultng a woman. vii
liam Burks and George Cunningham (both
colored) were suspended until dead in tn,
presence of 6,oo0 persons at Lafayette, Ga
for breaking into an old mans store ant
numbering him. All these hangings occurred
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