The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

FIVE men were injured by a collision be-
tween two ferrybcats ON the North river at
New York.
AN alarm of fire in n Waterbury Conn
school building, during the session, caused
600 children to rush headlong down the
stairs, panic-stricken. Many OF them were
knocked down. tramplei upon and more or
less severely injured.
JOHN IRVING and "Jackn Walsh, two OF
New Yorks most notorious criminals, quar-
relied in the saloon of an associate, whipped
out revolvers, and in n twinkllng had shot
each other dead-to the great delight of the
police authorities and the respectable portion
of the public.
Bo1TING Massachusetts, Greenbackers met
at Worcester and nominated the following
ticket: For governor, John f. Arnold; lieu
tenant-governor, George 2. Dutton; secre-
tary of state, A. b. Brown; treasurer,
Washington Wendell attorney general,
Charles A. Faber: auditor, George w. KIM
ball.
The remains of DR.. Charles f. Blumenthal,
of New York city, were creinated in the
Washington PENN crematory, his body be-
ing the twenty -fourtn that has been incinera-
ted in this furnace.
THE late Henry Farnam, of New Haven,
Conn, leaves his entire estate, valued at
$1,000, 600, to his widow and five sons, with
the exception of property worth about $780,
GOO, VIII CHI goes to Yale college
The United States Senate subcommittee
on education and labor has bcen taking testi-
mony in Boston
WHILE speeding his fast tiotter, Early
Rose. in Fleetwood Park, n. Y, William II.
Vanderbilt colded with wagon and was
knocked inscnsible, but soon recovered con
sciouNeSs.
ABOUT 1C0.C0) people witnessed the cente
nary celebration of peace at Newburg, n.
Y. Ten thousand men took part in the mill
tary parade and the thunders OF seven
UnitedStates war vessels anchored in the Hut-
son gave noble emphasis to the observances.
All day long the cd headquarters Of the
Revolutionary army, where Washington
dwelt for over q year, was the center of at
traction The procession of military, civic
societies and fremen was reviewed b. Gov
ernor Cleveland, Secretary of the Navy
Chandler and otLer prominent personages.
The exercises consisted of a prayer by Dr.
Prime, an address by Senator Thomas A.
Bayard, the presiding officer of the cay, de
livery of a poem by Wallace Bruce and an
Grafton by William M. Evar;s In the even
ing there was grand display of fireworks.
THE annual conference of the Wesleyan
church in America, in session at Syracuse,
n. Y. refused to admit delegate who is a
member of a college fraternity or of the
Good Templars, AMI refused to receive any
member of a secret society.
HENRY w. GwINNER, a well-known rail
TOil ulun, Vi lIc NutlODdl
road Protection company, committed suicide
in New York by shooting himself through
the brain. Mr.. Gwinner was about sixty
three years old, and is supposed TO have
killed himself while temporarily insane
through arduous attention to his duties.
EDWARD HovEY;- a young man, was
hanged in the New York Tombs for the I'M
provoked murder of his sist-r-in-law. Mrs.
Fanny Nermilyta, whom he shot dead
ALEXANDER THACKARA, prominent
Philadelphia lawyer of high social staining,
mysteriously disappear /: and investio alton
disclosed that with him had gone S54 ,On be-
longing to an estate of which he was trustee.
THE committee Of creditors of F. Shaw q
Brothers, tanners, who recently failed, re-
ported at a meeting of creditors in Boston
that it appeared that the assets of the firm
were worth 81, s5G, OO0 and that the liabilities
We're Ssh 900. The firm, the committee
believed, could pay seventy-two cents on the
dollar.