The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
General Notes.

One hundred and fifty persons lost
their lives by the burning of circus in
Russian Poland, Saturday.
Snowdrifts thirty feet deep are re-
ported along the line of the Buffalo.
Pittsburgh and Western railroad.
John Elmorc was found dead in a cot
ton bale at Charlotte. n. G.. He had
gone to sleep in the cotton press.
The Newhall House fire, at Milwaukee.
caught in closet near the bottom of the
elevator shaft. According to the latest
account about 90 persons perished.
The Democrats of the Massachusetts
Legislature have nominated Samuel w.
Bowerman for the United States Senate;
the Minnesota Republicans, Mr.. Win
dom, and the Illinois Republicans, Gov.
Cullom.
Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, died last week at
Augusta, Me. He had been governor of
that State, Unite / States Senator and
secretary of the treasury during Gen.
Grants administration.
In the village of Leona. n. Y. large
cicle fell from the roof of a grocery
store on the heads of two men. The
skull of one was pierced and he died in
two hours. The other was knocked
senseless, but recovered.
While Milo Blacks sons, aged nine
and ten, were cutting hay from stack
at Mansfield, Conn.,. the stack was blown
| down, burying the boys. The younger
| was taken out dead. The other is in a
precarious condition.
The Jeanette board will prepare
their report upon the investigation up to
the present time, but their work will not
be completed until the Jeanette men
who are in Siberia have been examined
They are not expected to return until
some time in March.
Daniel Kline. wealthy farmer of
Denver. Col, whose mind has been de-
ranged for some time past suffscated
himself. Whdn found, he was dead in
bed, with his pantaloons drawn tightly
over his head.
A telegram from official sources in
Constantnople reports that some Cir
cassians attempted Sunday to assassinatc
the Sultan. Awoman divulged the plot
and the Albanian body guard met and
defeated the Circassians in the vicinity
of the Sultan's apartments. Several
! men were killed.
!, The Planters Hotel. one of the largest
in st. Louis, Mo-, took fire Sunday morn
ing and burned so rapidly that four per-
sons lost their lives The greatest con-
fusion prevailed when the alarm was
given, and nearly all the guests escaped
: in their night clothes. The weather was
intensely cold and the firemen were
thereby greatly hindored in their work.
st. Louis was excited, last Saturday,
over the supposed abduction of Miss
. Zerelde Garrison. II years old, a relative
of Commodore Garrison and one of the
? leading bellies of the city. She left her
uncle's house Saturday. accompanied by
' her sister, for the convent where she is
studying. in a distant part of the city.
1t turns out that she went voluntarily
with her ''abductors" rather than go to
, the convent On Monday she returned
q home.
a Michael Doyle took his wife and Mary
r Bluett into a coal mine at East st. Louis,
e H., and explained the process of firing
e blasts by laying train of powder olopg
J. the tramway and igniting it. A terrific
+ explosion followed and the whole party
a were badly burned. Miss Bluett so seyere-
S ly that she died The train fired quan-
n tity of powder of the presence of which
It Doyle had no knowledge.
n The House of Representatives passed
the pension appropriation bill Saturday
= afternoon. 1t appropriates SS5 ,D00.0
: for payment of invalid pensioners
7. 81 ,000,0 900 for naval pensions, S250,00(
for pension agents, S575. 200 for eXamin
ing surgeons and $4,000 for contingen
g cies. The House also passed a bill re
g ported by Mr.. Joyce, providing that an,
5. person who, while in the naval or mill
: tary service. shall have lost the sight o.
}. one eye shall be entitled to receive pen
= sion of Sl2 per month. and in cases il
ID which the injury to the one eye mani
rs testify affects iniuriously the sight of tn
, other eye he shall be entitled to an equii
y able increase in his pension, not to ex
ceed In the whole amount S25 per month
and all those who under like circunl
- stances have lost the sight of one eve, tn
~ :. sight of the other having been previousl
~ lost, shall be entitled to pension c
y $50 per month; and all those who, Will
~ ~ in the military or naval service of III
10 United States in the line of duty, by in
u jury received or disease contracted, sha
~ have lost the hearing of both ears. sha
' be entitled to receive pension of 81
y per month; and for any loss of hearin
=. less than total deafness in one or bot
y ears they shall receive an equitable POI
's' tion of the full pension.