The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
LATER NEWS,


FIRE in the Eclipse Lubricating Oil works
at Franklin, Penn, the largest works of the
kind in the world, destroyed property worth
100000
JUDGE JEREMIAH S. BLACK, the well-known
jurist, died at his home near York. Penn
after a weeks Illness His family were at his
bedside. Judge Black was born in Somerset
county, Penn, in 1910, studied law, and at
twenty-one became district attorney for his
county. In 1851 he became chief Justice OF
the Pennsylvania supreme court, and he
was again elected to that office
in 1854. When James Buchanan
became President he was appointed attorney
general of the United States; and when Gen
eral Cas- resigned from the cabinet in Deem
Der, 1860, Judge Black succeeded him as sec
rotary of state, and filed that post until the
accession of Mr.. Lincoln. In 1862 he became
reporter of the United States supreme court,
which position he resigned in 1854 Since
then the most prominent position in which he
appeared was as one of the Democratic coun-
sci before the electoral commission in 1877.
AN American ship which has just arrived
at Philadelphia from Antwerp reports having
narrowly escaped collision with an immense
iceberg. The berg was over two miles long
and 300 feet high
EIGHT cases of yellow fever were reported
as existing in and about the Pensacola navy
yard, Florida. A Gordon of sanitary guards
was established and the city of Pensacola,
seven miles distant was reported entirely free
from the disease.
A MONUMENT was dedicated to George
Washington near Barnsboro Md, in the pres
ence of 5000 spectators. The monument is
situated on the very apex of South Mountain,
and overlooks the great battlefield of An
tietam. 1t is thirty feet high, of native
granite surmounted by lookout which COM
mands magnificent view of parts of Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West vir-
ginia.
FIRE in Crawford, Miss, destroyed twelve
stores and six warehouses, causing total loss
of 81 ,000,0 900; insurance, $4,000.
HARPER e. BROTHERS the well known New
York book publishers, are about to open a
branch house in Cincinnati
A LEGAL decision just rendered by Wash
ington justice s,istains the claim of a colored
clergyman that restaurant keeper is bound
ny tHe tlNll dcb 10 dccoTu GUS
toners equal accommodations with whites
This case is in some respects a novel one, since
it is the first attempt to enforce the penalty
under the second section of the civil rights
act, which makes violation of the law a mis-
demeanor, and it is the first effort made to
enforce the criminal provisions of the law in
territory where the Congress of the United
States has exclusive and absolute legislative
jurisdiction.
THE Second National bank, of Warren
Ohio, has closed its doors, the cashier. Kiit-
land NJ Fitch, confessing that he had lost
about $4,000 of the banks funds in stock
speculations in New York. Fitch, who was
forty years old and much respected, made his
escape from Warren in women's clothes
THE town of Casamicciola on the island of
lschia, recently destroyed by an earth
quake, is being rebuilt rapidly.
GERMANY is about to establish a colony on
the western coast of South Africa.
A MOB paraded the streets in Trieste CRYING
Away with the Italians and foreigners -
and "Niva Austria - The rioters also at
tackled the Italian gymnasium and a news
paper Office. The police arrested several of
the rioters.