The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16


in thai section. The whole valley, from far
above Cleveland TO the yiaduct, was entirely
submerged, presenting the appearance of n
lake miles in length and nearly mile in
width, from the surface of which protruded
the tops of houses, smokestacks, chimneys
and railroad cars. The valley was covered
with lumber yards, mills, FORCES, machine
shops, manufactures, warehouses and freight
depots, all of which we're partially under
water, while down the rushing current of
the river 1oated lumber, barrels, timber and
all kinds of debris passed on toward
Lake Erie with resistless force. The de-
struction of property is variously estimated
at from 81 25O, 600 to $4,000 900. Over % OOo,-
600 feet of lumber and 100000 shingles
were carried off. The aggregate damage in
Northern Ohio by the floods will reach we'll
up into the millions.
For many weeks past law-abiding citizens
in Western Montana have been terrorized by
lawlcss bands At length they decided on
extreme measures. On Sunday night three
desperadoes were hanged and one shot at
Wacksville. At the "Y," another camp,
on the same day, three men were hanged to
one tree. Monday witnessed similar fate
for three more.
THE men Neal and Craft, found guilty in Jan
uary, 1892 of the murder of Emma Thomas,
Fannie Gibbons and her brother Robert, at
ashland, Ky, i'll December, 1881, obtained
the grant of new trial in November last
with change of venue to Carter county.
Their transfer, it will be remembered, was
accompanied by an attack on the militia
who returned the fire, killing six persons in
the crowd On this second trial the two men
were accompanied from the Jail in Lexington
TO the courthouse at Grayson by 400 of the
Kentucky National guard.
GOVERNOR HAMILTON, the successor of Gov
ernor Cullum, elected to the United States
Senate, YVES inaugurated at Springfield, Ill.
New ORLEANS was filled with visitors at the
annual Mardi Gras festival. Fifty triumpEal
cars participated in the procession. All the
vessels i'll the harbor were gayly decorated,
and at night the buildings along the line of
march were brilliantly illuminated.
CHARLES WAITE, sheriff of Sherman coun-
ty, Neb., shot and killed Mrs. Ran, a board
ing-house keeper with whom he was init
mate, and then committed suicide. Jealousy
led to the deed.
WHILE the Rev. George F. Bronson, pastor
of Congregational church at La Sale, ILL.,,
was officiating at a marriage ceremony, and
just as he had pronounced the couple man
and wife, he fell dead at their feet
PREPARATIONS are being made to celebrate
the 333d anniversary of the founding of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest town in
the United States, by an exhibition of the
Terrtory's historical treasures and material
resources, to be held during next July.
AN Indian of the Creek nation, Indian
Territory, became crazed with excitement at
receiving $4,000 as his portion of the orphan
money paid by the government, and in his
delirium killed two of his sleeping com
panions and mortally wounded third. The
lunatic was killed.
EDWARD ]. DAVIS, ex-governor of Texas
and leader of the Republican party in that
State, is dead.
The Scioto and other rivers in Ohio over
flowed and caused enormous damage to
property. The town of Jasper was flooded
by the breaking of the levee. Marietta was
were driven from their homes. At Steuben-
vile the water works were submerged and
the manufacturing establishments had to
shu. down. The main business part of Pome-
roy was inrn lated. Every family in the town
of Florida was driven from its home by the
rising waters, and much live stock persisted
A BOILER explosion at Boone, Iowa, killed
the engineer and two other men.
ONE passenger and the driver of coach
which left Pacific Springs, Wyoming, were
frozen to DEATH
CAPTAIN PAYNE and party were arrested by
United States troops while trying to enter
the Indian Territory for the purpose of oc-
cupying the land.
HENRY DREEs, a st. Louis teamster, cut
his wifes throat and then his own in pres
ence of their five children. Jealousy was
the cause of the double tragedy.
THE governor of Missouri declines to sur
render Frank James, the outlaw, to Mime
sofa or any other State until he has been dis
posed of under the indictments pending
against him in the State of Missouri.
MHTONJ. YARBEBRY, notorious desperate
and gambler, was hanged at Albuquerque.
New Mexico, for the murder of Charles
Campbell. During his career of crime Var
berry killed five men.
CROWD of colored men attacked the Jail
at Paolo, Kansas, intending to lynch Henry
Smith, negro, imprisoned for assaulting a
little colored girl. The crowd was repulsed,
but not before one ne ,ro was killed and
two others wounded, while the sheriff's son
also received n buckshot wound in the arm.
At daybreak the following day a crowd of
over thousand persons made second at
tack on the jail. While they were batterlng
down the doors Smith committed suicide by
cutting his throat, but the crowd dragged his
body through the streets and hung it to a
tree.
HUNDREDS of people were rendered home
less and much restitution was caused in and
about Parkersburg, w. Va, by the floods.
FIVE men were instantly killed and two