The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and m1ddle states,
THURSDAY, October 10, has been fixed upon
as the date for celebrating the centennial of
The disarmament of the Revolutionary army
at Newburg, N. Y.
S1xTY-oNE Mormon elders from Utah ar
rived in New York a few days ago, on their
way to Europe, where they will gather in all
the converts they can lay hands upon and
bring them to the United States.
A BILL forbidding further labor contracts
in prisons passed the New York assembly.
A ooAL mine at Ashland, Penn, suddenly
caved in, swallowing up several dwelling
houses, whose inmates barely escaped with
thu lives.
The first conviction under the new law for
selling inferior kerosene took place at Bata-
via, N. Y, in the suit of the State board of
ploded with fatal results.
JAMES TREaLowN, a Cornish miner
twenty-four years old, was hanged at Nor
ristown, N. j., for the murder of his sweet
heart, Minnie Chergwin. Treglown was
jealous, and meeting his sweetheart walking
with another man he tried to shoot his rival,
who ran away; then he shot the girl dead.
Iris now announced that the great East
River bridge between New York and Brook
Ign Will be formally opened IN May "a. The
ceremony of throwing the bridge open will
be impressive, but very simple. Over ten
thousand invitations will be issued, including
the President, Vice-P President and ex-Presi-
dents of the United States, members of the
cabinet, United States Senators and Con
gressmen, governor, lieuten ant-governor and
ex-governors of New York State, the goven-
ors of all the States and Territories, the
mayors and prominent officials of New York
and Brooklyn, members of the foreign diplo-
matte corps and representatives of the press
of America. William NJ. Evarts will be the
orator of the day.
DURING a heavy rain and wind storm two
boats, in which a number of young men were
returning from work on a boom in the river
at Williamsport, Penn, capsized, and four
of the occupants were drowned.
A REMARKABLE affair has been disclosed in
East Hartford, Conn, after months of pre-
found secrecy. During last December a six
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gar Brewer died, and her parents nave ever
since complied with her dying wish that her
remains should not be buried. The body was
embalmed and has been kept in the parlor,
the undertaken making almost daily visits
for the purpose of applying chemicals of a
preservative character. Now that the matter
is no longer a secret the father has con-
sented to build a vault in the yard.
Frederick w. EAMEs, a prominent manu-
f~acturer and president of the Eames Vacuum
Brake company, of Watertown, N. y, was
shot down in his factory by Charles Higham,
pattern-maker, employed by the company,
and superintendent of construction. The
homicide grew out of litigation between Mr..
Eames and the firm of Thomas Prosser d
Son, who had been running the factory under
a transfer made to them by the company
while Mr.. Eames was in Europe. Mr.. Eames
had sued to set the transfer aside, and the
case had been decided in his favor and the
sheriff ordered to put him in possession OF
the works /; and it was while taking posses
sion of the factory that he was shot. Higham
charged that Eames had struck him with a
cane.
A PRouIBIToRY amendment to the liquoi
law was killed in the Pennsylvania legisla
ture by 151 to q votes.
PETER McCUNN, of Fall River, Mass, wa
carrying a lighted kerosene lamp to guide
his visitors-Mrs. Mary Connolly and hel
~fve-year-old daughter-downstairs, when
being under the influence of liquor, he
tripped and fell. The lamp exploded, anc
the burning fluid scattered over the three
ir6ictinc terrible burns. All three were ia
tally injured, the woman and child dying II
q few hours.
II has been discovered that the fire in tn,
large ~colliery at Ashland, Penn, which has
been burning for several years, is extending
in the workings in another mine Steps will
be taken 10 smother the flames.
Two men were pract.cing shooting a
~Kittanning, Penn, when one of them shot
car at the depot. A terrific explosion fol
lowed. The whole town was shaken, houses
within two squares of the depot had ~scarcel!
n pane of glass left, several houses and car
were badly damaged and q number of per
sons were injured.
SPECIAL reports of the condition of the
wheat crop in 1888 in the great grain States
of the West and Northwest give promise Of
a crop not equal perhaps to that of last year
but one at leas. up to the average of crop
for several years past.
South and West.
AHEAvY storm wrecked a great portion o.
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