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

EIGHTEEN prominent Nihilists on trial in
st. Petersburg were all found guilty, and six
of them sentenced to death.
The parliament house at Quebec has been
almost completely destroyed by fire, only
one wing being saved. The library, con-
tanning 10000 volumes, was burned with tho
rest. The fire is believed to be the work of
an incendiary.
The detachment of Mexican troops in pur-
suit of the Apaches from southeast Ures had
several running fights with the Indians and
claimed to have killed nearly the whole band.
The Apaches were commanded by a white
man, formerly a United States Indian agents
WHO was captured.
AN unsuccessful attempt has been made to
blow up the London Times Office. A box
containing powder, with a train attached,
was found in the rear of the Office.
NORMAN, one of the eight men recently ar
rested in England on the charge of dealing
in dynamite for the purpose of blowing up
government buildings, has turned informer.
His real name is Lynch. He testified that he
was born of Irish parents in the State of New
York, and that while working at a coach
makers in Brooklyn, last October, he was
induced 10 join a secret society, a branch of
n Fenian organization, whose object was to
free Ireland by force, and whose
members are known by number
alone; that last March he slw DR..
Gallagher Zone of the eight prisoners)
in Greenpoint, Long Island, and was by him
given $50 and sent to London, to be absent
about two months, and his mission to be told
him when he arrived there; that after reach
ing London he met Gallagher and was told
the object of his visit-to blow Up the gov
| eminent Offices at Westminster; that he
went to Birmingham for nitro-glycerine and
there met Whitehead (another of the pris-
oners); that he obtained the nitro-glycerine
from Whitehead and in returning TO Lon
don met Gallagher. The attempt was made
to blow up the government buildings,
but failed. Witness was interrupted
several times by DR.. Gallagher and White
head, no called him a traitor and a liar, and
at the conclusion of his testimony he tainted
md had to be removed from the courtroom.
In the case of Timothy Kelly, the third
prisoner tried in Dublin for taking part in
the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr..
Burke, the jury disagreed and the prisoner
was remanded for a second trial. The an
nouncement of the iury's disagreement was
received with cheers by the large crowd out
side the courtroom.
Mr.. HARRINGTON, member of parliament
for Westmeath, who has just completed a
term of Imprisonment in Ireland, made mis-
appearance in the house of m the
other day and was introduced by Mr.. Par
nell and Mr.. Arthur O'Connor. Mr.. Har-
rington took his seat amid cheers from the
Irish members.
Two thousand houses have been destroyed
by a fire in Delhi, India.
FIRE has destroyed the largest oil ware
house in Hamburg. The fire involved a loss
of three large buildings and 1,5O0 hundred
weights of oil.
A COLLISION between an English and a
Spanish steamer off the Spanish coast re-
suited in the sinking of the latter, with five
of the persons on board, and the loss of two
men on the former.
OFFICIAL announcement is made from st.
Petersburg that the long-deferred corona
ton of the car of Russia will take place at
Moscow on May 81. The festivities, which
include eight grand balls, will be prolonged
until June s.
SUIEIMAN PASTA, a prominent Turkish
general in Turkeys war with Russia, is dead.
AN explosion of dynamite in a factory in
Laperucca, Spain, resulted in the death of
seven or more persons.
The sentence of death against the Nihilists,
Boganovitch and Boutsevitch, have been
carried out in st. Petersburg, the former
having been hanged and the latter shot.
A CABLE dispatch from Rome announces
the death of Cardinal Roger Luigi Antici
Mattel, aged seventy-two years.