The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
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TREMENDOUS forest fires have been raging
south of Kalama, Oregon. Six miles of the
railroad and two locomotives have been de-
stroyed, the flames extending in every
direction for long distance. The losses
will reach more than 100000.
PORTIONS of Garland, Yell and Mont
gomery counties, Ark, are under control of
outlaws, who defy the local authorities.
A TRAIN of seven cars fell through bridg
fifty feet high near Natchez, Miss, killing
the conductor and injuring seven passengers,
four of them ladies.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, has gone Democratic in
the municipal election for the first time in
many years.
The Chicago Farmers Rerieto publishes
an exhaustive report on the condition of the
crops, based on returns from over 1000
points in the West and Northwest. general
change for the better in all the crop pros
poets has taken place during the past two
weeks, owing to the cessation of rains and
the advent of hot weather. The two com
bined served to bring forward the late corn
and push on spring wheat and oats. The
weather has been very fine for the early
winter wheat harvest. and the crop is now
going into stock. The spring wheat and
oat crops are unusually promising, and are
both now nearly assured. 1t is believed
that the corn crop is rapidly coming up to
its condition in 1882:
HE tenth annual council union of Ameri-
can Hebrew congregations was held at Gin
cinnati. About 100 delegates, representing
100 congregations, attended.
DAVID SETTINGS residence in Milwaukee
caught fire at 3 o'clock in the morning. His
wife and four of the children escaped, but
the other three. aged twelve, seven and three
years, were burned to death.
MISS FRANCES L. STEWART has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Ypsilanti, Mich.
The Minnesota prohibitionists at their
State convention in Minneapolis nominated
= full ticket with Charles E. Holt for gov
ernor at the head. The platform condemns
the course of both parties on the liquor
question; favors the enfranchisement of
women, and the election of all officers by
the people when possible.
The Iowa Greenbackers at their State
convention in Des Moines nominated j. b.
Weaver for governor, Sanford Kirkpatrick
for acknowledgement, ID. W. Church for
supreme Judge, and Miss Abbie o. Garfield
for superintendent of public instruction. A
platform in conformity with the principles
of the party was adopted.
The colored editors of the country have
been holding a national convention in st.
Louis.
ANDREW WHITE, wealthy farmer of
Dwight, ILL.,, escaped from the insane asylum
in which he had been confined, made his
way home. killed his wife and two children,
aged eighteen and ten years, and then put a
bullet into his own brain.
DENNIS HAGARrY and Henry Dawling, two
desperadoes, met James Lynn and Swede
three miles from Maysville, Col. They shot
Lynn and beat the Swede with club, in
flicting fatal injuries, and then robbed them
boh of the few dollars they possessed. Ha-
garty and Dawling were arrested in the
evening and locked up, but were afterward
taken from Jail and hanged by citizens.
FIRE destroyed the new building of the
Indiana university at Bloomington, together
with its contents, consisting of the museum
and a library of 1900 volumes. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
GLiNDKRs is epidemic among the horses
in nineteen Illinois counties.
FoUR men we're killed by the fall of der
rickin stone quarry at Lemont, Ill. Only
few days previous, by similar occurrence
at the same place, three men were k lied
and Fix others in..urel.
HAIL-sroRM which swept northwestward
across Iowa and Illinois wrought immen 80
damage. Near Davenport Iowa, tract tea