The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-26
Foreign.

DURING the services in a Jewish synagogue
at Ziwonka. Russia. false alarm of fire was
raised in the womens gallery, which caused
a panic. The people rushed for the door,
where there was terrible crush, during
which forty women were killed and thirty
Others injured.
A STRONG shock of earthquake was felt on
the island of Chos, during which several
houses were destroyed and some persons
were injured The shock was also felt at
SYRIA AMI Smyrna, Turkey, and there was
much damage and loss of life at Avail.
A RAILROAD bridge in Mexico fell, car
rying with it construction train of eighteen
cars and two engines. Two engineers and
three Mex,cans were killed.
THE awards to the United States at xhe
London fisheries exhibition number IA, of
which forty-five are gol |, forty-five silver and
twenty eight bronze medals There are also
ninete II diplomas and ten money prizes
The United STATES fish commis sion gets eigh
teen gold and four silver medals beside two
diplomas.
NEARLY all the wheat crop in Manitoba,
British America, has been ruined by frost
CETEwAYo's band of Zulus in South Africa
were surprised by another band, and one-half
their number slaughtered. Cetewayo has
surrendered to the British.
ZEMBRoNo q Co., one of the Oldest and
wealthiest business houses in Northe IN
owners of much vail able real estate, have
failed, with liabilities OF about $4,000.
SIXTY-THREE members of Nihilist society
were tried at st. Petersburg, and all SEN
fenced to be sent to Siberia.
VILLA ALEGNO. an Italian village, has
been destroyed, and 1000 persons made
homeless.
GREAT damage to property and immense
loss of life have been caused by earthq uakes
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Minor, opposite the island of Chios and
Noura, on the southern coast of the
Gulf of Smyrna All the villages i'll
that region have b zen destroyed, and it is re-
ported that alb nut 5,oO0persons have persisted.
Most of the houses collapsed at the first shock,
burying the inmates The Turkish govern
ment issued notice stating tina 1000 per-
sons are homeless and pleading for immediate
assistance
O'DONNELI. slayer of Carey. the Irish in.
former, has been indicted by the London
grand jury, and his trial fixed for November
MARIE MCCABE, a young woman tried at
Hamilton, Ontario, Tor drowning her infant
in cstern, has been sentenced to be hanged.
ADvICEs from Alfalfa, Mexico, report that
the population of that town has been deci-
mated by yellow fever. The number of
deaths for two weeks averaged twenty a day.
\ hurricane which also visited the unfortu-
nate town destroyed the greater part and
killed several persons.
The corner stone of the church which is
to be ere ted upon the spot in St. Petersburg
where Emperor Alexander ii. was killed
was laid by the ar AM czarina, with i'm
posing ceremonies, in the presence of the
court officials, the nobility and a vast CON
course of people.
TWENTY men were killed by an explosion
in colliery near Barnstable, England.
TWELVE brigands implicated in fourteen
murders have been sent need to death at
Palermo, Sicily, and eleven others convicted
of completely in the same crime have been
condemned to life Imprisonment.