The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eaatern and Middle state-

shots at each other they were about to have
recourse to knives when a policeman took
them in custody.
FRANK LARK1N, a prominent professional
ball player, living in Williamsburg, Long
Island, while crazed by rum, shot and danger
ously wounded his wife, next shot and slightly
injured a policeman, and then cut his throat
with a razor, inficting a serious wound.
Larkin was a member of the Baltimore pro-
fessional base ball club, and was a heavy
drinker.
PETER COOPER is 10 have q monument
erected to his memory in the small park
hack of the Cooper institute, New York.
GEORGE F. Work, the former president of
the Peoples Passenger railway, of Philadel-
phia, and Samuel Work, his brother, and a
former director of the road, were arrested
and gave bail in the sum of $4,000. The
Works are charged by Charles S. Harrah, the
recently elected president, with conspiracy
to cheat, enlightenment and fraud. The
amount alleged to have been stolen and
squandered is between $4,000 and 81, &c.,
600.
THE Irish land league of America met
III liillOlltl NOANOllllOn at l. llltQtlIillu, 800
delegates, representing all parts of the
United States and Canada, being in attend
ancc. James A. Mooney, of Buffalo, N. Y.
presided. The secretary's report showed
that there arc now S4S branches of the league
in this country. The treasurer's report
showed a balance on hand of S4,915.50. A
plan for uniting the national league was
adopted.
AFTER the Irish land league convention
in Philadelphia a convention of the Irish
race in America was held, the number of
delegates being l ,155. Mrs. Parnell, mother
of the Irish agitator, and thirty-two other
ladies were among the delegates. Congress
man-elect M. A. Foran, of Ohio, was elected
permanent chairman. A cable dispatch
was received from Mr.. Parnell, regretting
his inability to be present, and counseling
moderation and prudence. Appointment Or
ganization of a new Irish national league
was formed, and a platform adopted which
sets forth the wrongs of Ireland, pledges the
new movement to the policy of the Irish ma
tional league, and expresses confidence in
Mr.. Parnell and his associates.
The officers and crew of a schooner which
arrived recently at Gloucester, Mass, from
the banks of Newfoundland. report having
discoveie1 an immense turtle, which was at
first thought to be a vessel bottom up. The
schooner passed within twenty-five feet of
the monster, which was at least forty feet
long, thirty feet wide and thirty feet from
the apex of the back to the bottom Ct the
undsr shell. The fipI ers were twenty feet
long.
WILLIAM MAcDUFF, a New York money
lender residing in Brooklyn, had lived I'M
happily with his wife the past eight years,
and the other morning he killed her and his
young son and then put an end to his own
life.
HENRY DEBosNYs, an adventurer, was
hanged at Elizabe.htown, N. Y, for the
murder of his wife, a widow, whom he mar
ried and soon after killed to get at her
money. He sold his body to a doctor for
SIS, and with the money bought the suit of
clothes in which he was hanged.
UNITED STATES marshals have made a big
haul of counterfeiters in New York, arrest
ng six men and two women charged with
manufacturing and passing trade and stand
ard silver dollars.
FoUR-YEAR-oLD boy, son of a miner at
Shenandoah, Penn, approached an~eighbor's
dog, when the animal seized the child,
dragged him into its kennel and mangled him
to death.
THIRTEEN native Nubians, said to be the
first of the race to visit this country, arrived
New York n few days since for the pur-
pose of exhibition.
BY the burning of the extensive sawmills at
Bradley, Me-, a loss of about 1925, 900 was in
CURED and POO men were thrown out of EN-
ployment.