The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-21
South and West

SIXTEEN masked men forcibly entered the
Jail at Danville, Ark, seized John Coker and
DR.. Flood, took them to the iron bridge across
Petit Jean river, and hanged them. Coker
was accused of leading into an ambuscade a
party in search of Danville outlaws several
weeks ago, in which two men We're kill ed
Flood was accused of harboring the outlaws
FROM nearly all parts of the West and
Northwest have come reports of the immense
damage done to crops by early frosts. In
numerous localities the late crops have been
totally ruined. Many farmers are respondent
over their heavy reverses.
DEER are dying in large numbers in Vir-
ginia of a disease called black tongue.
HERMAN REDFIELD, a Michigan ex-senator,
shot himself in his cemetery lot at Monroe.
He left a letter saying he was going to die on
the only piece of property he owned in tn
world, and inclosing $3S for his funeral ex
penses. A wife and daughter survive him.
E. D. CowEN, city editor of the Leadville
Coll Herdld, was knocked down and beaten
with probably fatal result by Alderman c..
c. Joy. While kicking and stamping upon
the PROSTATE man Joy held a cooked revolver
in his hand, to keep any one from interfering
A RUNKE man was knocked off a Chica-
go street car by the conductor for refusing
to pay his fare, and as he lay still the police
took it for granted he was dead, and carried
him to the morgue, where the body was
placed on ice. While a large force of police
were hunting for the conductor the supposed
corpse revived, and in a short time the man
walked to the station house.
HENRY B. BLESSING, a st. Louis engineer,
fired six shots into his brother-in-law's body,
inflicting fatal wounds; then fired two shots
at his wife, dangerously injuring her, and
wound up his bloody work by cutting his own
throat from ear to ear.
Much damage has been done to shipping
and other property by a heavy storm on the
North Carolina coast. At Smithville many
houses were unroofed, and a number of
wharves washed away.
Four of the cadets of the United States
naval academy at Annapolis, Nd, have been
dismissed upon the recommendation of a
. court martial for hazing.
AT Trinity, Texas, Major H. B.. Hurlock, a
mill owner, and his son, w. H. Hurlock, aged
twenty-five years, were shot by one of their
employees named Roseman, twenty-three
years of age. The father was killed and the
son MORALLY wounded. A young son of
Major Hurlock had been annoying Roseman,
who, in e~ndeavoring to make him desist, acct
dentally injured the child's foot. The major
showered abuse and blows upon Roseman.
The latter, declining to resent this treatment,
the major called to his son to come out and
whip Roseman. The sons blows quickly put
Roseman on the ground, when the latter drew
a revolver and shot his adversary through the
head and heart. The major then reached for
his pistol and Roseman shot him also. After
being filed with goose shot by other mill EN-
ployes, Roseman surrendered.
BARBARA MILLER, colored, was hanged at
Richmond, Va, for completely in the murder
of her husband in February last. Charles
henry Lee, her %accomplice, was hanged on
August 8. The hanging took place in the
j~ail-yard of the Henrico county court, and
was witnessed by about 100 people.
MILTON c. KEENAN,, treasurer Of jackson
county, Ohio, disappeared, and investigation
proved him to be a defaulter in a sum not
less than $1,000.