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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
A Graphic Recital.

The number of people killed by the cyclone
in Rochester is stated by a later account to be
at thirty-four and the number of the wounded
at eighty-two OF the latter nine were ia
tally injured. The wind swept diagonally
across the town, covering the space of mile
and three-quarters in length by three-quarters
of mile in width, in which every building,
some 800 i'll number was virtually destroyed,
with their contents The damage will reach
half a million dollars At Gas in the morn
ing the southwest quarter of the heavens as
sumed a sickly, greenish tint, which changed
to copper-color, then to bronze. 1t was noted
that decided and dreadful inverted cone
with a height seemingly Unreasonable
and murkiness appalling, with the
speed OF cannon ball came
down the valley at Silver Creek. and when
within half mile of the city its roar could
be heard fully 800 feet in the air. 1t rose,
and in its whirling mass were trees and stones,
animals ard debris of every conceivable
description. The dome of the courthouse
melted from view, trees We're snapped and
twisted and lifted bodily into the air with
tons of earth clinging to their roots. Fiji
tcen minutes of this and the monster
had ceased. By s o'clock the stars crept out,
and there was calm and silence, save as broken
by the groans of the wounded and dying. All
night long by the fitful light of lanterns and
the moon citizens from outside toiled torender
succor to the distressed. BY sunrise those of
the wounded who had friends were taken TO
private houses A majority were taken
to a large hall in Broadway The wounded
were in horrible plight generally.
Childish faces are seen with wounds SO ghast-
ly that even physicians shuddered as hey
used the sponge and the needle. 1t is be
lieved the cyclone formed about six miles
south OF Dodge Centre, a small town in an adj
joining county, and Travelled sixty miles from
the southwest in a northeasterly direction,
passing near Kasson and through Rochester.
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buildings near Naples, and to the railway

buildings near Naples, and to the railway
running up The mountain.
A TERRIFIC battle has been fought in
| AMMAN between the French and the Annamese
A French force 1000 strong, supported by
| five gunboats, moved from Hanoi on the town
of Phouhai, in which $1,000 Annamese troops
were intrenched. The French troops adj
vanced several times, but owing to heavy floods
and the desperate resistance of the Anna
| mese could make no Roadway, and were
| forced to retire to Hanoi, pursued by the
| enemy. The French loss was forty-two
killed, including thirty Chinese allies, and
| fifty-four wounded. The Annamites' loss
was put at 1900 Many villages were also
| destroyed by floods and thousands of lives
lost.
AT least one hundred and sixty persons
have died with the cholera in Little Town.
San Dionesto and Oaxaca Mexico, in the
past month. The disease is not the Asiatic
cholera, but the local disease which exists in
Mexico every summer.
HAIzIUoNG, the capital of an Annamite
province, near Hanoi, has been taken by the
French, who captured $50 cannon and $780,.
600 in cash.
TWELVE decomposed bodies of children
have been discovered in the establishment of
an undertaken at Bermondsey, suburb of
London
RIoTING between Catholics and Orangemen
was renewed near Coatbridge, Scotland. The
police checked the disturbances and made
thiIty-four arrests.
THE repulse of the French in Tonquin has
disheartened them and encouraged the enemy
1t is thought that 10000 French troops will
be required to carry on the war.
ADvICEs from Peru state that the troops
under Sub-Prefect Vivera, while on the way
from Ignari to Sayan, refused to proceed and
fell upon the officers, killing Rivera and two
captains. Three soldiers also were killed.
The next day, upon the arrival of a detach-
ment of Peruvian cavalry, fourteen of the
culprits were hanged
CoMTE DE CHAMBoRD, head of the house
of Bourbons and royalist claimant to
the throne of France, is dead. The Comte
de Paris succeeds him in the claim to rule
over France Upon the announcement of his
death the French royalist papers appeared in
mourning The Gdutois of Paris, in an
nouncing the death, said: Henry the Fifth
is dead Long live Philippe the Seventh ~
meaning the Comte de Paris.
By the falling of scaffold at the king of
Bavarias new palace at Lake Chem twenty
three workmen were killed and seventeen in
jured.
AN insurrection has broken out against the
ameer of Afghanistan.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31

met on the street, quarreled, and fought,
each shooting the other, inflicting mortal
wounds
LATER reports from Minnesota show that
by the cyclone at Rochester ten business
blocks were unroofed, two brick blocks blown
down, 800 dwelling houses totally destroyed
and 200 more badly injured. Thirty-one in
jured persons were taken TO the hospital and
ten TO their homes. Thirty-four persons were
killed. Nearly all were laboring people, and
their houses, money and clothing are gone.
Outside the town many more persons were
killed or severely injured. The damage done
in Rochester alone amounts to about $500 900,
and in the country districts to $500, 900 more
The storm passed along a section of country
sixty miles long, and from three-quarters of
a mile to two and a half miles in width.
LARGE number of people left Pensacola,
Fla, on account of the prevalence of yellow
fever at the navy yard.
DoLLARvILLE, Mich, town of about 800
inhabitants, and the headquarters of the
American Lumber company, has been nearly
destroyed by fire, twenty of the principal
buildings being burned. Two children were
burned to death. The loss is $120,000
IT was believed that ut the trial of Frank
James, the Missouri train robber, the defense
had won half the fight in getting the jury.
There were eighty-nine witnesses for the
prosecution and thirty mine for the defense.
THREE negroes charged with the murder of
W. F. Shepard were convicted at Chatham,
Va, and sentenced to be hanged Septem-
Der %.
LATEST reports from Rochester, Mimi, fix
the number of deaths there caused by the cy-
clone at twenty.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
NEW RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY.
The Leaders of the ''Pilgrim Band''
Claiming the Power to Work Mira
cles--The Sect Spreading.

A st. Louis dispatch says: A religious
community, which seems to bear close simi
larity to that of Oneida, has just been discov-
cred in Schuyler county, ILL.,, in the disposi-
ton of a case by Judge John c. Bagley, of
that county. The prosecuting witnesses in
the case were number of members
of the Pilgrim Band, a religious organization
started a year ago at Rushville, Schuyler
county, by Called A. Obenstain, a dismissed
Methodist preacher. He soon gathered about
100 followers and was then joined by another
evangelist named Rayburn, also an ex-
Methodist preacher, and between them they
organized the Pilgrim band, over $50 strong,
and settled on the outsirts of Irwin, a small
village few miles from Rushville. Having
settled they soon began to wander further Off
from the general ideas of religious orthodoxy.
The leaders assumed to possess the power
of working miracles and claimed to cure by
the touch of the hand combined with faith
and prayer. Rayburn was credited with
omnipotence and his name was made to take
the place of that of the Deity. This aroused
the anger of orthodox residents, which was
increased when the Spiritual Wife dogma
was accepted publicly by the pilgrims.
Visions also became common part of the
community's faith. What finally aroused the
people at large to action was the way in which
Obenstain collected money to build the temple
now in process of completion. The subscrip-
ton lists were filed rapidly, several of the
infatuated pilgrims running themselves and
their families in order to provide the needed
money.
On July a crowd of citizens wrecked the
tent, broke up the meeting that was in pro-
gress, and made the pilgrims flee for their
lives, Obenstain having narrow escape.
Several arrests were made, and the defend
ants were tried and fined. The Pilgrim band
is groying rapidly, and the success of its
prosecuting movements is being shown
throughout Schuyler and in several Of the
Oh io;ninO counties
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Foreign.

CETEwAYo, the Zulu king, whose death was
reported, has recovered from the wounds re-
ceived in the late engagement in South Africa
between his forces and the insurgents, and
has made a request of Queen Victoria that she
will have full inquiry made into the treat
ment he has received.
RIOTS, caused by the opposition of the
people to the use of the Hungarian language
in official notices, have occurred in various
towns in Croatia, Troops interviewed to quell
them.
THREE policemen were shot, two danger
ously, the other evening during the eviction of
Dennis Renshawe, an Orangeman, from his
tenancy in county Down, Ireland. While
the evicters were advancing toward Rem
shawe's house volley was fired at them
Renshawe was arrested.
A TERRIFIC storm in Northwest Ontario
swept away several bridges and buildings and
destroyed large quantity of standing grain.
THE Mark Lane Express London prints
reports from 361 districts in England and
Wales in regard to the harvest of 1888 In
239 of the districts the Indications are that the
wheat crop will be under the average yield;
in eighty-nine there will be an average yield,
and in thirty-three the crop will be above the
average. Many of the reports state that
wheat is thin, blighted and widowed. The
other crops are reported to be above the
average.
THE election in Sligo county, Ireland, to
fill the seat in the house of commons made
vacant by the death of Mr.. Denis Maurice
OConor, home ruler, resulted in the return
of Mr.. Nichols Lynch, the home rule candi-
date, who received / 1896 votes, against ], O9O
for Mr.. Kane O'Hara, the conservative can
didate.
ONE miner was instantly killed and twenty
more were severely burned by an explosion in
a collierv near Cardiff, Wales.
A SERIOUS riot has occurred in the town of
Coatbridge, Scotland, between bodies of
Orangemen and Catholics. The rioting
lasted two days, and fifty rioters were ar
rested Many of the rioters were badly
beaten, and several policemen were danger
ously injured.
Mr.. LYNCHs election 70 parliament from
county Sligo is regarded as great personal
victory for Mr.. Parnell, leader of the home
rulers.
A CoNsTANTINoPIE dispatch says that brig
ands have captured the governor and several
councillors of Florian, near Salonica. They
demand 100000 for the ransom of the cap
tives
FRENCH troops attacked Haidoung, in
AMMAN. France has notified the powers that
ships bound for Annamese ports will be
searched. China is also making active pre-
parations for war
A LANDLORD in Breslau, Germany, muir
dered his five children by hanging them and
then committed suicide
Mr.. WILLIAM WINDOW, ex-secretary of
the treasury Of the United States, was enter
tanned at a banquet in London. United
States Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, Con-
gresham Reed, of Maine, several members
of parliament, and other prominent per-
sonages were present
MOUNT VEsUvIUs is in a state of remark
able activity The continuous trembling of
the soil has resulted in considerable injury to
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
South and West.

kIRTLAND M. FITCH, the defaulting cashier
of the National bank at Warren, Ohio, was
arrested in Detroit, Mich
ACTING under instructions from the depart
ment of agriculture, Chicago pork packers
have determined to arrange for thorough
official inspection of all hogs brought to and
slaughtered in that market, to the end that
European complaints of infected pork from
this country may be slenced, which may pos
sibly result in the taking off of the embargo.
GREAT crowd was present in Gallatin,
No, at the opening of the trial of Frank
James, the notorious outlaw Four indict-
presented against James.
CITIZENS of Ell Paso, Texas, are taking
steps to have an American Mexican exhibition
next year
FIRE in Chicago partially destroyed the
Western Union Telegraph building, a five
story stone structure.
DR. +. w. p. BUTLER, son of United
States Senator NJ. c. Butler, while horseback
riding with young lady in Lancaster, s. c.,
was thrown from his horse and fatally in
jured.
ONh VI tne terrible cyclones which at inter
walls visits the West has wrought great de-
struction to life and property in and about
Rochester, MINI. Rochester, a handsome city
of about 5000 inhabitants, was partly laid in
ruins, and many persons were killed or in
Jured. Twenty-Five bodies were recovered
from the debris shortly after the cyclone had
passed A railroad train near the town WAS
blown from the track, and about 100 per-
sons were reported killed or injured. In the
country surrounding Rochester numerous
buildings were blown down. and many per
sons were killed or badly hurt
MRS. FOWLER, with her four-year-old
daughter and babe, sought shelter from a
storm under tree near Athens, Ala. Light
nlng killed the two former, while the baby
was found quietly clinging to the arms of its
lifeless mother.
All YUNG, a Chinaman, was hanged at
Missoula, Montana, for the murder Of another
Celestial
JAMES BLUE and John Smith, prominent
citizens OF Nevada, Mo, have been at sword
points for some time. woman being at the
lotion Of the trouble. The other day they
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
Washington.

A LETTER by Acting Secretary of the
Treasury French to the state department,
denies in emphatic terms that there is any
foot and mouth disease among cattle in this
country, as charged in the British house of
commons.
THE departments of state and justice were
closed on the day of Judge Jeremiah S..
Blacks funeral at York, Penn, in honor of
the dead ex-secretary of state
THE state department has sent to all the
diplomatic and consular offices of the United
States a circular announcing the death of
Judge Black, and closing as follows "You
will cause the flags of your respective offices
to be displayed at half-mast on the reception
of this circular and will adopt the usual sym
bols of public mourning for period of ten
days.
THE supervising inspector-general of steam
vessels reports that during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1885, the total number of acct
dents resulting in loss of life was "a, or Z less
than in 1882 OF these II were from explo-
sions, from fire, II from collisions, and t
from snags, wrecks and sinking. The total
number of lives lost by accidents from
various causes during the year was 2S4, or 20
more than in 1882. OF these 60 were due to
explosions or the accidental escape of steam,
50 to collisions 45 to fires, so to wrecks, SO to
accidental drowning, and to other causes
The main increase in the loss of life occurred
in accidents caused by collisions, As lives being
lost in excess of 1882
SURGEoNGEyERAL HAMILTON, of the Ma
rine hospital service, expresses the opinion
that the yellow fever is not likely to become
epidemic at Pensacola.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
AN AERONAUTS PERIL.
Hanging by Two Fingers From a
BaiIoon---MiraculOus Escape From
Death.


At Royan, on the Gironde in France, there
was few days since scene perhaps UMPIRE
cedented in the annals of ballooning. NJ
Gratien, a well-known aeronaut, was about
to make an ascent in a hot-air balloon called
" La Vidouvillaise.n Mile Albertine, the
heroine of several balloon ascensions, was
seated in the car, and NJ. Gratien was holding
in his right hand a loose coil tied to one of
the cords that served to attach the balloon
The balloon Unexpectedly broke loose. and
the cord, unrolling itself with lightning "a
pidity. caught in sort of running knot
around the first and second fingers of Ora
ITEMS right hand
Gratien was Immediately whisked off into
the air 600 meters high In vain he tried to
haul himself upon the cord and loop it over
his arm. After frantic efforts he became ex-
hausted and hung at the end of the cord sus-
pended only by his two fingers, and suffering
excruciatinS agony Owing to the jerk
ing of the balloon the cord cut like
razor through the flesh to the BONE
In that situation Gratien was carried to the
distance of nearly four miles, at the height of
600 meters above the earth. Mile. Albertine,
overcome by the horror of the situation,
tainted away and sank helpless to the bottom
of the bar
AS lhe All i'll tne DalOOn became cool tne
balloon descended, but bumped against the
earth in the midst of adense mass of thorny
shlubbery. Gratien was not only stripped of
his clothes but his skin was literally torn in
strips from his body as he was dragged for
nearly half mile through the thorny BRAN
bles. Finally some peasants managed to cut
the cord. Gratine appeared to be a mass Of
wounds and to be near bleeding TO death.
Strange to say he did not lose consciousness
for single instant. He suffered no internal
injury, and he probably will recover.
When the rope was cut and the balloon was
freed from the weight of Gratien's body it
again arose in the air, carrying off Mile. !
Abertine By singular good fortune it soon
landed in a marsh, and Mademoselle at last
stood on terra firma. She was sorely dis
tressed in mind and badly scared, but other
wise safe and sound.
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YELLOW FEVER
Appearance of the Dread Disease ON
the Atlantic Coast--The situation as
Pensacola.

the Atlantic COast--The Situation af
Pensacola.
Washington dispatch says The surgeon
general of the marine hospital service received
telegram last night from Surgeon White,
at Pensacola, as follows "No new cases at
navy yard last forty-eight hours. Eight
cases and three deaths reported to date
Villages of Warrington and Woolsey perfect
ly healthy. Fever confined TO yard, and
Hospital Surgeon Owen in critical condition y
Commodore English, acting secretary of
the navy, has received telegram from the
commandant of the Pensacola navy yard re-
questing that a court of inquiry be ordered to
inquire into the origin of the yellow fever at
the yard. In accordance with that request
the following court was to-day ordered
Lieutenant-C Commander William WEIGH
president; Liutenant Daniel Whipplo and As
sistant -Surgeon William Martin, with Gun
ner George Magruder as judge advocate.
The court will convene at Pensacola to-mor-
row. A telegram to the navy department
dated q Sts1 Yesterday, from Pensacola. says:
" Since last night no new cases. Woolsey
case and Private Sarger in the hospital died
last night.
The surgeon-gencral of the marine hospital
service has received report from Surgeon
Smith, in charge of the Cape Charles quaran-
lone, now in quarantine at that station She
left Cardiff, Wales, February 6, with a crew
of eleven persons The health of the crew re-
manned good until the cargo was discharged
at Vera Cruz. where seaman Soren
Aslagsen was taken down with yellow fever
and died in three days of black vomit. The
captain had the fever June 49, but recovered,
and the entire ships crew were taken down
III rapid succession. The Salome sailed from
Very Cruz June 26 for Galveston, where she
arrived July |, and was ordered to the outer
quarantine. The day following the first mate
was taken with the fever and died July g. A
passenger, Guerre, of New York, who
took passage at Vera Cruz, was at
tackled July and died July d. The
last death that of Ole fobiason, a
seaman, who was taken sick July and died
July IA, the day of sailing from Galveston,
making total of four deaths. One conval-
escent was left at Vera Cruz. An additional
unacclimated seaman was shipped at Calves
ton. On arrival at Lynn Haven Roads,
August IA, all were found comparatively well,
thirty-one days having elapsed since the last
death or case of any kind. The last man
shipped has thus far escaped the fever. The
vessel was fumigated and disinfected at Gal
weston.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
A DOUBLE CRIME.
CownrdIy Shooting of n Wife, Fol-
lowed by suicide.

A special from Selma, Ind, says; "Iast
night Mortimer Hill shot his wife in the
breast as she was lying in bed with her
babe, and then shot himself in the head
and through the heart. the latter wound caus-
ing instant death. Hill has been married but
a little more than a year. The couple have
lived unhappily, owing to his drinking hab-
its, and a short time ago he sent his wife to
her fathers, saying that he could not support
her. Last night he went to her fathers
house, crept TO the window of his wifes room
and did the shooting as described Mrs. Hill
was fatally wounded"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
A BIG REQUEST.
Nearly 81 ,OOO,OOO Left by n Bostonian
10 Help Pay the National Debt.

j. b. Gardner, a citizen of Boston, recently
deceased, provided by will that large sum
of money, bonds and other securities aggre-
eating in value 1881 600, should he turned
over to the United States treasury to he used
in helping to pay the national debt The be-
quest has been received at the treasury de
partment
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
A REIGN OF TERROR.
Christians Murdered in Albania by
Turks-Twenty-thr Viilages ADAM
damed.

dispatch from Cettinje, Montenegro, says
that reign of terror exists in the vilayet of
Kossovo, in Albania The Arnauts are
numbering the Christians, and all of
the latter who can get away are
fleeing from the country. The Turkish officials
connive at the outrages ON the Christians and
have arrested and exiled a number of priests
In the Ipek district ninety-two persons have
been murdered. Twenty-three villages have
been abandoned.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
A BIG REQUEST
Nearly 81, ZOO, 900 Left by a Bostonian
Ia Help Pay the National Debt.

deceased, provided by will that a large sum
of money, bonds and other securities aggre-
eating in value 1881 900 should be turned
over to the United States treasury, TO he used
in helping TO pay the national debt. The be.
quest has been received at the treasury de-
partment.
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