The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
The great social event of the season in
New York has been the grand fancy dress
ball given by Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt
in her magnificent new residence on Fifth
avenue. More than 1000 guests, attired in
almost every conceivable variety of fancy
dress, participated. The music was furnished
by Gilmore's band, and the supper by Del
monico, and the ball is described as "an
event never equaled in the social annals of
the metropolis"
GEORGE W. CoNKLING, the slayer of William
IL. Haverstick, who was living with the
formers sister in a New York flat, has been
released from custody, the Judge holding
that the homicide was done in self defense
and therefore justifable.
FoUR more survivors of the lost Jeanette
arrived in New York on an ocean steamer
They are James H. Bartlett, fireman; John
Lauterbach, coal passer, and Herbert w.
Leach and Francis Manson, seamen. The
four men were in Engineer Melville's boat,
and had remained in Siberia to help Ensign
Hunt, of the Rodgers search expedition-in
whose charge they have returned to this
country-to look for Lieutenant Chips lost
boat.
E. G. WIEcHMANN & Co., New York whole
sale dealers in woolens, one of the oldest and
largest houses in that line in the city, have
failed, owing 100000.
DIR. LEWIS SWIFT, director of the Warner
observatory at Rochester, N. Y, has received
from United States Minister Levi p. Morton,
at Paris, $40 francs, the La Lande prize of
the Paris academy of science awarded each
year to the astronomer most distinguished
during the year. silver medal accompanies
the cash prize.
The Pennsylvania assembly declared the
seat of N. l.. Dukes, the slayer of Captain
Mutt, vacant, and ordered new election
HERMAN NEWMAN, a widower, sixty years
of age, prominent merchant of st. Clair,
Penn, hanged himself on the day set for his
marriage to young lady. Opposition to
his marriage by his three daughters is given
as the cause of his act.
FRANK BYRNE, late secretary of the Irish
National league, arrived in New York in an
ocean steamer from France. Widespread
interest in him has been aroused recently
from the fact that his extradition from
France was unsuccessfully sought by the
British government on the charge of com.
plicity in the Phoenix park murders, found
ed on the testimony of Carey, the Dublin In.
former.
New YORK mercantile agency states that
the failures in the United States during
the FIST three months of 1888 were 2,S06,
against 2,127 for the same period of last year,
an increase of 10. The liabilities show
about proportionate increase to the number
of failures, being for the current quarter
just closed $37, 100000 as against $4,000, 900
for 1882.
The hanging of Mrs. Emeline L. Meaker,
aged forty-two years, for the murder of her
husbands half sister, Alice Meaker, eleven
years old, took place at Windsor. Vt. Mrs.
Meakers son, Almon, nineteen years of age,
aided her in poisoning the little girl and then
hiding her body. He afterward confessed
the crime. Mrs. Meaker persisted to the
last that she was innocent and walked
firmly to the gallows. She is the first woman
hanged in Vermont. Her son is serving O
life imprisonment for participating in the
murder
-HoMAs WALDRoN. better know as
:" Brother Frank" president of st. Josephs
college, Buffalo, n. Y, was convicted of as
saulting six-year-old girl and sentenced to
five years Imprisonment.
r. d G. DEGENER, of New York, one of the
largest shipping firms in the South Ameri-
can trade, have failed with liabilities for
100000. The creditors are mostly New
York banks. The revolution in Ecuador was
the principal cause of the firms embarrass-
ment.
1HrRTY-sEvEN barges, containing 100000
bushels of coal, broke from their moorings
at Pittsburg, Penn, and swept down the river,
destroying everything in their path.
steamer and several barges filled with coal
were sunk. The loss is $4,000.