The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-08
Fl WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

ONE thousand bicyclists, representing
clubs from various parts of the country, took
part in the annual parade in New York.
SINCLAIR and Halliday, defaulting and
fugitive New York clerks, arrested in Cuba,
were the first prisoners under the amended
extradition treaty with Spain, which permits
embezzlers to be captured.
NICHOLAS ~VANDENBURGH, a wealthy resi-
dent of Bacon Hill, N. Y, went to the assist
ance of a man named johnson, who had been
overcome by gas at the bottom of a well
eighty feet deep, and was in turn Frustrated.
Mrs. Vandenburgh descended to try and
rescue her husband, when she too was suffo-
Gated. Vandenburgh and wife were dead
when taken finally from the well.
New York city never before witnessed
such a magnificent procession as that which
the President of the United States reviewed
at the Worth monument on Decoration day.
Business was entirely suspended, al public
buildings and thousands of private dwellings
were bedecked with flags, and the ceremonies
in the many cemeteries near the city were
impressive and attended by large crowds.
The New York police are still raiding the
Chinese opium joints. In a raid on one Ct
the dens sixteen prisoners, four of them wo-
men, were taken.
A CONFERENCE of the iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated association COM
mittees, at Pittsburg, resulted in the formers
accepting the latter's scale of wages, whereby
aprobably prolonged strike has been averted.
A FREIGHT train fell through a bridge at
Stratford Hollow, VT, and the engineer and
fireman were killed and the cars consid-
erably wrecked.
By a vote of thirteen to eleven the board
of overseers of Harvard college refused to
confer the degree of LII. d. upon Governor
Butler.
EDWARD HANLAN, of Canada, won an easy
victory over John A. Kennedy, of Washing
ton, in the three-mile boat-race for $500 a
side at Boston. Hanlan rowed the three
miles in 1874. the best time on record.
Mrs. MARTIN DOUGLAS, of Huntsville, Pa,
about twenty-six years old, killed herself and
her three little children, ranging image from
six months to four years. She had shown
signs of insanity, and is supposed to have cut
her children's throats while asleep and then
put an end to her own existence.
JULES BARLET, OF anSlnGDu M L.,
committed suicide by taking laudanum. His
father and mother were starved to death
during the siege of Paris.
From statistics just gathered it is learned
that during the thirteen years between 1869
and 1882, the number of persons killed on
the railroads in New Jersey was 1902.
The Oldest priest in the United States il
the Rev. Father Havermans, of Troy, N. Y.
He has just celebrated the fifty-fourth year
of his priesthood and the forty-second as
Catholic Tastor at Troy.
MEETINGS of the Salvation army cause q
such disturbances in New Haven that the
police were instructed to put a stop to them
A HEAVY iron rail has been placed along the
center of the stairway on the East River
bridge where the recent ~frightful disast Q,
occurred; and passengers when they reach
this point are obliged to separate.
PHILADELPHIA is following New York in
breaking up Chinese opium dens.
REV. JON BROWN, DID,, of Newburg, N.
Y, is declared to he the Oldest Mason in tn c
United States, having been made a member
of a Newburg lodge on Jun 16, 1917, sky
six years ago.