The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern ana Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
WHEN new gas well, recently opened in
Westmoreland county, Penn, was lit the
fame shot upward $50 feet, and illuminated
the country for miles It's rear was terrific,
and could be heard for three miles. BY its
intense action houses we're shaken within the
radius of a mile The well was pronounced
by experts to be the largest ever developed.
A. II. ROWLAND, clerk of the county court
at PittSburg Penn, has been arrested upon
the charge of having embezzled nearly S47,-
600 during two terms of Office.
TwENTY-NINE horses were burned to death
in a Philadelphia stable.
THE schooner James Wade is reported to
have gone down in Lake Erie with her crew
of seven men.
A MARRIAGE in high life is reported from
PiItsburg, Penn, where Patrick O Brien,
professionally known as the Irish giant, has
been united to Miss Christine Duerz, the Ger
man giantess Both are on exhibition in a
Pittsburg museum.
A New York court has decided that the
trustees of the Brooklyn bridge are not per-
sonally liable for the disaster on that struc-
ture, resulting from ranic by which several
lives were lost last Decoration day.
COMMODORE JOHN NJ BERRIEN, retired
officer of the United States navy, died the
other day in Philadelphia. He was mid
vi luc lllSult OOilSltudllOllt ONti
fifty-eght years ago.
PENN octogenarian, awoke the other night
and found the cold arms of his dead wife
clasped around his neck.
JOHN CHISHOLM was hanged at Newark,
n. j., for the murder five months ago of his
wife, whose life he hal often threatened, and
who was living apart from him.
JOHN McKEoN, New York's district at
torney, ex-member of Congress and for many
years one of the most prominent Democrats
in the city, died suddenly the other day, aged
seventy eight years.
A MEETING in the interest of free trade,
held at the Cooper Institute, New York, was
presided over by Henry Ward Beecher and
addresses WEI made by Henry Watterson
and Others.
THE Railway, On. j. rational bank was
compelled by heavy run to suspend. The
trouble is said to be only temporary.
South and West.
SAMUEL HENRY, OF Swanton, Ohio, sh t
and killed his wife, and tried to kill his
daughter, Mrs. Liba. He then shot himself
dead. They had been married about year,
she being the widow OF Mr.. Stevens when
Henry married her.
FORTY masked and armed men took pos
session of the mine at Marshall Basin, Colo
RADIO, and made the workmen quit after
shooting and killing one.
A STATEMENT of the recent gales on the
great lakes shows a loss of fifty-tive lives and
sixty vessels. Twenty-six vessels, represent
ing value of $780, are total losses.
THE Miss ssippi Valley bank, of Vicisburg,
Miss, has suspended.
GENERAL AUGUSTUS C. DODGE, formerly
United States Senator aud minister to Spain
for eight years, del in Burlington, Iowa, a
few days since, aged seventy-two years
EX-SENATOR GEORGE Z. SPENCER. of Ala
bama, was afreste at Austin, New, by
order of Attorney General Brewster for con
tempt of court in no. appearing as witness
in the star route cases. Spencer denied elu-
ding the officers. He left Austin with two
deputy marshals for Washington.
DURING a severe rain storm dozen house.
at Piedmont, Mo-, were swept away by the
rising waters OF a creek, and two women and
three children were drowned
THE propeller Manistee, from Duluth
Mimi. bound for Ontonagon, foundered il
Lake Superior during the recent heavy gales
and twenty-five persons on board are sup
posed to have been lost.
EDWARD PAYNE, cashier of the First
National bank at Rushville, Ind, was shot
dead by burglar, who had entered his houst
for the evident purpose of robbery.
JACOB CROUCH, his daughter and her hus-
band, and a guest from Texas, were found
murdered in the formers farmhouse neal
jackson, Mich. Robbery was the motive Of
the crime.
A NUMBER Of people were drowned anc
great destruction of property has beer
caused by heavy foods resulting from long
cont nued rains in various parts of Illinoi,
Indiana and Missouri