The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

known finanCier is about making n tour OF
the world. was launched on the Schuylkill,
at Philadelphia, in the presence of a large
party of invited guests and thousands of
spectators.
ABOUT $4,000 persons, many of them work
ingmen and women, viewed the remains of
Peter Cooper in church on the day of the
funeral of the great philanthropist. The
mayor and all the New York municipal de-
partments, with hundreds of prominent citi-
zens, attended the o~bsequies, and Broadway,
along which the long funeral cortege passed,
was packed with people. The body was con-
veyed to Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn.
GEORGE PALEN d Co., New York wholesale
leather dealers, have failed for about $780,
0o0.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has expressed his in
tention of taking p TT in the Decoration day
ceremonies in New York.
WILLIsToN, KNIGHT & Co., New York
wholesale dealers in buttons, owing to the
defalcation of II. Williston Knight, lately a
junior partner, 10 the extent of about $780,
COO, have been compelled to suspend. Henry
III. and Washington Tobias, two of the heirs
of the late Alfred Tobias, of New York, of
whose estate they were trustees, have also
embezzled from Il estate to the extent of
about $4,000.
AT a special meeting of the State commit
tee of the National Greenback-Labor party,
in Albany, N. Y, about thirty representa-
tives attended. An address to the people of
the State was issued and a State convention.
TO be held at Rochester, September 4, was
decided upon.
A FIvE-sroRY brick store in Rochester, N.
Y, fell with a crash early in 1.-THE morning,
just as fifteen workmen had commenced
their days avocation at remodeling it. They
were all, with the exception of two, carried
down with or buried in the ruins. Two of
the work1nen were instantly killed, a third
fatally injured, and seven others hurt more
or less seriously.
E. CHAMBERLAIN, al employee at the Brod-
rick c%olliery, near Wikesbarre, Penn, fell
into the breaker and was ground to pieces.
ONE of the buildings of the American
Powder company at Acton, Mass. ,!exploded
the other morning, killing two men.
A BILL abolishing the contract system
in prisons and reformatory institutions has
been passed by the Pennsylvania house of
delegates.
The sheriff of Lawrence, Mass, has taken
possession of all the property owned by the
Augustinian society, which recently failed
for a large amount.
IT has been discovered that W. B. Carroll,
once a clerk in the New York comptroller's
Office, but now dead, had robbed the city of
about 100000 by getting interest coupons
on city bonds cashed two or three times
over.
GEORGE THINKERS committed suicide in
Germantown, Penn, after three days of
married life.
PETER COOPER left 100000, of which
100000 goes to the Cooper Union, S24O,OOO
to relatives, friends and servants, and the
rest to his son and daughter.
ALL the extensive buildings of the Knicker-
booker Ice company at North Boothbay, Me-,
were burned, and CO,O0O tons of ice were
ruined.
A BILL prohibiting the performance of the
Passion play passed the New York senate.
a BANQUET was given at Philadelphia &c
Congressman William d. Kelley on the &C.
casion of his sixty-ninth birthday.
a FiENlAh tleillC Idu lIAO a. IdSStLStl
train at Bound Brook, n. j., and wrecked
one of the cars, filed with people. Fourteen
pers ons were injured.
TpE New York medical profession gave
dinner 10 DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Abou
225 PERSONS were present, and responses t.
toasts were made by William NJ. Evarts
George William Curtis and others. Doctol
Holmes read a humorous poem,
MAJOR ELLIS p. PHIPPs, ex-superintendent
of the Philadelphia almshouse, a defaultel
for a large sum ard a fugitive from Justice,
was brought back to the Quaker City from
Hamilton, Ontario, by officers of the law.
GENERAL DIAz, ex-president of Mexico,
was given a farewell dinner in New York
Among the speakers of the evening being
General Grant, Senator Morgan, of Alabama
Mr.. Loring, United States Commissioner o.
y agriculture, and others.
Ara dinner given by the Jefersonian club
= of Newark, N. j., to commemorate Thoma,
: JefTerson's birthday, addresses were delivered
by Hon. Samuel j. Randall, ex-senator W
, ". Eaton, of Connecticut, Ex-Governor Cur
tin, of Pennsylvania, Hon. S. S. Cox ant
other prominent Democrats.
SIXTY-NISE evlcted irish farmers arrive
in Philadelphia OH I'm ocean steamship
Many evicted Irish families also arrived il
Boston.
A BROADWAY New York city, fire de
| stroj cd the building occupied by the Brad
street Commercial agency and othe
. firms, doing damage to the extent of nearl
$4,000.
PRINCESS LOUISE was met at Boston by he
husband, Lord Lorne, governor general o
Canada, on her return from Bermuda.
L OLNEY BURGESS, of Foster, X. l., Will
making a social call upon Daniel and Henri
~Burlingame, at Killingly, Conn, suddenl
drew a revolver and shot Daniel, slight
~injuring him. In a struggle for possessio,
of the pistol Henry was dangerously wounded
"A ball entering his nostril. Burgess returne
to Rhode Island, where he was arrested bu
died in Jail from poison elf-administered.