The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.


AN eieht-year-old boy died in New York
the other day of hydrophobia, caused by a
dog-bite received three years ago. The lad
suffered great agony before death came to
his relief.
SPARKS from burning barn ut Middle
town, Pa, were borne by high wind all
over the town, and set fire to n number of
buildings, one of which was destroyed The
roors of several houses were on fire stimuli
taneously, and for time there was panic
among the citizens.
PATRICK EGAN, ex-treasurer OF the Irish
land league, whose sudden disappearance
from Dublin recently excited much COM
ment, arrived in New York the other day on
an ocean steamer. He states that private
business matters alone bring him to this
country.
The farmers in several New York coun-
lies struck against the New York city
wholesale milk dealers because they refused
to pay more than three cents a quart for
milk, the demand of the farmers being three
and one-half cents. The farmers have COM
bined and formed an association for their
protection. The total milk supply of the
city is about 10,00) cans a day, and by the
strike the quantity was lessened to the ex-
tent of 1000 cans.
EMMETT O'NEILL, Schenectady On. W
broker who failed recently, fed and then it
was discovered that by means of forged
mortgages and notes he had fleeced many
farmers and others out of not less than
S2lO,OOO
II is proposed to hold an international
dairy exhibition, probably at Utica, N. Y,
to begin early in October next and last until
late in January. The proposed exhibition
is intended to be the largest ever given in the
United States, and dairy and agricultural
products from all countries will be ex-
hibited.
AN independent convention at Providence,
X. l., nominated Ex-Governor Sprague for
governor.
BILL prohibiting the cremation of hui
man bodies under heavy penalties has been
introduced into the Pennsylvania senate.
| NOT guilty was the verdict of the jury in
the case of Nicholas l.. Dukes, the young
lawyer on trial at Uniontown, Penn, for the
murder of Captain A. c. Mutt, cashier of the
State treasury. 1t will be remembered that
Captain Mutt had charged Dukes with ruin
ing his daughter, and that during an alter
cation in a hotel between the two men the
former was shot dead. The Judge expressed
dissatisfaction with the verdi, It; citizens of
Cnionown hanged Dukes and tho jurors in
effigy, and an indignation meeting was
called.
New York city is to have a Chinese the
atre.
A FIRE at East Hartford, Conn, destroyed
the house of Hannah and Elizabeth Judson.
| Both women were burned to death.
AUGUSTUS o. BoURN was nominated for
governor by the Rhode Island Republican
State convention at Providence, together
with full ticket
AT an indignation meeting held in Union
town, Penn, speeches were made and reso-
lutions passed condemnatory of the action of
the jury which rendered a verdict of acquit-
Mutt. The jury were Missed When they ap-
peared on the streets, and m ost of them left
town. dozen ef1igies of Dukes were hung
on gas lamps land telegraph poles, and the
excitement over the acQuittal was intense.
A SLIGHT fire at $3.50 A. NJ. in the Delevan
house, Albany, N. Y, filled the building with
smoke and caused many members of the
State legislature who roomed there to hastily
depart in scanty apparel.
ST. PArRIoK's day was celebrated in New
York city by the usual procession of Irish
societies.
PART of street was blown up, several
buildings were damaged and four persons
seriously injured by an explosion of gas in
| Boston.
The New York State board of health has
discovered that out of 119 samples of food
sixty were adulterated, and that of seventy
five samples of drugs thirty-two were adul-
terated.
For a wi.er of SOD William Lewis, a
Philadelphia pro fes-ional rat catcher, tried
TO pick up and place in barrel 100 live rats
in sixty minutes. After picking up eighty
rats and he ewing numerous bites from the
startled rodents, Lewis abandoned the re-
voting attempt for lack of time to com