The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-09
South and West.

MOSES FRALEY, an extensive St Louis
speculator in grain, has failed for about ST.
100000. By a sudden rise in wheat he lost
$250,OOO in less than an hour
THOMAS l.. THOMPSON and Daniel Jones
twhite), Jack Womankiller (Cherokee, John
Davis Choctaw) and Fanny Echols negress),
convicted in the United States Court of muir
der in the Indian Territory, and Mat Music
negro, convicted of criminal assault in the
Indian Territory, have been sentenced to be
hanged on Friday, July H.
EX-GOVERNOR HENRY NJ MATHEWS. of
West Virginia, died at his home in Lewis
burg, w. Va, aged fifty years. He had
served in tn Conf derate army. was elected
attorney-g neral of West Virginia, and gov
ernor in 1916.
AN explo sion of dynamite at stone quarry
near El.ettsville, Ind, hurled huge timberi
and pieces of iron in every direction, kill
one man and injured twelve, Several with
fatal effect.
ONE night rec emily Hiram jefferson was
taken from his home at Audubon, Ia, by
three men and hanged. His son, Cicero Jetfer-
son, has confessed that he and his brothers
in-law, j. j. Wilson AMI j. A. Smyth, were
the murderers.
WILLIAM NEAL, the last of the three men
imp icated in the as ault and murd n of three
children at Ashland. Ky, has been sentenced
to DEATH 1t was the attempt to lynch these
three men VIII oh led to a collision with tn ?
Kentucky militia and crowd AMI the death
of several men.
A FIRE at Hartford, Mich, destroyed the
Van Buren, County poorhouse, and fifteen in
mates lost their lives.
SHERIFF ATKINS. of Boone county, w.
Va, was visited at his house by band of
robbers, who demanded his money, and upon
his refusal to give it up they Shot him dead.
The robbers next visited Alanson j. Woods
farmhouse and fatally shot Mr.. Woods and
I'LL f- A lNs.,.t but flrttr 1nA
off by his daughter at the point of a revolver.
Two hundred cit, ems went in pursuit of the
murderers, and three of them-Scott Hill,
Brownlow Hill and Charles Spurlock-
captured and taken to st. Adams A crowd
of 200 took the Hill brothers away from the
! Officers and hangel them. Spurlock was spir'
tied away by officers to Charles own.
FOUR robbers entered bank at Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, and shot and killed the
cashier, George Geppert, and fatally
wounded the president, f. w Payne. Then
they fled without securing any money. A
large crowd of citizens followed and captured
them. Their imprisonment in jail was short,
however for a crowd took three Of them out
and hanged them; the fourth was shot TO
death in his cell
A TORNADO VIII h struck thu town of Del
Rio, Texas killed one man, badly injured
| five more, swept away the n w Epi copal
Oh ii sc .eral abins, and damaged
many 9th r buildings.
EDWARD THOMPSON, of Roland. Iowa,
struck his wife with an ak, when his broh her
interfered. Stru ygling togethe", the two
| me fell into n well and were both killed.
Mrs Thompson was mortal y injured
WILLIAM MCHUGH and Enoch Brown
| (colCred) were hanged for wife murder-the
former at Cincinnati and the latter at Hall
fax Court House, n c. For similar crime
William. Brooks lcoloredl wa, swung into
eternity at Alexandria, La.