The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
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N. c. THOMPsoN's bank at Rockford ILL.,,
has suspended with liabilities of 100000
BOILER explosion in steam Touring
mill at Morton, ILL.,, killed the engineer and
two or three other men, who were buried in
the ruins, and fatally injured three more
men.
THE boiler of the Central Railroad compress
Mt Eufaula, Ala, exploded, killing four men
and niuring several others. About 400 bales
OF cotton We're burned. The total loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
TIE total losses by the recent floods in Wis
ronsin reach S2,00O,O0O.
THOMAS THURMAN, son of a reputable
minister of the gospel, i'll Jail at Bardstown.
ny, Tor murderous assault on colored
man, Drained fellow prisoner named Frank
feustez, who interfered to stop his torture of
boy confined in the same cell with him
a MASKED man entered the house of Will
liam JennisOn, school treasurer of Washing
ton township, Iowa, and demanded OF Mrs
Jennlson the school money. She replied that
II was Ill the bank, whereupon the intruder
drew his revolver, shot her dead and fled
JOHN &. CARLISLE, late Speaker of the
House, has been re nominated for Congress; in
Kentucky.
The sessions Of the American Forestry con-
gress at Saratoga. n. y. were well attended.
Animated discussions took place on the best
means of preserving the forests Of the coun-
try.
A PASSENGER train was thrown from the
track near Farmer City. Ill, at o'clock, A.
NJ, by broken rail. Attached to the train
was Il private car containing the Hon..
Thomas A. Hendricks and party en-
route to Peoria. ILL., This car rolled
down an embanknent fifteen feet and
turned bottom side up. 1t was with much
difficulty that tho occupants got out The
entire party were pretty severely shaken up
1,st,.1 Il.
bit not SO "a to interfere with his engage
nsnt at Peoria. Fifteen to twenty persons
In all were more or less seriously injured
BECAUSE he had been rejected by Mrs.
Penrose Garmon. a widow living near Homer
Centre, Ohio, Lehon Fry drew pistol and
shot her, inflicting a severe wound. Suppos-
Ing he had killed Mrs. Cannon, Fry blew
his brains out.
EDWARD REDDEN, horse thief, was SEN
fenced at Wilmington, Del, to pay the
costs of his prosecution, 500 restitution
money, $500 fine, one hour in the pllory,
twenty lashes, and to undergo eighteen
months imprisonment
AN earthquake shock, not so severe as that
which visited the Atlantic coast some weeks
ago, has been paying its compliments to sec
tiOns of the West, including Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky and
Iowa. A shock was also felt III Ontario.
People were alarmed more or less. according
to the strength of the shock and of their
nerves, but no material damage was reported.
GENERAL ALFRED SCALES, Democratic
candidate for governor of North Carolina,
had narrow escape from a terrible death
while riding in buggy with a friend on the
Cowee mountain, i'll jackson county. His
horse ran away and dashed over precipice.
The friend jumped out, but General Scales
went rolling down the mountain side, and
was only saved from death by lodging in a
tree. He escaped with dislocated ankle and
some bruises.
ISAAC JACOBSON was hanged in the county
Jail at Chicago. He murdered his employer
because the latter, to punish him for absence
on drunken spree, deducted one days pay.