The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-11
LATER NEWS

WHEN the Western cold wave struck New
f gland and the Middle States the Their
mometer dropped to extraordinarily low
figures in many places particularly IN
Vermont At Innbridge, VT, the mercury
fell To 40 degrees below zero; Royalston, 10
degrees; Newbury, 30 degrees
ALICE MAJOR ard Sarah Marsden, two
hghly-connected an culture young ladies',
we're drowned while skating on the Susque-
hama river, near Forty Fort, Penn.
TIE total catch of ma krel by the New
England fleet last year was % $50 barrels,
decrease of l52,1iS barrels over the previous
years catch
DIR EDWARD LAsKER, distinguished Ger
man statesman who had been on n VISIT 10
this country since last May. died suddenly III
New York a few days since of heart disease
COLD wea her such as has not been fe t in
years has prevailed all over the West and
Northwest, and many cases of persons ire
ing to death have been reported In Dakota
the weather has been the coolest ever known,
the thermc meter at Jamestown falling t.
forty eight degrees be'ow zero. At other
points in the West the thermometer fell TO the
following figures below zero Bismarck, Da-
kota, %: Omaha, Neb., 81; Dubu lue, Iowa.
50; Detroit, 80; Chica 90, %; Cincinnati, 20;
st Louis, %; Cleveland, II; Chattanooga,
Tenn, .
The newly-built Park theatre, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire, aut
a total loss Of S25O,C0O sustained
A FIRE at Belleville, Ill.,, thirteen miles
from st. Louis, destroyed the Convent of the
Imma ruate Come ltion and was atten led
with a terrible destruction of human life
The flame, originated in furnace in the
basement and spread with fearful rauidity.
There were about sixty p ipils in the convent
a girls from eight years to adult age, ana
about twenty five of them persisted in the
flames. beside the sister superior and three
other sisters.
A BOY AMI girl named Hines, six and
seven years old, were frozen to death in theii
bed at lndel endence, Iowa.
In the case of the New Orleans Nationa
bank against the New Or,ca is posSm lister
Judge Parlee, of the Unitel States circuit
C lurt, has decided that the latter has no righ
t. interfere with the deliverancc of tht
formers mail 1t was chargeu that tine banl
was acting as agent for, an receiving TIL
mail Of the Louisiana Lottery company; and
the postmaster, acting under orders from
Washington. refused to deliver the bank
mai, whereupon that institution got out an
injunction. The motion to dissolve this in
junction was argued by Attorney-Genera
Brewster in person at New Orleans The
court lie 'ded in favor of the bank, decrecine
| that it was entitled to the full and free use o
the mails, and further orderel that the mo
ton to dissolve the injunction be denied.
LAST year the various Unit ID States mint'
coined 1Oi. G0O,24S gold and silver pieces
worth 5000 2,ii9.
1 THE House committee on pensions propose
| to reduce the number of agencies whor
finds are disbursed from eli -hteen TO ten oi
Twelve. at the most prominent Commercial
nters.
Two of the nihiliss who took part Mt st.
! Peters urg in the murder Of Lieutenant
! G. ,lonpl SuJeiln have died of injuries re
ceiVed.
! GERMANY and Russia are combining TO
protection against the plots of the socialist
and nihiists. Il conference lasting two day
having talk, II place at FREDERICKSBURG betwee
Prime, i,marcl and Prince Orloff, the Ru:
sian ambassador t. Paris.