The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
South and West.

ILLNESS from kidney trouble has led Biz
Horse one of the most prominent of the
Cheyenne chiefs in the Indian Territory, to
commit suicide by shooting himself in the
head with pistol
THE Virginia house adopted without de-
bate the senate's resolution calling upon
United States Senator Malone to resign.
AT Mineral Springs, Ark, two judges of
the supreme court were hanged i'll efiigy be-
cause they granted an appeal in the case of
three coored men sentenced to be executed
for murder.
FRANK WILLIAMS and John Gray killed
Orion kurtz, prominent citizen of Rosta,
Col, and were in turn taken from jail by
vigilants and lynched.
SAN Francisco is to have a bronze statue
of Garfield.
THREE brothers named Wilburn, of Jack
son county, Ala, quarreed with and as
saulted negro when man named Webb
interfered in the latters behalf. Webb was
fired upon. and drawing his revolver he
emptied il at the Wiburns, instantly killing
two of them and mortally wounding the
third
Ex-Governor JOHN LETCHER, of Vir-
ginia, whose death has lessened the number
of men prominent during war times wa :
buried at Lexington with military honors.
MRS MANGO, of Cleveland, Ohio, lost four
of her five children within a short time by
diphtheria, and the other day her fifth child
was burned to death. The mother was SO
affected by her terrible bereavement that she
became raving maniac.
BURGLARS blew open safe in the post
Office at Blue Island, near Chicago, securing
money and stamps amounting in all to 3d.
0O0
AN express train struck huge rock which
had rolled down on the track from noun
tain near Chattanooga, Tenn. The engine
was demolished, nearly every car left the
| track, the engineer was killed, the fireman
fatally burned. and brakeman was baily
hurt.
MARTIN SELLERS, of kendallville, Ind,
summoned to testify against a man on trial
for murder, declared he would kill himself
rather than appear as witness in the case.
He carried out the threat.
A PECUNIARY loss of about 1926, 900 was in
Cured and 500 men were thrown out of EN-
ployment through the destruction by fire of
| the Phoenix Glass works, of Philipsburs, Ohio.
| The works, which covered large area, were
among the largest in the country.
A FINANCIAL crisis has occurred at Lead
vile. Col, through the failure of three of its
four banks within fortnight.
THE great California land suit of Emeric
| against the heirs of Ex-Governor AlvaralC
| has been decided by the supreme court al
I San Francisco in favor of the defendants.
| The case has occupied the courts for seven
teen years, and involves $1,000 acres of land
/ in Contra Costa county, including the vii
lage of San Pablo, the whole being valued at
100000
JOHN C. p. COLLINS who robbed a stag
and killed w. +. Cummings, banker, while
robbing him of two bars of gold wortl
$1,000, was hanged at Nevada City, Cal, II
presence of large crowd.
THE boiler in Twichells single mill neal
Blanchford, Mich, exploded the other morn
ing, killing Henry Roop and John Finlayson
fatally injuring a man named Gerrod, aAc
wounding several Others.
EIGHT persons we're killed and as many
more injured by an explosion of gasoli ne il
a stove store at Alliance, Ohio.