The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States

JAMES MUTT, who shot and killed his faith
er's slayer, Dukes, at Uniontown, Penn, was
acquitted on his trial at Pittsburg, to which
city the case had been removed United
States Senator Voorhees, was Nuts prlnclpal
counsel. After being out ten hours the jury
brought in a verdict of mot guilty, on ac-
count of insanity at the time the act was COM
mittedN The verdict was received with
cheers inside and outside the crowded court
room, and young Mutt received many con-
gratulatory dispatches from Uniontown and
other PARTS of the country.
A MEETING of manufacturers was held at
Fall River, Mass, for the purpose of taking
steps to reduce the wages of the operatives
i'll the cotton mills
HIRAM RADCLIFFE, who for many years
lived misery and isolated life at Kingston,
n. Y, died the other day leaving an estate
estimated at S50O,0O0. He had not been seen
on the street by anybody in years.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR was the principal
guest at a reception given by the New York
Union League club The President was at
tended by Secretaries Folger and Teller and
Attorney General Brewster, and spent two
hours in shaking hands with members of the
club, visitors their wives and daughters
After the dinner there was a ance.
Two hot-headed young Branlians residing
in New York made arrangements to go to
Canada and fight a duel. but repented when
arrested, and shook hands in court
A COMMITTEE of Pittsburg doctors report
ed to the court that they had examined James
Mutt, the slayer of Norman Dukes, and found
him perfectly sane at the present time.
The Judge thereupon ordered his
release. As Mutt passed into the
street he was loudly cheeled and followed by
a large crowd. He left with his mother and
sister for Uniontown, and at that place, as
well as at various stations along the route,
the young man met with an enthusiastic re-
ceptiOn from large asSemDlages
NATHAN ID. MOREY, the inventor o. a
gasoline illuminating machine. and L. S.
Green, foreman of the Hathorn Spring bot
Ting house, were asphvXiated at Saratoga,
are illuminated by gasoline, and the men
were engaged in filing the gas reservoir with
this fluid, when the poisonous fumes over
came them. Medical aid failed to restore
them to consciousness
THERE was a great variety Of fine poultry,
pigeons fish, rabbits, guinea pigs cats and
other household pets on eXhibi ion at the
second annual exhibition of the New York
Fancicrs club i'll Ma lison Square garden.
THE New York State senate has passed a
resolution providing for an investigation of
the manufacture of oleomargarine.
ANOTHER cremation has just taken place
at the Lemoyne crematory in Washington,
Penn. the body burned being that of Albert c..
Rupe. a mauufa cturer at Las Vegas, n. NJ. who
died in New York of consumption The re-
mains We're taken to Washington by the
decease is wife and father-in-law, and the
burning of the body occupied about two
hours
THREE schooners belonging to Gloucester,
Mass, have been away so long on a fishing
trip that they have been given up for lost.
They carried q total of f'rty-two men.
LATER figures swell the number of lost by
the wreck of the steamer City of Columbus
to 101
COMMODORE FRANCIS B. ELLISON, of the
United States navy retired, died few days
ago in Boston, aged eighty-one years.