The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-17
NEWS SUMMARY
Hrs,ern md Middle sta,c..

FIVE masked men entered the house of John
Sherry, at Edensburg, Penn, bound and
! gagged the inmates and carried off about
| $4,000.
! JOSEPH w. RosENTHAL, wholesale dealer
in clothing in New York city, Rochester,
Albany and Baltimore, has failed for over
| 100000.
GEORGE DoLL1NG, miner at Honesdale,
Penn, made pet of a young rat that he
| caught. While playing with the rodent it
bit him in the forefinger. In a few days Dol
ling died from the effects of the bite.
REPUBLICAN procession in New York
the other night was reviewed by President
Arthur aud General Grant
ELECTION returns from all but eighteen
towns in Connecticut show that the Repub-
Leans control the boards of registration in
seventy-two, the Democrats in forty nine, and
twenty-three are divided. The proposed con-
stitutional amendment providing for BIZ
ennlal sessions of the legislature is carried by
large majority.
FIRE at South Bethlehem, Penn, destroyed
| the Grand Opera house and adjoining proper
ty, causing an aggregate loss of about
$125, 600.
THE new Peoples party of Maine met in
convention at Portland, adopted resolutions
endorsing Butler and West and nominated
presidential electors.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN has written a letter
in reply to the complimentary resolution
adopted by the National Democratic con-
| vention, which was presented to him last
September by a special committee appointed
by that body. Mr.. Tilden thanks the COM
mittee, reviews the services of the Democrat
ic party to the country, denounces the Re-
publican party and declares that the Demo-
cratic candidates for President and Vice
President ought to be elected.
GENERAL JOHN B. MURRAY, while receiv-
/ irr lai 10, ut INoII,
was stricken with apoplexy and died the
next morning. General Murray was one Of
the orlginators of Decoration Day, and led
the first procession that marched with mar
t1al music to strew flowers upon the graves Of
soldiers.
AT secret conference of paper manufac-
turers in Philadelphia it was determined to
advance the price of white paper. 1t is
claimed this step is caused by the short sup
ply of rags all over the country, owing to the
government embargo ON imported rags from
Asia.
RICHARD CLARK, an employee of Fore
paughs circus, while opening ventilator in a
cage at Waterbury, Conn, had his hand
seized by tiger, and while trying to release
himself was seized 10y two tigers and dragged
inside of the cage. The animals were finally
beaten Off with iron bars, after Clark's arms
and legs had been horribly crunched and mu-
tilated.
Two farmers-James Cassock and Henry
Boyer-while driving in wagon not far from
CentIalia, Penn, were fired upon from the
bushes along the road, and both killed.
GEORGE HALL and his sister Alice, only
children of an aged widow, of Stamford, Vt,
were riding in n carriage when it was struck
by an express train and both occupants in
stantly killed
Two large demonstrations in favor of the
Democratic candidates for President and
VicePresident were held in New York city
one of business men in Wall street in the
afternoon and the other in and
around Union Square in the evening
AT the afternoon meeting there was a parade
Of Cleveland and Hendricks clubs from the
various exchanges, with peaking III front of the
sub-treasury building LII the evening there
was speaking in the Academy of Music,
Irving hall and from four stands in Union
Square. A torchlight procession of about
%, 900 men marched through the city. Among
the speakers We're Governor Albeit, of New
Jersey, Senator Eaton, of Connecticut and
many others. The Tammany wing of the
city Democracy did not participate in the
demonstration.
THE Union League club, of New York at
meeting adopted resolutions approving the
Republican nominations for President and
Vice President
A CONVENTION of supporters of the
"National Equal Rights party met at Dover,
n. H., Endorsed the nomination of Belva A.
Lockwood for President, and nominated
presidential electors of both sexes.