The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01
LATER NEWS.

fOJH THOUSAND dollars were PAID 1Or q
st. Bernard dog thirty five inches high by
Enm tt, the actor, in Pas,aic, N. j. The
dog IS the largest in the world and the sum
pai for him the greatest ever realized by
the sale of a canine.
a LARD e C asting sled containing thirteen
young men came down steep hill at
Waynesboro, Penn, with such terrific speed
that all control of it was lost by the steers
man. The sled struck a young woman
throwing her twenty feet, breaking her
leg and irnicting other serious injuries
then it dashed into and shattered a heavy
oaGen h.t- hing post, finally coming to a stop
a. ainst the front of brick house. Four of
the young men received fatal injuries, and
the other nine were all more OF less seriously
hurt.
LAST year there was a total of 1876 acct
dents in the mines of the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania OF these 1923 resulted fatally,
making 1913 widows and rendering 512 chill
dlen fatherless. During the last ten years
2,463 lives have been lost in this district L.
PA women made widows, and 4, 1876 children
made fatherless.
j. b. WADswoRTH, of Morrisville,N N. Y. pro
prietor of eighteen cheese factories, has failed,
with liabilities of Si2, 900 and assets of about
| $4,000
DIR. JOHN B. WooD, a prominent New
York journalist, and a few years ago presi-
dent of the New York Press club, lost his
| life the other day in melancholy manner.
He was fifty seven years old, and his eye
| sight was bad While walking after mid
night along the North river front he fell
from pier upon the ice twelve feet below
and received injuries which soon resu ted in
death.
THE Cleveland Paper company, of Cleve-
| land, Ohio, one of the oldest and most widely
known corporations of the kind in the coun-
try, owner of four paper mills and one pulp
mill, and employing 800 hands, has failed for
| :2jO,OO0.
j. B. SIMPSON, the seven-year-oh son of a
leading citizen of Red Clay, Ga, died few
days ago in great agony fhydroph9bia He
had been bitten month before by rabid
dog.
Now that the Senate has passed resolu-
ton giving each Senator a private clerk,
some talk has arisen among members of the
House as to the advisabilty of like pro
vision for the benefit of Representatives.
JOHN T. GAME, the delegate to Congress
from Utah, has written and sent out foi
publication a reply to Governor Murray''
message to the Utah legislature. He says
the message Was fillel with misrepresenta
tons and perry ersions of fact, evidently with
the purpose of deceiving the Eastern public.
a COLLISION in the British channel be
tween the ships Simla AMI the City of Luck
now resulted in the sinking of the former
and the drowning of twenty-five of hel
crew.
GREAT excitement exists in Vienna over
the muir Ter of prominent detective named
work of socialists or anarchists, and the
murderer, man of education, has been ar
rested. The anarchists have published :
LIST of names among which are those O
prominent financiers and journalists o
persons who have been condemned by tn
executive committee.
ELEVEN persons were killed by an explo
sion in Welsh collery, and rescuing part,
of three men, including the manager of tn
mine, also lost their lives
ANOTHER heavy storm has done great dam
age to property in Lonlon, Paris and othe
places, and numerous lives have been lost
Many vessels were wrecked, and a large nun
Der of persons drowned.