The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-29
LATER NEWS.

ABOUT 125 gentlemen more or less promi-
nently connected with the Republican party
in New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, and Maryland met in New
York city for the purpose of perfecting an
Independent Republican organization having
for its object the nomination of presidential
candidates at the forthcoming Republican
national convention whose record would
" warrant entire confidence in their readi-
ness to defend the advances already made
toward divorcng the public services from
party politics. Upon motion of Carl
Schurz committee was appointed to perfect
an organization covering all the States and
TO take such other action as may be deemed
exnedient
THIEVES entered jewelry store in Troy,
N. V. blew open the safe and carried away
property valued at $751; 900.
VESSELS arriving at Boston report pass
ing immense icebergs and ice packs. Some
icebergs were from a half to nearly three
miles long, and from 100 to 800 feet high.
A FIRE at jackson, Mich, destroyed the
Union hotel block, occupied by a hotel,
theatre, savings bank and other business
four persons were fatally and one seriously
injured. The pecuniary loss is about Sl75,
GOO.
PART of an express train fell through a
bridge on the Hannibal and st. Joseph rail-
cod in Missouri. Several persons were killed
and about twenty-five injured.
W. b. CASH, son of Colonel Cash, the duel
list who killed Colonel Shannon a few years
ago, entered Cheraw, S. c., and after drink
ing heavily got into difficulty with Town
Marshal Richards, who was roughly handled
Cash then left town, but returned the follow
ing afternoon and approaching Marshal
Richards drew a revolver and rapidly fired
three shots. The first ball struck an limo
cent bystander named Cowart and the second
hit Richards, both shots causing mortal
wounds. Cash then mounted his horse and
rode rapidly away
THE cabin of Beverly Taylor, a colored
man living near Cincinnati, was burned to
the ground at night, and it was at first
thought that the owner with his wife and
grandchi!d, had persisted in the flames.
Later. however, the bodies of all three were
di covered in the building of the Ohio Medi.
cal college, whittier they had been carried
for dissection. Allen ingalls,, noted negro
body snatcher, was arrested and confessed
that he and Ben johnson hal entered the
cabin and killed the three inmates taken the
bodies to a waiting wagon, driven by r. B.
Dickson, and conveyed them to the Cincn-
natl medical institution where they sold the
corpses Beside the three negroes mentioned
two others were arrested for completely in
the terrible crime.
An association of English authors has been
formed to aid in securing an English-Amer
can copyright law.
AN Indian uprising has occurred in Mani
toba, British America, and twelve mounted
police sent to quell the disturbance are re-
ported to have been massacred.
SIR HENRY BRAND, who has resigned the
speakership of the British house of COM
mons on account of sickness, has declined
eerage.
THE three men who murdered Count Won
Mailath, president of the court of cessation
at Ofer, Hungary, last March, have been
hanged in Pesth. A great crowd collected
about the prison and cheered the condemned.