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

AN express train leapel from a trestle
twenty feet high near Beavertown, Ohio,
and was completely wrecked, causing serious
injuries to five persons and a pecuniary
dana ;e of $4,000.
AT a mass meeting of Methodist ladies in
Baltimore, Bishops Simpson and Andrews
spoke earnestly in advocacy of founding Il
Methodist institution for the higher education
of the women of the conference.
Mr.. ALLISON was reelected to the United
States Senate by the Iowa legislature.
SAN BROWN, murderer of an old man,
was taken from .ail at Loclihart, Texas, and
lynched.
JOIN BoDAcHER, young farmer, and
his wife, were found dead in bed at their
home near ST. Louis. Their h a Is had been
split open with an AK.
THE national executive committee of the
Prohibition party has issued call to hold
a national convention to nominate pr asden-
tial candidates, in Pittsburg, on May q.
Much excitement prevailed at Lealville,
Col, upon the suspension of the First
National bank, of that city. The deposits
probably amount to S.21O with no tangi-
bic assets. Many miners were depositors.
A DISPATCH from GunniSon, Col, says
that terrible explosion, presumably caused
by tire-lamp, occurred in cal NINE at
Crested Butte. The full force of the ex-
ploson may be realized when it is known
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which were located 100 feet from the
mouth of the mines, We're totally wrecked
There were siXty-Seven men in the mi ne at
the time Of the explosion. Four of these
escaped, but the rest Were literally buried
alive. y hundred miners employed in an
other mine at once set to work to recover
the bodies Of the victims, nearly all of whom
were foreigners.
THE resolution asking United States Sen
atOr Malone to resign passed the Virginia
senate by twenty-three yeas to ten nays-a
strict party vote.
A. j. JUTKINs, of Chicago, secretary of
the national Prohibition committee, says that
presidential convention will be held, and q
national Prohibition ticket be placed in the
field in 1854.
A BILL for the establishment of a home for
disabled ex-Confederate soldiers, similar t.
the homes for Union soldiers, was introduced
in the Virginia Senate The bill proposes tc
establish permanent home by government.
aid for disabled ex-Confederates in the
Southern States.
MUClI excitement prevails in the far West
and Northwest over the reported discovery OF
rich gold region in Washington Territory
Large numbers of miners are leaving for tn
new mines, and the biggest stampede ever
known TO the Pacific coast is expected in the
spring.
GEORGE HARRISON and Harry Bronson
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killed each other. Sixteen years ago Hardi
sons father killed Bronsons father with al
AK.
Two boys-John Anderson seventeen year,
old, and Zach Snyder, twenty-one years OF
age-were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind
for the murder and robbery of James Van
Wye, a seventeen-year-old boy. The tw,
murderers were shiftle5s characters, amC
their victim was stranger An immense
crowd was present at the hanging.
A DISPATCH from Winchester, Va, states
that Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, who i
one of the best known ladies in the Shenan
doah valley, and who for thirty-eight year
has appeared as woman, turns out to be
man The discovery was made by her ap
plying fer license to marry young woman
who had been employed in her family as
domestic. Payne was brought up as a woman
and no one ever questioned his sex, and hi
open avowal IF maSculinity has inten'elv as
tonished the community. Payne married
the domestic at Martinsburg, w Va.