The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE strike at the Montour Iron and Steel
mill, Dauville, Penn, inaugurated January
i, has assumed serious proportions. Five
hundred men are out of employment and
destitution prevails in n large number of
families The wife of one of the laborlng
men fell sick, and failing to get proper nour-
ishment, died in absolute penury.
Two three-vear OLD Holstein hefers. IA
maca and Etelka owned by John Mitchell,
a farmer near Newburg, N. Y, have shown
themselves the greatest milk producers in
the world. jana ca recently produced l12k
pounds of milk in one day, and Etelka 1O1
pounds. During thirty-one days the former
gave G,S2j34 pounds, and the latter ., 1876
pounds ten ounces beating all records to
date The owner has been offered So. 900 for
Jamai ca and her calf. or SIC, 900 for the calf
only, but declined both offers
H. NJ. RICHMOND, a young lawyer of
Meadville, Penn, son of prominent law
yer of that city, shot himself through the
heart in New York hotel. lie had long
suffered severely from dyspepsia.
A LATRoBE PENN dispatch says that a
German family-Mr. Shulthers, wife and
two brothers, at the loyahanna coal mine
have been affected with trichinosis, as a
result of eating fresh pork, raw, with no con-
dimeft but a little salt. They had been re-
duced to great poverty by the recent floods
The women died, and was buried and her
husbands death weS hourly expected The
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getting worse.
The Rhode Island Democratic State con
venticn at Providence was the most exciting
political gathering held in that State for
many years. George II. Corliss, Republican,
and nominee of the INDEPENDENT Repub-
licSns for governor, was put in nomination,
and received fortv-four votes upon the first
ballot, to twenty six for Ana Sprague
and twepty-three for TIL ma w. Segar.
Mr. Corliss was thereupon made the nominee
for governor. but declined the nomination
upor the score of i'll health. Segar was then
nominated for governor and Sprague for
acknowledgements, together with the re
mainder of tine State ticket Eight delegates
to the Chicago national convention were also
elected.
A BILL aiing it mandatory, Instead OF
optional, with the mayors of cities to en-
force the civil service reform law aSsed the
n w York assembly by 81 yeas to 81 nays
MADAME A MA BIsHoP, the once famous
singer, d ed a few days since in New York
of apoplexy She was born in London in
1914. and had a long and remarkable pro-
fessional career. appearing in either concert
or orera i'll nearly every country in the
world. and singing i'll a dozen different
La CuaCes.
AT the Rhode Island Republican State
convention, held in Providence, all the pres
ent State officers, from governor down,
were renomnatel |, and resolution was
adopted congratulating United States Sena-
tor Anthony upon his return to health.
Prominent New York German business
men are raising fund of 500, 900 for eX-
Senator and ex-Secretary Carl Schurz.
PETER EDWARDS, seventy-five years old,
a well-to-do farmer of lbany county, n. V,
but addicted to opium eating, killed his
aged wife with a hammer and then made
an unsuccessful attempt to cut his own
throat.
CHARLES LANGHEIMER, better known as
chickens Dutchman, died a few days age
in the Eastern penitentiary Philadelphia,
where he had spent the better rart of his life.
He was eightv-two years old and was buried in
Potters Field He was first sentenced to the
penitentary in 1910 and was released from
time to time only to be returned for theftS.
His notoriety WIS gained b. Dickens refer
ence to him in tho American Notes. in a
chapter describing the system of solitary
confinement, and speaking of Langhemcr
in pathetic terms. Iangheimer, however
success uily passed through all the misery sc
pathetcallv pictured by Dickens AMI lived
to hear of the novelist's death.
THIS country is to have an invasion of
white elephants, the first of his kind arriv-
ing III New York few days since on an
ocean steamer. His color is described as 3" O
light gray, n shade lighter, perhaps, than
cigar ashes"
AT a meeting of New England milk pro
ducers in Boston they voted that the State
board of health ought to regulate the sale of
milk to insure purity, and arranged with the
city contractors to deliver milk to the lat ell
for thirty-1our cents can of eight and q
ha'f quarts.
AS result Of the recent investigation by
a committee of the New York assembly. the
New York city grand jury have indicted
Sheriff Davidson ana several minor officials
for corrupt action in office.
An explosion of sulphur in colliery neal
Mt. Carmel Penn, instantly killed one mar
and fatally injured two others.