The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-25
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States


FoRTY-oNE trade organizations marched
In procession TO Union Square, New York CITY,
and held an open-air meeting in favor OF an
eight-hour law.
Two men were instantly killed and several
seriously injured by an explosion OF ire
damp in n coal mine hear Elizabeth, Penn.
THE Unite States and Brazil Steamship
company's steamship Reliance, running be
tween New York and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
was wrecked while on her homeward trip
from the latter place. She was valued
at $4,000, and her cargo contained among
other things 1000 bags of coffee All on
board including Thomas A. Osborne, United
States minister TO Brazil were saved
JOHN c. PERRY, recently appointed chief
justice of the supreme court of Wyoming
Territory, died suddenly OF apoplexy while
walking with his daughter in Brooklyn, N.
y. He was born in Sullivan county, n. Y,
in 1882, was lawyer by profession, had long
resided in Brooklyn and had served in the
New y ork senate and assembly
AT the Pennsylvania Republican State
convention held i'll Harrisburg, GaluSha a.
Grow presided, General Osborne, of Luzerne,
was nominated for Congressman at large, six
delegates at large to the national convention
at Chicago were ele, ted, three electors at
large were chosen, and platform was
adopted which declares that James &. Blaine
and Robert T. Lincoln are the choice of the
Republicans OF Pennsylvania for President
md Vice President respe lively. and that the
delegates at large be instructed to vote for
them so long as their names shall be before
the convention.
MAJOR EUGENE II. WEIRMAN, private
secretary to President Johnson during his
presidential term, dropped dead of heart
disease in a New York hotel The discovery
of a loaded pistol and several farewell letters
in his pockets disclosed that he was about
to commit suicide when death from natural
causes interviewed
THE Delaware Republican State convention
in Dover e'ected delegates at large t. the
Chicago national convention and Iassed re So
buttons favoring Blaine as the partys candi
dat for President, but leaving the delegation
uninstructed.
UNRESTRICTED delegates to the Chicago
national convention were Gle ted at the New
Jer ey Republican State convention in Tren-
ton.
A DESPERATE fight lasting two hours took
place b tween thirty or forty Hungar ans and
Poles employed in steel works at Braddo"k,
Penn. Pistols and knives were drawn, and
when the Fl hit was finally quellcd 10y an or
ganzed body of citizens, it was found that
three men had been dangerously wounded
and a number of 9th rs slightly hurt.
MEMORIAL services in honor of the late
Wendell Phillips were held in Boston, and at
tracted n notable audeace, including the
| governor and afr, mayor ana city council
uprem e court and other iudg S. etc. Georgy
| William Curtis delivered the m 1morial ora
/ ton
THEODORE HOFFMAN. twentv-three year.
old, was hange at White Plains, n. Y, for
/ the muir Ter of a Hebrew peddler named
Marks with an AK, the IN tive of the crimC
being robhe'y
JULIA MITCHELL a colored woman of Brook
| Ign, n. y, died few days ago Mt the age OF
10j years.
WHILE firing n salute in honor Of we'd
! ding near Erie, Penn, the ca mon bul st, ant
| seven of the amateur artillery SITS We're in
| iurtd. one man receiving probably fat /
wounds, and two othe: S los ng tn il eyesis ht