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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
THE NATIONAL GAME,

THE American association should abolish
the foul bound next season.
GAMES are called in Washington at 4:2O to
enable government employees to attend.
AT the coming annual meetings the veXed
matter of umpiring demands serious atten-
ton.
TRAVELLING expenses of League ball clubs
are nearly thirty per cent. Of the gate re-
ceipts.
WHITNEY of the Bostons, has strained his
back so badly that he will be unable to pitch
any more this season.
BALTIMORE would like to have a club in
the national League AMI $4,000 capital is
ready if it can be admitted.
THE base ball umpire at present seems to
be usurping the proud place in newspaper
literature formerly occupied by the mule and
the mother-in-law.
THE Metropolitan nine lead in fielding
among the American association clubs and
are second on the batting list The Athletes
lead in batting and are tie with Cincinnati
for third place in fielding.
CLEVELAND and Detroit have not sup
ported their League teams very well this
season. The clubs have been steadily losing
and this accounts for it. But Buffalo, with
winning club, has a smaller attendance than
either.
EFFORTS are being made to provide Mem
phis citizens with basel al this winter. Mr..
Peter Gracy has leased tine ball ground there
and will put a team therein with the view to
playing a series of games with each winter
club that goes South this winter.
At the end Of the twenty-third week the
record of the League clubs in the champion
ship race was as follows:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
FRANCE AND CHINA.
An Engagement with Heavy Losses
War Notes,

General De Isle sends dispatch stating
that hearing that the Chinese troops between
Bacle and Langson were moving forward,
he took measures necessary to drive them
back into their gunboats. A brilliant engage
ment ensued, 1900 Chinese troops
being pitted against him. Comman-
der Chalie of the Massue was killed
in the fight. When the dispatch was sent the
Chinese were being steadily driven back,
and had lost heavily of their number
Advices from Hanoi state that the gunboats
Mousgueton, Massue and Hache, while cruis.
ing i'll advance of a party which was recon
noitering in the valley of the Lochnau, We're
attacked by Chinese regulars. One French
officer was killed and thirty men were wound
ed
Admiral Courbet has telegraphel from
kelung as follows: Il commenced operations
against kelung on Wednesday by occupying
the Height of st. Clement. The Chinese
forces after fairly warm engagement We'd
neslay night evacuated two of their works
westward of the height, which we afterward
occupied. l am now fortifying them, and
shall operate on Saturday against their works
eastwood of the height. Our loss was killed,
Is wounded, and l missing. The Chinese loss
is estimat, at from 50 to 100 killed. and 200
to 800 wounded. Admiral Lespes commanded
an attack upon Tamsui on Thursday, and
will occupy that port, if possible"
a second dispatch from Admiral Courbet
states that he completed the capture of he.
lung without further resistance.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
LATER NEWS

THOMAS GILMART1N, ten-year-old boy o
New York, was bitten two months ago by a
Spitz dog. A few days since he died in great
agony of hydrophobia.
FLAMES in Philadelphia destroyed a six
story storage warehouse filled with household
goods The walls of the warehouse toppled
over and wrecked nine adjacent buildings.
The total damage is estimated at $500, 900.
FIVE persons-Harry G. Percival, Mrs. Per-
cival, her child, Hugh MAR and a man named
Furnival, a partner Of the latter-have been
brutally murdered in Nance county, Neb.
A FIRE in Copenhagen destroyed the royal
palace. Ten soldiers were burned to death,
and all the archives and many important
works of art were destroyed.
THERE have been great foundations in the
Argentine Republic. Many towns have been
entirely cut off eleven days. The damage is
enormous. Entire families have been
drowned, and many persons are dying of
starvation.
SIXTY houses have been destroyed by fire
in the town of Montgreland, France.
AT the Longchamps races, France, the
crowd, dissatisfied with an English jockey S
riding, pulled him Off his horse and fatally in
jured him. A riot followed and the police
had TO protect the place from the Infatuated
mob
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
Washington.

DURING the last session of Congress the
committee on expenditures in the department
of justice examined large number Of wit
nesses relative to the charges against the gov
eminent made by United States marshals
United States supervisors of election and other
officers appointed by or come ted with the
department of justice. A report based
upon the testimony taken has been made
for submission to the House of Representa-
tives upon the reassembing of Congress
1t is signed by the Democratic members of
the committee. The Republican members
will submit minority report. The
ajority report says that 1.-THE investigation
reveals the wonderful unanimity with which
these officers of almost every grade and in
several portions of the country have plundered
the public treasury by false fraudulent, and
fictitious charges and various cases are
cited to substantiate the committees claim
that most of the officers of the department of
justice are guilty Of corruption.
THE public debt statement for September
shows: Decrease of debt during the month";
S12, 047 ,039, A; cash in the treasury, s425,-
OBJ, 32l.59 debt less cash in the treasury,
81 ,425, 467, 055.27.
AT the various United States minis were
coined during September l05, $50 gold pieces,
worth s., l2S, 299; 2,350,0o0 standard silver
dollars; 100000 dimes, worth $4,000;
81, 4T, 500 minor coins, worth SGi0S4-a
total coinage of 1914, 3S5 pieces, worth s., 6l3
1863
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed J. L.
Milligan chaplain of the Allegheny county
Penn.) penitentiary, to represent the United
States at the International Prison congress,
which is about to be held in Rome, Italy Mr..
Milligan was prominent in the war, during
which he received the appellation of the
fighting chaplain" and he has been the in
cumbent of his present office for twenty
years.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN opened the
international conference which met in the de-
partment of state to discuss and consider the
question of prime meridian for all nations
There were forty delegates in number, repre-
senting Austria Hungary, Brazil, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Guatemala, Hawaii, Italy,
Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Rus
STA, San Domingo, San Salvador, Spain,
Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey,
Venezuela and the United States.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
SIEGE OF KHARTOUM.
How General Gordon RepeIIed the
Rebel Attacks.

The London Times correspondent at Khar-
toum under date of April IS reports that Gen
eral Gordon was laying mines in all drec-
lions Food was dear. General Gordon had
issued paper M ney, the treasury being at
Berber, and was paying the soldiers with it
The town was quiet Half of the population
joined the rebels previous to the beginning of
the siege. Nonews had been received from the
British government Under date of July 80,
the correspondent says: "The town has been
closely besieged for five months and will be
able to hold out only two months longer Ra-
tions are being issued to the poor" The cor
respondent sends the following extracts from
his diary: "March 13-Hassan and Said were
executed for their treachery during a battle
which occurred on March 16, when we
lost 800 killed and wounded April IS to
2i-The rebels attacked the town, but suf-
fered heavy losses by explosions of the mines
May Am accident occurred to-day. An Off
Ger trod upon the connection to one of the
mines and caused an explosion Six men were
killed. May "a man reported that the Eng
lish army were at Berber To the end of
May the rebels made frequent attacks upon
the town, suffering losses from the mines.
During June steamer expeditions, under
command of Saati Bey, were made
daily. Our losses on these expeditions
were slight, We captured many cattle.
On June 25 Mr. Cuzzi, the English
consul, informed us of the fall of
Berber. Mr.. Cuzzi was sent to Kordofan On
June so, Saati Bey captured quantity Of
corn and killed 200 rebels. July 16, Saati Bey
burned kalakla and three other villages. He
also attacked Gatarub but was defeated.
Saati Bey and his officers were killed. The
loss was heavy Colonel Stewart had a narrow
escape. On June 20 we beat the rebels out of
Burr, ON the Blue Nile. number OF the en-
envy were killed, and we captured quantity
of material. The steamers advanced to Ell
fau, clearing 10 rebel forts. Since the siege be-
gan our loss has been under 700 July 81, the
siege has been very close. Arab bullets are
flying on all sides. some Of them falling Oh
the palace. Food is tremendously dear. Since
my recent dispatch, all hope of government
relief has gone and We only depend on the
steamers. 1t is impossible for us to cut our
way through the rebels, burdened as we are
with numbers of women and children One
Arab horseman suliices to brighten 200 of our
men. On the day Saati Bey was killed eight
rebels charged 200 OF our men armed
with Remington rifles and dispersed
them. The only men we are able to
depend on are the negroes. July 29-Mehe-
met Ais action yesterday was very success
full Five armored steamers, after clearing
thirteen forts, found at Garrett two strong
forts. The vessels engaged the forts for eight
hours under a terrific fire. The cannon in the
forts We're finally disabled and the rebels
driven out Our loss was only three killed
and thirteen wounded. General Gordon will
soon send two steamers toward Senaar to try
to recapture a steamer taken from Saleh Bey
General Gordon is welln
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
CaINA FOR WAR,
Her People Ridden 10 Resist France
War Notes.

A Hong Kong dspat n says that an i'm
perlal edict has been issued to the viceroy of
Canton ordering him to issue a procla-
nation urging and encouraging the
chinese people to resist the French.
The yiceroy is also instructed at
the same time to forbid any attempts to poison
the food of their enemies and to refrain from
unduly exciting the populace The antago-
nism toward Europeans is increasing on the
part OF the Chinese consequent upon the gov
ernnment compelling the Chinese laborers to
assist i'll unloading French vessels. Admiral
Courbet has sailed with his feet from Mat
son, but his destination is unknown. The
occupation of Tamsui in addition to
Kelung is considered necessary TO prevent
the Chinese from obtaining needed supplies,
and the latter expect the next attack to be
made by the French upon Port Arthur or
Shanghai. They have accordingly warned
Europeans that the positions of Tamsui and
IN the south are unsafe. Hong Kong would
he utterly helpless IN the event of the French
landing on the south of the island
1t is again stated that the government Of
France is willing to resume treaty negotia-
tons with China, provided the latter govern
ment will strictly observe the treaty of TEN
Isin and pay to France an indemnity of 3d.
OOOOOO francs.
The French can easily stop the cable a the
mouth OF the Saigon, and messages via Hal
phong are TO be under French control
The Chinese Charge d'Affaires at B ,rlin has
returned TO China
The English feet is being scattered along
the entire coast, the frigate Audacious going
north.
The French searching of several English
vessels is severely denounced.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
PRIVATE HENRY'S WILL.
writing IL When lie Had Abandoned
All Hope OF Rescue.

The will of the late Charles b. Henry, OF
the Greedy expedition, who was shot for steal
ing provisions has been filed for probate
1t is written in pencil on a scrap of
paper about the size of a postal card, torn
from blank used in the navy 1t is dated
at Camp Clay, Ellesmeres Land, May 9, 1854,
and is as follows:
II, Charles b. Henry, being of sound mind
and health, do hereby declare this to be my
last will and testament All my property,
pay due and that may become due, Ibequeath
to my parents, brother and sisters now alive,
to be equally divided among them William
Helms, of 20 South Water street, Chicago, |
appoint as my executor.
CHARLES B. HENRY,
Private, Fifth Cavalry, L. s. Al
The will is witnessed by Lieut. f. F. ks
linsbury and Private Joll Bender A postal
card to Mr.. Helms tells of the condition Of
the command, saying
WDl. Helms, Esq
Only six more days provisions are left
Seven have died Of starvation, and we are all
ready to follow. We are living ON eight
ounces per day. If we do not get game be-
fore the 18th you can conclude all of us to be
dead. My respect and love to all the few
friends met in Chicago.
remain yours,
CHARLES b. HENRY.
Helms is Henry's brother-in-law.
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IOrAign.

AT Lachine, province of Quebec, twenty.
three dwelling houses We're destroyed bY fire
rendering fifty families homeless.
The cholera is slowly abating in Italy.
A BURNING steamer at Kostroma, on the
Volga river, in Russia, drifted from her
moorings and set fire to several other vessels
in the river. The surface of the river was
like sea of fire from burning oil.
GENERAL DIAz has been publicly p.
claimed president of Mexico.
FRANCES proposal that the United States
should act as mediator in the trouble between
II and China has been scOrnfully rejected by
the Chinese government
A DESPERATE riot is reported to have taken
place at the town of Salinas Mexico, on the
Mexican National railway. Jose NJ Santos
judge, or alcalde, of the town, and
the chief of police Were killed. In all about
twenty persons were killed, and many more
wounded. 1t is believed that the mob was
led by the celebrated outlaw FL Coyote the
wolf, who escaped from Jail at New Laredo
a few days since. Judge Santos caused the
arrest ofEl Coyote for participation in train
robbery few years ago.
GENERAL GORDON is announced to have
bombarded and captured the important city
of Berber, in the Soudan- The False Pro
phet's rebels and hostile inhabitants fed when
the bombardment ceased
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
APPLYING THE TORCH.
Many Hncendiary Fires Started in
Cleveland.
Y your friend,
JOHN 7. ST.. JOHN.

A Cleveland, Ohio dispatch says.
Three more attempts to start incendiary
fires were made in different parts of the city
last night between the hours of / and
o'clock, but the flendish designs of the fire.
bugs were frustrated by the vigilance of the
people in the vicinity and the sharp move
ments of the fire department, which is now
constantly on the alert. This makes nine
teen fires that have been lighted by the torch
of the incendiary within three weeks, in
which over s! 900, 900 worth of property has
been destroyed, and the result is widespread
CONSERVATION and alarm among the business
men and property owners of the city.
As a consequence insurance rates have been
increased hazardous risks are being refused,
money is being withheld, and in two or three
instances capital has been withdrawn and
firms have retired from the lumber and
other trades that seem to be the objective
prey of the communistic fiends. I'm
less the plague is speedily stamped
out the business interests of the city will be
seriously crippled. Whether these fires are
the work of cunning cranks or the fruit of
a fiendish plot concocted by an organized
band of men has not yet been determined,
as only three arrests have been made on
suspicion, and no positive evidence has been
obtained t" throw light upon the subject:
An officer of the Cleveland Sawmill and
Lumber company, whose property was fired,
said; "TheSe fires are having a terribly dis
astrous effect upon the lumber interests of
the city. 81 great is the present danger that
many insurance companies refused longer
TO hold lumber risks at any rates.
Within the past week policies
TO the amount of 81 600 had been cancelled
by companies ON the lumber of our company
alone. The fire, it was said, would have the
effect of placing insurance rates exorbitantly
high aud driving the business from the city.
TlA proprietors could contend against other
disasters, but when property is in such dam
ger of being reduced TO ashes it is time to quit
the business
The whole city is in fever of anxiety and
excitement, and the stroke of the fire bell or
the movement of an engine is a signal for the
speedy gathering of a crowd, who indulge in
savage threats against the frebugs, and ex-
p SsI ANXIETY N to s sSks ca Ss5d in sns
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South and West.

JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the famous actor,
lost his mental balance while performing in
Chicago, and all his engagements for the sea
son have been cancelled.
ABOUT thirty passengers were injured, but
none fatally, by a collision between two
trains near Leadville, Col.
THERE was a small vote at the election for
governor, State officers and members of the
legislature in Georgia. Henry 6. McDaniels
was reelected governor without opposition.
THOUSANDS of p ,ople attende the opening
of the n nth Carolina State exposition at
Raleigh. After a prayer & overnor Jarvis
made an address of welcome. and United
States Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, then
delivered the Grafton of the day. The exposi-
ton was then declared open.
Iowa Prohibitionists have put State and
electoral ticket in the field
A CONVENTION of the National Irish-Ameri.
can Republican league, held in Cincinnati,
adopted resolutions ratifying the nomination
of Blaine and Logan.
WILLIAM HARRISON was sitting on key
of powder near Osialoosa, Iowa, with a
lighted pipe in his mouth. His carelessness
was rewarded by an explosion which killed
the smoker and dangerously injured five
other men.
GENERAL BUTLER has been making speeches
in the West
WHILE Governor St John, Prohibition
candidate for President, was journeying to
Ierre Haute, Ind, some one fired a shot
through the car, narrowly missing the COVER
nor.
A CONSTRUCTION train with TWENTY-FIVE
men on board plunged into a wLshout near
Bayfield,, Wis. Two men wee instantly
killed and fourteen more injured, several
with probably fatal result
WASH FLETCHER colored was hanged at
10 a. L.. A
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
A TERRIBLE TORNADO.
A Village in New York Torn to
Pieces.
Several Persons Killed and thirty
Houses DESTROYED,

A Bradford Penn dispatch says Tho tor
nado which passed over this region last Sun
day crossed tine New York State line and
struck the village of Shongo. eight miles
south of Wellsville. The little town is to-day
a scene Of death, ruin and desolation. Two
persons were killed outright, about twenty
were badly injured, and thirty buildings in
the business part of the town were DESTROYED
The tornado came from the southwest and
was evidently at its height when it struck
Shongo. Those killed were Mrs Edward
Pratt and Willis Gardner A son of Doctor
j. A. Elliott was so terribly injured that
he died Miss Anna Lancaster is not ex-
pected to live
Among others injured are Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Peet, Doctor A. A. Elliott, wife. and
three children; Austin Kemp, Duane Kemp
and wife, Edward Pratt, husband of the
lady killed; Edward Brundage, wife, and
two children, and Mrs. Asa Quinby, of North
Bingham.
Horses, pigs, cattle and poultry were killed
and orchards destroyed
The tornado's belt was narrow and its dura-
tion only moment or two, but there was a
terrific and destructive force wrapped up in
1t. After blowing a narrow area of wreck
age among the forest trees over the hill to the
southwest of the doomed village the current
Shongo more than two-thirds of which is now
q ruin.
Mr. Gardner and his daughter were alone
in their dwelling. Gardner was instantly
killed, but the daughter miracuously escaped
Mr.. Edward Pratt, his wife and daughter
were in their house. Mrs Pratt was killed
and the husband and daughter were
severely injured.
DR.. A. A. Elliott suffered the total loss of
his home. office, and barn, and his horse was
killed. Doctor and Mrs. Elliott were both
hurt and their three children, Lena and John
and an infant child, were severely injured.
John Williams, his wife, and two children
miraculously escaped as did also the family
of Edward Brundage, whose house was
whirled across the street.
So fierce was the wind current that in the
beautiful village cemetery only two tomb
stones were left standing, all the rest being
thrown to the ground, and some were even
carried out of the cemetery across the street
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WORK OF FIREBUGS,
Inccndiarisn in Five Pennsylvania
Counties.

For the past few weeks, says a Reading
PENN dispatch, fires have occurred nearly
every day in Lehigh, Lancaster. Lebanon,
Montgomery and Berks counties, which were
of an incendary origin. The properties de
stroyed mostly were of the finest and most
substantial in their respective vicinities.
The losses will aggregate some S15,-
0OO not one-third of which is covered
by insurance. The police authorities were
unable to trace the perpetrators, but it has
been discoverel that there is a large gang
of men composed of the most worthless
characters, who have formed themselves into
an association for the purpose of robbery
and mceudialism. The victims are
nearly all farmers who have their fine barns
and years crops destroyed. and they are now
so alarmed that they do not consider their
lives or property safe In several of the
counties named meetings have been held to
devise some means of protection, and strong
resolutions were adopted.
At Allentown, John Mcclure and James
McGee We're bound to answer the charge of
being connected with fires there the town
having not less than eight conflagrations in
one week, all incendiary. The prisoners are
Migrants who have been loafing about the
town, sleeping i'll stables and too lazy to work.
They are supposed to belong to gang of in
cenliaries.
lHe clulLenS Helu meeting al the Nluy hdll
to consider means and measures to effect the
arrest OF the incendiares who infest the city.
After an exchange of opinions and senti-
ments the following resolution was unani-
mously adoI ted:
"ReSolred, As the sense of the meeting of
citizens and business men that every effort
should be put forth by the city authorities to
detect and bring to punishment the person or
persons believed t. be guilty of incendarsm
in our midst and to this end we will approve
the most energetic and effective measures
possible; and we would also recommend the
appointment of vigilance committee in each
of the citesn
This was done, and to- night there are
thirty special policemen patroling the streets.