The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15
LATER NEWS

THE steamship State of Nebraska, from
Glasgow arrived in New York. having on
board the ninety-two men comprising the
officers and crew of the steamship Noting
Hill, running between London and New
York The Noting Hill had been struck by
a huge iceberg and injured so badly that she
had to he abandoned.
SIX convicts-five colored and one white
were whipped a few days since at New Cas-
tie Del
Much damage has been done by floods and
ice near Harrisburg, Penn. Four bridges,
valued at more than $4,000. were crushed
and carried away. Three dams were washed
out and the mills connected with them so
badly injured as to prevent their running
until repaired.
DESPERATE shooting afray at fiot
Springs Ark, between two factions OF gam
blers-three brothers named Flynn, who
were in a hack at the time. on one side, and
seven men on the other side-resulted in the
killing Of one of the Flynns and the hack
driver, the mortal wounding of another
Flynn and two innocent bystanders. and the
shooting away of part of the third Flvnns
hand The men who fired upon the Flynns
began ho,tlities and were arrested. The
ARRAY grew out OF an attempt of two fac
tions to control the gambling " business " of
the town.
lHE estimated total loss 10y the floods in
] Wheeling, w. Va. aud vicinity, amounts to
| Sd,O00,COO. An appeal for aid, issued from
Wheeling, states that the suffering there and
at points above and below is intense, and
] tl,o+ "A MA IL
dependent and will be so for weeks" There
are probably 2o,0JJ people to be fed and
clothed from Wellsburg to Moundsville.
REPRESENTATIVE TowNsHEND. of Illinois.
who represents in Congress the State CON
tanning most exporters of pork and other
hog products expresses in an interview the
/ opinion that retaliation is the only remedy
left us against the foreign governments
which are shutting out the American
hog from their markets
& A CHINAMAN who appeared in the Gstric.
court at Washington for the purpose of be
coming a citizen of the United State, had h
application refused.
THE House committee on labor ordered
adorable report on Representative Hopkins
ILL for the establishment of a department
of labor statistics The measure provides for
the appointment of a commissioner. who
shall acquire all useful information upon the
subject of labor, its relations to capital. and
TIE means of promoting the material. social.
religious and intellectual prosperity of the
aboring men and women. The question Of
contract convict labor was discussed without
reachin- conclusion.
~
American National Association Of the Red
Cross, accom- aniel by Doctor Hubbell tile
special field agent of the association, has
gone from Washington t. the scenes Of the
flood along the Ohio for the purpose of al
fording relief by distributing supple; to the
sufferers.
NEARLY 1000 bills, most of them of a
private nature, have been introduced so far
in the present session of Congress.
GREAT dissatisfaction has been created
throughout Great Britain by the govern
ments vacillating policy concerning the
crisis in Egypt. As one dispatch put il;
People cannot understan a policy of in
difference to mlssacres in a country where
England rules, and of Indifference Xix ew,se
10 the defeats of armies which Englishmen
officer.
A BAND of 500 Indians murdered all the
principal resi- dents OF Omitlan, Mexico. and
plundered the town.
AT a banquet given IN Paris to leading
members of the scientific press, NJ. de Les
seps stated that the scheme for creating a
sea in the great Sahara desert. in order to
transform the arid sand into a fertile country
would shortly he commenced.