The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
LATER NEWS

AN elIltielnlC vi SUICIDE mas broken out In
the vicinity of Hornellsville, N. Y, eleven
cases of self-murder having occurred in one
week
THE revised Old Testament meets with
considerable sharp criticism, as well as with
much praise in England The first orders
for the new work amounted to a million cop
les.
THE second six-day roller-skating race in
the Madison Square Garden, New York, at.
tracted little attention, and was financial
failure. Snowden, the winner, covered l, 1G6
miles, beating the score of Donovan, the dead
winner of the first race, by seventy-five
miles. w. Boyst was second with l, las miles,
and Maddox third with 1.1OG miles.
SIX persons-threo men, a woman and her
two children-were drowned by q sudden rise
in Card creek, Kansas. Many cattle have
been lost and much damage to property has
resulted from floods in Southern Kansas.
CYCLONE in Osborne and Rocks counties,
Kansas dealt death and destruction through
out its entire course. Among the killed are
Rev. Mr.. Grimes, wife and child About fifty
persons were reported injured, some fatally.
FOREST fires have done great damage in
various portions of Michigan, destroying nu.
mcrous houses and an immense amount of
standing AMI cut timber. In Clare county
100000 feet of logs were consumed. Al
Oscoda fire broke out on the.lumber docks,
and before the flames could be checked 1000
0JO feet of lumber We're burned Many vii
lagos in Michigan were surrounded for hours
by fire.
j. B. RUSSELL, a resident of Cuthbert Ga
in fit of dependency shot his two young
sons to death; then fired revolver at him
self, inflicting probably fatal wound.
THE man who recently robbed an express
train near Bloomington, Ind, has been cap
tured and confessed his crime. He is Cheslev
Chambers, farm hand, and hitherto man
of excellent character. Davis the express
messenger assaulted in the car by Chambers,
cannot recover. Weber, the wounded bag
gageman, will get over his injuries. The
robbery and assault was one of the most
daring railroad crimes on record.
DURING April there arrived in the princi-
pal customs districts of the United States
50,9i3 immigrants.
a GREAT battle is expected to be Tough.
soon at khartoum between FL Mahd and the
rival false prophet The latter has collected
an immense force of followers and they are
advancing to attack the Madhi. Hundred.
of officers and soldiers from the remnant of
Lori VOLS 'ley's Nile expedition are arriving
at Cairo
The car has presented General Komaroff,
the Russian commander at Penjdeh, with a
valuable "sword of HONOR and warmly
commends him for his millitry services on
the Afghan border.
BRITISH workingmen are concentrating
everywhere upon labor candidates for the
coming election for members of parliament,
and they are showing unexpected political
strength.
QUEEN VICTORIA is looking out for her
] prospective SON in-law, Prince Henry of Bat
tenberg, who is to marry her youngest
| daughter, Princess Beatrice The queen has
| conferred the Order of the Garter upon
Prince Henry, and has intmated to Premier
Gladstone that Eat government Office with
little or no work attached would be accepta
bic to the prince.
SUICIDES are common events at Monaco
the great European gambling place. Fifty
-FOUR cases of self-murder have occurred this
season, the last one being that of a widow
who killed her only child, beautiful girl of
fourteen, and then blew out her own brains
with pistol. She lost $40, 900 in one day
MEXICAN troops have had bloody battle
with the Yaquis Indians, near Misa Mexico
The Indians had 800 and the Mexicans about
eighty killed