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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
LOST IN A SQUALL.
A Small Steam Yacht Swamped
i'm q Minnesota Lake.
Ten Persons, Including on Ez-
Mayor of Minneapolis, Drowned,

A Minneapolis (Minn.) dispatch gives the
following particulars of n sad drowning casu-
atty which occurred a few days since at
wel-known summer resort: Shortly after B
o'clock this afternoon a heavy wind and rain
storm passed over Lake Minnetonlla The
small steam yacht Minnie Cook, with ten
persons on board, was capszed and every one
was drowned. Two bodies have been recov-
cred. The storm is described by
eyewitness on the larger boats rs ter
rible The waves were high and rain
and hail filed the air The larger steamers
put i'll to shore with great difficulty and it
was impossible for the small craft to live in
the terrible sea. Other boats and lives are
believed to have been lost. The storm was
also severe at White Bear, but no lives are
reported lost from there.
EX Mayor Rand owns cottage on the lake
and yesterday he organized n small party for
sail When the squall sprang up, Instead
of putting i'll at once like most boats, he tried
to cross where the lake is narrow t. Breezy
Point, where his cottage stands. The boat
keeled over ami went down without warning
not hundred yards from Breezy Point
Many people from the shore saw the boat
when the squall struck her The full list of
drowned is /; A. c. Rand and wife his son
, Harvey Rand, age fifteen; his nephew Frank
Rand age eighteen. his daughter Mary Rand,
age eighteen; j. X. Coykendall and wife and
daughter Luella, age twentysX; George Mae
Donald engineer of the boat, age twenty
seven, and X. c. Hussey.
A special train went out to the lake with
! friends of the dead soon as the news ar
rived. Ten steamers began dragging for
bodies. Mr.. Ranl owned a large property
in Minneapolis, and represented some
millions of Boston capital invested
! here. The Tribune hero will appear
! in mourning tomorrow. The boat was Old
and known to be dangerous. Mr. Rand was
born in Boston in 1881, and went to Buffalo
when young; he was educated there, an
married One Johnson of that place. He
was i'll the oil business in Pennsylvania and
| afterward in New York a' II manufacturer
/ OF ga ont of oil; he then became a
! banker at Aurora, ILL.,. and came to Mime
| apoliS in 1874. He served as mayor Of that
city three terms and was president of numer
! Gus companies, Mr.. Coykendall being his SON
in-law. Seven deaths are virtually in one
| family. Two married SONS survive
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INSULTING THE FLAG.
The stars and stripes IGOiStcd ut
hlaIf-M Mast in SnIt Lake City.

The indignation o ,er the Mormons act in
placing the national flag at halfmast on
the Fourth continues unabatel, says a Salt
Lake City dispatch. Excited groups OF Gen
dies discussed the affair all day. On the day of
the Fourth an Old veteran stood in front Of the
city hall looking at the trailing flag. Tears
streamed from his eyes Shaking his fist at
the Mormon policemen, who We're Watching
to see that the flag was not raised, h. eN-
Gained: "Iiow long, oh, Lord, how long,
and declared that Ia would leave the NEST of
treason within forty-eight hours.
Horace Eldrcdge, president OF the DeSeret
National bank, the United States depository
Lere. says the half-mast is the proper place
Tor the tiag. ''as we have not more than half
cur rights"
The Provo Enquirer, Mormon paper, had
ON the Fourth coffin with the inscription,
'Indepondence-Diei July /, $50"
The Deseret NswS, church organ, fully jus
titles the half mastinS of the tlag i'll five
column article, conclusively showing that it
was under church authority, and claiming
that it was right to do it, because Liberty is
dead in Utah
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ADMIRAL PORTER will complete his history
o. the navy DUNG the civil war this sum
mar.
Miss CLEVELAND, though urged refused
TO allow her picture to appear in her new
book.
AFTER reign of forty eight years, Victoria
has III Lord salisbury, for the first time a
prime minister youn ger than herself.
EN-EMPREss EUGENE says of herself, in
private let er: Il am left alone. the sole
remnant OF a saipwreck, which proves how
fragile and vain are the grandeurs of this
world
Mrs. JAMES X. Polk has lately been visit
ed at Nashville, Tenn, by II New Orleans
correspondent, who describes her at eighty
Two as still retaining many traces of her for
MGR beauty for which she was noted while
Mistress at the White House.
UNITED STATES SENATOR HENRY b. PAYNE.
OF ONO, has been selected to deliver the ora
ton before the Alumni association of Hamil-
ton college, Clinton, y. ", during commenc-
ment week, 1851 Senator Payne is a gradu
at of the college Of the class OF lSS3
THREE sons and two daughters of General
Robert Z. Lee survive him His sons are
turner's in Virginia and the daughters are
b IN great travellers the elder having explored
Australia, Japan, China, India and Egypt,
III addition to the European circuit of sights.
PROFESSOR JOHN TYNDALL's gift Of $1O, SOC
to each of three colleges-Harvard, Column
bia and Pennsylvania is the sum he earned
by lecture tour twelve years ago increased
by compound interest, and is characterized as
the nobless and richest gift ever made to the
cause OF education.
PROFESSOR ARTEMUs MARTIN, of Erie, Pa e,
who has been recognized as one OF the great.
est of living mathematicians by several Brit
ish and American societies, has just received
the honorary degree of LII ID, from Hills
da!e college, DR.. Martin is a market gardener
and attends his market stall daily
WE real that 'the Princess of Wales, the
daughter of the king of Denmark, is fascna.
ton itself and is much beloved by all classes
OF English people. Ths princess is amiabls
and of a gentle, quiet nature, the type of
character most admired in England. She Is
a devoted wife and mother, sympathetic
dignihed without haughtiness She was
brought up as she is now bringing up her own
s-ildrea, with the greatest simplicity"
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THE sultan of Turkey is taking music les
sons.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the English COM
poser, is in this country on visit.
LONDON papers state that Marie Geistinger
will retire from the stage next season.
GEORGE ALFRuD TOWNSEND, the journal
is, has written play. He calls it 'Crom-
WE'LL
Mrs. ERNEST HUELsKAMP. the coachman's
bride, who was Miss Morosini, Ia studying for
the stage
Tony DENLER, the successor of George l..
Fox as the clown of Il pantomine, thinks that
the days of "Hunpty Dumpty" are over.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON starts soon on a
concert tour through Sweden and Norway,
under the management of Maurice Strakosch.
EDWARD OxFNFORD, of London, says song
writing docs not pay. He has written more
than one thousand ballads, and IS not worth
500
Mr.. LAWRENCE BARRETT will revive next
season, "Hares ell: or The Nan of oAlrlie,"
in which he has not been seen in several
years.
IT is more than likely thai Miss Florence
st. John, Lonlons popular opera boutie ar
fist, Will appear in New York the coming
season.
MILE. MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American
singer, is rumored to be hcrothed to a Rus
sian noDleman OF hlSh rank, VINO ms peel n
persistent admirer.
Nm. ARDoNNEAU and Burvanni have writ
ten a comedy in two acts, taken from "Hel-
ems Babies in which two bright children
will shortly make their dtbuts upon the stage
in Paris.
MARY ANDERSON commences her tour OF
the British provinces on August y, Her
season in this country begins onOctober ~.
The English climate is said to have greatly
added To Mary AuuersOn's beauty.
PAsINI wrote about 100 operas, Donizetti
GO, Mercadante %, Auber a, Cocoa 10, Ros-
SIM 81, Haleyy 81, l.. Ricci 2S, Verdi %, Pet
ralia "a, f, Ricci 10, Coppola II, Mozart ii,
Meyerbeer Il. Gounod IS, Wager Il, Bel
lini, 10.
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THE NATIONAL GAME

SowDERs, of Nashville, received So for
making home run with the bases full.
THE new young president of Bowdoin col
lege was tine best college ball player of his
time.
THE South has become the Mecca of many
ball players who would otherwise he now
lying idle
ROGER CoNNoR, of the New York club,
leads the National League batsman with an
average of BIS.
THE colleges have furnished much good
material to the professional ranks, notably
several good pitchers
THE Southern League thus far has shown
more back bone than any other similar new
association organized.
THE ages of the Chicago nine average more
than any other League team, while the Louis
vile has the youngest players.
THE Brooklyn and Providence teams may
be amalgamated next season and go INTO the
Lea cue under Broodlyn's coors
Is a game in Seneca, Kansas Dan Flynn,
pitcher for the st. Joseph club, struck out
three men i'll succession on nine pitched balls,
a wonderful pitching feat.
ONE would think that twelve players at
most would be enough for any club to carry,
ye, there is scarcely one League or American
club but has more than a dozen players Oh
the payroll.
The championship records up to recent date
are as follows:
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THE HESSIAN FLY.
Devastated by the Pest.

A Lyons u. " dispatch states that "ths
Hessian fly is destroying hundreds Of fields Of
growing wheat in this vicinity, and the
farmers have been thrown into state OF
great alarm. More extensive ravages in grain
Dave never before been known in Wayne
and Ontario counties 1essiau flies appeared
i'll he towns of Lyons and Arcadia month
ago, but nothing was done to che * their in
crease. They have now extended many
miles in all directions and are moving rapid
~ toward the northern part of Wayne
county. The total amount of destruction Of
wheat thus far is estimated ut over one
hundred and eighty thousand bushels.
In Lyons, Juuius and Arcadia wheat fields OF
twenty-five and thirty acres each have been
so injured that they appear wholly barren
where three weeks ago harvest of thousand:
OF bushels were promised. In Junius the de
vastation has heen so complete that farmers
there are about t. burn the whole of the
wheat straw on their lands in order tc
check, if possible, tine advance of the pest,
Many farmers have lost so much grain that
they will lie unable TO make payments on the
mortgages on their pr perry, aud will proba
bly, have their farms sold by the sheriff. The
greatest fear is that the pest will rapidly de-
stroy the grain until harvest, and that hun
dreds more of fiel.ls will Ina rnined y
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EWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

HENRY H. GoRRiNGE, formerly lieutenant
commander in Che United States navy, died
a few days since in New York. He was the
naval officer who brought the Egyptian
obolisk from Egypt to New York.
GENERAL GRANT was feeling considerably
stronger on the 9th.
A PREMATURE explosion of n dynamite
blast at a tunnel near McConnellsburg, Penn,
resulted in the death of three men and injuries
to four others, two of whom were also ex-
pected TO die
THE party Of twenty Mexican editors
making tour through this country called
on General Grant at Mt. MacGregor and pre-.
sented him with an address General Grant
wrote response, expressing his good will for
Mexico.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State con-
vention, held in Harrisburg, nominated Mat
thew s. Quay for State treasurer on the first
ballot A platform was adopted which de-
mands the repeal of the internal revenue
taxes, except on spirituous and malt liquors,
and that all revenues be raised by an addi-
tional levy on imports; calls for
the establishment of true system of
civil service; the preservation of n sound fl
nancial system; the protection of the national
treasury from disloyal claims; the mainte-
nance of the credit of the government; the
protection of American national and indus
trial independence by antagonizing imported
and convict labor and denounCes the Demo-
cratic national and State administrations.
JAMES KANE was hanged in Philadelphia
the other day for numbering his brother.
JOSEPH BECKER, railroad gang boss, and
an Italian laborcr were instantly killed by a
cave-in near Pottsvhle, Penn.
GENERAL GRANT received a call from Gen
eral Buckner, the ex-Confederate officer and
a fellow student al West Point, on the 10th.
The general was feeling somewhat weaker
than usual
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Soufh md Wcqt.

EDWARD FINCH aged seventy-five years,
his sister, aged eighty, both white, and
negro boy, about fifteen years of age, were
murdered near Moncure, n. c., the object of
the murderers beng robbery.
JOSEPH HARRISON and his two children
were burned to death, and Mrs Harrison re-
ceived tat al injuries ut fire which destroyed
their dwelling at Woodbridge, Va. The
child of Mrs. Bailey also lost its life.
AN alteration between Irish and Polish
workmeu in a Cleveland saloon ended in
terrible fight with knives and clubs. Five men
were wounded, one fatally. The atfray grew
out of the strike in the Cleveland rolling mills.
A FIRE at Stoughton, Wis, destroyed ten
out of thirteen large tobacco warehouses, a
railroad depot. and about twenty freight cars
loaded with wheat and merchandise, causing
a loss estimated at nearly 81. 100000.
JUDGE LYNCH claimed four victims the
other day At Grenada, Miss, two men
charged with the murder of peddler were
taken from the sheriff by n crowd of men and
hanged; and at Baxter Springs, Kansas, and
Trinity, Texas similar fate was meted out
to two colOred men-one only seventeen years
old-tor brutally assaultinS two little girls
AT Viola. Wis, Elsa Shambaugh, aged
fifteen; J. Mcfarland, aged eighteen, and
Henry Fisher, az seventeen, were drowned
while bathing in the kickapoo river Mctar-
land saved one of his comrades, and whllc III
the act of rescuing another was himself
drowned.
JOSEPH {. MACKIN, q prominent Chicago
politician, found guilty of fraud at the late
presidential election. has been sentenced to
five years III the pcnitentiary.
a LETTER from Morehead, Ky, states that
in the first week in August last began in that
county perhaps the bloodiest, longest and
Interest feud which has ever marked the
criminal history of Kentucky. Thus far
nearly dozen lives have been taken and,
male, two families have been exterminate ted"
a political quarrel is the foundation of the
trouble.
REV. VI. d. TURNER. a Methodist minister,
during n moment of mental alteration com
United suicide at Stone Mountain, Ga, by
taking strychnine
DURING the trial OF casa in the United
States district court at Cincinnati, Judge
Foraker, the Republican candidate for gov
ernor OF Ohio, was assaulted by the opposing
counsel A. A. Ferris. The former warded
of the blows, and other attorneys interfered.
Judge Sage Immediately repr.manied Ferris
and fined him $50 for contempt of court.
TwENTYNINE horses We're burned to death
in a fire near Baltimore.
A GREAT strike of lumber mill men for ten
in stead of eleven hours as n day work began
ii few days since at Bay City, Mich. About
lij mills, employing $1,000 men, shut down.
DURING n heavy storm at Rantoul, ILL.,
lightning struck the hOuse of Henry Kin
ne tr, instantly killing his two children, ageC
tw) and -four years respectively, prOstratlne
| himself and leaving his wife nsenslbc.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are l7G street railroads in the United
States.
FoUE thousand persons are annually buried
in "Potters Field, OF New York city.
TIE Chinese make, as we'll as wash. most Of
the white shirts worn in san Francisco.
THE new New York city directory indi-
Gates population in that city of nearly J.
jOJ.GOJ.
HORNED toads sell for fifty cents each at
Carson City. New, and are i'll demand to send
east as curicsities.
THERE are at present in the United States
llG medical schoo 5. and there is one physician
to every So inhabitants.
OF the total area Of the United States,
forty-four per cent. or l,3Gj,OOO square
miles, is devoted to grazing.
IRELAND is still or atty superior to other
countries i'll its capacity for manufacturing
linen Her splndies number Sl4, IS.
COMMON brown wrappingpap,r and in
1igo-bue paper used by grocers are the as
thetic wall decorations of the present fashion.
ONE-ToURTH of our cutlery supply comes
from England, one-tourth from Germany
and the remaining one-haf is made at home.
IT is given out from an authentic Chinese
source that the imperial revenues Of the en-
tire Chinese empire are only So 100, 900 per
annum.
MICHIGAN holds the championship of the
Union as II shinge manufacturing State.
From l,GiJ establishments, 2,54S, 1900 are
made per annum
"BABY insurance is quite an idea among
the poor in New York city. Premiums APP
ply to funeral expenses. High style Of
funeral, high premiums.
THE -four American cities of above q. 900
inhabitants having the highest natural sites
above the level o: the sea are Leadvllle Den
Yer, Omaha and Atlanta, in the order named
DTRITt; tho rarant ottnrL, nv thn rpbals on
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" nshlncrOn.

poFtmastrrs " r. miam Ei h Pt''l Hgreka
Springs, Ark; Frank W Havill, at Mount
Carmel, Wabash county, d.; ANNE Brcn-
mock, at Dunlap, Iowa, John W. Pence, at
Anderson, Ind. Charlie, II. Reed, at Corinth,
Miss; Alexander NJ. Dick at West Newton,
Penn. John 7. kilg, r., at Long View, Iexa,.
twenty-five suspensions of presidential post
masters also occurred on the iSame day.
Miss CLEvELANDs book of essays. entitled
George Eliots Essays and Other Studies, -
has just been published, and has had a large
sale. Three editions We're exhausted on the
FIRST day OF its publication.
THE President has appointed Frederick
Gcrker to he collector OF internal revenue for
the first district of Pennsylvania, and Willis
q. Clark to be collector of customs at Mobile.
LUCIAN HoPsoN, of Texas, who invented
and had patented by the Confederate gov
ernment a projectile which was used with
some success in Charleston harbor against the
Union vessels, recently filed an application
Tor patent for the same projectile, and
few days ago letter was sent to him from
the interior department informing him that
his application had been granted
MORE presidential postmastcrs appointed:
Robert w. Speer, at Denver, Col; Thomas
\. Goodnight, at Franklin, Ky; Michael w.
Ryan at Medford, Wis: A. b. Waller, at
Tusrarora. New; Edwin S. Smith, at South
Haven, Mich; John O'Donnell, at Mitchell,
Ind. John Pepper, ut Boscobel, Wis.
TIE President has accepted the resignation
Of i. b. S. Pinchback as surveyor of customs
at New Orleans
The President on the 9Th appointed Will
liam X. Meade, of Arizona, TO he United
States marshal for the Territory of Arizona
and Joseph l.. Morgan, of South Carolina,
To be secretary of the legation of the United
States to Mexico, POstmasters: G. ). Stoy,
at Butler, Ind; Eli w. Brown, Mt Columbia
City, Ind. Jonah T. Howe at Trumans-
burg, y. y.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES command
ing the department of the Columbia, has
been ordered TO relieve General c, G. Augur,
commanding the department OF the Missouri,
who retlres from active service General
Niles will go Immediately into the field to as.
sumo command Of the forces in the Indian
Territory who are watching the Indians
EDWARD b. YoUaANS, who has been ten
dered the position of chief clerk of the treas
ury department, in place of Theodore f.
Swayzee, who has held the position about
three years is prominent lawyer and poll
tician of Elmira, n. y.
THE Presi lent has appointed Colonel John
Gbbon of the Seventh Infantry to be a
brigadier-seneral OF the army, vice General
c. c. Augur, retired
THE last report of the agricultural depart
ment shows slight improvement in winter
wheat, which a ivances the general average
between two and three points, or from sixty
two to nearly sixty The winter wheat
region, which does not include the Terri
tories, now promises about 2l50O0, 0OO
bushels. The condition of spring wheat con-
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tinues high, though the average is slightly
reduced, being nearly ninety-six Indications
now point to crop of about l4o,OOO0OO
bushels, making an aggregate of 363, 900 600
bushels. Corn condition is higher than in
any year since 1880, except the last. The area
is "A, 600 acres. Cotton has made q material
improvement during June; average condition
increased from ninety two to ninety six.
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a CURRANT-GgAPE that has no seeds is
grown to tt very q eat extent in many parts
OF Greece, The annual product being $4,000
tons, of which the United States buys an
nually about $4,000 tons
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-09
NEW FIRM.

HAVING PURCHASED THE B MESS
II OF F. R. Madeira & Co., we III con
81 aue. same at the old stand, under the firm
nsmeof Pliee &. Needham. We hope by
promptness and attention t, business and
handling only the best goods, to retain ali
he old customers and add many new ones.
ELI L. PRICE,
THOMAS B. NEEDHAM.
October Igt, 1884
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FULL DIPLOMA COURSES IN.
Literature, Music & Art.

Practical lessons given in Domestic Econ
omy and Cookery. Riding School in connee-
ton with the college. FORTY SCHOLARSHIPS
of the value OF from So to 500 annually
awarded by competition, eighteea OF which
are open to competition at the September en-
trance Examinations Terms per school year
Board, laundry and tuition, intending
the whole English course, ancient and mod
ern languages and calisthenics, from $3.50 70
$500; Music and Painting extra. Combined
rate payment one year in advance, including
with the above piano and vocal music ana
painting from $500 to 300. Junior Depart
nent Pupils admitted from the age OF 8
Special department for the training of teach'
ers: teachers registry in connection with tns
College Professional staff OF English anu
European reputation. Liberal reduction "
the daughters of clergymen. For large Illus
trated circular, free, and further particular
address.
REV. E. NJ. ENGLISH, N. A, Principal
Hellmuth Ladies College,
London, ont CANADA
Next term opens September 18th. ISL