The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26
LATER NEWS

one years old, while intoxicated, uuarrelet
with and killed his father.
JAMES r. MCKEE, of Logstown, Penn.
Shot his wife and then himself, both dyin!
soon afterward. They had lived unhappily
together.
GENERAL GRANT resumed work on his bool
on the Goth at Mt. McGregor. On the 21st h,
had a refreshing sleep of nine hours, and fell
much better.
AT Ross Fork Agency, Idaho, some Indial
thieves having treacherously murdered tive
Indian police, were surrounded and four o
their number killed.
Mrs. TIMOTHY HILL and her daughter
Jennie, a handsome and cultured young lady
were shot and killed at their home ON Chin
colleague Island, Md, by William 7. Free
man, who wound up his bloody work by com
hitting suicide. Freeman was in the employ
of Mr.. Hill, who found him a waif in tn,
streets of New York years ago, and brough
him home. h young mar was madly il
love with Miss Jennie, who rejected his ad
vances.
HENRY HOWARD, q negro who attacked
and terribly injured two young white girl
near West Lafayette, Ohio, was forcibly
taken from Jail at Coshockton by 100 masked
men and hanged to a tree in the court nous
yard.
FIVE colored people-Andy Jackson anc
his wife, and three others-were taken from
Jail at Elkhart, Texas, by a crowd, and
hanged. They had been imprisoned for the
murder of Mrs. HAZEL, a white woman. Mrs.
jackson had confessed the crime.
MARY kLEMAN, q young woman in Jail a
Chicago on the charge of trying TO poison
her sisters family, has confessed her gull
and also made further confession of causing
the deaths of her mother, father and another
sister in Dubuque, Iowa. Her mother dice
in July oflast year, her sister in August, anc
her father in March of this year. She as
Signs no motive for her crimes other than sht
was impelled to commit them, and is evi
IDENTIFY insane.
FURTHER appointments by the President
To be collectors of internal revenue-R.
Black, for the first district of New York
Matthew H. Nanderveer, for the third dis
trict of New Jersey; Francis S. Shields,
for the district of Louisiana; George H.
DN' " IL a ulSll u VI htllIuCh1
Thomas Hanlon, for the Seventh district OF
Indiana; James w, Newman, for the
eleventh district of Ohio; Chris
tian S. Knecht, for the sixth district
of Ohio; Adolph Biermnnu, for the
district of Minnesota. 70 be postmastcrs-
j. w. McMaster, at Hazlehurst, Miss. vii
liam n. Carter, at Viroqua, Wis; Thomas
ID - ro,-sn. Va .-- 7
Cakes, at S~outhbridge, Mass. Frank T
Lynch, at Leavenworth, Kan; George W.
Sembler, at City Island, N. Y; John Hayes
Paige, at Schenectady, n. "; Samuel T.
Bassett, at Richmond, Mo.
SINCE March Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Miller has dropped 800 persons from
the rolls OF his department
SEVERE shocks of earthquake have been
felt at Berne and Geneva, switzerland.
BY an explosion in a coal mine at Apedale,
England, ten persons were killed.
MADRID has been the scene of a violent
outbreak, said to have been caused by the
opposition Of the populace to the sanitary
regulations against the spread of cholera.
The streets were occupied by the military,
who were stoned by a mob. A collision oc
CURED, and seven persons were killed.
INFORMATION which is startling if true
has been received from a Syrian who passed
three months at the residence of the Mahdi
after the fall of Khartoum. He saws the
Madhi has General Gordon in secret keeping,
having discovered him severely wounded.
but not dead, and that Gordon recovered
The story is credited at Massowah, and forms
the subject of an official dispatch.
KING ALFONSO having determined on visit
ing the cholera infected districts Of Spain the
Spanish cabinet members offered their resig-
nations. Senior Sagasta, the former prime
minister, declined King AlfonSo's invitation
% form a new cabinet, and advised TIL king
to remain in Madrid. After much persuasion
he king consented to abandon his Journey
ind the ministers thereupon withdrew their
designations,
As "A result of the recent earthIuakes in
cashmere, India 3,0Sl persons lost their
ives; 1000 houses were laid in ruins, and
5000 animals persisted.
ThE latest report puts the number of
miners killed By the explosion in q collicry
rear Manchester, England, at 80, with
nanv more still unac"ountnd for.