The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-20
LATER NEWS,

ploye and an ex-sodier, has been appointed
weigher in the New York custom house, hav
ing had the highest average of proficiency
in the recent examination Of applicants. This
is the case in which the New York collector
appointed Alderman Sterling, of Brooklyn,
to the position, but was ordered by the Prcsi
dent to suspend Sterling and hold an exami-
nation, open to all applicants, under the civil
service rules. Sterling was among those ex-
amined, and was twenty third in the list of
thirty men who passed the examination.
THIRTY-oNE men have been indicted by
the grand jury at Edgeaeld, S. c., for par
ticipating in the lynching of one Culbreath
The prisoners were taken to Jail pending
trial.
THREE men were killed at Hopkinsville,
Ind, by the explosion of a boiler
WILLIAM SHAPoN, ex United States Sena-
tor and one of the wealthiest men in tho
West died the other day in San Francisco,
aged sixty-three years. He was native of
| Ohio and was worth many millions, made in
mining and other speculations. OF late his
name had been prominently before the public
on account of a sensational divorce suit
brought against him by Sarah Althca Hill, a
young woman who claimed TO be his wife,
but whom he repu1iated, declaring it was q
case of attempted blaclimaiL
THE seventeenth annual list of merchant
vessels of the United States, us prepared by
the commissioner of navigation, shows as
| follows, compared with the list of the pre-
vious fiscal year: Total number of vessels
1884, 26, ESQ., 1885, %, 513; decrease Liz vos-
sells. Sailing vesscl5-1sS4, 1858; 1885, H.
1917 decrease, 431 Steam vessels-1sS4,
! Gill; 1855, 5,70G; decrease 40j. Unrigged
vessels-lS4, 1921; 1855, 2,G4O; decreased
25l
In frontier skirmsh at TIN eight Serv-
ians and one Bulgarian we're killed.
H. b. CLAFLIN, head of the prominen
New York dry goods house of H. B. Clahir
6; Co., died suddenly a few days since o.
apopaxy. He was s.venty-four years old
and since A. T. Stewards death was recog
nized as the leading dry goods merchant o.
the country.
MRs ALFRED FRITZ, wife Of prosperou
young New York engraver, killed herself anc
two little children, few days since, by ad
ministering poison. The only motive wa
piuue caused by family quarrel.
TWENTY-FIVE worllmen employed on The
New York aqueluct have lost their lives bj
accidents in the past six months.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD has formal
" presented to the trustees, at his residence
in San Francisco, rs a gift, the deed of thu
property with which it is intended to founC
and endow the Leland Stanford, Jr, univer'
sity on the Palo Alto farm. Tho gift con
sists of the Grdley, Nina and Palo Alt
farms, which comprise $1,000 acres, the pres
ent value of which is about Si,0OJ,0OO
"ALT' LITTLE, a notorious Kentucky dies
perado, credited with the murder of fourteen
men, has Just been sentenced in the Unitc'
States court at Louisville to sixteen years
imprisonment for forging pension paper
and postofrice orders.
COLONEL JOSEPH BRUFF, prominen
citizen of Damascus, Ohio, killed himself O
the grave of his son.
ANDERSON BURREs was shot according t
the Indian mode of execution, in the India
Territory for wife murder.
AN explosion of giant powder at the moutl
of Silver Cliff Coli mine, destroyed til
shaft-house and cut off the escape of te
miners below. All ten We're killed.
Miss CLEVELAND has returned to tn
White House after an absence of severt
months.
w. A. VINCENT, whose appointment G
chief Justice of New Mexico was revoked b.
cause lie appointed Stephen W. Dorsey
jury commissioner has written long lettC
to President Cleveland explaining his actio
in reference to Mr. Dorsey, and protestin
tunity to defend himself.