The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24
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THE Mexican editors on visit to this
country have been entertained by the New
York journalists and shown the sights of the
metropolis.
PROFESSOR CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, of
the University of Michigan, has been elected
president of the Cornell University, Ithaca,
N Y.
A wATERsPoUT which burst on the hills
south of Titusville, Penn, carried away
houses and barns in its path, uprooted inn
mense trees and drowned a number of live
stock.
BENJAMIN SCHoFIELD'S yarn mill, in West
Manayunk, Penn, has been burned, causing a
loss of 100000 Three three-story dwellings
close by were also destroyed.
AT the international convention of window
glass workers, held in PittsbuTg, delegates
were present representing the United States,
England, France, Belgium and Germany. An
international organization was effected
JOSEPH TAYLOR, a convict who murdered
his keeper, Michael +. Doran, on May 81
1884, was hanged the other day in Philadel-
phia.
THE English yacht Genesta arrived at New
York few days since and attracted much
attention. She is the yacht which will essay,
in race against American yachts to win
back the cup won by the America i'll British
waters many years ago.
THREE young people-Miss Agnes Roe Mr.
William Tichenor and Mr.. John Hedden-
were drowned the other evening while yacht
ing off Pachogue, Long Island. They were
knocked off the yacht by the boom's swing
ing suddenly around.
JOSEPH F. COTTRINGER, indicted in Phia.
delphia for the embczzlement of Sl4G500 and
the forgery OF stock certificates, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to foAr years i'm
prisonment
south and west.
SCORES of detectives, armed with rifles
and revolvers, were sent to the scene of the
lumbermen's strike in Michigan, "a trouble
was feared. The mayor of Saginaw called
upon the governor for protection and several
militia companies were ordered under arms
WORD has been received from the special
agent at the Cheyenne agency that the
Indians are calming down, and that there is
little danger of the uprising so much feared
by the people of Kansas.
ALL the Worlds Exposition buildings at
New Orleans have been sold at auction to
new company, known as 1.-THE North, Cen
tral, and South American exposition" for
$4,000. The new company will reopen the
exposition.
w II. GARDNER, of Mobile, president of
the National Cotton Exchange states in an
interview that cotton promises to be better
this year than any year since the war, with
the exception of -, rs, 80 and perhaps s2.
The business outlook he says, is brighter than
it has been for two years.
FIVE murderers in Jail at Asheville, n. c.,
overpowered the jailer and escaped to the
mountains on the 18th, A posse of citizens
and a company of State troops went in pur-
suit
VALENTINE WANT wealthy farmer.
committed suicide because steps were being
taken to remove him from the postmaster
ship of Melrose, Md.
HAILsToNEs as large as walnuts fell
during a storm in Steubenvile, Ohio and
vicinity Much damage was done to houses
barns and crops.
A. II. ROSE, an extensive farmer of Oak
land, Cal, has failed for about SS0O,0OO
JOSEPH PALMER (colored) was hanged the
other day in Cincinnati for the murder of
William H. Kirk in his stable two years ago.
William Berner and Palmer planned and ex-
ecuted the murder. 1t was the verdict in
Berner's case that was the chief melting
cause of the bloody riot in which the Gin
clnnati courthouse was burned in March,
1881. Berner is now in the Ohio penitentiary,
serving out his sentence of twenty years.
THE Virginia Republicans have nominated
the Hon. John 5. Wise, Senator Mahone's
candidate, for governor together with full
State ticket. The convention, which was
held in Richmond, was controlled by Senator
Malone
JIMMY CkAE, VINO was known TO inning
men in San Francisco six years ago as the
father of the Sierra Nevada bonanza" and
who at one period of his checkered career
could sign his check for Sl0,O0OOOO, died
there n few days since in extreme poverty.
EATON MILLS notorious colored despera-
do, was hanged for murder at Halifax, n.
{. David Acles, also colored, suffered SINH
lar fate for like crime at Helena, Ark.
THOMAS j. BoAsso, chief of the New Or
leans detective force, was shot and fatally
wounded by Mary c. Kuhn, whom he had
enticed into pretended matrimony by false
marriage certificate