The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

REPORTS from the Delaware peach district
predict an unusually large crop.
The value of the shipbuildng industry of
New England for 1854 reached 5000, 900.
NINE firemen were buried under the ruins
of fallen wall at a fire in Pittsburg, Penn
One was taken out dead, two fatally and the
Others more or less seriously injured
1--WE Russian ships were in the port of New
York the other day, waiting to see whether
it was safe to take out cargoes
GOVERNOR ALBEIT has signed the bill
passed 10y the New Jersey legislature making
it unlawful to kill song or other birds for the
purpose of using their skins for decorative
purposes.
A FIRE at Railway, N. j., destroyed a large
carriage factory and the Gordan Opera
house The flames spread so quickly that aid
was telegraphed for to Newark, Jersey City
and Elizabeth.
ABOUT 900 dogs of high and low degree,
and almost every breed known in the canine
world, took part in the annual prize competi-
tion at the Madison Square Garden, New
York.
Much damage was done in portions of New
York and Pennsylvania by heavy storm of
wind and rain, followed by floods. In some
places snow fell
GEORGE F. SLossoN won the first prize OF
$1,000 in the final game of the billiard tour
nament at New York, his opponent being
$500. Sexton won the third prize, $400 and
DAILY the fourth, $3.50
Two prominent japanese police officials
have been inspecting the New York city
police methods.
THE Russian war ship Strelok arrived at
New York from Norfolk, Va, a few days
since and was viewed by crowds with much
curiosity. At Norfolk she had been watched
by the English cruiser Garnet, and in the
event of war it was expected a fight between
the two vessels just outside of American
waters would follow.
A SMALL sloop went ashore near Oldfeld
Light, on the Long Island shore, off Connec-
tlcut, and three men were drowned.
THIRTEEN canal boats on the Hudson were
sunk during the recent severe storm.
MILE ALICE LAFAvRE, a member Of
circus company, while performing on the
trapeze at Trenton, n. j., fell thrty-ive feet
breaking her nose and three of her ribs
FoR the first time since his sickness took a
serious turn, General Grant on the 30th
worked at his history of the war, employing
a stenographer and debating clearly and sue
cinctly for an hour. An examination of
his throat revealed that the soreness and
irritation about the roof of the mouth had
entirely disappeared, and there only remained
of the alleged cancer a small canierous spot
at the root of the tongue and on the right
side. Colonel Fred Grant said that both he
that the general would recover.
COMMODORE c. X. GARRISON, the we'll
knowntnancier and railroad king, died sud
denly at his home in New York the other
day, aged seventy six years. Before his fail
ure a year ago the commodore's estate was
estimated at 100000 to S7,000,000
FOUR Germans committed suicide in New
York on the LIST. One was an old man of
seventyeight, and another a boy of eighteen
years.
The epidemic of fever at Plymouth, Penn,
has spread through the surrounding country,
which is dotted with hamlets clustered around
coal-breakers, and many deaths have
CURED among the miners and their families
South and West.
THE recent fire at Nicksburg, Miss, proved
more fatal than was first reported. After
several days search in the ruins thirty-two
bodies were recovered, including the corpses
of five firemen and it was feared the list
would be increased.
A NEW government Indian school and farm
are to be located at Grand Junction, Col
ELEVEN miners in Colorado were over
whelmed weeks ago in their cabin by snow
slide and suffocated. The other day their
bodies were recovered.
A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was given to ex-
Senator Pendleton, the newly -appointed
United States minister to Germany. Speeches
We're made by George William Curtis, who
presided Senator William NJ. Evarts, Carl
Schurz and others.
ONE-HALF the cotton crop in the Arkansas
valley has been destroyed by freshets.
ADoLPH Hess, living near Concorlia, Ohio.
killed his wife and child with an ak and then
hanged himself. He had been addicted to
drink.
SMOKE from a fire in the Lindell hotel at
st Louis, largely occupied by women and
children, created panic but all the guests
reached the outside in safety Three firemsn
were injured. The damage mostly done by
water reached 100000.
THREE prisoners at Winton, n. c., set fire
to the Jail as a method of escaping; but the
flames got beyond their control, and they
were all burned to death.
FOREST fires haxe consumed woods and
fences in five mountain counties of Virginia,
causing the heaviest loss experienced in
many years.
DELEGATIONS from every board of trade
in the country We're present at the formal
opening of the new Exchange building in
Chicago. The new edifice is one of the larg-
est and handsomest of its kind in the world,
and covers a space of l73 by 100 feet From
the ground to the top of the main fla gstaf on
the tower is 800 feet
A MAN having the appearance of a tramp
entered the express car of night train whe n
near Harrodsburg, Ind, and having shot and
probably fatally wounded the baggage mas
Ter and the express messenger, rihed the safe
and escaped.
REV. JESSE Cook, a colored minister of
Butler, Ga, became enraged at his wife,
killed her with an ak and fled.
GEORGE MACK murdered Richard Parker,
his employer at Great Bend, Kan. and
was arrested at Kansas City, Mo. On arriv-
ing at Great Bend crowd took the prisoner
from the train and hanged hin.