The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
LATER NEWS.

On the second day of the New York Demo-
cratic State convention at Saratoga the
ticket was completed as follows. For lieuten
ant governor-Roswell 7. Flower; for score
tary of state -Fredercs Cook TO-,
omptroer-Alfred Churchill Chaplin;
for treasurer-Lawrence j. Fitzgerald: for
attorney general-Dennis O'Brien; for state
engineer-Elnathan Sweet The platform
commends the administrations of President
Cleveland and Governor Hill, and reafirms
the declarations of previous national conven-
tions concerning civil service reform.
Mrs. MACK LATHRoP the wife of farmer
near Stoughton, Mass, while trying to pro-
tect a friend from the attack of yoke of
oxen belonging to her husband, was herself
disembowled by the angry beasts
a FIRE in Chicago destroyed many million
feet OF lumber, causing an estimated loss of
S215,OO
THE most important new enterprise re-
ported in the South for a long time is that
for the erection of immense works in Vir-
ginia at cost of 1880, coo to manufacture
steel, composite brass etc, the annual capac-
ity to lie 100000 tons The purchase of 49,
600 acres of magnificent coal and iron land
has already been made.
BRITISH capitalists propose to build ship
railway across the narrow isthmus which
connects Nova Scotia with New Brunswick
to carry vessels from the Bay of Fundy to
Cumberland strait.
THE pope has agreed to mediate between
Germany and Spain with regard to the dis
pute over the Caroline islands.
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Point, port on the bay of Bengal India, by
a cyclone
The feeling in Russia regarding the Roume
liam question. it is telegraphed from Russia
is "hourly growing more warlike," and the
sympathy of the masses is said TO be strongly
for the Bulgarians and against the Turks
ONE of Queen Victoria's sons-the Duke OF
Edinburg-wanted to pay the hop pickers on
his estates in Kent twelve pence basket for
picking hops, the usual price being eighteen
pence; but the work-peope grew so angrily
demonstrative that the duke became fright
ened and yielded to their demands.
Mrs. FADER, of .Gouldvlle, Penn, was
stung by bees in her garden, and died in forty
five minutes
ROSWELL 2. FLOWER, nominee of the New
VI ptIllotIdlAt ''ldlc SpIN ANi NV
tenant-governor wrote a letter shortly after
the conventions close declining the nomina-
ton
A NEIGHBoR's bulldog kill the four-year-
old child of Mrs. Parsons at Goes Station,
Ohio, and was eating its flesh when dis
covered. The brute had to be killed before
it would leave the child's body.
Two men and woman residents of Tomb
stone, Arizona, We're ambushed by Apaches,
the men killed and the woman carried off into
captivity.
THE President has appointed the following
United States attorneys: Daniel o. Finch,
of Iowa, for the southern district of Iowa,
and Fabus H. Busbee of North Carolina,
for the eastern district of North Carolina.
FOUR Indians have just been sentenced to
death at Battleford, Manitoba, for murder,
and numerous others have received terms of
Imprisonment varying from two to fourteen
years for arson and robbery.
CAPTAIN HATFIELD, with his command,
overlook and had fight with band of about
sixty hostile Indians in the Cananca noun
tans, Mexico, killing several and capturing
fortythree.
LARGE trac of lanl are said to have been
recently purchased by the Mormons IN