The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
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PARTIALLY successful attempt has been
made to blow up the Jail at Murfreesboro,
Ark, with dynamite. One side of the build
ing was blown to fragments, and prisoner
badly injured. The object was to blow up
two brothers confined in the jail for brutal
murder.
A NoGALEs (Arizona) dispatch says that
three Americans and eight Mexicans have
been murdered at Basachuca by Apaches.
Two Knights of Pythias- Henry F. Sand
man, of Cincinnati, and j. +. Farnan, of Gov
ington, Ohio-while at an encampment near
Cleveland went in bathing, and becoming
chilled were both drowned
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN opened the Ohio
campaign for the Republicans IN long speech
before large open air assemblaGe at Mount
Gilead.
DURING the recent heavy storm along the
South Atlantic coast three men, belonging to
savannah tGal. pilot boat, and the second
officer of n steamship, We're lost overheard.
PART of passenger train crashed through
bridge near Natchez Miss, resulting in the
death of the engineer, fireman and a brake
man, and injuries to nine other persons.
THE Iowa Republicans in State convention
at Dies MONIES, nominated n ticket headed by
Senator William Larrabee for governor and
adopted platform which declares that 1.-THE
issues growing out of the war for the Union
can never be called settled until they are set
tied right" and condemns the Cleveland ad-
minstration.
DIR, II. P. LYNCH, of Sturgis, Dakota, was
shot dead in his office by CORPORAL Ross Hal
lis, of the Twenty fifth United States infantry.
stationed at Fort Meade Halls, who had
shot Lynch out of revenge was seized by
mob and hanged
A VIOLENT shock of earthquake occurred
the other day in Caldwell county, n. c.
People sitting in their houses were surprised
to hear noise resembling thunder. The
shock lasted but a few seconds, but during
that time there was violent rocking.
JOHN JAMES and his nephew Charles quar-
relied over game of cards near Franklin.
Ca, and shot each other dead
SAMUEL W. COLLINS was hanged at Bow
ling Green, Mo. for numbering Owen Utter
back, the victims widow and two young sons
witnessing the execution. On the same day
Henry Burnett, a colored youth of eighteen,
was hanged at Lonoke, Ark, for the murder
of colored man; John Waiseman was
hanged for murder at Duluth, Mum, and
Charles Townsend (colored) suffered similar
fate at Huntersville. Ala
GENEVA, Ill, has been the scene of a mvs-
ferrous double murder, citizens returning
home at midnight finding the dead bodies of
Officers McNott and Grant two of the three
men who constitute the police force of the
town They had either killed each other i'm n
quarrel, or been murdered by thieves
DURING the recent heavy storm three
pilot boats from Beaufort, S. c., with four
teen men, were lost at sea. The revised es-
innate of the losses by the storm at Charles
ton, s. c., Is Sl,G9O,00O including 500, OOC
along the wharves, $3.50, 900 of private prop
erty, $500, 600 to shipping and 100000 on
Sulllvan's Island
AL LOCKE, the Texas monster who re-
Gently murdered seven persons-several Of
them his relatives and mortally wounded
an eighth because they had charged him with
various outrageous crimes was taken from
Jail by armed men and hanged.