The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-20
South and West.

FRANK ABNER, a tifteen-ycaro old boy, re-
siding near Rock Creek, ILL.,, being repri-
manded by his grandmother, waited until
she was asleep and then Drained her with
an AK.
A GREAT snow storm in the West has
caused a partial suspension of business in
many places. Most of the railroads were
blockaded by huge snow drifts In some
sections the blizzard was accompanied by
thunder and lightning. In Chicago the snow
drifts caused an almost complete cessation of
traffic and at Des Mones, Iowa. the fifteen
railroads centering there We're blockad,d
The storm was followed by extremely cold
weather
COMPLETE darkness suddenly following a
thunder storm in the daytime caused many
people in Louisville, Ky, to think that the
end of the world was near
HIRAM ATKINS, a wealthy old farmer, and
his three children were burned to death in
their handsome house near Norwich, Ohio
No traces of Mrs. Atkins, young wife and
step-mother TO the children, nor of Emanuel
Porter the hired man, could be found: and
investigation led to the belief that the two
together with Mrs. Atkins mother, had fired
the building and then fled.
Ice gorges caused an overflow of rivers
and creeks in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
and the damage resulting therefrom to prop
erty aggregates many thousands of dollars
ELEVEN coal companies at a meeting in
Cleveland, Ohio, decided to insist upon re
ducing the price of mining
WILBUR PETERS, of Wooster, Ohio, shot
and fatally wounded his sweetheart, Miss
Laura Chester, as she was leaving roller
skating rink with another young man; then
Peters inflicted a fatal wound upon himself
a TERRE HAUTE Ind) dispatch says that
the boiler of a rolling mill at Brazil, twenty
miles away, exploded while about fifty men
were gathered around warming themselves,
Ten men were reported killed, and about
twenty more injured.
FIVE men at work in Chicago sewer were
overcome by noXous gases and smothered to
death.
\ DOUBLE execution took place few days
since at Little Rock, Ark, the victims being
Rush johnson and Lige Parker, co.ored muir
derors of two white men.
A DAY after Miss Mary Cox, who lived in
Springfield, W. Va, was buried her grave
was opened by friends and it was discovered
she had been buried alive, the girls body and
the coffin showing evidence of a terrible
struggle that she had made to escape.
SANFORD JACKSON, a colored man, wal
hanged in Atlanta, Ga, for the murder of a
colored fellow workman named Rufus Gill
during a quarrel, and on the same day James
w. Murray expiated the murder of his
brother in-law, Alfred Nenlic, on the gallowi
at Portland, Oregon.
ALL the coal mines in Illinois, Indiana,
and Ohio have shut duwn because the
railroads cannot handle the stock.
WILLIAM HARRINGTON, a white resident
of Abbeville, La, died a few days since al
the age of 1903.
THE Texas legislature has enacted a law
making it compulsory ON heads OF all depart
nents 10 give at least half the clerical posi-
lions in their respective Offices to females
COLONEL THOMAS BUFORD. who won no
toriety in 1871 as the slayer of Judge Elliott
of the Kentucky court of appeals. died the
other morning at the Anchorage XVI
Lunatic asylum, after long illness. lie
killed Judge Elliott for rendering decision
against his sister in law suit