The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
LATER NEWS

JAMES NIURPHY. wel-to-do cxIre -sman
, Of Williamsburg, y. ", in fit of jealousy
} hit AMI prol ily fatally wounded his wife
AMI then inflicted a mortal wound upon
himself
SINCE work b, gan on the new New York
aquedurt in January, 1851, thirty-two EN-
ployes have bean killed and twenty-one in
iured.
/ An acre of ground above a coal mine at
/ Hazleton, Penn, has caved ill., throwing 400
men out of employment and inficting dam
/ age amounting to more than S30, 600.
/ UP to recent date the Grant monument
fund had reached SlO4,50
! JOE PARKER a colored man, diel n few
days since at the county poorhouse Dallas
Texas at the alleged age Of 1876 years.
/ JOHN ALEXANDER (coloretD was hanged at
Stanton Plantation, La, for wife murder.
THE Ohio supreme court reversed the de.
cision of the lower court in the Cincinnati
contested election cases and ordered certif-
Gates of election to be issued to four Demo-
cratic senatorial candidates. This leaves the
Ohio legislature Republican by three ma
iority on joint ballot.
A BOILER explosion at the Furthe foundry,
Austin, Texas, killed Charles Jones, propri-
eter of the works, and Lewis Preston the en-
gineer, injured several other people, and de
molished the building
On gala occasions when the average mortal
INDUCES in roast turkey two families of coal
diggers residing near Bellaire, Ohio, roast a
dog and eat it,
THERE are four Tay'ors in the present
House of Representatives
THE German minister of the interior has
announced in the Reichstag that Germany
had not been invited to participate in the
Paris exposition of 1889.
THE followers Of Parnell, the Irish home.
rule leader, number eighty-six in the new
house of commons, and they hold the balance
Of power between the conservatives and lib.
erals
THE most intensely cold weather expert
enced in five years has just been prevailing
throughout England.
The Panama canals declared in an official
statement to be under way two thirds of its
entire length. There are now Il, 900 laborers
employed on the big ditch and it is proposed
to double that number when the dry season
begins.
JOSEPH HANLEY's five children have died
within a week in jersey City, y. j., of scarlet
fever
Two large coal mines near Hazelton
Penn, have been flooded 10y the waters of n
rising creek and an Immense amount of
damage has been inflicted One thousand
men and boys are thrown out of work,
The propeller Oconto, with twentv-tbree
passengers and crew Of twenty-four. was
wrecked on Lake Huron during the recent
severe storm. All on board reached a d So
late, inaccessible island after gre 1t suffering
MAYOR REED, of Louisville. Ky, has been
fined twenty dollars for fighting.
Mas. ROBERT SMITH AMI her two children
were brutllly murdered in MONTGOMERY
county Texas, by nineteen year old mu-
latto named johnson.
i. GRAFT BROWN, ex-governor of Nilsson.
ri, ey-United States Senator. and cao,ljdato
for \ice-President on the ticket with IIorac,
Greeley in 1872, died on the Eth in st, Louis
He was born in Lexington. Ky, in 1924. AMI
had oncebeen prominent in State and national
politics.
y COMMITTEE OF more than j,O0D citizens
diana, has been formed to obtain funds for
the erection of monument to the late Vice.
President Hendri Ks,
y NUMBER of prisoners who attampted TO
break Jail at Meridian, Miss, We're fired unon
by the iailer, and one of them was fatally
wounded.
HE House committee on rules decided
by nearly unanimous action, Mr.. Randall
being the principal objector, to report in
favor of making eight committees on an.
preparations, instead of three committees
with power to make appropriations as in the
last session.
IN a long and bloody engagement between
the Servians and Bulgarans the latter
were routed.
THERE are three Americans in the new
British house of commons.