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

TWELVE prisoners escaped from the Jeffer-
son county Jail at Steubenvile, Ohio, by
saving the cell and window bars, thereby
making hole large enough to get through.
FIVE Cinnamon in Jail at Pierce City,
IDAHO for murder and robbery, were taken
out Of confinement by crowd and hanged to
trees
CAPTAIN WILLIAM JONES, of the lifeboat
service at Racine, Wis, was drowned while
out practising with his crew.
A STORM on the Great Lakes has resulted
in disasters to shipping at various points.
AT the eleventh annual session of the
American Bankers association, held in Chi
cago more than 500 representatives of the
banking interests from every leading city in
the Union were present.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were injured, many
of them severely, by the sudden fall of cir
Gus tent during a storm at Martinsburg, w.
Va.
THE two little children of William Winter
and wife. of Point Pleasant, w. Va, were
burned to death during their parents absence
from the house.
The colored people of Mississippi will
erect 4 monument, to cost fifty thousand
dollars, at Vicksburg, in commemoration of
the signing Of the emancipation proclama-
ton
T. G. MAYFIELD and his son Wesley were
called out of a store at Whatecom, Washing
ton Territory, and shot dead by an unknown
man. who made his escape.
The old wages have been restored at the
works of the Cleveland Ohio Rolling Mill
company, where there has been strike, re-
sulting some time ago in a fatal collision,
since last June.
THE Republicans of Maryland at their
State convention in Baltimore, nominated
Francis Miller for comptroller and William
NJ Marine for clerk of the court of appeals,
and adopted a protective tariff, civil service
reform platfSm.
THE bankers national convention at Chi
cago adopted by large majority resolution
requesting Congress to suspend silver coinage.
Washington.
THE President has appointed the following.
named additional postmasters: John F. Cot
trell at Fort Scott, Kan; +. S. Reefy, Ely
ria, Ohio: F. d. Denton, Batesville, Ark.
rian Foote, Ashland, Mass. f. A. Pueschal,
Bakersfield, Cal. Oliver l. Dale, Monticello,
Ind X. L. Stephens, Sacramento, Cal
THE secretary of the treasury has directed
| the suspension of George II. Sterling, recent
| ly appointed weigher at the New York Gus
| tom house in place of Captain George b.
| Bacon, pending an investigation to be made
| by the collector of customs of all the circum
stances attending the change in the Office
The action of the secretary is based on in
formation that the appointment is an i'm
| proper one.
MRS. SARAH JENIFER, a colored woman
who died the other day in Washington, wa
stated in the doctors certificate of death tC
| lave been ll2 years old. 1t is said that care
| full investigation has shown that a colored
man ramed Nugent now living in Washing
ton, is l25 years old.
DoRMAN b. EATON, chairman of the Cnite
States civil service commission, has resigned
COMMODORE ALEXANDER A. SEMMEs
commandment of the Washington navy yard
died suddenly the other afternoon at Ham
ilton, Va. He had served in the navy sine
1881.
collectors of customs: Charles c. Sweene
for the district of Galveston, Texas; Otto |
Khrelkeld, for the district of Saluria, Texa:
j. j. Cooke, for the district of Brazos de Sar
.iago, Texas.