The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-27
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NANCY CAss WILMORE, reputed to be ZIG
years Old died n few days ago in Whining
ton, Ill.
Mr. HENDRICKS, Vice President-elect, was
one OF the guests at a banquet given by tho
Chinese residents of indianapolis, Ind, in
honor of the Chinese New Year
WILLIAM w. MASSEY, teller of the Bank
OF Commerce, Baltimore, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitontiary, with hard
labor for cmbezzlement.
EIGHTY thousand visitors were present
during the annual Mard Gras festival in
New Orleans. King Carnival made his usual
triumphant entry into the city at the head
of n procession, and at night the streets were
brilliantly illuminated.
As in the East, the West and Northwest
have suffered severely from impedimcnt to
railroad travel by huge snow drifts Trains
everywhere in these sections have been
stalled or delayed, and in many cases it took
days to get them moving.
NUMEROUS deaths from exposure to the
cold are reported from the Northwest
EMORY SPEER'S nomination to be district
judge for the southern district of Georgia has
been confirmed by the Senate by vote of p
yeas to 20 nays, after hard fight against con-
drmation.
YOUNG woman in the Chicago hospital
has such brittle bones that they have been
FRACTURED over 10 times since she was two
years old
Two brothers named Rainey who murdered
Constable johnson and wounded Constable
Floyd near MarysvilIe, Texas while they
We're serving process, were captured in the
Indian Territory and lynched by party of
Texas citizens.
THE business part of Bisbee, Arizona, has
been burned; aggregate losses 10000.
JERRY COLLINS and his nephew, Samuel
Scott, quarreed at Shelbyvllle, Tenn, over
n llt ~ Ton
Mrs. Collins rushed between them and re-
ceived wound in the back, from which she
died
THE firm of John Chaffee & Sons, one of
the largest cotton factors in New Orleans has
failed Liabilities, sos 402; assets, ST. 1913, 900
The first vote in joint session of the Illinois
legislature for Unitel States Senator to sue
coed General Logan resulted as follows:
John A. Logan, 1Ol the full Republican
strength present; William r. Morrison, o.
j.. M Haynes, D; Frank Lawler, |, and j. H.
Ward, ]. Two members were absent There
was no election.
AT fire on a rancho near Cheyenne, Wy
oming, an imported stallion costing Sl5, coo
and a Cleveland bay worth 50, 900 were
burned to death
IL a graveyard near Point Pleasant, W.
Va, six bodies We're robbed from their graves
and placed on the ground in the shape of a
Greek cross. The limbs had been severed
from two of the bodies in order to make the
contour of the cross more perfect No rea-
son could be found for the act.
FIRE has destroyed the big Grannis block
in Chicago, building in which were located
two national banks and numerous lawyers,
architects and insurance agents. The build
ing was valued at 5000, 900.
THE British schooner f. V. Olive, from
Ruatan to Mobile, has been lost in the Gulf
OF Mexico, with all on board.
Two trains were wrecked by coliding lie.
tween Washington, d. c., and Alexandria
Va. The wrecked trains caught fire. tho
flames being fed by petroleum from two oil
cars, and thirty one cars, including the bag
gage and mail cars, were destroyed. Four
train hands We're killed and seven or eight
persons injured.