The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-27
LATER NEWS,

DANIEL WILKINSON WIS Han5eu u lew
days since at Thomaston, Me-, for the muir
der of Policeman William Lawrence in Bath.
Ex-MAYoR JOHN BOWMAN. of East st.
Louis, ILL.,, was shot and killed by an I'M
known assassin while walking home.
FIVE women were burned to death in n fire
which partially destroyed the County infirm-
airy near Sandusky, Ohio. The superin-
tendent was badly injured
NINE on. of the twelve prisoners, including
two murderers, in Jail at Greenvile, Ohio,
made their escape.
LOUIS SoMMERFIELD, Pole, aged ifty-two
years, shot and instantly killed his wife and
Gottlieb Eisenbaum at the latter's saloon in
Washington. Jealousy prompted the crime.
THE President has made the following adj
ditional appointments Of consus: To be con-
suls of the United States-Preston L. Bridg-
ers, of North Carolina, at Montevideo, Uru-
quay; William II. McAr1le of Mississippi
at San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua; Joseph
w. Merriam IA citizen of the United States
at Iquique, Chile, and William c. Emmett,
of New York, at Smyrna, Turkey.
THE coast survey reports great earthquake
waves on the Pacific ocean at San Francisco.
These earthquake waves were thirty-fve
minutes apart, and were as great as those OBJ
served during the great upheaval in Java
some years since
HENRY J. TAYLOR has been sentenced by
the United States court at Auburn, N. Y,
to eighteen months Imprisonment and to pay
a fine of S6jI2S, for embezzling money order
funds while assistant postmaster at Rome
DR. WILLIAM FROTHINGHAM, one of the
best known physicians in New York city,
was accidentally killed the other day by the
explosion of a pistol which he was taking
out of a cupboard to be cleaned.
WoRKMEN were clearing away the ruins
of recent fire in New York when a wall
suddenly toppled over. One woman on the
sidewalk and two workmen were killed, and
three other men were injured.
AT the National Cattle Growers conven-
ton held in Chicago, Norman j. Coleman,
United States commissioner of agriculture,
read an address on the cattle industry of the
country, saying that a column Of cattle
twelve deep extending across the continent
from New York to San Francisco and back
again to Boston would contain about the
number of cattle there are in the United
600, 0O0 The annual product of these ami
mails exceeds in value four times the yearly
earnings of all the railroads of the country.
A PORTLAND, Ore }, dispatch states that j.
H. Mitchell just elected to the United States
Senate by a combination of Republicans and
Democrats, pledged himself to support the
national administration in return for Demo-
cratic votes
LARGE numbers of hogs are dying of
cholera in Indiana.
JOSEPH C. MACKIN, a prominent Chicago
politician, found guilty of perjury in connec-
ton with frauds during the last presidential
election, has become an inmate of the Illinois
/ State penitentiary, the supreme court having
sustained the verdict of the lower court.
Two men were devoured by wolves while
travelling acrosi the mountains of Montana
PRAIRIE fires in Indian Territory have
caused losses to cattlemen estimated at
100000 The fire belt was from forty to
sixty miles wide
FURTHER appointments by the President;
! William Smith, of Red Lake Falls, Mimi, to
be registrar of the land office at Crookston,
Mimi William S. Austin, of Seattle, Wash.
ington Territory, to be registrar of the land
Office at Vancouver, w. I.
THE Bulgarians charge the Servians with
attacking an ambulance train and bayonet-
ing the wounded.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY, the American ex-
plorer in Arctic regions, has been lecturing
before the Scottish Geographical society,
Edinburg
THE authorities at Kiel, Prussia, have re-
ceived renewed instructions to order Ger
man Americans to quit the island of Fohr.