The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-09
LATER NEWS.

A FINANCIAL crash of unusual dimensions
has Just disturbed the bulls and bears of Wall
street, New York. William Heath & Co.,
one of the oldest and largest houses connected
with the New York Stock Exchange, have
been compelled to suspend owing to the ina
bility of Henry n. Smith, a noted Spectator
and one of their heaviest customers, to meet
his obligations The aggregate liabilities of
Heath 81 Co. and of Smith are estimated
at So, 800 900. OF this sum the firm owes
about 81, 500, 900 and Smith the remainder.
PRAIRIE fires in Mcpherson county, Dako-
ia, have swept away everything over an area
Of 100 square miles, rendering hundreds of
families destitute and causing an estimated
pecuniary loss of S250,000.
RESOLUTIONS advising q revision of the
Book of Common Prayer were lost by tie
vote in the Episcopal convention in New
York city.
DR. A. N. BELLoNGER shot and killed
Stepney Riley. a well known coored politi-
clan, at Charleston, S. C. The trouble arose
over Rlley's beating a carriage horse, and
Bellonger, who was arrested, claimed he had
acted in self defense
THE President has issued an executive
Pennsylvania, to proceed to Spain and other
countries in Europe where cholera exists and
make investigation of the causes progress
and proper prevention and cure Of that dis
ease in order that full report may be made
to Congress during the next session.
GREAT activity prevails in the Turkish war
office, and thousands of troops are being hur-
ried to Salonica in view of expected war.
NEWS comes by way of Ottawa that the
Labrador fisheries have proved failure, and
that the people are starving, little children
dying in their mothers arms for want Of
| food.
GEORGE BEssENDoEF, n young German
printer, and Mrs. Maria Koch were found
dead together in the Central Park New York
| The man had shot the woman, evidently with
her consent, and then killed himself. Mrs
Koch was the wife of Edmund |. KOCH pro-
prietor of n German newspaper in Jersey
City, n. j. Mr.. Koch had befrended Bes-
sendorf, and in return the young man had
eloped with his benefactors wife
a CATBoAT with sixteen persons on board
capsized in New York harbor, and three men
lost their lives
A TRAIN broke in two while ascending q
heavy grade near st. Paul, Mimi, and ten
or twelve cars ran into another train con-
tanning POO sleeping employees of circus.
Five men We're kille and thirty or forty in
jured more or less severely.
HOG cholera prevails in thirty-hve counties
in Kansas, and large numbers of animals are
reported as dying of the disease.
THE firm of Cole & Dodge, extensive farm,
| o1 bo. I,l ,,..fI Ito.
bilities of 100000.
CONSULAR appointments by the President
John Cardwell, of Texas, to be agent and
onsulgeneral of the United States at Cairo
Owen McGarr, of Colorado, consul-genera
in Ecuador To be United States consuls
Thomas r. Jernigan, of North Carolina, al
Montevideo; Madison Allen Lybrook, of Indi
ana, at Algers; Lewis Gebhardt Read, o.
New York. at Barbados; Henry L. Merritt
of Hin us, at AK la Chapelle; Otto f. Rie
mar, of New York, at Santiago de Cuba
George r. Goodwin, of Massachusetts, a
Annpberg, kingd) m of SaVony
DURING the great cyclone in India 800 vii
lagos were all destroyed.
BULGARIA is one vast military camp, al
the male population between the ages o
fifteen and forty-fve being under arms.