The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12
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THE final exercises of the New Orleans
worlds industrial and cotton centennial exs
position were held on the lst The speakers
said that the exposition had been successful.
If not financially, at least in the industrial
effect 1t had in the country and the South
After the Mexican band had PLAYED "Hail
Columbia" the exposition was declared ad-
journed sine die
Much damage has been done in the vicin-
ity of Burlington, Iowa, by n terrific hail
rain and wind storm. Railroad bridges Were
washed out and houses unroofed. At Red
Bank the losses reached 100000
The Chicago city council has finally de-
clared Carter Harrison elected mayor at the
municipal election two months ago by ma
jority of 315. There will probably be n
further contest 10y his opponent in the courts.
For assaulting Mrs. Knott near Mount
Airey, Md, Townsend Cook (colored) was ar
rested. A crowd broke into Jail, overpowered
the officers and lynchel Cook.
HARRY CHAMPLIN came home drunk in
Cincinnati and began to abuse his mother
Then he attacked his brother-in-law DR. f.
+. 10y, prominent physician, with a cary
ing knife, and was shot dead by the latter.
FIVE persons-four men and one woman
We're killed by lightning during a terrifi
thunder storm in Chicago
THE New Orleans exposition lust closed.
= TO bc rlopened in November next and will
be continued another year.
THE boiler in Linstedt's phosphate works at
Johns Island Ferry, S. c., exploded killing
two negroes, dangerously wounding a third
and wrecl;ing the works
Hon. s. w. HALE, who has lust Quilted the
New Hampshire gubernatorial chair, has
failed, with heavy liabilities.
SANFORD SISCO, the colored youth who
murdered Abram Gurncc, n storekceper at
Park Ridge, n. j., on the night of December
. last was hanged in the corridor of the
Bergen county jail at Hackensack the other
morning. just before leaving his cell S!sco
said to the sheriff; 81 was half drunk and
wanted money when | went to Gurnee's store.
put | killed him i'll lf-defcnce
The jury in the case of Thomas j. Cluve-
Rus, the Young lawyer charged with the muir
Ter of Fannie Lillian Madison at Richmond
Va, brought in verdict of murder in the
irst degree. The case lasted nearly month,
and ON account of the high social connections
ot both Cluverius and Miss Madison, at
racted great attention. Miss Madison had
come to Richmond from the interior and reg
stored Mt a hotel. One day her body was
found in reservoir, with marks of violence
On it. and Cluvcriu,, her cousin, was arrested
TOR the crime, suspicion having been drawn
20 him by the fact that intimate relations ex-
.stcd between the two
TRAGIC disasters caused by lightning have
been of late quite numerous. Frank True's
residence at Plano, Iowa, was struck and con.
sumed and the owner killed Two men met
similar fate on the same day in the doorway
Of their residence at Mendoza, Ill.
THE Illinois senate has passed the house bill
giving colored people the same rights as
whites IN hotels, restaurants theatres and
other public places.
a SHORTAGE of over $50, 900 has been dis
covered in the accounts of J. H. Aufdemorte,
redemption clerk in the United States sub
treasury at New Orleans When the defal-
cation was discovered Aufdemorte, who has
been in the public service for seventeen years
and was well known on account Of his
remarkable ability for detecting counterfeit
money, could not be found, and was supposed
to have fled to Mexico.
THROUGH fictitious money orders Isaac
Hibbs, postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, OBJ
tanned from 5000 to $50. 900 and then left
for parts unknown. The postal inspector
says the robberes will neccSsltatc the reor.
ganization Of the money order system of the
United States and other countries
ONO Greenbackers met in State conveu-
ton at Columbus, and nominated a full tick
ct, headed by }. w. Northrup for governor
RESOLUTIONS were adopted enlorsing the In
dlanapolis pla' form. demanding theexpanSion
of the currency. and that banks of issue be
abolished and iegal-tender notes substituted
for bank bills to the amounts of so per CAPT
ia for the immediate payment Of bonds OF the
favoring the submission OF prohibitory
amendment, and against fusion with any
other party organization.