The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-23
LATER NEWS.

ANNIE e. CUTLER, young colored wCman
who pleaded guilty to killing her lover in
Philadelphia, has been sentenced to be hanged.
THE kester brothers, two old bachelors
living alone near Hazleton, Penn, were
found murdered in their home. There was
evidence of a desperate struggle, and the
house had been ransacked.
JOHN W. COFFEE was hanged at Craw-
fordsvile Ind, for the murder of McMullen
and his wife, an aged couple o. that place.
William McGaughney Ccoloredl met a similar
fate at Monroe. Ga, for wife-murder.
A TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from
Sander county, Neb. Mrs Peter Hingin,
wife of wcll-to-do farmer, and her child
were shot to death by her husbands brother,
who then ended his own life The motive for
the crime is unknown.
TIE President has made the following fur
Their appointments: To be consul-general of
the United States-Benjam f. Bonham, OF
Oregon, at Calcutta to be United STATE
consuls- William A. Garesche of Missouri
at Martinique; Charles Forster, of Indiana,
at Elberfeld, and Nageeb j. Arbeely, of
Tennessee, at Jerusalem; Ernest p Baldwin
of Missouri, to be deputy first auditor of the
treasury; Henry r. West, of Ohio, to be In
dian agent at the Fort Peck agency in Mon
tana Samuel W. Langhorne, of Montana
to be register Of the land office at Helena
NJ. r, and Horatio S. Howell, of Montana,
to be receiver OF public moneys at Helena
NJ. T.
A LARGE force Of Servians, with King
Milan in command, invaded Bulgaria and
marched upon Sofia. a Turkish force was
sent against the Servians.
FIFTEEN wel-known gamblers have been ex.
PEELED from Germany under the Socialist law
1nE revivalists, Moody ami oankey, have
been holding meetings in New York.
AT Osawkie, Kan, a few nights since, Mr..
Lander, farmer, accompanied by his wife,
two children and Mrs Steck, started home
ward in a wagon. Among their purchases
were ten pounds of powder. Mrs. Lander in
lighting her pipe dropped spark upon the
powder. The explosion killed Mrs. Lander
and threw the other four out of the wagon,
fatally injuring them all.
FREDERICK GREINER was hanged at Co
lumbus. Ohio, for the murder of Margaret
Selling, who had refused his hand in mar
riage.
James N Chlds, of Maine, has
been appointed United States consul at
Guelph, Canada, and James H. Trumbull
United States consul at Talcahuano, Chilli
Darius lie Dore, of Illinois, has been APP
pointed special timber agent of the interior
department
a DISPUTE between the government of In
dia and King Thebau, of Burmah, has led tc
the fitting out of combined naval and mill.
tary force of 10000 men, which will proceed
from Calcutta to Rangoon to chastise the
Burmese ruler
IT is stated that 900 Christians have been
massacred in AMMAN. Among the victims
were NJ. Chatelet, a missionary, and ten ma
tive priests.
THE island of Majorca, in the Mediter
ranean sea, has been inundated owing to I'M
usually heavy rains. Great distress prevails
among the inhabitants.
THE Brazilian legislature has passed law
for the gradual abolition of slavery in that
country, the government buying the slaves
from their owners. 1t is calculated that in
nine years slavery will virtually be extinct
AT the Melbourne (Australia) races fifteer
horses fell in one race out of forty one start
ers One jockey WAS killed and seven were
badly injured