Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-19
General 0leps.
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OOMES ~.
Mary Finertv of Cincinnati, Is years
old. who lost 1856. her all, which she had
entrusted to Archbishop Purcell, has
gone crazy. She imagines that she is
studying law ''to prosecute the men who
robbed her."
Cattle on the ranges in New Mexico
are declared to be in excellent condition
in spite of the exceptionally severe
weather. The weather in Dakota and all
through the Missouri slope has been
favorable to stock.
The entire business portion of Flag
staff, Ari., was burned Monday. About
Is buildings and their contents were de-
stroyed. The loss will be heavy. The
fire is believed to have originated in
Chinese opium den.
EX-Gov. Seymour died on the evening
of Friday last at the residence of his sis
ter, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, at Utica, n.
Y. The immediate cause of his death
was cerebral etfusion-the usual process
of death in old age. He was IS.
John b. Cough had Il stroke of apo
plexy Monday evening while lecturing
at the Frankford Presbyterian church in
Philadelphia. He was removed at once
to the residence of DR.. II. Bruce Burns,
who pronounces his condition serious.
Thomas NJ. jackson, the l04-years-old
negro, who was found in his hut on the
hills of Union township, Pa, badly
frozen, died at the county hospital Tues
ON Gen. Jacison's plantation in Tennes-
see.
Gen. Hancock left his family without
means. He died poor; and the fact be
ing known to his friends and comrades a
subscription fund has been started for
the widow. Samuel j. Tilden heads the
New York paper with $1,000. There is
also paper circulating at Philadelphia.
Joseph Marshall, IA mail carrier, was
arrested at Chicago, Monday, on a charge
of robbing the mails. Marshall, it is stat
ed, owns property worth several thousand
dollars on the west-side and has about
$4,000 in the bank. 1t is thought his
thefts amount to s. 1000. He is widow
er with several children.
Patrick Breed, a Chicago l2-year-old,
was up before a justice Monday charged
with picking II lady's pocket. Patrick is
quite an inventive genius. When search
ed, no evidences of his guilt were found
on him at first, but it was discovered that
the precocious youth had devised Il tube
running down to his rubber boots,
through which he dropped the pocket
books and other articles which he stole.
The rains and thaw of last week caused
disastrous floods all over the country.
Boston, particularly the RoXbury district,
suffered most severely, the damage being
estimated at 81 ,0O0,0OO. The damage
throughout RhOde Island from the flood
is almost Unprecedented. Nearly every
stream in the State has swept away at
least one bridge and dam. There were
also disastrous floods along the Hudson
and Susquehanna rivers and elsewhere.
Three section hands, with truck load
ed with rock, were crossing Il trestle at
Gallipolis, o., when an extra freight train
on the Hooking Valley and Toledo road
came upon them. They dropped to the
side of the trestle and held on with their
hands. The train demolished the truck,
scattered the rock and broke the hold of
two of the men, Amos Weng and Charles
McMulln, who fell - feet and received
fatal injuries.
The Mississippi supreme court Monday
decided the case of NJ. \. Pollard against
the Phoenix Insurance company in favor
of the defendant. The question was
whether merchants having insufficient
! license could enforce an insurance con-
tract. Nearly 100000 was involved di-
rectly or indirectly. This is regarded as
the most important decision rendered in
/ the State for years, and it is questionable