Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-17
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DOMESTIC.


The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland will meet in Washington on May
| II, 1887, and then the Garfield monument
will be unveiled.
Henry Seagroves, a white boy of l3, Of
Athens. Ga, on Friday cut the throat OF
John Adams, "a colored boy, and leaving
him dead, fled.
The old boot and shoe house of Field,
Thaver & Co., at Boston. made an assign
ment Thursday. with liabilities estimated
at 100000.
Governor Ireland of Texas has pro-
claimed A quarantine against all ports in
South America, and all other ports in
the world where cholera exists.
Oscar A. Simons, president of the First
National bank at Fort Wayne, Ind, shot
himself Saturday. III health is assigned
as the cause of the deed. He was worth
nearly 81 100000.
James NJ. Seymour of New York sues
p. Lorillard for 100000. 1t is charged
that the latter sold Seymour an unsea-
worthy yacht, and that it cost $4,000 to
put it in safe condition.
The indictments against Rev. W. W.
Downs of Boston were nollc pressed sat
urday. the district attorney saying he
found it impossible to secure the attend
ance of witnesses necessary to convict.
.lehu Baker, the Congressman-clcct
from the eighteenth Illinois district,
pleaded guilty at st. Louis Friday to as
saulting j. NJ. Roach, Il reporter for the
Republican, IA few weeks ago, and was
fined 81 and costs.
A miserly OLD rag-picker named Martha
Clark, who died recently at Jersey City,
n. j.. is thought to have left fortune
of near 100000. Nearly 100000 has al
ready been found and hunt is being
made for the other 100000 believed to be
concealed in some neighboring woods.
The second trial of e;i-Alderman Me
Quade which has been in progress for
week past at New York developes few
new features except that eX-Alderman
Reilly, one of the same board of city
fathers. denies the confession made at
the former trial and repeated at this by
ex-Aldermen Duffy and Fullgraff.
United States prisoner named l.. p.
Warner. from East st. Louis, lodged in
the county jail at ChicagO,was discovered
Friday to be sick from smallpox. He
was Immediately removed to the pest
house outside of the city and placed in
charge of two nurses. The discovery
has created sensation, as there are %
prisoners in the jail.
Since the Representatives of the forty
ninth Congress were elected in NOvem-
Der, 1881, nine of them have died
Duncan of Pennsylvania, Ellwood of
Illinois. Rankin and Price of Wisconsin,
Cole of Maryland. Hahn of Louisiana and
three besides these. The seats of two
Senators, Miller of California and Pike
of New Hampshire, have been made va
cant by death in the same time.
The steamer j. NJ. White, running be-
tween Nicksburg and New Orleans. was
burnt early Tuesday morning near Baton
Rouge. La. and about fifty persons lost
their lives by the disaster. The j. NJ.
White was the finest steamer on the
Mississippi River. She was en- route
to New Orleans and had cargo of cot
ton on board estimated at not less than
1000 bales. The fire caught in this cotton
The United States had 365,7S3 pension
ers at the close of the fiscal year, classi-
fed as follows: 265,1S3 army invalids:
8O,lG2 army widows, minor children and
dependent relatives; 2953 navy invalids,
1873 navy widows, minor children and
dependent relatives; 1880 survivors of
the war of 1912 and 1897 widows of
those who served in that war, showing "A
diminution of survivors during the year
of l406. and of widows of 3Sl5
A negro brought to the Maryland uni
vrrsitv on Lombard street at Baltimore
Friday evening the body of a white
woman. and left it with Anderson Perry,
the cOlored janitor, saying he would call
again for the SD, the price agreed upon.
The head was horribly crushed, and
there were two wounds in the left breast.
The police were at once notified and on
investigation found that the body was
that of an old beggar woman whom three
negroes. one of them being Perry, the
iantor, had murdered in order to get
the Sl5 which the college would pay for
the body.
A band of about 30 tramps, who have
been making their headquarters just out
side the borough limits during the past
four weeks, came into Shenandoah, Pa,
Saturday night and after getting drunk
raised Il riot in a saloon and probably
fatally injured three men. -Four of the
trampS were elected from the saloon for
using abusive language, and shortly
afterward returned with eight more OF
their comrades and attacked the saloon
keeper and party of miners who were
drinking in the house. James MckeOn
brother of the SaloOn-keeper was hor-
ribly hacked with razor and two OF
the miners were beaten inSenSible with
bottles anu HIaSSeS. ne lTdIllpN, dlltl
clearing out the bar-roOm, Withdrew anC
wrecked the front of the building. Nine
of the number were subsequently arrest
ed and four of them were Jailed,
A daring train-robbery was perpctrateC
Saturday afternoon on the Fort Worth
and Denver railroad, three unmaskeC
robbers boarding a south-bound trail
when it stopped at "A water-tank neal
Bellevue Station, Tex. They made NJ
effort at concealment. They arrived a
the water-tank few minutes before the
train. When the train came one of thu
robbers with Il drawn pistol ordered En-
gineer Ayers and his fireman and o. g.
Miller, another engineer who was riding
in the cab, to alight, which they did. liz
then marched them some 30 feet from
the train and took all the valuables they
had. While this was going on, the othe
men went through the train. One of thu
passengers, who was looking out of thu
window, saw the operation with the trail
.,on and diyininU thp situation. wen