Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-10-22

q realized for 81 ANIMALS. Ten. VIZ
I'm II. jackson of Tennessee bought
|roquois" for S20.000 Milton Young
+ ught "Imported Pizarro" for $500 !;
ID w. II. Forbes of Boston "Duke of
|lgenta" for S1200. The five stations
|eraged $1,000 each, and 70 brood mares
|i22.
Mrs. Sarah E.Howe's notorious two
Inns bank" at Boston is again in opera
| H. The discovery was made by the
porter of Boston newspaper Tuesday,
10 went to the house where the bank
Kept, disguised as a country girl. Mrs.
3we was sentenced to the house of cor
ftion in 1882 for obtaining money I'M
false pretenses. Her plan was to
ke money from women who were ig-
rant of business matters, and, after re-
lining a certain per cent, to pretend to
DIV interest on the whole at "A large
every month. The returned money
the last the credulous women saw of
! ir allowances. Mrs. Howe's sentence
. bred i'm 1885, and in less than years
be, apparently, she has begun precise
her old tricks. Her former alleged
per month was s, while now she
Us per cent. a month.
The Jury in the case of James j. Titus,
! ianitor accused of numbering Title
| it'll, brought in a verdict Friday morn
| at Belvidere, n. j., of murder in the
ID degree. This interesting case has
|racted general attention from the
rning several months ago when the
d body of Tillie Smith, the comedy
chen girl of the Hackettstown Metho-
| institute, was found cruelty maltreat-
lin field back of the institute build
:. The post-mortem indicated an I'M
cessful attempt at rape. Detectives
20 nut on the case. and under their
dance people had settled into the con-
! ion that the murderers were couple
ramps who had passed the night in
! yhboring barn and who had disap-
| red. But a New York newspaper re-
ter detailed to look up the case be-
le satisfied that the real culprit was
ianitor. Titus, against whom there
not been breath of suspicion. He
lblishcd an almost complete chain of
[,umstantial evidence, going to show
| t the Girl had been admitted by Titus
taken to the engine-room, where the
ne was committed, the body being
. ried to the field, where it was found.
fhe wind and rain storm that ragged
h such destructive violence on the
| f coast of the United States on Mon
and Tuesday nights of last week set
in northeastern direction and did
at damage in places West on Thursday
Fling telegraph wires, blowing down
ldings and wrecking shipping. But
this was nothing compared with the
truction wrought on the Gulf coast.
.Dine Pass. Tex, at the mouth of the
,ine river that divides that State from
lisiana, appears to have been almost
ped out of existence. The wind
ed the waters of the Gulf in upon the
n from the south and the turbid wa
! of the Sabine river and lake on the
tn broke through the banks and COM
ted the disaster. Over 80 lives were
out of total population of about 400
most of the buildings were wrecked.
nerOn parish, comprising large sec
of marshy lowland along the Gulf
st of Louisiana also suffered terribly.
the members of seven families perish
I'd in the flood, and many Others I'M
pwn were swept away. while thou
ds of cattle were drowned and valua-
crops were ruined. Not house was
standing within five miles of Lake
Pine, it is reported. Terrible losses of
and property are also reported at
lnson's Bayou, which is in Cameron
ish and near Lake Sabine. Later dis
|ches more than confirm the early re-
It's. At Sabine Pass the number of
ple known to have been drowned
ches 80. while 10l persons are missing.
IS than half dozen of the $50 houses
the town remain standing, and the
Ees will approach half IA million dol
The chief agent of destruction
lns to have been huge tidal wave,
|erated by storms in the West Indies,
swept down the low coast about Sa-
e Pass like great wall, submerging
country. The village was situated at
mouth of the Sabine river. within half
lie of the extreme point iutting from
Texas side. The town lies only four
above the mean tide mark and is
nded by great swamp on the west
! Lake Sabine on the north. The en-
bee to Lake Sabine is mile and a
II above the town. The lake is fifteen
les long by ten miles in width with an
rage depth of seven feet which is al
rs maintained by the huge volume of
er pouring into the basin from the
navigable rivers, Neches and Sabine.