Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-23
DOME STIC.

kistering 100 degrees to l2o degrees IN
shade
The hanging of MAXWELL" the st.
luis trunk murderer, has been post
he'd till October 2. because of a stay in
proceedings pending an appeal.
Samuel X. Gay, chief clerk OF the
ltsburg. Pa, pension office, is missing,
h his accounts are short $4,000 to
D 900. He is thought to have fled to
|ada.
President Better of the Dundy County
|lk at Benkleman. Neb., has fled to
|nada. and taken with him some $780,
in securities and funds that belonged
Iomebody else.
Fmall-pox is reported to have firm
lthold in parts of Cerro Gordo and
birth counties, la. The town of Baron
five cases, and many families in
lion, Bolan and Grafton have been eX-
led.
car drivers and conductors strike
kan Francisco caused riot Thursday
|ht. in which some 400 persons partici-
ed and considerable damage was done.
4 strike was against the discharge of
h by the car company because they
te knights of Labor.
Frank IIirth, Carl Simon and Anton
I'm. anarchists. convicted of conspir-
to burn the courthouse and of inCit-
people to deeds of violence, at Mil
|ukee. Wis, were on Monday sentenced
|h to nine months at hard labor. The
| it is one year.
i orthern Michigan is dried up and eX-
| Sive forest fires are reported every
|ere. Many of the farmers have been
| tling the flames for days and some
lldimgS have been burned. The air
but MuSkegon is so dense with smoke
! o be almost sutiocating.
Iattlc in western Texas are said to be
Inc at the rate of 100 day on account
! he drouths. The banks of the PecoS
! ar are Strewn with carcaSses. cattle
Men from the interior having persisted
| III drinking too much water. The loss
aggregate hundreds of thousands of
| lars.
Henry. lj-yearS-old son of j. \. Bick-
| of Bangor. Me-. shot dead his sister
little. l3, sunday afternoon. The boy
! k the gun. not knowing it was loaded.
yfully pointing it at her when it was
charged, the contents striking her in
neck, blowing away windpipe and
cries. The boy is insane on account
he terrible affair.
h terrible collision of trains took place
+ Columbia, Tenn, on the Louisville
l Nashville railroad, Tuesday. \
fcial engine going north ran into the
umbia accommodation going south,
Hing seven men and severely injuring
b others. The bodies were literally
in pieces and scalded by escaping
am. The collision occurred in deep
Governor West of Utah has issued a
defamation warning all persons from
ociating themselves with any persons
organizations for the purpose of i'm
grating to Utah to enter into or main
II any marriage relation other than
t allowed and sanctioned by law, OF
aid or abet others in so doing. The
defamation is aimed at the work of
'rmon missionaries.
little girl who went to the laundry
Bin Chong in Boston, Mass, Sunday
'rning to get her fathers linen, saw
pn pushing open the door the mutila
dead body of the proprietor lying OF
floor in pool of blood. She ran tt
home and told what she had seen
|ereupon her father went to the laun
and Immediately atterward notified
police. Investigation showed tha'
b ChOng had been horribly butchered
e body was lying on its back and wa,
npletely surrounded by IA pool o
bod. while everything in the room wa
battered with blood, giving evidenc,
IA terrible struggle. 1t is believed
some one of his cOuntrymen was tn,
rderer.
Sol JOyner, an aged and unOtlensiv,
zen of southampton, Va, few day
while sleeping soundly after "A hare
IS work, was murdered by his tw,
lighters, Matte and Addie, aged res
,tively II and Is years. They wen
the bedside of their father armed will
AK, with which they chopped the hea'
the old man into Jelly. After maxim,
re of their deadly work the girls mad
Dir escape in the night into SUISSE,
Inty, where they were arrested. The,
ne both been committed to the count
to await trial. The only motive TO
crime of the girls is revenge for