Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01

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States and territories.
A Christmas tree caught fire at Chi !
cago Friday of last week and at least
$50 people were hurt in the panic that
ensued, but none of them fatally.
The Washington Republican figures
out that in the House of Representatives
l43 Democrats and 50 Republicans are
opposed to the supervision of silver coin
age and 80 Democrats and 81 Republic
cans favor it.
William Z. Page, railroad and express
agent in Golden City, Barton county, Mo-,
was arrested at st. Louis Tuesday when
he stepped daintily from the train attired
in a complete suit of mourning belonging
to his wife. Three packages were found
in the skirts of his dress, one containing
$4,000 stolen money and the other two
$1,000 each.
Rev. Benjamin Myers and Rev. S. j.
Cooper, negro preachers of Buckhan-
non, w. Va, of the Methodist and
Baptist denominations, the other day en-
gagged in a spirited discussion of creeds,
proceeding from angry words to rough
and tumble fight. Cooper smashed a
heavy chair over the head of his antago-
mist without effect. Myers threw Cooper
down and then deliberately bit off the
left ear and portion of Cooper'S nose
and lip before his victims shrek of pain
brought assistance. Myers will be prose-
cuted for mayhem as soon as he RECEIVERS
from several knife gashes inflicted by
Cooper.
+. Gerreti. an Italian, was beating his
wife at Mt. Pleasant, "A village near
Charleston, 5. c., Wednesday, when his
brother. S. Gerreti and James p. Colburn,
a well-known Charleston insurance agent,
interfered in the woman's behalf. The
wife with her four little children escaped
from the husband. who. incensed at the
interference, crept up behind Colburn
and shot him, probably fatally. After
shooting Colburn. Gerreti fled to his
farm, pursued by the town marshal and
posse. He locked himself up in his
house and defied them. While his pursu-
ers were celebrating, Gerreti placed the
muzzle of his pistol in his mouth and
blew out his brains.
This story comes from Seattle. W. T. {:
An Italian boatman, accompanied by sew
en- Cinnamon, left Victoria, B. c., one
day last summer for the American side
of the straits of Fuca. When almost
across the straits the Italian observed the
United States cutter Oliver Walcott COM
ing toward him evidently to examine the
contents of his craft. He became alarmed,
: and to avoid the penalties attaching to
the offence of smuggling Chinese into the
United States resolved to make way with
: the evidence of his guilt. He called the
Cinnamon out of the cabin one by one
, and as each man came on deck the italian
l struck him on the head with club anG
then pitched the body overheard. Wher
officers from the cutter boarded his boat
they found nothing. The story is tole
by recently convicted smuggler, who il
, now prisoner in the United States peni
| tenliary. An investigation will be made
2 Luther Cline, druggist at Broad Rip
} pie, Ind, Tuesday night killed one of two
desperadoes who attacked him and hi:
( wife just after he closed his store for tn,
night. One decoyed Cline into his stor,
and the other passed into the family room
p where his wife was sitting. Cline, as h,
/ reached the store, looked back and saw
t his wife struggling with villain No. ,
e who was apparently choking her Il
death. When Cline attempted to go t,
her assistance villain No. shot him il
the head and then closed with him. grab
second time. The shot missed its mark
q The contest grew hot and desperate, bu
finally Cline got the pistol. He then sho
: his assaiant through the head, killing hin
q instantly. The accomplice fed. Tn
dead man is a short, dark, heavy-set fel
low, perhaps 2S years old. The peopl
are securing the neighborhood for tn
. one who escaped, Cline was shot in tn
law, Ailt Jan III
\ gang of Martin county (Ind. desper
= ADDE'S have just been brought to grief b,
{ the deserted wife of one of them, JOIN
u Archer. She told the police Monday tina
} four years ago her husband and hi
Il brother killed John Bunch. young farm
! er who had condemned their lawles
= doings, and sunk his body in Lost river
that they became frightened at the com
e motion caused by Bunchs disappearance
1t took his body out of the river and burne'
h it in a saw-mill furnace, burying tn
E, bones under the coffin in IA newly-mad
p grave. The sheriff arrested Archer Nor
n day; but the murderer got away by a
II artifice. He was captured Tuesday by
l. posse of II men at the farm of Leroy Boy
d five miles south of Nincennes, Ind, an
If taken to the Martin county Jail. Davi
k Craifp another of the ranU has bppn al