Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-01
DOM STIC,

DIR. Lyman Abbott has been elected
pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn.
a hall and wind storm did a good deal
OF mischief in some parts of Kansas and
ONO on Saturday.
Henry George says he will stump New
York State for Cleveland. He saws he
would like to have free trade at once.
Frank Mills, Harvard student. died
on Friday from the effects of opium taken
in company with three other students as
a clark"
William II. Roe was hanged at Ander-
son, lex. Saturday. The scaifold was
erected mile south of the town and TO-
OOO people were present.
Senator Hawley has accepted the in
yitation Of the official city committee of
Philadelphia to deliver the Grafton on
independence square on the coming
Fourth of July.
Two steamships arrived in New York
tuesday with smallpox on board. One
case among the steerage passengers was
discovered on the Elbe and several among
the passengers of the Ethiopia.
The cornerstone of the Confederate
monument at jackson, Miss, was laid
Friday. Miss Winnie Davis was publicly
presented with silver crown for her
father, jeff Davis, who was kept away
by illness.
An aeronaut named Fish made an
ascension from Blue Rock Springs. o..
Friday afternoon, and in descending the
balloon struck house. demoishing the
chimney and throwing Fish into tree
whence he fell to the ground, being per-
haps fatally injured
Five negroes. three of them preachers,
went to the house of Arthur Horton,
colored. at Arkadelphia. Ark. the other
night, took him by force from his bed
and carried him to a thicket and crushed
his head with an iron bar. He had been
accused of immortality. The preachers
are in jail.
During fire in a store at Frederick,
Md. Monday night. several barrels of
oil and gasoline exploded with terrific
force, killing and fatally niuring five
persons and hurting about 30 others.
The sides and front of the building were
thrown into the street. and many wounds
were gwen by the flying brick, glass and
other debris.
Petty car robberies have come to light
at Chicago, which are said to average
$1,000 day. The cars are rifled when
they get into the freight yards, the Bur-
llngton road being the most extensive
sufferer. In many cases, the stolen hay,
potatoes and grain are sold to small COM
mission merchants, who run the risk of
detection for the large profit there is in
it for them.
There were severe rain and hailstorms
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia Mon
day. At ShamOkin, Pa, rain fell in tor
rents, flooding the streets and causing
numerous land slides and wash -outs
along the lines of the Reading, Lehigh
Valley and Pennsylvania railroads. 4
cloud-burst flooded Titusyille. Numer-
Gus fatalities are reported from West
Virginia.
William Miller, respectable citizen,
saw his wife and John Morgan sitting
together in the depot at Brunswick, Mo-,
Friday, and drawing his revolver, he
began firing. The first shot struck his
wife in the arm and the second pierced
her breast. She fell to the floor MORALLY
wounded. Miller then turned his wea-
pom on Morgan and with one shot
brought him to the floor dead with
bullet through his head. Miller gave
himself up.
Minnie, five, daughter of Charles Bur-
leigh, was found beside the Dover and
Portsmouth railroad track at Dover. n.
III. Tuesday evening, having been felon-
iously assaulted. She described two
men whom she said coaXed her with
candy away from home and over the
track. George Prescott and William Foss,
each aged 20. were arrested, taken before
her and Unidentified. Both confessed to
the city marshal. There are no hopes
of the child's recovery.