Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
There is no clue to the

by three bullets. There is no clue to the
murderers.
A terrible tragedy occurred in Jersey
CITY Saturday morning. Crazed by an
illness of several weeks duration, a
young nun belonging to the Sisters of
Peace took her own life by jumping from
window.
The printing house of Rand & Avery,
Boston, has been compelled to make an
assignment. The cause is said to be lack
of available capital, though they have
plenty of assets and the business will be
continued.
The Republican demonstration at
Rochester, n. Y, Tuesday was o splen-
did affair. The city was crowded with
visitors attracted by the announcement
that Blaine, Depew, Hiscock and others
would speak.
The coroner's Jury which investigated
the Muddy Run (Lehigh Valley disaster,
have come to the decision that it was
caused by gross and culpable negligence
on the part of the engineers, conductors,
in fact, the traip-men generally.
r. NJ. Pulsifer, president of the Boston
Herald association, committed suicide
last Saturday by taking poison. His
credit had become impaired through
reckless speculation. and it is thought
dependency drove him to take his life
The jacksonville, Florida, churches
were open on Sunday fol the first time
since the beginning of the yellow fever
scourge. The disease is abating, but it
is not yet safe to raise the quarantine.
The same remark applies equally to the
South generally. The epidemic is slowly
ebbing at Jacksonville. Many new cases
are reported daily but the type is much
milder and deaths are rare.
Victor Hill, son of Squire Hill of Win
chester, Ind, drove Sunday night to the
house of his father-in-law, Zimri Moi
felt. where his wife was staying, and
shot Moffett in the back, inflicting only
slight wound. He then shot at Mrs.
Warren Harper, his sister-in-law, but the
bullet glanced off. He next shot his
wife through the heart, killing her in
stantly, and fled to the woods.
Colonel Ingersoll, General Pryor and
General Mcmahon are about to begin suit
on behalf of Mrs. j. G. Blaine, Jr.. against
James G. Blaine, ST., and wife for $780,
600, for alternating young Blaine's atfec-
tions. Mrs. Blaine, Jr., does not sue for
divorce, because she is a Catholic, and
divorce is not to be tolerated by the
church. One of the points which will
y
Blaine is still minor.
The family of Thomas E. Billings of
Providence, R. L., was sitting around
stove in their residence Saturday morning
and the several children were examining
single-chambered pistol, recent pur-
chase. One of the boys attempted to
show his sister how pistol was fired.
thinking this unloaded, when the arm
was discharged, the bullet striking James
Billings, an older brother, in the neck,
entering near the windpipe. He may
die.
The people of Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
are excited by the mysterious murder of
four negroes within ten days. The first
victim was John Hill, a respected negro
mechanic, who was supposed to have been
murdered for his money. His dead body
was found on the street one morning
with his throat cut and fifteen knife
wounds in the body. Last week Monday
the body of an unknown negro was found
in the woods few miles from town, and
Friday the body Of the third victim was
found in the river near by, the Threats of
both having been cut from ear to ear.
Saturday morning the body of the fourth
victim was found in the woods near
town.