Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-02

v Meredith Stanley, aged %, jumped
from the suspension bridge at Cincinnati
Monday, a distance of 100 feet. After
striking the water he swan ashore.
Five men, W. of them United States
soldiers, were robbed on a stage coach in
Texas Sunday morning by one highway
man, who frightened all of his victims
into docility.
Powderly is cut In Il circular to the
Knights of Labor impressing upon them
the fact hat he is not allied to either of
the political parties and will not take Ell
Their side in this campaign.
The city council of Gainesville, Fla,
has issued an urgent appeal for aid. 1t
declares that no assistance can be secured
from Jacksonville, and the outer world is
consequently urged to send funds.
An omnibus containing six persons
was struck by an Erie train while cross
ing the tracks at Waverly, N. Y, Mon
day evening. L. w. Clark was killed
and the other occupants were seriously
injured.
The exodus of prominent Democrats to
the Republican fold continues. James
M. Nelson, a Democratic war horse of
Nyack, n. Y, has declared publicly his
intention of voting for Harrison and
Morton.
The national Republican committee has
paid the inspector of elections, John
Broderick, of 149 Madison street, $4,000
for causing the arrest and conviction of
George Gordon. who falsely registered at
the polling place. 143 Madison street, n.
Y.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union superintendent concluded their
work at New York Friday. They decid-
ed to meet next in San Francisco Septem-
Der %, 1889. The work will be extended
into the territories. and a department will
be established at the Paris exposition.
The Clyde Line steamer Saginaw sank
Monday while loading at her dock in the
East river, New York, for the West In
dies. No lives were lost. The vessel
will be raised. The sinking of the steam
er is supposed to be due to overwhelming
the boat on one side, so that she listed
and allowed the water to pour into an
open portfolio.
The American Missionary association,
which held its annual meeting at Provi-
dence, r. l., last week, was cheered by
the announcement that Daniel Hand, an
old resident of Clinton, Conn.,. who made
his fortune in the South, had bestowed
upon the association more than a million
dollars to be held in trust for the educa-
ton of colored young people in the South.
About fifteen thousand people were
present the other evening at the Irish
American protection mass meeting in
Madison Square garden, New York. Pat
rick Ford presided and delivered a short
address. He was followed by Patrick
Egan, president of the Irish National
league of America. Edward O'Meagher
Condor and Mr.. Blaine.
The funeral of Lee Yu boo, the Black
Flag general, was celebrated by hundreds
of Cinnamon on Mott street, New York
city, Monday morning. Crowds of spec
tators watched the strange ceremonies.
Beside the coffin was food in abundance
for DOCS use in paradise, while a ladder
was provided to enable him to climb to
that abode. A Chinese band played a
hideous funeral march while the body
was carried in a long procession to the
grave in Evergreen cemetery.
Hermann Baade, a section foreman on
the Burlington road, started for Dubu-
que, Ia, Sunday afternoon on a hand
car, having with him his wife, three chill
dren and a friend. When rounding a
sharp curve they were run down by a
special making a quick run between st.
Paul and Chicago. The hand-car was
thrown from the track and Mrs. Baade
and her two sons were Instantly killed.
Baade and the friend escaped. When
the train struck the car Mrs. Baade threw
her baby down a bank 20 feet high and
saved its life.