Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-10

A collision on the Fitchburg railway
Monday at Hoosac Falls, n. Y, injured
five or six people and gave the passen-
gers lively scare.
The M. E. church at Fremont, o.,
where ex-President Hayes and family
worship, was burned Monday and lady
was fatally injured.
There was serious riot Thursday
night at Shenandoah, Pa, among the
striking miners, several of whom, were
shot by the police.
Numerous fires in New York chill
dren's hospital, in one of which a. little
girl lost her life, were set by bright,
mild-mannered girl of IL years.
1t is reported that a wealthy syndicate
has organized pipe line from the North
western Ohio oil field to Toledo and will
compete with the Standard Oil company.
company is being formed in Chicago
to remove Libby prison to that city. 1t
is proposed to take the structure down,
remove it to Chicago and rebuild it
there.
President Means of the Metropolitan
bank of Cincinnati has been arrested on
the charge of misappropriating about
$780, 200 of the funds of the bank. The
bank has been closed pending an investi-
CATION.
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Carleton died the other
day at Nashua, n. H., at the age of SO
years, from blood poisoning, brought
about by a bite upon the face by pois-
oned rat that invaded her sleeping room
some time last November.
Hubbard Harrell, a 10-year-old boy,
was given lot of whiskey by James
Pope at Long View, Ca, Thursday and
got drunk. The boy then boiled one of
POpe's children alive in a kettle of water,
Drained another with an axe and killed a
third by MASKING his head against tree.
The six children of Lester Singletary, a
colOred man of Clarendon county, South
Carolina, were burned to death Thursday
night. The parents locked them up in
the house and went to church, where a
revival was in progress. The house
caught fire and was burned to the ground.
About seventy miles from Chicago an
immense flow of natural gas has been
found The most remarkable thing
about the find is that gas was struck at a
depth of only GIG feet, the first case of its
kind on record. Two more wells like
this would be sufficient to furnish the Ell
tire city with fuel and light.
The New York express train on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio rail
road met with serious accident Sun
day morning at the little village of Steam
burg, N. Y, killing one passenger and
two of the road employees and injuring
several others. The accident was caused
by the breaking of frog. The engine
and baggage-car passed safely over the
frog, which it is supposed was broken by
the engine in passing over it. The ladies
coach and Pullman car left the track and
ran about 200 feet over the ties. dashing
into the caboose of a freight train which
had just before taken the siding for the
express to pass.
jim Cornelius, negro, II years old
was hanged in Minden, La, last Friday
for the murder year ago of Ernest
Wren, four years old. Young Cornelius
was in Wren's fathers employ, and the
child was playing around the negro hoy
who pushed him down and made him bite
his tongue so that his mouth bled. The
little fellow cried and threatened to tel
his mother. The negro begged him moi
10 tell as he did not want to be whipped
but the little fellow persisted. The ne
gro then struck him with an AK handle
crushing in his skull and mangling hi
head so that he died almost instantly
The boy was charged with the crime and
confessed.