Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-09

who ran away with Dawson's son three
years ago, and then committed suicide.
Municipal elections in Maine Monday
Resulted in Republican victories in Port
and, Lewiston, Saco, Ellsworth, Halo
well, Gardiner, Bath and Auburn. Els
worth and Gardiner were redeemed from
Democratic rule.
William Kurtz, 10, alias Lutz, who
umped from the Brooklyn bridge in
November, 1856, shot and instantly kill
Pd himself Monday. Since his famous
escapade he had been light-headed at
lines and had frequently been arrested
Tor beating his aged mother, and for
drunkenness.
Richard III. Beal an attorney of In
Annapolis, ILL.,, disappeared about 10
years ago after having embezzled $4,000
bf his clients money. Recently he sent
to a friend in indianapolis complete
Statement of all his accounts, with $1,000
Ind letters addressed to each of his cred
tors without apology. He had borrow
I'D about $1,000 from an aunt to bridge
bver his shortage, which he also returned.
Chief Engineer Arthur, the head of the
brotherhood of locomotive engineers,
saws. in speaking of the attitude of the
Ind Quincy company, that it is simply a
demand for fair wages, as compared with
what is paid by other roads, and says the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy has been
paying 30 per cent less than the Chicago
hnd Alton and other roads for the same
kind of work. Members of the brother
hood say that their organization numbers
BIG, 900, and that they have half million
lollars in the treasury to draw upon.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean special from
indianapolis says: An important new
inc of action respecting prohibition has
been practically inaugurated with the ac-
i've support of the leaders of the move
nent in all parts of the country, the first
step of which, it is likely, will be taken
in indianapolis. 1t grows out of the de-
tision of the supreme court of the United
States in the Kansas case wherein it is
asserted that the people cannot barter
hway the morals and health of the public
Ind plainly says that the public traffic in
|ntoXicants is against the public health
Ind life. Correspondence has been had
with all prominent workers and it has
been agreed to try and attack the con-
etitutionality of all license laws. Prep
hrations have been completed in New
Y ork, New Jersey and other States to
bring the matter Immediately to a test.
In Marion county, which contains In
lianapois, the ProhibitiOnists expect at
hn early day to file with the county COM
missloners protest against the granting
bf licenses to applicants for saloon pow
Frs. In case the commissioners decline
TO grant the petition, a result that is ex-
pected, they will appeal and carry the
matter to the supreme court of the State.
Oscar F. Beckwith was hanged at Hud-
BON, N. Y, Thursday morning for the
murder of Simon A. VandercOok in the
Austerlitz mountains, Columbia county,
n. V, January 10, 1882. He was 10
years old, the oldest man ever executed
N the State. The case, aside from the
intense excitement at the time Of the
brutal murder, has become celebrated,
from the fact that Beckwth had been
sentenced to death six times. The court
bf appeals twice decided against him,
and 10 judges have said his sentence was
uSt.