Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
while trying to Stay John Mccarthy, a
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trunk murderer. 1t denies the writ of
error on the ground of want of iurisdic-
ton. This causes the judgment of the
State court to hold.
Reports from Coryell, Lampasas and
other western counties of Texas tell of
considerable loss among sheep by the
recent blizzard. One large ranch in
Coryell county lost an entire flock of
several hundred head which were frozen
to the ground by sleet
Brooklyn is threatened with a small
poX epideiiic. In three days % victims
have been brought to the Flatbush hos
ptal. On Saturday 10 cases were re-
ported and there are now 10 cases under
treatment at the hospital. The pest be-
gan in the Italian colony.
Mrs. Richard Lester, 40 or 80, was
knocked down in the street at New Lon
don, n. Y, about nine miles west of
Rome, Monday night, by Eugene Guest,
who cut her throat and ran away. He
was captured and lodged in jail at Rome.
The woman is not dead, but will proba-
bly, die. Jealousy was the cause of the
deed
Louis Drucker, constable of New Can
aan, Ct, while attempting to arrest Jacob
Shelter Wednesday afternoon for selling
! liquor without a license was shot and in
stantly killed. Shelter then shot himself
and will surely die. Drucker is AZ and
leaves widow and four children. There
is great excitement and the people want
to lynch Shelter.
The jury in the case of Undertaken
Holmes of Saratoga against George Jones
of the New York Times, found for the
/ N int inn bn Hot
being $1,000. The Judge gave an extra
allowance of five per cent. The action
was to recover damages for statements
made in connection with the embalming
of Gen. Grants body.
Gov Martin of Kansas authorizes the
statement that great distress prevails in
the extreme southwestern part of Kansas.
owing to the failure of the crops last
year and the rigor of the winter. Gov
ernor Martin is fully convinced that there
are great many cases of desttution.
and appeals to the people of the older
counties to organize for the purpose of
extending the required assistance.
The Presbyterian church at Deerfield,
Mich, was closed January ID against the
pastor, Rev. G. Ii. Blanchard. The only
explanation given by the officer, was
1.-THE devil was in the preacher" Tues
day document was printed under the
minister's name confessing that while
calling on the wife of DR.. Mcdonald he
made advances which he should not have
made. He asked forgiveness of the lady,
her husband and God.
An attempt was made on the Wabash
train the other night by robbers near
Missouri City, Mo. The train was tagged
and the engineer ordered out of the cab,
but the officials had information that an
attempt would be made to rob the train
and were prepared. a volley from shot
guns met the robbers. and the leader was
shot down. The officials pursued the
robbers and three were overtaken: the
fourth. Barney Sweeney. the leader. who
stopped the train. and received a heavy
load of shot in his breast. was found in
the woods where he had crawled.
Mrs. Eliza Balou Garfield. the venera-
BILE mother of the late President James A..
Garfield, died on Saturday at the old
homestead in Mentor, Ohio. She has
been gradually giving way to old age,
and for six weeks has been utterly help
less, constantly attended, however, by
her son, Thomas Garfield, or her eldest
daughter, Mrs. Trowbridge. Mrs. J. A.
Garfield, with her daughter and eldest
son, are in Europe. 10 the end Mrs.
Garfield continued her interest in the out
side world and especially to matters
which brought up complimentary COM
ments regarding the late President.
James z. Nowlin, Is, the murderer of
George A. Goldman on New-year's day,
1887, was hanged at Cambridge, Mass,
on Friday. He was an employe of Cod
man, the 23-years-old proprietor of a milk
route at Somerville. Goldman made the
remark on the last day of the year that
he expected large sum of money on the
next day. The following morning Now
lin stabbed his employer and secured
went on with his milk, and then returned
and dissected his victim. He then drove
with it to Lexington, and scattered the
body along the route of ID miles.
A train of an engine, one baggage anC
mail car and two passenger coaches on the
Salem branch of the Delaware and Hud
son road rounded "A curve near Baxter
tile, n. v, Monday afternoon, when the
coach next to the last car left the track
bumped over the ties a few feet and theI
ina wild series of somersaults turned
over three times down the embankmen
WlIIl tne car DeHlnu IOllOWi1S. III tlt
car first mentioned there were about II
passengers, all of whom were injured
David Owens. Western Union lineman
may die. and Conductor Charles Frost o
Rutland, Clark Rice of Cambridge, NY.
Clarence Stoddard of Granville and Mar
tin ii. Stevens of Shushan were seriousl,
and perhaps fatally injured. John II
Shield Miss Annie Shields, Nellie Tier
ney and several others were badly Gu
and bruised.
Saturday four masked men, heavil,
armed, rode up to the Citizens bank a
Limestone, |. T. The leader entered AM
presenting pistol ordered the cashier
w. Il. Reynolds, to turn over the cash
Pretending to comply he locked the SAT
, door and was shot dead. The bank wa
ransacked and $4,000 was taken from tn
cash drawer. An attempt to open tn
safe failed. Several people who cam
running toward the bank were fired VI
: on by three of the men on guard and re
} treated. Soon the town was aroused an
) 20 or 30 men rushed toward the bank.
= hot fire started. One of the robbers wa