Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-06

A smallpox epidemic is feared at San
Francisco. The Chinese quarter is in
tested with the disease, which has also
made its appearance in other sections of
the city. There is great excitement.
The recent gales were very destructive
to property along the coast of Maine,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island. Many vessels were
driven ashore and several will prove to-
tai losses.
James Hendricks, SO, brother of the
late vice-presdent, Thomas A. Hen
bricks, and the last one remaining of the
family, died at his home in Shelbyvllle,
Ind. at 8 80 o'clock Sunday morning of
lung fever.
The Kelly family of mo Mans Land"
were overtaken by posse of citizens in
Texas. The old man and his wife, son
and daughter were lynched. They had
murdered ten or more travellers who stop
ped at their house.
Thomas Wilson of Marshall, ILL.,, went
home drunk the other night, and his wife,
tired of his antics, thought to cure him
bv pretending TO commit suicide. She
made slash at her throat, but overdid
the thing and severed her windpipe, just
missing the iugular vein. She cannot re-
cover.
An explosion in the Equitable Gas
company's works in New York on Satur-
day night did great damage to neighbor-
ing buildings. The engineer and tiremen
were missing; and many were seriously
injured. The officers of the company
think that dynamite was the cause of the
trouble.
P.O. Myers of Nickleville, Pa, who
fell and broke his neck December n. is
i'm fair way to recover. If he lives it
will be the only case on record where
man has escaped death after sustaining
double dislocation of the neck. Myers
was riding on horseback at the time of
the accident.
A terrible catastrophe took place at
Forgetown, Ala, Saturday night, in
which three persons were killed outright
and between 20 and 80 injured. The col
ored Baptists had gathered in their
church to watch the old year out and the
new one in, as it is their custom. During
the festivities, so great was the crowd,
the floor gave way and the building col
lapsed.
In riot between 40 drunken men,
mostly Polish miners, at Alden, Pa,
Tuesday morning. a man named Anthony
Shinskey, aged 30, was stabbed five times
in the head, his arm was broken and two
fingers are cut off, and one eye was
Eight others were seriously injured, and
two are likely to die. The fracas result
ed from christening which lasted two
days.
Six persons were killed in Kentucky by
a collision on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad. The trains were on IA 60 feet
embankment, a mile south of Greenwood.
Two men were fatally injured and many
very seriously. Two cars, mail and bag
gage, took fire and were burned. The
collision was caused by Conductor
Shrumm misleading an order and hurry
ing his train down grade at 80 miles an
hour, probably running at that speed
when the collision occurred.
The annual report of the excise board
of New York city, submitted to Mayor
Hewitt, gives the total number of licensed
places now in existence as SSH, of which
203 are hotels and 5l4 are restaurants or
eating-houses, and 79S, such as drug
stores, are licensed to sell liquors not to
be drunk on the premises. There is an
apparent decrease of drinking-places since
last year of 266. The receipts for licenses
have been 81, lSG,730, an excess of $685.
300 over the receipts of last year.