Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-08-30

Bessemer, Mich, was attacked by two
highwaymen Monday morning and the
passengers were robbed. Two men were
shot, one fatally.
The treasurer of Jackson county,
Mich, has paid bounties since July l on
over 5000 dead English sparrows, but 1t
is understood that several millions OF
the species remain to tell the story.
z. L. Beers. So, a farmer, shot and in
stantly killed Levi Rice, his neighbor,
Sunday, near Independence, Kenton
county, Ky. A quarrel of several years
standing existed between the men on &C
count of a roadway.
Thirty-three Cinnamon of Baltimore
were surprised while engaged in playing
fan-tan at midnight Sunday night.
Hastily barricading the door they defied
the police for an hour, but all were finally
captured and driven to the police station
in three trips of the patrol wagon.
The United States circuit court was
officially informed at San Francisco Tues
day that the charge of murder against
Justice stephen j. Field has been dis
missed by the Stockton court. Judge
Sawyer accordingly dismissed the habeas
corpus proceedings in the case OF Justice
Field
Charles Startling, an eX-convict, stabbed
Thomas Henehour with an ice-pick. at
New York Sunday night. Some time
ago Startling was arrested for burglary
convicted and sent to prison on the evi-
dence of Henehour. He then swore that
he would be revenged. Startling has
been arrested. The injured man lies in q
critical condition.
Gen Albert Pike, the head of all the
Masonic orders and rites in this country
is in his S0th year. He was born in Bos
ton, and was graduated at Harvard, wen
West in 1881. served in the Mexican war
and was a confederate brigadier in com
mand of the Cherokee Indians. He is al
old newspaper man, but has been practic
ing law in Washington for many years.
Four tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo.
for vagrancy, were put up at public auc
ton Monday from the courthouse steps
The sale had been duly advertised accord
ing to law and there was large crowt
present The bidding was not yer!
Spirited. Two of the tramps went t.
farmers for 81 head and another wa
bid for % cents. The fourth tramp coul(
find no purchaser and he was returned t.
iail. The three who We're sold mus
serve their purchasers for four months
Christian W. lIuca. WHO keeps
grocery store at Jay and High streets
Brooklyn, was stabbed by buIgla
named McIlwain early Friday morning
and died in ten minutes. Mcllwain ant
his accomplice, Martin Dineen, profes
sional thief and ex-convict. were captur
ed soon after. A man named Quinla
escaped. The burglars entered the var
in the rear of the house and put ladde
to the middle second-story window
Luca was awakened and grappled one o
the thieves, who cut him all to peice
with a knife.
The ex-confederate soldiers of Missouri
met in their seventh annual reunion a
Higginsville. Mo-, Tuesday. Senate
Vest was present and addressed his oil
comrades. Col. J. T. Crisp also spoke
During his remarks he eulogized l-incol
and Grant, when some one in the GROVE
asked. s'What's the matter with Je
Davis?" Col. Crisp answered that he ha
no admiration for the ex-confederat
president when Gen. Joseph Shelby
who was Col. Crisp's superior officer dun
ing the war, Interrupted him and rebuke
him for speaking lightly of Mr.. Davi;
An animated dialog followed and the tw
former comrades were only kept frol
resorting to blows by their friends.