Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-06-14
General 11eps.
DOMEs TIC.

There was a bad washout among the
mills at Holyoke. Mass. Tuesday night.
The damage to the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal by the flood is placed at
100000.
An alleged scheme to defraud Cook
county. ILL.,. out of half a million in taxes
has been unearthed in Chicago.
). +. Fields, State senator, was shot
and killed at Dalton. Ga, Tuesday. by
his stepson, Dennis Taylor, whom he at
tempted to chastise. Young Taylor was
arrested.
In letter to a New York man Mr..
Gladstone denies the report that the Pal
merston ministry, of which he was
member, ever thought of recognizing
the Southern confederacy.
New York and Brooklyn were visited
Tuesday by a severe thunder storm. The
lightning damaged several buildings and
two workmen were killed. The st. james
cathedral at Brooklyn was damaged
SIS 900.
Gov. Hill of New York has signed the
bill forbidding bucket shops. and has ac-
cOmpanied it with a memorandum stat
ing that the new law will not, in his
opinion, injure legitimate stock brokers
or exchanges, although such result is
feared by the latter.
An attempt was made the other day to
blow up church at POmeroy, Ohio, but
the fuse missed fire. Fully half peck
of blasting-powder was taken from under
the building after the attempt was dis
covered by the congregation. At least
one hundred persons would have been
killed had the powder been ignited.
Lucien Freeman, who lived with his
mother, Mrs. Mary Freeman, near the
village of Meriden, n. H., brutally MUIR
dered John Morgan and his mother Tues
day morning. Morgan had been asked
to watch his actions as the young man
was subject by inheritance to attacks of
Insanity, He beheaded both his victims
with an axe.
The prize fish story of the season comes
from Winthrop, Me-, a fisherman there
telling that he caught pickerel through
the ice of Lake MaranocOOk, last Janua-
ry, and found in its stomach a roll of I'M
dgested bank bills amounting to $500.
He thinks that the money was lost by
/ sporting man whose boat was upset on
the lake more than year ago.
The coroner's jury which has been en-
gagged at Chicago for week in an inves-
! LEGATION of the murder of DR.. Cronin on
Tuesday reported that "Dan Coughlin,
Z. o. Sullivan, Alexander Sullivan and
one Woodruff, alias Black, were either
principals, accessories or had guilty
knowledge of the said plot to murder DIR.
Cronin and conceal his dead body and
should be held to answer to the grand jul
ry." The verdict continues as follows:
''We also believe that other persons were
engaged in this plot or had guilty knowl-
edge of it and should be apprehended
and held to the grand jury" Alexander
! Sullivan's arrest at his home was effected
without any trouble. He was at once
driven to the county Jail and locked up
in CELL The New York police, acting
upon instructions from Chicago, arrested
there John Maroney and Charles Mac
Donald, who are active in the Irish cause.
The business portion of Seattle, Wash
ington Territory, was wiped out by fire
last week Thursday. The flames started
in a three-story frame building, some
turpentine having caught fire, and spread
rapidly in all directions. Giant powder
was used in fighting the flames, but most
of the buildings were of wood and burned
like finder. Only the resident portion of
the city, on high ground, escaped. The
loss in buildings is slO,OOO,OOO and the
personal loss will foot up $1,000, 900.
A great deal of property was moved only
CContinued on am pdge.l