Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-07
Hon. Hamilton Fish, one of the three

Hon. Hamilton Fish, one of the three
surviving secretaries of state of the
United States, and one of the four sur
viving governors of the State of New
York, and one of the five surviving
United States Senators from that State,
celebrated the eighty-third anniversary of
his birth at Glencliffe, near Garrison's,
Monday.
Charles Clark was fined in court at
London, Eng, the other day, for dis
turbing his own wedding. He interrupt
ed the minister by taking bottle of
whiskey from his pocket, drinking from
it and Offering some to the minister and
the witness. The parson tried in vain to
stop Clark, and then. hurriedly finished
the ceremony and made a complaint.
add General news.
Every suspicious appearing man who
is seen in New England now is at once
arrested, regardless of his size or gener-
al appearance, as the murderer Almy.
A man who was arrested at Bowdoin,
Me-, on suspicion, by some bright con-
stable, was released when it was ascer-
tanned that he weighed 200 pounds.
The famous Weeks House, a widely
known hosiery at Palmer, Mass, was
burned at an early honr Monday morn
ing, and one of the guests, Rev. Fran
els F. Williams, a Boston clergyman,
was burned to death. The house is
three story wooden structure, and the
flames spread to all parts so quickly
that the guests and servants had scarcely
time to escape.
The New Hampshire supreme court
has rendered its opinion upon the ex-
ceptions taken by the defense during the
trial of Isaac Sawtelle for the murder
of his brother Hiram. All the excep-
tioDs are overruled. The court holds
that the objection to certain jurors is
not well taken, as the Jurors were al
lowed to sit by the presiding judges,
who had the right to pass upon the
question of their competency.
Scott, one of the witnesses to the shoot
ing of an Italian by a negro named Mish-
err last winter, was shot and killed while
on his way to a store. The shooting was
done by Charles De Antile and COM
panion, who stole up behind the negro
and filled him with slugs from pair of
Sicilian muskets. The murderers escaped.
1t is believed that the killing of the negro
was decreed by the local Malta.
In April, 1879, the four children of
Frank Hancock, at Blue Run, Pa, were
found murdered, and the body of the
father hanging to beam in the barn.
The corners jury at the time found that
Hancock committed the crime, but his
wife, who died recently in lumber
camp, confessed before her death that
the husband was not guilty, but that she
and her paramour did the deed. They
chloroformed Hancock, and were hang
| ing him when the children awoke and
were all butchered.
A fatal accident occurred on the Og-
densburg and Lake Champlain railroad,
near Champlain, n. Y, Wednesday even
ing. A train conveying Sunday school
excursion from Ellenburgh and Rouses
Point and intervening stations on the
Central Vermont ran into a mail train
which had the right of way just east of
the station at G :45 p. m. The excursion
train had sos persons on board and was
returning from Willisboro Point. William
Angel, aged about Il, son of merchant
of Champlain, and Sim Vynett, a laboreI
of Chateaugay lake, were killed outright
and some 20 people more or less injured