Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-09

Edward f. c. Davis, president of the
American society of Mechanical En-
yineers, was killed in New York Tues
/ daV night. No one saw the accident,
but it is supposed that the horse which
he rode must have stumbled and fallen
upon him.
Miss Betsey Flagler, daughter of Gen.
d. w. Flagler chief of ordnance Y. ).
A., shot ana instantly killed colored
| boV named Ernest Green, who was steal
| ing fruit in The yard of the Flagler resi-
dence, Washington, Monday. The cor
oners Jury decided that the shooting was
accidental.
Jerseyites are alarmed because of the
rapid among the cattle, horses and
mules of the deadly disease known as
anthrax. The reports indicate that the
disease is rapidly spreading to all sec
tons of the State, and over 100 head of
cattle, horses and mules have succumbed
to it within the past ten days.
The trustees of the Catholic summer
school of America, which has had its
sessions at Pittsburgh for two years
past, have voted that the school be per-
manently located at Plattsburgh and
that suitable buildings be erected this
year for the session of 1896 on the
grounds adjacent to Hotel Champlain.
Socorro, n. NJ, has been almost de-
stroVed by cloudburst and Hood.
Fifty houses were destroyed and nearly
every residence damaged. Six bodies
have been recovered, but many are miss
ing. Other bodies reported being seen
can not be reached. Large sections OF
track on both sides of the city were
swept out. The loss will aggregate
100000.
News has been received of the killing
by lightning at Grand canon, Arizona,
of Blachley Hoyt Porter. second son of
Timothy II. Porter, millionaire of
Bridgeport. Conn. The party with
guides were caught in the canon in a
terrific thunder and rain storm and took
shelter under utting rock. Hardly
had they reached shelter when bolt
struck the rock, SCATTERING it and in
stantly killing Blachley.
1t is announced that the Baldwin Lo-
connective works and the Yves tinghouse
Electric company have formed work.
ing partnership. The two concerns
represent an aggregate capita of about
S20.000,000 The coalition of interests
will, it was stated result in the early in
PRODUCTION of improved forms of electric
motors for railroad companies and give
employment to upwards of 10000 men
i'm busy seasons. Each company will
conduct its own plant, as at present, ex-
tensions being made as the business
warrants.
Lightning struck the Methodist church
at QuakertoWn, y. j., Sunday, just as
the services had concluded, injurng sew
eral persons. Examination of the build
ing after the excitement had subsidized
somewhat showed that the bolt had
struck an outer wall, run down to the
basement, sixty feet along the ioists and
shot up through the floor like huge
bullet. The large bell in the tower was
loosened from its hangings, and only a
slender strip of scantling kept it from
crashing down upon the heads of scores
of people at the doorway.
Five members of the most brilliant
and daring gang of counterfeiters that
ever operated in the United States have
been landed behind iron bars in Jersey
City during the past few days by gov
eminent detectives. The prisoners are
William Z. Brockway, alias Col. W. f.
Spencer; Sidney Smith, William f. Wag
neI, AdOlph Smith and Abbie l.. Smith,
better known as Mrs. Libby Smith.
Brrckway is regarded as the most eX-
pert counterfeiter and forger in the
country. He is now - years old. He
studied electro-chemistry at Yale col
lege to fit himself for his career of crime.
There is bad state of affairs in Delta
county, Tex. One night last week
every negro was notified to leave the
county under penalty of being hanged.
Notices were posted informing white
men who undertook to protect negroes
that they would meet with the same fate.
This caused a perfect stampede among
the negroes, who began to move out of
the county at once, though the citizens
offered them every protection. In ra-
dius of five miles 2000 acres of land,
crops and all, were abandoned and con-
tracts for another year abruptly cancell-
ed. The whitecappers, or whoever they
were, continue TO post threatening no
tees, and not negro family is now left.
\ Chicago dispatch concerning the
operations of Holmes, the alleged muir
derer of Il dozen or more people. says
Mrs. PiteZel AYERS that Holmes tried to
murder her in Burlington, this State.
The last point she and Holmes reached
in their chase after b. f. Pitezel was
Burlington. There Holmes engaged
rooms for Mrs. Pitczel with Mrs. Rich
ardsOn at 26 WinoOski avenue, and there,
size says, lie pldHHcu Il luuIueT more uld-
bolcal than anything he had attempted
before He had hardly been in the
house a day before he expressed desire
10 visit the basement for some alleged
trivial purpose and secured lamp t.
make his explorations. Mrs. Pitezel had
begun to grow suspicious of Holmes
mysterious actions and decided to go tC
the basement and see what he was doing
She found him working with his coat off
lie had torn up the flooring and was dig
gng in the soft, black earth with some
tool he had found in the cellar. Wher
lie saw Mrs. Pitez ! he appeared discon
certed. He told her he was digging
hole to bury box of valuable papers
and asked Mrs. Pitezel not to mention
} the circumstances to any one. a few
days afterward Holmes suddenly starteC
} for Boston on the strength of a Telegram
from Chicago. In Boston the detectives
finally ran him down, and almost thu
first act he did was to write to Mrs
Pitezel. He told her if she would loOl
IN a certain place under the flooring il
the cellar she would find bottle o
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