Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-12
6eneral Qeps.
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Severe earthquake shocks were felt in
south Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina
and Virginia Friday afternoon.
Two Maine game wardens were muir
dered on Monday by two poachers. 1t is
believed the fellows will be captured.
Gen. John b. Gordon was on Tuesday
~inaugurated as governor of Georgia. His
inaugural address was II plea for the re-
assertion of State rights.
The President on Thursday appointed
George W. Baxter of Cheyenne to be
governor of Wyoming Territory, vice
Frank f. Warren, suspended.
October fire losses in the United States
and Canada were Sl2, 900, 900. which is
fifty per cent more than the average
October loss. Fire waste for the ten
months of 1856, 500, OOO, 1000.
Congressman Price of Wisconsin, who
has just been reelected by Il large ma
jority, is very sick from what is supposed
to be Il cancer in the stomach. 1t is fear
ed he will never return to Washington.
An area five miles long three miles and
wide in Holland township. Illinois, has
been deSOlated by Il forest fire. Many
barns, fences and fields of corn have been
destroyed. The loss of property is esti-
mated at many thousand dollars.
The snow fall of Saturday night and
Sunday was general through the north
ern States. In the mountains in Pennsyl-
vania it amounted to eleven inches. De
structive winds and drifting snow are
reported in New York and snowfall in
the Western States.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York sailed
for Europe Saturday. He will travel
about on the continent for some time,
and on his return, it is announced. he
will be married to Miss Edith Carow of
New York. Mr.. Roosevelt's first wife
died about two years ago.
The continued sickness of Justice
Woods of the United States supreme
court gives rise to the belief at Washing
ton that he will shortly retire from the
bench. If this be true, the impression
prevails that he will be succeeded BY
Congressman Randolph Tucker of Vir-
ginia.
The ponderous hy-wheel, weighing
twenty tons, in the Valley Lumber COM
pany's mill at Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
burst, throwing the fragments among
the two hundred employees at work, and
w%recking the engine house. No one was
seriously injured, but property was dam
aged to the amount of SjO.0OO.
\. convention of the general missionary
committee of the Methodist church in the
tnited States was held ON Friday at New
York. Bishop Bowman presided. The
motto adopted vas "A million for mis-
sions from collections alone" and 81 ,050,-
600 was fixed as the sun to be appropri-
ated for the work of the ensuing year.
Prof. Spencer +. Baird asks Congress
to appropriate ~S250,000 to begin Il new
building to flank the Smithsonian build
ing at Washington on the west. Another
similar sum will probably be needed to
finish the structure. Prof. Baird say
such Il building is much needed rs the
present museum is greatly crowded and
its operations impeded.
William orion, the famous Tichborne
claimant, was arrested Saturday night at
his boarding-house in Brooklyn, y. Y,
ON complaint of the pension department
at Washington, charged with having per-
sonated Charles Curtis, who is claimed to
have served in the l0Gth New York vol
unteers, and with trying to draw Curtis's
pension. In default of $500 bail, orion
is in Raymond-street Jail.
At the Connecticut Congregational con-
ference at Hartford Tuesday Il resolution
was introduced but not adopted to the
effect that the Sunday newspaper, in
proportion to its wealth, influence and
~permanence, is ii menace upon our Chris
tian civilization, and that its circulation
tends to demoralize public sentiment,
to obstruct the moral and religious edu-
cation of the people, and to secularize
the Lords day.
Two wealthy ranchmen in Frio county
Tex, named Hiram Bennett and John
Rumtield, who had often threatened to
kill each other, happened to meet Friday
among Il lot of cow-bows, and it was
agreed that they should fight a duel.
Both were armed with Winchesters, and
both were crack shots. They stood 100
PAGES apart, and, at the word of COM
from Il cowboy, fired. Bennett
fell dead with IA bullet in his brain, while
Rumtield was uninjured.
\ man named Meson and another
named Axe near Dillon in Montana Ter
ritory quarreled the other day and Meson
shot off the head of his opponent with a
gun. The murderer was arrested, and
while bpinU taken IN mil i'm shnrUn nf ntli