Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-10-15
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Chicago is flooded with counterfeit so
silver certificates.
Minister Cox returned to New York
Monday from ConStantinople.
About $20. 900 worth of smugged opium
has been seized at san Francisco.
The cranberry crop in the vicinity of
Sandwich, Mass, has been badly dam
aged by frost.
The public schools at Berwick, Me-.
have closed because of the diphtheria
raging in town.
Slight shocks of earthquake We're felt
Saturday morning at Charleston, :. c..
and Augusta, Ga.
The Tammany hall Democrats have
nominated Abram L. Hewitt for mayor
of New York city.
The new congressional library building
at Washington will cost $1,000, 900: it,
erection will take five years.
From September : to October 9.2l7.542
rations were distributed by the Charles
ton earthquake relief committee at cost
of 4,S39
The late Milton Shirll's 81 800, 900 go to
his three children in will printed on Il
siugle page of note paper. He was IL
millionaire banker of Peru, Ind.
Judge Jones at Cleveland. Ohio. on
Friday, instructed the grand jury to in
diet all persons who engaged in prize
fighting or are in any way concerned in
them.
The President has appointed Col. W.
III. ID. Cochran of Nashua. y. H.. pension
agent for Vermont and New Hampshire
to succeed Col. I. =. Cheney of Concord.
| y. II.
The Southern Express company has
| been robbed AT Fordyce, Ark. of $1,000
by II. b. Miller. IA telegraph operator.
who has lost one arm between the elbow
and wrist and wears an artificial lee.
y. y. Neeld. managing partner of J.C.
Ferguson Il Co., Chicago pork packers,
has ruined the firm by speculation and
fled to Canada. Bogus warehouse receipts
for S250.000 were issued. New York
banks will lose.
Willard Thayer Simpkins. about -
years of age, son of well-known broker
of New York city, while riding in Cen
trial Park on Saturday was thrown from
his horse and died few hours later. He
was worth 81 100000.
The Boston journal of Saturday pub
fishes statement prepared by an expert
employed by the directors of the Atlantic
cotton mills, showing that the late Will
liam Gray, ir.. who embeZZled half a mil
lion dollars and committed suicide when
discovered, lost heavily in stocks in
which he dealt on margin.
1t is reported to the treasury depart
ment that the EastpOrt (Me.) collector
of customs has been allowing stuff in
voiced as ''iron sand" to be imported from
St. Johns, y. b., at duty of 20 per cent
ad valorem, when in fact it was said tC
be pure metallic cast-iron in the form OF
fine shot. An investigation will be held
The 5lst Indiana regiment adopted res
olutions at indianapolis, recently, de
, nouncing the Presidents pension vetoes
, especially the bill for the relief of Ayres
whom the President holds as deserter
The resolutions deny the charge, and say
that Ayres served throughout the war
/ spending part of the time in Libby prison
Four indicted New York aldermen OF
the Doodle board of 1854, William +
, Kirk and Patrick Farley, Democrats, anC
William ii. Miller and Henry l.. Sayles
Republicans, were arraigned befor,
Judge Cowing in the court of genera
, sessions at New York, Friday, and placed
under $4,000 bonds to appear for tria
when wanted.
= Assistant Postmaster Edward W. Bur
/ rage of Troy, y. V, is a defaulter, hav
, ing stolen $500 and departed for Cana
, da. lie has been away since Saturday
t and sent word from his home in Lansing
/ burg that he was i'll. The money wa
taken at once and Burrage's accounts VI
to Saturday were found to be all right