Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A Prohibition candidate is to be run
in every congressional district in New
York State this fall.
The strike of nailers at Chicago, which
has lasted fourteen months. has ended,
and the Calumet iron works will start
up with a full force.
Black diphtheria prevails to an alarm
ing extent in the village of Melville, l..
|. large number of children and
adults are i'll with the disease and several
deaths have occurred.
Eli Whitney Blake, inventor of the
Blake stone crusher. and nephew of the
late Eli Whitney. inventor of the cotton
gin, died Wednesday at his residence, in
New Haven, aged 81 years. He gradual
ed from Yale in 1916, and received the
degree of IL. ID. in 1873.
A disastrous wind storm visited por-
lions of Texas Friday leaving destruction
and desOlation in its track. Indianola,
Victoria and CuerO suffered most. nearly
| three-fourths of each town being COM
| pletely demolished. The remaining
buildings are greatly damaged. Business
is entirely suspended.
The IIolstein COW ''ClOthilde." owned
| by Smith, Powell q Lamb of Syracuse,
closed her siX-year-old record Friday
night. She has given during that time
little more than 10000 pounds of milk,
or about 20 pounds a day. The highest
previous record was 23.777j pounds made
three years ago by the COW Echo
owned in Attica. y. Y.
James Baird of Scranton, Pa. keeper
of low house. was waylaid and murder
ed Saturday night close by the central
police station by gang of roughs who
had been refused admission to his place
This makes the 18th murder committed
in Lackawanna county since it was form
ed eight years ago and not one of the
murderers has been hanged.
The New England Homestead. which
has been investigating the fruit crop
throughout the country. reports "A poor
crop of apples although This is the bearing
year; grapes. little below the average;
plumS. abundant pears. less than usual.
and peaches Il failure north of the forty
first parallel, but Il good yield south of
that This applies to the New England
and Middle States chiefly.
Joseph Anderson. who fled from Eaton
after Mingo Jack, the negro who assault
ed a young woman there, was lynched,
is now sick with typhoid fever, and has
confessed being one of the party who
lynched the negro, and duplicates several
prominent citizens. The excitement over
the exposure is great. "Mingo Jacks"
wife died a day or two ago. She never
recovered from the shock of the lynch
ing.
MAUD s." is doing better in her train
ing this season than ever, says her own
er, Robert Bonner. He drove her "A mile
to a wagon last week in 2.l4 II, which
is the fastest time ever made by any
horse TO Il wagon. Besides Mr.. Bonner
weighed 30 pounds above the regulation
weight. and the mare did not wear
toe weights. He is confident the horse
has not been driven full mile as fast as
she can go. He promises to give her q
fast mile in public soon.
Mrs. Cleveland Monday afternoon at
the Prospect House in the Adirondack
mountains touched the electric button
that set the machinery in motion at the
Minneapolis industrial exposition and in
two minutes word came that the machin-
cry was working finely. The ceremonies
at Minneapolis continued till about ;
o'clock. Then the officers Of the expoSi-
ton telegraphed their compliments to the
, President and his wife, and Mr.. Ceve-
land replied with an appropriate dis
patch.
William Nerhaines of Stewart county,
= Ky. whose wife recently sued for di-
vorce. laid in wait for her a few days ago
: by the roadside. A. she was driving by
: with her sister, Miss Keats, and father
and mother. Nerhaines opened fire on
the family. Miss Keats was MORALLY
: wounded and Mrs. Verhaines was proba-
bly, fatally hurt. The man was caught
= and locked up, but nearly killed his
: keeper and had bullet put into his head,
: which failed to kill him. In being re-
;. moved to the county Jail, while apparent
ly nearly dead, he jumped headlong from
a car window with the train moving at 30
n miles an hour, sped into the woods and
: escaped.