Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-30
DOMESTIC.

1 lie new NIlllleSe minister ana his suite
have arrived in Washington.
a flood at Los Vegas, New Mexico, has
done a great deal of damage.
Clergymen in Rhode Island and at
Cleveland, o., are making war on Sunday
newspapers.
Chicago furniture manufacturers. en-
ploying 1000 men, are organizing against
future strikes.
Out of 49, counties in Georgia, pro-
hibition operates in one way or another
in over l15 counties.
The firm of +. Remington & Sons. Iii
on, \. Y, has gone into insolvency, thus
closing up their extensive works.
Three young men left New Orleans
Saturday morning on bicycles and ex-
pect to arrive in Boston inside of thirty
days.
y big break has occurred in the Mis-
sissippi levee near Helena. Arkansas, and
it is estimated that over million acres
will be flooded
Secretary Manning has so far recover
ed that he is now allowed to see visitors
Sunday he was downstairs for the first
time since his attack.
f. H. Coker, said to be from Massachu-
sets, committed suicide in New Orleans
VII w DtCduSt lie lldU Dttn lllltu
by the reigning belle of Mississippi.
Frederick Hillerman, aged thirty, went
out in boat at Defiance, Ohio, on FRI
day with his wife and two little children.
The boat capsized and all the occupants
were drowned.
The Union Pacific and Burlington and
Missouri railways have abandoned re-
bates on transcontinental passenger
rates and hnEp nlSn mpnp a furth oH-
vance in the tariff.
\ special agent of the national census
bureau estimates that in the year lSS0
there occurred in this country 1872 strikes,
causing Il money loss averaging So to
each employe concerned.
All hope of recovering the bodies of
the 2G miners entombed in No. ! slope at
Nanticoke has been given up. 1t is re-
garded aS certain that the men persisted
on the first day of their imprisonment by
being caught in the mass of falling sand
and rocks.
"Constance s. the famous Holstein
heifer of the "Record farm herd. which
= died April II, was owned by William NJ.
Singerlv of the Philadelphia Record
and was valued at 5000. Her record of
50 pounds of milk in one day has never
. been equaled by any two-year-old.
Jay Gould says that more business is
now being carried on over the Missouri
than before the strike. He favorS the
arbitration scheme suggested by PreSi-
dent Cleveland. and thinks it wiser to
have regular arbitrator rather than
special men chosen for special occasions.
William c. Messer of New Orleans,
. aged SiXty-twO years. attempted to Kill
his wife, aged forty years, on Friday, by
To-, al
He then placed the muzzle of the revolt
Yer in his mouth and fired, killing him
self almost instantly. Jealousy caused
the trouble.
The American Iron and Steel associa-
ton officially announces its objections to
the tariff bill now before Congress on ac-
count of its unconcealed offer of assis-
lance to the scheme of foreign producers
to obtain larger share of the markets of
this country than they now possess, and
because of the entire absence of principle
which characterizes its composition.
\ destructive bomb was thrown into
the parlor of Charles b. Kimball's house
on Park avenue at ChicOgO few days
ago. nearly causing the death of his wife
and son. The house was badly damaged.
Mr. kimbell is treasurer of the Singer "
Talcott stone company. which had trOu-
BILE with its quarrymen at Lemont. ILL.,.
/. during the strike and riots there Il few
months ago.
Great excitement exists at Fort Pierre.
Oak. in consequence of an order issued
by the Indian agent at the instance of
the interior department. in ordering all
the merchants and residents off the Fort
i, Pierre reservation within 30 days. This
will involve "A loss of 100000 and the
settlers have held meetings and resolved
not to move EXCEPT AT the point of the
. baVonet. Serious trouble will follow
, should the agent attempt to enforce the
e order.
< Mr. Nichols. James Stoops, Theodore
4 TiltOn. teamster named Miles. and Mail
e Carrier Roberts with % mules left Silver
a ton. Col. one morning last week 10 open
the trail to Red mountain which the
Snow-Storm of the previous week had
| blockaded. When about four miles from
1 the city the entire party was struck by
/ snow-Slide, which carried them To the
f bottom of the mountain and buried them
under the avalanche. Nichols, StOOpS, Ill
| ton and Miles succeeded in getting out
: alive. but Roberts and 10 mules were ill.,
stantly killed.
! FOREIGN.
= The investigation of the loss of the
e Oregon resulted in decision in favor of
/ the officers of the steamer.
Mr.. Gladstone says there is no danger
: in granting home rule to Ireland. The
=, danger lies in refusing ii.
An effort will be made to protect Mon
a treal from another disastrous freShet !;
. probably by the erection of a stone wall
ON the exposed water front.
= Archbishop Croke, speaking at Thurles.
}. Ire, sunday, delivered a panegyric on
- Mr.. Gladstone, declaring that the premier
was Ireand's greatest friend.