Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26
6eneral 1leps.
DOM ESTIC.

did 100000 damage; insurance, $780,
600.
Work was resumed in the coke regions
of Pennsylvania Monday. \ strike had
been in progress there for several weeks.
The Senate committee on the library
has reported favorably a bill to appro-
pirate $4,000 for a monument to Gen.
Grant to be erected in Washington.
There seems to be an organized move
ment against the Chinese on the Pacific
coast. Within the past week they have
been driven out of a number of Califor-
mia and Oregon towns.
The jury in the breach of promise suit
brought at Los Angeles, Cal, by Louise
IT,. Perkins against f. j. Baldwin. the
california millionaire, for SoOO,OOO dam
|hges. brought in a verdict foI the plain
! if for $4,000.
The business failures for the week end
ID Saturday numbered for the United
States 25l and for Canada 80, or total
IF 2S6. as compared with Il total of 263
he week before. The failures in the
south and in Canada are still above the
|verage.
A clerk in Il grocery store at Winches-
pr, Ky.. Monday was weighing out some
unpowder from can when Il bystander
truck match to light his cigar. The
owder exploded, wrecking the building
nd iniuring eight persons severely, two
them fatally. The man who struck
be match escaped unhurt.
Kenward Philip, aged 40 years, an En-
ishman by birth, and at one time charg-
with forging the famous Morey letter
1880, died Sunday morning at his home
BROOKLYN. He was journalist of YER
tiity and had done work on all the
ew York papers, having begunl journal
n with the elder Bennett.
Second Comptroller of the Treasury
INWARD has made decision that the
unties provided in the joint resolution
March 3, 1864, are payable in the cases
rs who enlisted in the regular or vol
teer service of the United States April
1864, for three years, or during the
r.
REPRESENTATIVES, of - butterine and
omargerne manufacturing establish
nts in the United States Thursday at
81, IDn N
ion for protection. They intend to
the legality of the law recently
sed in New York, Pennsylvania and
er States, prohibiting the manufacture
heir product.
wo ''highly connected" young men
-enice. IA suburb of st. Louis, Mo-.
a five-round fight with bare fists the
,r night for the hand of IA appointment
e." 1t was declared draw, and now
young woman who sanctioned the
ieval combat is trying to calculate
relative attractiveness of broken
and a glass-eye.
I'm b. Cough, the noted temperance
irer, died on Thursday, the 18th inst,
e house of DIR. Bruce Burns in Phil
phia Mr.. Cough was stricken with
lexy the previous Monday night in
midst of lecture at the Frankford
byterian church. He remained I'M
,ious until Wednesday, and was
hless to the end, although restless.
Jury in the United States distr ic
at Dallas, Tex, Saturday, awarded
lel Kaiser of Fort Worth IA verdict of
700 against the firm of II. b. Clafiin
of New York. Kaiser sued for
poo damages on the ground that the
mad attached his stock and ruined
lsiness and credit before his indebt-
to ii. b. Claflin & Co. had matur-
nervous families residing along Bern
creek, north of Reading, Pa, have
stricken recently with an alarming
,ss consisting of II gradual wasting
of the system as in consumption.
hysicians after puzzling their brains
lSt discovered llldl lllt CntlllCal
from dynamite factory runs into
eek, the waters of which are used
the families.
Missouri river on account OF an
rye is cutting away the southern
the island opposite Kansas City,
lpon which are located the pest
and smallpox hospital. About 20
have been washed away and the
have flOated off down the river in
pffins. There is thought to be lit
ger of further infection from the
as there have been no burials in
pee within a year.
majority of the subcommittee of
Use committee on foreign affairs
freed upon new anti-Chinese bill.
des that Chinese resident of this
leaving it cannot return after the
Jon of two years from the time