Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-31

The Temple theatre at Philadelphia,
recently completed at cost OF SlW,OOO,
was burned Monday and three tiremen
were buried in the ruins when the roof
fell and could not be rescued.
Rear-Admiral John S. Worden was
placed on the retired list of the navy
Thursday. He was a lieutenant in 1852,
and commanded the Monitor in her
famous fight with the rebel ram Merri-
mac.
A great trotting race between Oliver
X. and Harry Wilkes for $1,000 size has
been arranged at San Francisco April 2,
and will be best three in five to harness.
The sum of $4,000 has been posted as a
forfeit.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union of Sioux City, Ia, has organized a
corporation to build a S500,0OO building
to the memory of Rev. George C. Had
dock, who was assassnated by saloon
men August 3.
Mrs. Jessie Johnston, wife of a young
lawyer at Knoxville, Ia, herself MEM
Der of the Iowa bar and daughter of
Henry c. Munich, once a wealthy Chicago
Spectator, threw herself into the lake in
that city Friday and persisted. Over
study had injured her health and she was
in Chicago for treatment.
- The funeral of General Logan will take
place today in the senate chamber at
Washington. 1t is proposed to invite ex-
confederates to participate in the process
sion. A popular subscription for Mrs.
Logan has already assumed large pro-
portions. 1t has been found that Gen.
Logan's estate amounts to very little.
if anything. =
The United States court at Toledo, o.,
has decided that express companies are
liable for goods or money stolen from
them while in transit. The case was one
where a package alleged by the Union
national bank of Cincinnati to contain
$4,000 consigned to Van Vert (O.)
bank, was emptied of its contents while
in charge of the express company.
Robert Baumgart's iewelry store at
Chicago was robbed of $1,000 worth of
watches, rings and diamonds Sunday
night. Two men coolly watched outside
the front door, one of them telling Il
suspicious neighbor that he was a newly
appointed policeman, while two others
of the thieves removed the locks on three
doors leading to the store from the rear.
The quartet filled their pockets and es-
capped.
A. Brown and Chloe Robinson, negroes
living near MOntezuma, Ia, were arrested
Friday for torturing to death Browns
six-years-old grandson. The boy died
Thursday night, and testimony at the
inquest indicated that Chloe Robinson
had suspended the little one by the heels
and belabored him with rope 30 minutes
for some alleged offense. subsequently
Brown suspended the boy in like manner
and wore out on his frail body half
dozen switches, concluding the castiga-
ton by washing him with salt and
water.
Three men were driven in front of j.
Il. Elliott's large jewelry store at Min
neapolis, Mimi, at 10 o'clock on a recent
night, and while one held the horses the
others with large clubs smashed in the
plate-glass windows, grabbed sew
eral bags of diamonds and jewelry and
throwing them into the sleigh drove off,
flashing the horses into wild run. A
big crowd of people was on the street
but was held at bay by the revolvers of
the robbers. Several policemen came
hurrying upon the scene too late to APP
prehend the men. Some $4,000 or $1,000
worth of jewelry was stolen.
The Pinkerton detectives late Friday
night arrested the ".Jim Cummings" mix
ed up in the ST. Louis and San Francisco
express robbery, and two of his pals.
Cummings proves to be a Chicago thief
named Andrus. Oscar Cook has been
arrested at Kansas City, Mo-, and w. w.
Haight at Nashville, Tenn, for compiled
ty in the same robbery. Haight was
formerly express agent at LeavenwOrth,
and had gone into business at Nashville
as a building contractor. The captures
were all made by Pinkerton men, who
got one of their best clews from one of
the letters which "Cummings" wrote to
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.