Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-23
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ArDOr uay Ill MaSSacnuSells CoHles oh
the same day as in Vermont-24th.
After May the cable rates to Great
Britain, France or Germany will be Il
cents per word.
Some portions of the South were visit
ed on Saturday by destructive wind,
hail and rain storm.
Squire White, the last of the cOnspira-
tors in the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island,
died last Friday aged SO.
The North, Central and South Ameri-
can exposition at New Orleans has been
placed in the hands of receivers.
Governor Hill of New York has signed
the bill making II hours days work on
all horse railroads in New York State.
Seventeen New York aldermen have
been arrested for bribery in connection
with the Broadway surface railroad
scheme.
The Hon. John BigelOw reports to the
New York chamber of commerce that
the completion of the Panama canal
is problematical.
The mania for striking has attacked
the public schools of St. Louis, and a
general demand on the part of the pupils
for shorter hours, it is expected, will
soon be made.
Five thousand Democratic citizens of
Louisville on Saturday night adopted
resolutions denouncing the President for
appointing a Republican to the local
postmastership.
1t is announced that j. Z. Robinson,
cashier of the First National bank of
Angelica, y. Y, has gone to Canada for
his health. 1t is also announced that the
bank has closed its doors.
1t is now believed that the schooner
which sunk the Oregon was the Charles
II. Morse, built at Bath Me-, in 1880. She
had nine men on board. all of whom are
supposed to have persisted.
Mayer & Co., large furniture manufac-
turers of Chicago, employing about three
hundred hands, have closed their estab-
lishment rather than pay an advance of
20 per cent. demand by the employees.
His physicians say that Secretary Man
ming is certain to recover. His friends
now say that there will be no necessity
for his retirement from the treasury. and
that the President more than ever insists
that, if it is possible, he shall remain.
Allan j. Adams, who murdered his
employer, Moses Dickinson, at Amherst
ten years ago, was hung Friday at
Northampton, Mass. He cursed and
swore at everybody and everything from
the time he awoke till he was hung, five
hours later.
The total number killed by the cyclone
at st. Cloud and Sank Rapids, Mimi, is
a, and the wounded number 2l4. The
loss property in st. Cloud is estimated
at SO, 900, and in Sank Rapids at $3.50, 600.
The wreckage on the railroad is estimated
at $4,000.
Oak Hill church, near McDade, Tex,
was burned recently, apparently by an
ncendiary. n man named Christian was
arrested for the ofiense, tried and acquit-
ted. Saturday night, while going home
in company with his wife, Christian was
met by mob and riddlcd with bullets.
The waters of mountain reservoir
above the manufacturing village of East
Lee, Mass, burst through their dam in
the early morning of Tuesday, and rushed
down narrow valley, sweeping before
them dwellings with their occupants,
mills with their dams, and tearing out
the highways and gardens, until they
reached the broad meadows of the Hous-
atomic. Seven lives We're lost and the
damages to property are reckoned at not
less than 100000.