Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-11
DOMESTIC,

The public debt was decreased SS.S2O.-
56o during May.
The drouth in Texas has been broken
by plenty of rain.
The city of Albany. y. y. will cele-
brate its 2OOth anniversary. July 1923.
-Four thousand Pennsylvania coal min
erS abandoned a three months strike
Monday.
The fire loss in May for the United
States and Canada is less than the May
average for many years.
by the falling of a staging on the st.
Louis fair grounds. several W%ell-known
journalists were killed or injured on Mon
day.
Eight persons were smothered and
burned to death in a large frame house
III 'hlcl@o early Monday morning. 1t is
thought the fire was set.
Myriads of grasshoppers have appeared
suddenly in Milan county. Texas. They
are small. but their number has created
ii panic among the farmers.
Ross Warneck, a farmer in Walker
county. Ga.. while in delirium tremens.
Friday, cut his wife's throat with Il razor
and then beat his lO-years-old son almost
to death.
The jury in the case of Maxwell. who
has been on trial at st. Louis charged
with the murder of Preller. brought in a
verdict saturday morning of murder in
the first degree.
An unfounded report of the sudden
death of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
gained currency in Brooklyn on Saturday
morning. 1t was after | D.. IN. before the
rulnor was aScertained to be false. 1t
| mir ma tnl II, tI. ,A;.,,,1;-u a
gram.
The northward bound passenger train
ON the Northwestern railroad. which left
Charleston. :. G., Monday noon. plunged
through the Santee river t~restle. midway
between st. stephens station and >antee
river bridge. smashing up the coaches
and killing six passengers.
Mrs. Garfield. widow of the late Pre,i-
dent Garfield. i, defending IA suit now ON
trial at Cleveland. O.. brought by Thank
full Tanner. a notorious woman of the
town. to recover $4,000 for injuries al
legged by her to have been received from
being run oven by defendants carriage.
On May % Secretary of the Treasury
Manning rendered to the President "A
written resignation of hi, office. The
latter refused to accept the same and
suggested that the secretary accept leave
of absence until October |. This Secre-
tary Manning agreed to and on Friday
with his family started for Hot Springs.
Va. The correspondence i Just made
public.
An attempt wa made by the Rock Is
land road Friday forenoon to move four
cars loaded with nails made by the new
men at the Cummings nail works at Chi
cagu. A. several of the strikers from
the works have been e~nioined from inter-
fering with the working of the mills. a>
soon aS the news of the attempt became
known. the wives and daughters of the
strikers crowded on the tracks and pre-
vented the engines from hitching to the
: cars. They succeeded by these tactics in
delaying the train all day.
, The United States grand Jury at Seat
tie, W. T.. has found indictments against
ten leaders of the recent anti-Chinese
l riots in that city. The jury's report al
leges thar there exists throughout the
: country Il reasonable organization known
a the Red American International
Workingmen's association This asso-
citation. with all its branches. is essen
TALLY anarchical in theory and practice.
The main articles of its creed are arson,
robbery and murder. Its proclaimed
purpose is the overthrow of our govern
ment and the erection upon its ruins of II
n sO-called commonwealth. All the out
n RACES on Puget Sound. arising nominally
. from the agitation of the Chinese ques-
ton. were really fomented and produced
. by this infamous association, The scien-
titic socialists of the Red American Inter
1 national Workingmen's association are,
. as shown by unmiStakahle documentary
/ evidence. secretly instructing their de-
+ luded, ignorant and brutaliZed followers
d, in the means of practically applying
- dynamite: how to seize armories and
: military stores; how 10 prevent the de
= parture of troops from concentrating
points; to preserve order in centres of
n inSurrection: to impriSon and destroy
men of property and influence.