Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-26

or some other near relation. This is en-
barrassing, and so he has determined to
keep out of the way.
News has reached Louisville of a ter
rible outrage in Menifee county, Ky. \
few days after the congressional election,
says a Louisville Post special, it became
known that Rev. Louis Hughes, an aged
and respected citizen, had voted the Re-
publican'ticket, which was the first he had
ever east with the party. y crowd of
regulators went to his house and, al
though he was in bed sick, tied him and
beat him with sticks, breaking his jaw
bone and fracturing his skull. sam
Pofiett one of the gang, has been ares
ted.
\ tall. slender lad who gave his name
as Henry Blakesley of Pittsburg, Pa, Il,
walked into New York police station,
the other night, and said he was thief,
and gave an account of his many steal
ings. He wanted to reform. The police
on investigation found that his story was
true, but, as no one cared to prosecute
him, he was turned over to Surrogate
i Rollins to be placed on the receiving-ship
| Minnesota. According to the boys
story, he belongs to good family, in
herited $1,000 on his fathers death, but
was expelled from school and driven from
| home by his step-father on account of
his thcfts.
Last weeks storm on Lake Superior
was the fierccst for years. At Marquette
the lake was dashed into Il sea of foam by
the terrible force of the wind and sea
after sea rolled completely over the
brcakwater producing Il tremendous cur
rent and undcrtow in the halbor. YES
sells at the docks snapped their heavy
lines like threads and We're soon cOmpcll-
ed to 90 out and lie at anchor. The
breallwater harbor light was torn from
its heavy timber fastcnings and washed
into the sea. The tower was lifted by an
immense wave and hurled top first into
the rolling-mill. Many lives were lost
and Il great amount of property destroyed.
Secretary of the Interior Lamar adj
vises, in Il matter of l5l entries made in
Humboldt. CAL, under the timber land
act on which patents have been issued,
that suits be instituted to vacate the pat
entS. This action is the result of an III
vestigation upon which the department
holds that the entries were fraudulently
made in the interest of IA Scotch corpora
ton organized to obtain control of all
the valuable redwood timber lands in
that country. and that the foreign cor
poration was aided in the work by IL firm
in California and by men employed by
that firm The secretary in his letter
to the encouragement charactcrzce the
scheme by which the patents We're ob-
tanned as an extensive conspiracy cul-
minating in mOnstrOus fraud.
The report of the postmaster-gcncral
shows that the revenues of the department
for the past year amounted to S43,94S,S1l,
and the expenditure to $50. SO. $40. leav-
ing cash deficit of not quite S7,00O,0 600.
On account of the supreme court decision
in the case of the Pacific railroads, this is
increased to S.254 900. The actual APP
preparation by Congress was sol, $4,000,
SO that the expense came within the APP
preparation by over S3,00O.OOO. The loss
of revenue from the reduction of letter
postage to two cents has now been fully
met and there will be steady growth
hereafter. The appropriation for the cur
rent year is S54.3G5. OOO. from which the
department hopes to save 81 100000. The
revenue for lSS7 is estimated at S50.Gl2,-
600, and the expenditure at 500 ,342 900.
A limited express train on the Pan
Handle railroad, consisting of several
mail and baggage cars and three Pull
man coaches in the rear, was moving
slowly along the base of Mt. Washing
ton on the south bank of the Mononga-
hela river. one mile out from Pittsburg.
Pa, at 6 80 o'clock on a recent morning.
when great mass of earth. looSencd on
the mOuntainsde by the rains, came
crashing down upon the three rear cars.
\ ton of earth struck the first sleeper,
crushed in the top near the center and
filled the interior with rocks and dirt
Only a few passengers We're in this car
The other sleeperS were filled with dirt
and rocks and half dozen persons were
hurt, some of them seriously. The rains
had loosened the soil on the side of the
mountain.
FOREIGN.