Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17
General o1ens.
DOM STIC.

DOMESTIC.
Three hundred Bath, Me-. shipbuilders
are on a strike against reduction of
wages.
\ Kansas sheriff contiscated 5000
bottles of lager and emptied it into the
river, to the disgust of lot of thirsty
/ Germans.
The navy department at Washington
has sent out advertisements calling for
bids for "A variety of work entering into
the construction of a new navy.
The Mayhower easily defeated the
Galatea on Saturday in the second of the
cup races. and thus successfully defend
ed the emblem of yachting superiority.
The Associated Press has made the re-
porters of the Charleston News and
Courier a present of $500 in token of
their fidelity to duty during the earth
quake period.
Hog cholera has extended all over
Adams county, Ind. and the animals are
dying by hundreds. 1t is estimated that
100000 worth of hogs have persisted in
the last two weeks.
\ switch was tempered with by
scoundrels unknown at Westfeld, Mass.
on Saturday night, and Engineer George
f. Baldwin lost his life in consequence OF
the wrecking of an excursion train which
resulted.
EX-Alderman Jaehne of New York
will probably finish his sentence in prs-
on, for his old confidential clerk has re.
turned from Canada and has told Detec.
tive Byrne all he knows about Jaehne',
methods as fence
\ disease resembling dysentery anC
ending in the cases of children in spina
meningitis and death is causing panic
at Avena, Ill. The schools have beer
closed and all public meetings abandon
ed. Several deaths have occurred.
A cyclone passed from southwest t.
northeast through the edge of Burnside
four miles east of Hartford, Ct. on sun
day. Its course was fortunately mostly
through woods, where it cut a straight
lane reported an eighth of "A mile wide.
The business failures for the week end
ed Friday were for the United States II!
and for Canana 20. or total of lis. "a
compared with 100 the week previous t,
that. Casualties are few in every sec
ton of the United States. but in Canad;
they keep fully up to the average.
\ wildcat" train on the Delaware ant
Hudson Canal railroad crashed into
mixed train at Smiths station nea
Whitehall, n. y, Friday evening. TIN
rear passenger coach, one freight car ant
, depot were burned and the wildcat en-
CINE badly injured. No one was hurt.
= About five acres caved in Monda,
morning at the Delaware and Hudson
Canal company's Marvine-shaft collier.
l at Scranton, Pa, and from six to min
persons are supposed to have been burie,
John Shafer, an elderly man, was proba
bly, fatally hurt, and number of other
! were cut and bruised by falling rock a
they fled up the stope.
9 Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm
I has fined five national banks 500 eac
q for failure to return reports of their con
p ditiOn within the time specified by law
r Upon examination the comptroller ha
+ found that 40 banks have been direleC
: in forwarding reports in answer to tn
: last four calls issued by the department
: The comptroller says that although tn
fine is severe, he is compelled to use it i
the worst cases in order to guard agains
n delay in the preparation of his annual IT
= port to congress.
f A young woman from Chicago made
/ long fight for the privilege of KILN
4 herself at Temmock, a station little on
k of Chicago, the other night, and finall
: succeeded. She threw herself in front {
: one train and was dragged away, and di
e the same thing with the same result La
# er. Then she hid herself by the road an
il when, after three or four hours of wal
d ing and watching in the middle of tn
e night a train at last came along, she fun