Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15

he possessed no property, had no income
and was supported by his wife's income,
upon property derived principally from
himself over 10 years ago. Since the
appointment of receiver for his estate
he had not specuated in securities or
commodities.
Sixteen penitentiary convicts employed
in the mines at Coal Hill, Ark, escaped
the other day after tunneling 35 feet.
The work was begun at the time of the
strike three weeks ago. a search was
made through the mines to find the pas
sage, but the convicts had so ef1ectually
closed it behind them that not a trace of
it is left. Only two have been recap
tured.
Senator Dawes of Massachusetts has
introduced postal telegraph bill which
provides for the establishment of tele-
graph offices in all post offices and for the
transmission of kilograms by contract
with existing lines. Rates are fixed at
% cents for 800 miles and five cents add-
tional for every additional $50 miles for
20word messages, provided that no rate
shall exceed IS cents.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Wednesday after
noon, a terrific explosion occurred in the
boiler room of st. Mary's Catholic church.
a moment later the flames were emerging
from the debris of the wrecked church.
The fire department succeeded after hours
of work in quenchng the flames. The
church, which was one of the largest and
finest in the city, is complete wreck,
and the loss will not be less than $4,000.
The report of the explosion shook the
windows in the buildings for mile
around. The air was filed with flying
bricks, stones and other portions of the
building.
The much-trumpeted Lawrence-Town-
ley estate in England which has led hun
dreds of claimants in this country on Il
will-o'-the- wisp chase, is resolved into its
component invisible parts by a commu-
nication from the American legation at
London, just received by the attorney Of
a group of claimants about Fon du Lac,
Wis. The communication states in brief
that there is no money in the bank of
England belonging to the "Lawrence-
Townley'' or the "Townley" estate, or to
any claimants under either; that there is
no such estate in England as the claw
rence-Townley estate. nor any known
family of that designation; that the
"Townlcy estate is large landed prop
erty in the counties of Lancaster and
York, which is now, and has been for a
very long time, in the possession of its
proprietorS. the possession completely
protected by the law of England; that
there are no unknown or American own
ers of any part of it, and no ground
whatever for any such claim.
The weather of the past week has been
. exceptionally severe all over the country,
, but especially in the South and West.
Dispatches from towns throughout East
Tennessee, North Georgia and North AL
ALBANIA say that Sunday night was the
coolest ever known. In Florida the Their
mometer went down to an extent indi-
eating that the orange groves are seri-
= ously damaged. y Galveston (TeN.)
1 dispatch of Tuesday says: The weather
here and throughout Texas continues
, raw and cold. Reports from the interior
f indicate that the loss of stock will prove
| far greater than was at first supposed.
t Another victim of Fridays blizzard was
found to-day off Bolivar Point in his lit
= tie sloOp frozen to death. The body was
identified as that of Henry Dodge, Il
hunter by occupation. When the body
was discovered it was incased in a solid
sheet of ice several inches in thickness.
This makes the fonrth person frozen to
death in Galveston Bay" Trains were
snOw-bound on all the Western roads
Sunday and Monday morning.