Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-28

anted to marry, but the girls parents
biected and they agreed to die together.
alderman Jaehne of New York, convict
of receiving a bride, has been SEN
need to nine years and ten months i'll
ng-Sing prison and was taken there
'iday. He was set to work in the laurl-
~.
Governor Hill of New York has signed
r. Platt's bill permitting women to
'actise law and Miss Stoneman. sister
GOV. Stoneman of California, has been
knitted to practice in the courts. She
las the chief mover in securing the pas
ge of the law.
The business failures for the week end
Friday numbered for the United
ates IA and for Canada 20, or a total
167 as compared with a total of 116
e previous week. Business casualties
EN- to be steadily declining throughout
e country.
John Darby, a young burglar, who has
bbed several cottages at Highlands,
avesnli, Elberon and Long Branch, n.
and who pleaded guilty to nine indict-
ents was sentenced Monday at Free
bld, n. j., to ten years hard labor in
ate-prison on each indictment.
At the annual meeting of the corpora
bn of Yale college. Thursday, President
brter's letter of resignation was received
id Prof. Timothy Dwight, professor of
cred Literature in Yale divinity school,
as unanimously elected president. Prof
wight accepts. He is a grandson of the
notify Dwight who was president of
ale from 1895 to 1917.
The Chicago police found Sunday I'M
+ the sidewalk on Robey street 81 see
pms of gas-pipe. several inches in length.
hded with dynamite and with fuse at
ched. There were also found two box
of dynamite caps and large quantity
fuse. The stuff is believed to have
ZEN placed where found by some one
lo feared search by the police of their
fuses.
DR.. Chichester \. Bell, cousin of Prof.
eXander Graham Bell, claims to have
hde wonderful discovery, by means of
hich sound waves. which cause vibra-
bns in IA fluid jet, can be photographed
d accurately reproduced by the aid of
nicrophone. This rival of the phono-
aph. Prof. Bell says, is of more impor-
hce and of greater prospective practi-
value than even his own invention of
e telephone. The report of the things
tually accomplished by this invention
marvellous.
Mrs. Margaret Donnan, a widow of
ncoln county, West Virginia, became
sane from religious fanaticism and said
at she had been called upon by the
)rd to sacrifice the lives of herself and
+ three children to satisfy the divine
rath. Early on a recent evening she
rev herself upon her knees and spent
veral hours in wild rawlings. She then
ose. and. arming herself with a large,
arp carving knife, made her way to the
ON occupied by her three daughters,
ed r. 10 and $ years. The woman cut
e throat of each child and plunged the
eking blade deep into her own heart.
Gen. John \. Logan was the guest of
e young mems Republican club of
'ovidence, X. l., Friday night, and 800
en- sat down to IA banquet in his honor.
an. Logan addressed $500 people at
usic hall later in the evening. He re-
,wed the history of the Democratic
rty through the years before the war.
e results of free trade in well-nigh ruin
= the industries of the country, the log
II outcome of the States rights doc
ne. and the effect of slavery in the
uth and its influence on the northern
.mocrats. He compared these teach
gs of the Democratic party with the
,chings of the Republican party. in
wing and uniting the country, and III
scuing it from bankruptcy and its in
>trieS from ruin.