Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
6eneral l1eps.
DOME STIC.


gines.
The Rev. Archibald Alexander Hodge,
ID. D., IL. D., professor of didactic ana
polemic theology at Princeton college,
died Friday.
The coroner's jury at Rio, Wis, has
found Brakeman c. a. Wells responsible
for the recent fatal accident there. Wells
has been arrested and held for trial.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
November 10 was 1888, IA, against S62S,-
III for the corresponding period of last
year.
In the United States circuit court at
Cincinnati, Thursday, the government
suit against the American Bell Telephone
company was dismissed for want of juris-
diction.
Three dynamite bombs and caps were
discovered on recent evening attached
to the springs of passenger car at Du-
bois, Penn. The intentions of some fiend
were frustrated.
Ht Law anu Clb'I lN"SNN w ~
Crosse, Wis, caused the arrest Sunday
of 20 vioators of the Sunday law, includ-
ing saloon keepers, BARRIERS, confection-
ers, livery-men and railroad men.
The four alleged bribers of the ''boodle"
aldermen of New York city Jacob Sharp,
James Richmond, James W. Foshay and
Thomas b. Kerr, have been arraigned
and pleaded guilty, and one of them is
now on trial.
4 company of soldiers have been or
dered to Caldwell. Kan, from Fort Reno
to keep prospectors out of the Indian
territory, The greatest excitement pre-
walls Thousands of claims have been
staked out in the territory below Cald-
well, where silver is believed to exist in
large quantities.
The craze for tobogganing promises to
rage higher than ever this season. Bur-
lington, this State. and Montreal will out
do all previous efforts; Orange, n. j..
will put up two slides in addition to those
used last year, and Albany and Saratoga
will 60 into the sport far more extensive
ly than hitherto.
Vincent de Mestre, a retired admiral of
the Spanish navy, who has frequented
New York for Is years, and is at present
a member of the Spanish legation in that
city, was arrested Monday charged by
Mile de Maynard, an opera singer, with
having robbed her of $3.50 which she
had handed him to get changed. He was
arraigned in the police court and his eX-
animation set for Saturday.
An interesting investigation of the po-
lice of Washington is going on. 1t is al
legged that a lieutenant issued an order
purporting to come from his superior Of
ticer, Major Walker, that the habits of
members of Congress be noted in order
to thus influence legislation. The lieu
tenant who is alleged TO have issued the
order is in the precint in which are near
ly all of the houses of ill-fame.
The body of Emma Pearson, "A young
Swede, was found Sunday half buried
under leaves hard by the road between
Hills Grove and Pontiac, about seven
miles from Providence, X. l. There is
evidence to show that the murder was
committed some distance from the road
and the place where the body was found,
and that "A hours or more after the body
was carried in the night time in a wagon
to the spot where found and half covered
by leaves to conceal it. The womans
l.
were plainly visible about the throat and
she was evidently strangled.
The national convention of United
Presbyterians who are opposed to instru-
mental music in the churches discussed
and adopted at Pittsburg, Pa, the other
day, a declaration against the use of the
organ in the church. The convention de-
clares: 1--WE hold it to be the cOnstitu-
tional right of any member of the church
to demand the exclusion of instruments
from the public worship of the church
But that claim we are willing to waive if
our brethren will unite with us, in ac-
cordance with the spirit and intent of the
act of the assembly of 1885 in the remov-
al, as soon as pracllcaDle, lor tle sake OF
peace and for conscience sake, this stumb-
ling block and cause of offense from the
worship of God"
Charles Baker well-to-do farmer of
Greenville, Tex, recently lost his wife
and became raving maniac. His ser
wants all fled for their lives and Baker
stalked about his plantation day by day,
shooting every live animal he could see.
Some neighbors tried to capture him the
other day. They surrounded the house
and three men ventured in. The maniac
retreated upstairs and opened fire, seri-
Ously wounding one man and driving the
others in a rush from the house. Baker
then tried to get out, but finding the
house guarded, rushed upstairs, and,