Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-22
General l1eps.
DOMESTIC.

Il lIc ucslIONeu lJuDOlS, Ia. MONDAY.
rendering 1000 people homeless.
Danbury. Conn. was visited by very
serious fire Monday afternoon, entailing
loss of 1925, 900.
Gen. Sheridan's condition is much i'm
proved, presenting Il marked contrast
with that of week ago.
Mrs. Whiteling of Philadelphia now
c0hfesses that she poisoned her husband
as well as her two children.
General and Madame Diss Debar of
New York were Monday morning SEN
fenced to six months each.
a Northern Pacific train was stopped
by highwaymen in Montana on Saturday
and the cars and passengers robbed.
The Virginia Midland train ran off the
track on Saturday near Alexandria. Va,
resulting in the death of four and the
injury of several.
Near Natchez, Miss, on Sunday the
body of Washington Ives, colored, was
found hanging to a tree. The lynched
man had assaulted young lady.
Brainerd and Atkins, Mimi, dispatch
es report the upper Mississippi higher
than ever before known and still rising.
Many settlers in lowlands have been driv-
ell from their homes.
young woman named Cargie, who
resided with her mother in New York,
either fell or jumped from the roof of her
house Sunday morning and was killed.
They formerly lived in Virginia in afilu-
ent circumstances.
Richard Alberger was arrested in Phil
adelphia ON Saturday charged with at
tempting to poison his wife. The motive
is said to have been desire to secure
$50 insurance money which was placed
on Mrs. Aiberger'S life.
Near Pontiac, Mich. Calvin Young and
Levi Allen, farmers, quarrelled over the
digging of ditch and Young knocked
Aliens brains out with the edge of spade
which he was using, and then continued
digging. while his victim lay in the throes
of death. Young was arrested.
a dispatch from st. Paul says: AZ
ter very late spring, summer has come
in the northwest with "A vengeance. 1t
has been hot for several days and Sunday
afternoon the mercury touched 96. Even
the nights are hot, the thermometer stand
ing at so Sunday night.
A collision occurred on Friday night
on Lake Michigan between the schooner
Willie Keller and the steamer Robert
Mills, in which the former was sent to
Tie DtttOIll. lie scHOOUtT was
with Il 900 bushels of corn. which will
prove IA total loss. The crew was saved.
Myriads of grasshoppers have appeared
in many parts OF southern Indiana, and
are devourng all vegetation as they go.
They destroy meadows first, then the
foliage of trees. and next corn, oats and
garden vegetables. Thousands of acres
of meadows have been devastated by
them.
Fred May, the well-known New York
about-town man, who horsewhipped
James Gordon Bennett several years ago,
was arrested Monday night for insulting
ladies on the street. He was Intoxicated
and pointed pistol at the policeman who
arrested him. The latter dubbed him
into submission, and it was found neces-
sary to send him to the Chambers street
hospital for surgical attention.
General Howard, commanding the
division of the Pacific. has formally OBJ
lccted to the system of monthly pay
ments in the army. recently adopted.
General Howard finds the new arrange
ment tends to increase the number of
desertions and decreases the amounts of
deposits of enlisted men. Secretary of
War Endicott says the new system will
not be discontinued until given fair
trial.