Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-03

The value OF oil III tI1e event Oh Sc
re storm has been again illustrated in
e case of Maine schooner which ar
we'd at Jacksonville, Fla, on Sunday.
The city editor of the Knoxville, Tenn,
burnal was assaulted Sunday as he was
bout to enter church, and at once shot
5 assailant, inflicting fatal wound.
A New York hospital for crippled
lldren was saved from destruction and
ANY lives were saved Sunday evening
trough the presence of mind of two lit
girls.
Michael Kennedy of Philadelphia kicked
is wife in the stomach Saturday at sup
err time because she put too much butter
IN her bread, and she died the next MORN
big.
The Wisconsin supreme court has
hade a decision adverse to the woman
ufiragists, declaring that the law did
OF extend general suffrage to women,
Uniting it to school matters.
The kentucky State Senate on Tuesday
dopted, by vote of As to 26, resolu-
ION protesting against the passage by
congress of the Blair education bill and
bronouncng it an Ubiquitous measure.
The American Copyright League,
Which includes among its members the
uthors of America, has issued an address
skiing all good citizens who desire the
development of American literature to
id in securing international copyright.
A great fight for the many millions
eft BY Alexander Z. Stewart is about to
begin, says New York dispatch, which
continues: The onslaught will be made
by the combined natural heirs against
Henry Hilton, to whom the late Mrs.
Stewart gave the bulk of the estate, much
bf it before her death. The principal
parties are pushing their respective
shares of the work with energy, and ev-
brything points to sensational revelations
when the first suit to be tried-that of
Miss Rosalie Butler against the will of
Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart-comes up be-
fore Surrogate Ransom this month.
Sand-bagging and safe-bowing have
become so common in this city, this win
ter, says a Chicago dispatch, that per-
Sons whose business calls them out at
might go about heavily armed. Reports
BIN the police stations show that each d.
vision of the city is overrun with garro-
tiers and burglars. In the past seven
days 2S7 houses and stores were robbed,
|siX safes were blown open and seven men
have been sand-bagged. Three women
cinct and then hurled into vacant lots,
where they were picked up half dead
from the cold and their injuries.
A young man named Blakely has been
paying attention to Miss Annie Estes, 16.
of Wallace, Mo-. against the wish of her
parents. The couple attended church
together Sunday night. After the SER
vices they were met outside by Peter
L-tx . r,,1se Cot nd hnr
1S-year-old brother. A quarrel arose be-
William drew his pistol and shot Blakely
through the jaw. Blakely then drew his
weapon, but the old man shot him in the
forehead. William then completed the
butchery by stepping up to the PROSTATE
man and blowing half of his head Off
The father and son have been arrested
The girl has lost her reason since the
bloody affair.
Reading, Pa. contributes the follow
ing: Jacob Hollenberger, 10 years old,
while working in stove foundry in
Philadelphia two months ago, was in
jured by an explosion of molten iron.
The explosion killed one man, and a
quantity of the molten fluid flew into
young HOllenberger's mouth. The the
DRY of the physicians is that portion of
the molten iron slipped down his throat,
and in cooling closed up the passage lead
ing to his stomach, as since then it has
been impossible to give him any nourish-
ment except by injecting it in liquid
form. When in good health Hollenber-
ger weighed 40 pounds, but his weight
has now been reduced to 90 pounds.
When he arouses himself from the influ-
ence of the opiates which are given to
him, he constantly appeals piteOusly for
food. Every means have been tried to
remove the obstruction which shuts out
food from his stomach, but all have
failed, and ii is thought starvation will
finish its work in few days.
When the recent great storm swept
over Aurora county, OAK, Eric johnson,
farmer near Plankinton, says Mime
apolis dispatch. was watering his cattle
some distance from his buildings. He
became exhausted in his attempt to drive
his cattle home. Among the cattle was
a very large OK, which lay down to die
near where johnson was making his last
struggle for life in the snow. johnson,
in moment of inspiration, killed the OK,
disembowelled it, and crawled inside.
He was completely sheltered from the
storm, and passed the night in safety.
When morning dawned, however, and he
endeavored to crawl out, he was Mortified
to find that he was completely frozen in.
He had left his knife sticking in the car
cass outside. lie cried for assistance,
and it was not until % p. m. that his cries
were answered by party who were
searching for him. He was none the
worse for his experience, except that he
was cramped and sore.
Miss Annie Douglas, a graduate of
Vanderbilt university, who is known
throughout Tennessee as ''the oil queen
because of her large possessions of oil
property in the Spring Creek district, is
to be married Thursday night to the win
her of "A foot-race, says Nashville dis
patch. Miss Douglas is an orphan living
with her grandfather, James Douglas,
proprietor of the "Calf Miller farm" Ma
than Overman, neighbor, was sutton
for the hand of Miss Douglas, and he had
no opposition until two years ago, when
John Lane of Indiana, cousin of Mrs.
Hendricks, wife of the late vice-president,
came to the neighborhood. The rivalry
for the hand of the young woman became
intense. The eccentric grandfather who