Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-28
DOMESTIC.

1t is announced that Theodore Thomas
will abandon his orchestra.
William Warren, the actor, died FRI
day morning in Boston.
The people of Southbury, Conn.,, are
excited over the discovery of a vein of
bituminous coal.
Chicago's inefficient postmaster has
been removed and General Newberrv has
been appointed to the place.
A bold fellow robbed two banks in
New York city the other day during
banking hours, but was finally captured.
Smallpox has broken out in East Buff
falo, n. Y, among the Poles, and is
spreading rapidly. Thirteen cases have
been reported, and an epidemic in the Po-
fish colony is feared.
Train robbers stopped a Southern Pa
cific train in Texas Saturday night, but
failed to get any booty on account of the
presence of detectives on the train. A
desperate fight ensued, and the robbers
fled after wounding the engineer.
\ two-year-old c%himpanzee was landed
at New York last week by some animal
importers. and will probably replace the
lamented Crowley at the Central park
menagerie. He was captured in Liberia
and has been named Phelim O'Toole. He
is said to be handsomer than Crowley
was, and his features are more human.
The friends of Chief Justice Melville
w. Fuller gave him a banquet at the
Palmer House at Chicago Monday night.
There were nearly 400 guests present, in
GLIDING Judge Gresham, Robert I. Lin
coin, ex-senator Lyman Trumbull, Gen.
George w. Crook, Joseph Medill, Mar
shall Field, Judge Allen and others of
note.
a dispatch from Wichita, Kan, says
that the baby of William Beattie, a farm
er, who lives on the banks of the Cimma-
ron river, north of the territory line, was
carried off by an eagle Saturday. Mr..
Beattie, with a party of neighbors, went
in search of the bird, which they found
and killed. The baby was dead, the
body being horribly lacerated.
A prize-fight took place at Grand Forks,
OAK, Friday night between Barrett and
George Fulljames. champion lightweight
of Manitoba. Barrett had the best of the
fight from the start, and punished his
opponent so badly that he was rendered
rnanncaio,S apI l;nI C,,,lo- axar;rr
Barrett is in Jail and witnesses will
be arrested.
James f. Bedell, a real estate clerk for
the law firm Of Shipman, Barlow, Lo-
ROGUE & Choate of New York, has sue
ceeded in s%windling his employers of
s264, 800. Bedell was a trusted employee,
in full charge of the firms large real es-
tate business. He forged bonds, mort
cages, registers, seal and all, took the
money himself and paid the interest IN
the false mortgages as they fell due.
The swindling was discovered by acct
dent.
AS Forepaugh's show was unloading
at Dubois, Pa, Tuesday, John Peggy, an
elephant trainer of Salem, n. j., was at
tackled by the elephant ''Tip" and killed.
Peggy was trying to get the beast out Of
the car, but it had been angered by men
and boys teasing it and feeding it apples
which contained tobacco and pepper. 1t
struck him with its trunk, gored him with
its tusks and trampled on him. The 9TH
err elephants grew angry and tore up an
other cage and struck two other men, but
they were not severely injured.
A San Antonio CTex.) dispatch says
that a noted desperate known as the
A" lone highwayman," who had robbed
many a stage coach single handed, was
killed by Mrs. Lizzie Hays in Bandero
county, Tex, a week ago. He appeared
suddenly at the house, masked, when
Mrs. Hays ordered him to leave or she
would shoot him. He defied her, where
upon she shot him with a rifle, and though
he managed to Mount his horse and ride
off he was afterward found dead. Mrs.
Hays received IN ugly cut across the fore
head with a knife during the fight.