Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-06
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Nearly 100000 ironworkers of the
Pittsburg iron region are locked out.
A Republican ratification meeting at
Lincoln, Neb., Thursday night, attracted
about $4,000 people.
Hon. Levi z. Morton passed through
Poughkeepsie Monday and was given an
enthusiastic reception.
Thirty Pennsylvania miners had mar
row escape Tuesday from terrible death
by the cavng in of a slope.
A Chicago woman confesses that she
deliberately poured kerosene over her
husband, set it on fire and burned him to
DEATH
Yale administered severe defeat to
Harvard Friday at the New London
races, leading the Cambridge crew by 21A
lengths.
Mrs. Sarah j. Robinson, convicted of
poisoning her brother-in-law, Prince
Freeman, was at Boston last week SEN
fenced to be hanged on Nov. 49,
The end of national sensation was
reached Tuesday when the celebrated
criminal libel case of Postmaster Gener-
al Villas against VIM. Welch of Mime
apolis was discontinued.
The rate on dressed beef from Chicago
to New York fell to % cents per humid
red Tuesday, the lowest rate ever made
by any railway. On Boston business the
26b cent RATE was maintained
There was big Republican ratification
meeting Friday night in the New York
Metropolitan opera house. Speeches
were made by Congressman Horn of
Michigan, Col. Ingersoll and Hon. War
ner Miller.
Some curiosity is manifested to see the
, outcome of the charges which have been
| preferred against an official in the Chica-
go post office, who has violated the civil
service law by taking an active part in
the st. Louis convention.
About thirty Buffalo septuagenarians,
: who voted for William Henry Harrison
: for President in 1910, have formed vet
Grams Republican campaign club and
elected the Hon. Lewis F. Alien, uncle of
President Cleveland, as president.
= Capt. Sampson, superintendent of the
enaval academy, has ordered the United
, States ship Constellation back to Annap-
oils from New London, Conn, to investi-
t gate charges of hazing on board of the
ship. Sixteen cadets are implicated in
t the hazing.
: While some boys were riding from Cen
terville to Meadvile, Mont, on fiat cars,
Sunday, the cars flew the track, rolling
down a mountain side, instantly killing
James Henry Burns, ID, and Joseph
=, Green, II. Two brakemen had their
. arms broken.
The Illinois Stats Zeitung, the leading
German newspaper of the West, announ-
: ces that in the coming campaign it will
= support neither Cleveland nor Harrison.
5 The editor says he does not like the DEM
: ocratlc tariff plank, but cannot support
X Harrison on account of the free whiskey
+ plank in the Republican platform.
The Sutton mills in North Adams
Mass, manufacturing woolens, shut
down Friday noon for an indefinite peri
u cd and over 100 operatives are out. The
" mill could not make money under the
present state of the wool market unless
u the operatives submitted to heavy GU
10 down. This the weavers refused and thu
II mills shut down.
The duke of Marlborough and Mrs
Lily Hamersley were married in the city
hall at New York Friday afternoon b!
: Mayor Hewitt. The brides maiden nam'
was Price, and she was born in Troy
:, Ny. She is a handsome blonde. Mr.
= Hamersley, who died about FIVE year
ago, left her fortune of S6,0OO,OOO
The duke has an income of about $780,
& year. He was divorced from his frs
TT wife some years ago.
Ralph Wallace, young sailor of Mill
" bridge, Me-, returned from sea voyag
III on Saturday to find that his sweethear
III had been receiving the attentions OF al
other and refused to receive any furthe
- dllclltlOnS lIonl iiiul. iiV oeS"''~ ''N'
o. ly Jealous and Monday afternoon sough
X an interview with her and asked her [
marry him. She refused and he drew
elk revolver and shot himself through tn
ut heart, dying instantly.
on People at New Haven, Ct, are int
ested over a scandal in aristocratic circl'
ed involving Jonathan Ingersoll, clerk
an the superior court, and Alice A. TroV
ill bridge, wife of Col. Rutherford Trov
vn bridge, and daughter of John c. Ande