Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-27
DOMESTIC.

ne DemOcraulc indlorlty III boulsldnd
is now placed at $4,000.
A club of 1000 uniformed Blaine men
will 90 to Chicago from Kansas City.
1t is said that the value of the estate
left by the late Roscoe Conkling is about
S250,000.
A very severe rain and hail storm pre-
vailed Monday at Mobile and vicinity, do
ing much damage.
South Carolina and Georgia Republic
cans are favorable to the nomination of
Senator Sherman.
W. Irving Bishop, the noted mind read
er, is now an inmate of private asylum
at San Francisco.
There was S250,000 fire at Winona,
Mimi, and 100000 blaze at Eau Claire,
Wis, on Saturday.
Brigadier General Dwight died in Bos-
on on Saturday. He was distinguish
ed officer in the late war.
Chung Sing, Chinaman, was received
into membership in the Emmanuel Baptist
church of Chicago Sunday evening.
The Chicago bakers went out on
trike Sunday morning, and at night had
Induced the bosses to comply with their
demands.
Max Strakosch, the impressario, is SER
ously i'll in New York. His lower limbs
re paralyzed and general paralysis is
threatened.
A dispatch from Utica says that the
Canadian Pacific railroad has secured a
harter to connect with the Rome, Wa
ertown and Ogdensburgh road at Masse-
a Springs, st. Lawrence county.
kilograms from fifteen of the most i'm
|ortant points in Delaware in regard to
he condition of the peach buds give ev
ry indication of an unusually large crop
his year. The trees so far are almost
ntirely uninjured.
The New York State senate has passed
Y a vote of Is Republicans to 10 Demo-
rats, the prohibition amendment already
assed by the assembly. 1t must now
ait to pass the legislature of 1890 before
is submitted to popular vote.
Judge Patterson at New York, Mon
lay, denied the application of Thomas
Kerr, for Il change of venue. Kerr
lands charged with bribery together
it'll Jacob Sharp, Foshay and Richmond
the Broadway surface railroad.
Six men and two boys left New York
a yacht some time ago in quest of
idden treasure at Belize, Central Amer
pa. They got no treasure, were ship
lecked on their return voyage, were
licked up and returned home penniless.
A dispatch from Winona, Mimi, says
he loss to the manufacturing interests
that city by the floods is estimated at
100000. The Minnesota Boom compa-
loses 10000 feet of logs, valued at
$4,000, making the loss to the lumber
terest alone $250,000.
Samuel Whitney, new arrival at
pringticld, Mo-, pious, wealthy and en-
hged to marry a handsome young wo-
an, has been arrested as William Spur
con, formerly a confidential clerk in
ivate banking house in Baltimore, who
nbezzled large sum of money and fled,
aving family behind him.
Louisville people think they have found
pit why Tate, the defaultng State treas
'er of Kentucky, is hiding so closely.
prgeries have recently been discovered,
ld as these are eXtraditable offenses,
ley believe he will conceal his wherea-
butts. Tate's defalcation, with all credits
ade. is now placed at Sl50,000.
Red Leary, the famous bank burglar,
ed at the hospital in New York Mon
~ from conclusion of the brain. He
hs struck with brick Saturday night
William Train, with whom he had
larrel. Leary took part in the famous
. orthampton (Mass.) bank burglary
(nuary 26, 1876, acting as the custodian
the stolen property.
Henry and John Hill, bachelor farmers,
dyed in jail at jamestown, KY, two
eeks ago for the murder of two peddlers
med Burton early in March, were
ought to trial Saturday. The principal
tness against them was Mary Smith,
cir former servant. Her story was
pported by the finding of the remains
two bodies in a cave near the Hill
rm-house. While she was telling on
stand how she had been compelled,
the peril of her life, to cut the throats
the peddlers while they were asleep at
employers house, and catch their
pod in bucket, the Burtons walked
TO the courtroom. The case was at
ce discontinued and the Hills dismiss
The remains found, upon close ex-
lination, proved to be parts of the car
Fses of two sheep.