Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-23

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Kelly of motor fame has gone to jail
rather than disclose the alleged secret of
his motor.
New Hampshire Christian Endeavor So
cieties held their annual meeting Thurs
day at Nashua.
The Cunarder Etruria, which arrived
at New York on Sunday, had one of the
toughest passages in her history.
The statue of the late William II. Sc
ward was unveiled at Auburn Friday.
Senator Evarts made the address.
This years mackerel catch by the Glou-
cester fleet is the smallest for fifty years.
1t was less than half that of last season.
The order to shut down Simultaneous
ly the flour mills in the Northwest sug-
gests the possibility of the formation of a
flour trust.
Stephen Anthony, a respected citizen
of Wallingford, Conn.,, was murdered
Friday evening by his worthless son-in-
law, Scion G. jenkins.
The bank of Durham, at Durham,
North Carolina, has suspended, and has
carried down several large concerns. The
liabilities will foot up S7lS,000.
The suit of the Catholics of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, to prevent the reading of the Prot
estant Bible in the public schools has
been decided against them by Judge Ben
nett.
Master Workman Powderly, in his an
nual report says the past year has been
the most discouraging in the nineteen
years of the existence of the Knights of
Labor.
Miss Mehitable White, Ga years old,
who lived on large farm in North Brain
tree, Mass, was murdered Saturday
evening. The only person on the premi-
SEES was farm hand, who has disappear
ed, and is suspected of the crime.
Judge Blodgett of Chicago has denied
the petition of the American Cushman
Telephone company for rehearing of its
case against the American Bell Telephone
United States Supreme court on appeal.
Patrick Durkin of Erie, Pa, had both
eyes burned out and his face horribly
disfigured Monday evening, by his wife
dashing a teacupful of vitrol in his face
at the tea table. Mrs. Durkin is thought
to be insane. Durkin will probably die.
The Irish-American protectionists cele-
brated the Republican victory at New
York Monday night. Patrick Ford pre-
sided, and ex-Gov. Alger of Michigan,
Patrick Egan, Edward O'Meagher Con-
don, David Healy and others took part
in the jubiations.
George w. Lesser of Pottsville, Pa,
who has been in attendance at the Gin
cinnati exposition with an exhibit of soap,
received $4,000 in money Saturday too
late to deposit in a bank. He carried it
on his person. and during the night exhi-
bited it at drinking place. Some time
after midnight he was sandbagged and
robbed of $500.
A boiler exploded at the Boston-Mon-
tana consolidated works at Meadville,
Mont, Monday afternoon, killing NJ. G..
. Edmunds, engineer, %. w. Conner, car
penter, Jack kramel, pipe filter, Henry
Winters, laborer, and fatally injuring
Richard Wing, machinist, George Heck
man, pipe filter, John Eustis. carpenter,
and Foreman Hank Pickering.
Mrs. Daniels of 103 Sands street,
Brooklyn, thought she heard noise in
the upper part of her house Monday
night, and went up to see who was
there. She found young man who had
admitted himself with falpe keys, and
grabbed him. He wriggled and tried &c
twist himself from her grasp, but she
held him while her daughter ran out anG
brought an officer from the I'd precinct
station-house.
A dispatch from Bismarck, OAK, say
the Indians on the Sioux reservation ar,
now becoming anxious to form the &C
quaintance of Gen. Harrison. They re
alize that he will soon become the ''Grea
Father" and they want to meet him ant
present their claims regarding the pro
posed opening of the reservation. The.
want to visit him before he is inaugural
ed, and the agents will be greatly annoy
ed by their opportunities unless their re
quest is granted.
The famous Doris mansion at st. Louis
Mo-, was burned Monday morning. Tn
structure cost about 100000, but wa
not insured for more than one-fourth o
that amount. The mansion was erecte,
by the late Gen. Doris for a homestea
and remained in the possession of tn
family until the tragedy of six years age
when Russell Brown, grandson of Mrs
Gen. Doris, assisted by Pat McGlew,
Chicago bartender smothered his grand
mother to death in order to secure som
money and jewelry to continue debauct
e.