Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-19
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The population of Dakota is 64O,S23,
gain of 81 ,346 the past year.
The street car troubles in Chicago do
not appear to have been adjusted yet.
Another collision occurred Tuesday on
the Lehigh Valley railway by which six
persons were killed and twenty-six
wounded.
The United States court at San Fran
cisco has sustained the constitutionality
of the Chinese exclusion act recently
passed by Congress.
Twenty-three members of the New
York Stock exchange who voted for
Cleveland four years ago will vote next
month for Harrison and Morton.
Fields, the outgoing treasurer OF Wau-
bansee county, Kan, was arrested Tues
day by the county commission, 1t hav-
ing been discovered that he is defaulter
in the sum of 500, 900.
The ninth annual report of the Indian
government training school in Carlisle,
Pa, shows that there are 637 Indian boys
and girls at the school, the Apache Indi-
dams constituting the largest element OF
any one tribe. The school is flourishing'
Rabbi NJ. Strauss, about 50, late of
Cincinnati, shot himself dead in Central
park, New York, Monday. Letters adj
dressed to his son Henry in Cincinnati,
found on his body, told of the writer's
unavailing struggle to gain livelihood
in his old age.
John II. Knapp, president of the great
lumber firm of Knapp, Stout & Co., died
at Menominee, Wis, Sunday of cancer
of the face. He had been ~ years the
head of the most prosperous lumber con-
Germ in the Northwest, having accumu-
lated capital of many millions of dol
lars.
DIR. Alfred Williams, colored, pastor of
Antioch colored church in Edgewood,
Ga, formed cooperative store among his
parishioners and acted as storekeeper.
Discussions arose and the store was put
i'm the hands of receivers. Friday the
preacher was found in the woods with
100 buckshot wounds in his body, inflict-
ed by members of his congregation. He
will die.
The grand jury at Rawlins, Wyoming,
has found twenty-one indictments against
freight conductors and brakemen of the
Union Pacific railroad, for robbing the
trains of valuable merchandise in transit
between San Francisco and eastern cities
Thousands of dollars worth of valuables
are missing. Four prominent business
men are involved.
Before navigation closes on Lake Su
perior it is estimated that 100000 tons
of freight will have been carried through
the Sault Ste. Marie canal during this sea
son. 1t is testimated that the tota
freight movement is equivalent to thu
transportation of 5000, 100000 tons ont
mile. Last year the entire freigh
business of all the railroads in New
England was equal to the transportation
one mile of Z, 141 ,5SS,OS0 tons.
At Donaldson, Pa. while Mrs. William
Morgan was sitting in her dining room
nursing her infant her siX-year-old sol
picked up shotgun, just laid down b.
his grandfather, and discharged it in tn
direction of his mother. The entir
charge entered the head, face, breast an
shoulders of the unfortunate woman an
the back and head of the infant Neitl
err is yet dead, but little hope is enter
tanned for their recovery.
Mung Koow, a Chinese merchant c
Montreal, was prevented from visitin
New York on business during the wee
under the new American Chinese excl
sion act. Mr.. Koow is naturalize
British subject, but when he applied {
the United States custom-house he wa
told that he could not cross the boundar
as the exclusion act covered his case.
the meantime his business was sufferin,
Mung Koow expresses his intention
testing the matter in the courts, if sue
can be done.