Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
DOMESTIC.


The New York Republican State con-
vention will meet at Saratoga August %.
1t is reported that the rival cable lines
have agreed to advance rates to 25 cents
per word.
Gen. Harrison received 300 commercial
travellers on Saturday night, making them
felicitous address.
1t is intimated that general strike of
locomotive engineers and firemen is i'm
minent at the West
A severe storm prevailed Monday night
from Parkersburg, West Virginia, west
to Kansas City, doing much damage.
A terrific cyclone in Iowa on the 4th
destroyed great deal of properly, the
farmers especially suffering heavy losses.
Kansas and California politicians are
opposing free" sugar. This is due to
the sorghum interests in Kansas and the
beet sugar interests in California.
Two members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers were arrested in
Chicago Thursday on suspicion that they
proposed to blow up and destroy with
dynamite the property of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad compa-
ny.
The United States steamer Swatara ar
rived at the Brooklyn navy yard from
Nonquitt Tuesday. The gossip aboard
is, that though General Sheridan is COM
paratively comfortable in his new quar-
tiers. he can be expected to live but a
short time.
Walt Whitman, the poet, is slowly dy-
ing at his home in Camden, n. j.. of pro-
gressive paralysis. His physicians say
that if he does not rally soon and gain
strength he will sink beyond human aid,
and his death then is only question of
a short time.
The government steamer Swatara with
Gen. Sheridan on board arrived at Nom
quit, Mass, Sunday, and few hours
later he was taken ashore. His condition
continues to improve. The new house
which has been erected at Nonquitt for
Gen. Sheridan is not quite finished. 1t
will be the handsomest cottage in the set
Element.
The two grown daughters of Jacob
Nye. a well-to-do farmer, living near
Princeton, H., have been adiudged in
sane and will be sent to Jacksonville for
treatment. The father and mother and
another daughter are also insane. The
family of five were all stricken with this
strange malay on the same day, and
physicians are unable to account for the
cause.
General Master Workman Powderly has
written letter for this weeks Journal of
United Labor, in which he calls attention
to the alleged corner in coffee, and adj
vises abstention from the use of coffee
until the ''corner" is broken. His letter
concludes as follows: boycott coffee.
Do not buy an ounce until this reign of
plumber is at an end. Go to your gro
Ger, tell him'not to invest in pound, ask
him to watch for the turn of the tide
in New York and when you do invest in
coffee again, have the article analysed to
see If it has not been tempered with and
adulterated Then trace the 'adulteration
until you find it, and you may be sure
YOU will trace it to the action taken in the
coffee exchange of New York
A Springfield, Mass, dispatch says; A
Polander and his wife who stayed in the
police station last night told story
which shows startling state of affairs
i'm some western counties of this State.
They landed at Castle Garden, three
months since, and were met by soft
spoken man who offered the man $40
month and his wife IS, besides their
board, to work in the country. The man
was an agent of Charles Parsons of
Northampton. The Polanders were re-
quired to sign contract for three months
at $40. payment at the end of the time,
with deduction for necessaries purchased
and with the understanding that forfeit
ure of wages would follow nonfulfllment
of contract. On the people thus engaged