Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-04
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dead.
Gen. Grant. is dead at his home in Garth
age, Mo-, aged 70.
By an explosion of powder at Everson,
Pa, Sunday, seven Poles were badly in
jured, one fatally.
Another Mississippi steamer is lost.
This time it is the Natchez. She stuck
on reef and was beached.
A Dover On. H. policeman attempted
to arrest an insane man Monday, when
the lunatic shot the officer dead.
A train has crossed the new Pough-
keepie bridge over the Hudson river and
it will be opened for business this week.
The total receipts for customs in Bos-
ton the past year was 1921, l66, 2l2.3l, a.
decrease of $1,7l5,3s7 as compared with
1887.
The past year has been a prosperous
one for the Fall River, Mass, mills, the
dividends being larger than for any pre-
vious year.
Western members of the Republican
national league are anxious to have the
presidency of the organization next year
come to them.
Observations of the suns eclipse were
taken Tuesday in California, the North
west and other places. The weather was
generally favorable.
Adam Forepaughs New-year's present
to View York is his second largest ele-
plant, Tip, who will be added to the
Central park collection.
The steamer Bristol of the Fall River
line was burned at Newport on Sunday
morning. Several passengers had mar
row escape from death.
The Western Union managers are ac-
cused of violating the laws of Pennsylua-
mia by absorbing the Baltimore and
Ohio Telegraph company.
A fifteen-hundred pound man-eating
shark, of species very uncommon in
northern ATTITUDES, was captured in Fps
witch Bay, Mass, last week.
1t is believed that the locomotive engi-
neers recently in session at Chicago have
ordered a new boycott on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy road.
The New York Republican Assembly
caucus at Albany Monday night renomi-
mated Mr. Cole for speaker by acclama.
ton. The Democratic caucus nominated
VIM. F. Sheehan of Erie.
Industrial progress in the South the
past year is shown by the fact that the
capital represented by new mining anG
manufacturing enterprises organized in
1888 in the South is SOS, 100000.
James Green, a prominent citizen OF
WolcOtt, N. Y, cut his wife's throat the
other morning, and then cut his owl
throat. Neighbors found the bodies neal
, together smeared in blood. Both will
die. The cause was domestic trouble.
{ Louis Schmidt, 65, an inmate of tn,
, soldiers home at Milwaukee, fatally
stabbed a fellow-veteran, w. F. Ruder
! Monday afternoon, causing instant death
The two men had quarreled in discus
. sion over their respective war records.
The money-order department of tn,
post-office at indianapolis, Ind, wa
robbed of about $500 Tuesday. Will
) his assistants were at dinner, A. H
Johnson, chief of the department, wa
called out to see stranger, and in hi
absence thieves carried off the money.
Two years ago young man of tn
town of Leroy, Ill, son Of a wealthy
banker, became suddenly and painfully
i'll. A microsco nc examination of
particle of the patients flesh disclose
= the fact that it was density populate
with trichin9. 1t is believed that Their
is no hope whatever for the extermins
: ton of the trichine and that the suffer
er's agonies will only find relief in death
Z Thomas Vines, assistant time-keeper G
the Adams and Westlake MANUFACTURER
company at Chicago, disappeared sudden
ly Saturday evening taking with hiI
J. $4,000, the weeks salary of 700 men an
: boys. The money was done up in 20
l. packages ready for delivery to the en-
II ployes. Vines does not usually handle I'll
T. money, but apparently foresaw that /
+ would on this occasion and had an e,
le press wagon in waiting.