Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-06-21

The governor of Missouri has signed
the bill prohibiting music, cards, dice,
billiards, pool, bowling and boxing in
saloons in the State. st. Louis and Kan
sas City saloons will be seriously affected.
The United States ship Constellation
got ashore on Tuesday in the Chesapeake
bay off Cape Henry. She had over 300
men on board, including 1870 cadets from
the Annapolis naval academy. No lives
were lost.
Maroney and Mcdonald, arrested in
New York on suspicion of completely in
the murder of Dr. Cronin, have been dis
charged for lack of evidence to hold
them. Another suspect has been arrested
at Winnipeg.
The grand jury at Charleston, 5. c., has
found true bill against DR.. T. b.
Mellow for the murder of Capt. F. w.
Dawson last March. Mellow was arraign-
ed and pleaded not guilty and Monday,
the 24th, was fixed for his trial.
a terrific rain and hail-storm occurred
in the Mohawk valley, n. Y, Monday af-
ter noon. Small wash-outs are reported at
various points along the West Shore rail-
road. Tanks in residences were over
flowed gardens ruined and hop-yards
damaged.
The remains of John Sewer, the first
governor of Tennessee, which have lain
for y years in North Alabama, were on
Wednesday Inferred in Knoxville. a
fund has been started to erect monu-
ment to cost $4,000 over Sewers grave
in Knoxville.
Articles of confederation were signed
Monday night, it is said, by the Lincoln,
Neb., assemblies of the Brotherhood of
engineers, tiremen, brakemen, switch
men and Knights of Labor pledging mu-
tual support in the event of the strike on
the Union Pacific, which threatens.
The loss of life at Johnstown is now
approximately fixed at about 1900. The
survivors, it is estimated number 25,000
and deductng these from the known pop
ulation of the region leaves 1912 not ac-
counted for. This is probably as near a
correct statement as can ever be arrived
at.
Miss Sarah Rome, n. of Brooklyn, and
Mrs. David Rome, 26, of Toronto, Ont,
sat beneath freight car at Coney Island
Saturday night engaged in sketchng
when special train ran into the car
setting it in motion. Mrs. Rome was i'll
stantly killed and Miss Rome severely
injured.
Woodruff, one of the fellows arrested
for participation in the murder of DR..
Cronin, has made new confession, in
which he duplicates other men not here
tofOre named in the murder. Alexander
Sullivan, the noted Irish leader arrested
for participation in the crime, has been
released on $4,000 bail.
The male pupils at the Bedford public
school at Pittsburg, Pa, struck Monday
of last week against an afternoon session
and at last accounts were still out. The
other afternoon two of the leaders in the
movement, Elmer Adams and Charles
Stevens, each aged about II years, had
an alteration over the strike and Adams
stabbed Stevens in the left breast. inflict-
ing probably fatal wound. Adams is
under arrest.
Samuel Isaacs, whose people are rich
New Workers, shot IA woman and then
killed himself at San Francisco Thurs
day. A Chinese house servant quit work
and then in IA rage attacked Mrs. John
stone, his employer. He used a large
butcher-knife, and with this weapon
slashed the arm of a sister who tried to
help Mrs. Johnston. The Chinaman
was chasing both women with the knife
when Il male boarder interfered and over
powered him. An unknown man was
beheaded by cable-cars near the park,
making the third accident on the cable
roads in one week.