Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-08-23
found in the Mississippi at Praire-du-

TO secure adQltlOnal silver leBlslatlOn
from Congress.
The Montana constitutional convention
completed its work on Saturday and
adjourned sine die.
Eighteen people were injured in dis
aster on the Burlington and Missouri
River railway in Lincoln, Neb., Friday.
Pugilist Sullivan has been sentenced to
twelve months Imprisonment. He ap-
pealed, gave bail, and is back in Boston.
Two Mormon elders named Devior and
Shinn attempted to hold meeting at
Pine Grove. W. Va, Sunday night. The
crowd attacked the missionaries with
clubs and stones and they fled the town.
Senator Evarts, accompanied by his
family, sailed Saturday for Europe. Mr..
Evarts goes abroad to consult the most
celebrated European oculists. His re-
turn all depends upon the Improvement
in his eyesight, which has been failing
him.
Catherine Mulig, SO, committed suicide
in Philadelphia IN peculiarly determin-
ed manner. She placed wash-tub UNI
der the hydrant in her yard, put her head
in the tub and then turned on the water.
holding her head there until she was suf-
located and drowned.
Clarence Bell, business man of New
York, was shot and instantly killed by
Ellis Roberts of Utica, at Moose River,
in the Adirondacks, the 18th. The two
men were hunting in the woods, and Mr..
Roberts, seeing MIR. Bell in the distance,
| took him for deer and shot him.
Annie Void, %, Norwegian, commit
ted suicide at Chicago Sunday afternoon
by throwing herself from third-story
window. She struck the sidewalk head
foremost, the shock crushing her skull.
She lived three hours. Miss Void was a
monomanac on the subject of religion.
DR.. Harry 2. Loomis of New York, who
has been in charge of the experiments
with the Brown-Sequard elixir, will
make no more tests at present. Blood
poisoning and other maladies seem to
have followed those experiments made,
and the enthusiasm over the new discov-
cry has abated.
Nine persons were burned to death or
smothered in tive-story tenement-house
at 307 Seventh avenue, New York, early
Tuesday morning. The fire started in
the kitchen of John Snyder's restaurant
on the ground floor at a time when the
60 occupants of the building were asleep.
and spread rapidly through the building.
Eben S. Allen, the defaulting expires
ident of the Forty-second street and
Grand street railroad company, who
pleaded guilty to two indictments to the
over-lssue of over 100000 worth of
stock, was sentenced at New York to
seven years Imprisonment at hard labor
on each indictment, the maximum penal
ty for the offence.
The story comes from Leighton, Miss,
that John Davis, while hunting the other
day, shot and killed snake of the moe
casin variety that measured l6 feet in
ches in length and u inches in circumfer-
ence. 1t was such monster that Mr..
Davis concluded to skin and stuff it..
While performing the operation he found
a Mexican gold coin secreted among its
vitals that was issued in 1924.
A dispatch from Portland, Or, says
that all the northwestern country seems
to be burning up in forest fires. In the
harbOr at Portland the smoke has had the
effect of fog, and steamers have been re-
Qured to blow their whistles every few
minutes to avoid collisions. 1t is estima-
ted that the total damage by forest fires
in the Northwest this year will amount
to nearly 100000.
Latah county, Idaho, comes to the
front with an ice mine. The discovery
was made in Pine Creek canon, 1000 feet
above the sea. A chilling current of all
coming from the direction of a bed OF
moss was the first thing that attracted
the attention of party of biologists tC
it. They removed the moss and discover
ed vein of ice 500 feet long and four tC
six inches thick. The several layers OF
powders, debris and ice aternated to 6
depth of 40 feet. The biologists think
this formation belongs to the glacia
period.
Mr.. Hutchingson was nominated fol
governor by the Iowa Republicans las
week. The platform indOrses Presiden
HarrisOns administration favors liber
: al construction of the pension laws
: favors protection, provided it does no
foster trusts and monopolies; indorse
railway regulation, State and national
, declares it the duty of the nation to sup
J press trusts in the necessaries of life; re
, atfrms adherence to State prohibition
J welcomes the four new States and in
) dOrses arbitration for the settlement o
5 wage difference.
,, Martin Palmer of MillertOn, Clutches
county, n. Y, is carrying bullet in hi
cheek that was shot there by "reb" owe
E % years ago. 1t has at last come to tn
! surface. Physicians now think it can b
! removed without much difficulty AN
! with no serious results, though Mr.. Pa
p mer is i'll at present. The bullet entere
the face at the outer corner of the ey
and has been circuiting around in til
head of the old soldier for a quarter of
century. Ii has at times caused Mr.. Pa
mer a great deal of trouble, and it is no'
: visible at the angle of the lower jaw.
Manager Chapman has prepared til
: official program for the Grand Army ell
n campment at Milwaukee. The Sons {
II Veterans will hold camp fire next MOI
day evening. Commander-in-chief Wa
d ner of the Grand Army will presid,
n The parade of the Grand Army and Sol
s of Veterans will take place Tuesda
forenoon. The business sessions of tt
% Grand Army and the Woman's reli'
i corps will begin Wednesday morning an
q continue during the rest of the weel
~ The reunion of regiments. brigades an
divisions will no inauu,Ira tad Wadnasdo,