Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
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Concord, y. H.. will introduce electric
ity as a motive power for her street
cars.
The Chippewa Indians have surren-
dered their lands, three million acres,
in Minnesota to the government.
\ terrific snow storm in Montana
Friday blockaded the Northern Pacific
roaG, and caused serious Inconvenience.
Ex-President Hayes was chosen presi-
dent of the national prison Congress at
the annual meeting in Nashville, TeRS
last week. III
1t is estimated that 5000 barrels IF
American whisky have been struggled
into Canada this year by way of Pierre
de Miquelon.
The old Dominion steamer Manhattan
collided with schooner off the Mary
land coast on recent morning. The
steamer was sunk and at least two lives
were lost.
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire.
who has been in Europe in quest of
health. sailed from Liverpool few days
since by the Etruria, greatly improved
by the trip.
Two Rhode Island farmers were rid
ing home from town Saturday evening,
and not guiding their horse the beast
went into pond and both men and the
horse were drowned.
Timothy McCarty, a lineman of the
Narragansett Electric Light company
of Providence, X. l., was killed Satur-
day afternoon while among the wires on
/ top of an electric light pole.
The 500-foot level in the st. Lawrence
mine at Butte. Mon, caught fire on sat
urday and the smoke was drawn by the
draught into the Anaconda workings.
where three men were suffocated by it.
Walter f. Pray, %, a half-witted son
of +. III. Pray. murdered the three-year-
old son of Philip Fisher at Weymouth.
Mass, the other morning by burying
the child alive in the back yard of a
neighbours premises.
Up to the lst of November there were
in existence 1919 national banks. Penn
sylvania leads in point of number, Mass
achusetts so far as capital is concerned.
and New York III respect to deposits and
volume of business.
DR.. Rudolph Tanszkv of New York.
who became insane and attempted to Kill
his wife and himself in January, 1885,
died of paresis Saturday, in the Bloom
ingdale asylum. He was one of the eX-
perts in the Guiteau case.
Pauline Cowith, Is, was shot in the
breast with a 3S-caliber revolver at New
York Friday afternoon by George Chin
90. an Italian. 80. Chingo wanted the
girl to marry him and when she refused,
saying she was already married, he shot
her. The girl has died.
Henry r. Schall, employed at the
cashiers desk of the Northwestern road,
who left Chicago last January after TAX
ing $4,000 of the company's funds, has
returned to that city, and, on pleading
guilty. was sentenced to two years in
the pententiary.
Joseph A. Smith. who killed W. 5.
Williams. town marshal of Trenton. KY,
on the Louisville and Nashville railroad
two weeks since. was taken from jail at
Elkton. county-seat of Todd county, KY,
Sunday night, by a mob and hanged to
tree in the courthouse yard.
A train robbery of extraordinary
, bolduess was accomplished in Indian
+ Territory, SUNDAY night. The Missouri,
: Kansas and Texas express train, north
6 bound for st. Louis, was held up on
/, Pryor Creek. near Perry Station, anc
!. the express car robbed of about $4,000
The road agents were only two In
number.
GOV. Taylor of Tennessee has acted
!, upon the case of the five Barnards, sen
: fenced to hang for murder in Hancocl
=, county, Tenn. The governor pardon
: ed absolutely John. Jr., and Elijah Bar
nard. commuted to five years in the pen
; i,entiary the sentence of Clint and An
= derson Barnard, and to 10 years thai
" of old man John Barnard, Sr.
New York was treated to sensational
i murder in the busiest part of Fultol
J. street Friday morning. stephen L
d Pettus, secretary and treasurer of tn
>, Brooklyn union elevated railroad and
# member of the firm of Pollard, Pettus
+ Co. of 81 Broad street, was shot dead l.
!: front of 10 Fulton street by Mrs. HANNAH
!, Southworth, Il woman who accuses fe'
n tus of having wronged her. He was
II married man.