Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-04
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| Recent reports from census enumera-
| tors show that Connecticut is not likely,
as was feared, to lose one of its repre-
rentatives.
The grand jury at Baltimore has in
dicted every brewer and distiler of that
city for violation of the high license law
passed by the last legislature.
y cyclone did some damage a. Gala
tin, Tenn, Sunday afternoon. A negro
church was demolished and two per-
sons fatally injured and several others
seriously hurt.
BY a fire in shaft of the Monmouth
Sewer Pipe company at Monmouth, H.,
Saturday, the company's buildings were
destroyed and Is men were imprisoned
in the mine They were rescued in
Frustrated condition.
The population of San Francisco is
100000. The Chinese population is 24,-
900, an increase of 2000 since 1880.
Probably 1000 more Chinese who are
regular inhabitants of san Francisco in
the the winter are at work in the
country.
About 20 persons were Frustrated by
heat at Chicago Thursday, but none Of
them will die. Dispatches from several
points in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa re-
port the temperature raging from 80 to
9S for nearly week up to the middle of
| this week.
The Louisiana lottery bill has been
approved by the State Senate committee
after receiving amendments making the
amount to be paid the State annually ST.
100000 and providing that the addition
al S250,OOO annually shall go to the
general fund of the State.
The law forbidding any person to at
tempt TO take his own life went into eff
feet in New York in 1881. Prior to
that time the average number of sui
cides in New York city was 100. 1t is
now at the rate of 2l5 per year, but the
number of unsuccessful attempts has fall
len off.
/ Miss Anna b. Turner, daughter of
Judge John B. Turner, committed suicide
at Goverton, Tex, the other night, and
Prof. Davis, principal of the academy,
was shot dead by Judge Turner. Prof.
Davis went there last March from Lake
ford college, \. c. The cause of the trag-
edy is unknown.
Herbert F. Beecher, son of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, was acquitted in
the United States district court at Seat
tie, WASH, Thursday, on the charge of
larceny In aOstractlng DOCK from the
records of the House at Port Towpsend
while he was collector of customs. The
case has been pending more than year.
The official trial trip of the United
States cruiser Philadelphia, which took
place over measured course off Long
Island Wednesday, was successful in
every way. She is known to have at
tanned a speed of over l94 knots an hour.
The official board gave out her speed
during the four hours she spent on the
course as 1882 knots an hour, with
additions TO be made subsequently. The
premium earned on these figures is
SlO2 400. The premium on the Balti-
more was Sl06,Ii2.
EX-President John Bascom of the Wis
consin university created profound
sensation at Madison, Wis. in his address
to the graduating law class by unmerci-
fully criticising the Wisconsin supreme
court decision excluding the Bible from
the public schools. The court, DR.. Bas-
com averred, excluded religious instruc-
ton in order to get rid of sectaran in
structiOn. Under a constructive inter-
probation the Bible is not sectarian book.