Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-09-19
General 11eps.
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The Maryland law school at Baltimore
has determined that it will admit no more
colored students. The white students
object to them.
New 1Orkers are dissatisfied with the
showing of population in the city made
by the census returns and will try to
have recount.
Windle broke all bicycle records for
three-quarters and mile at Peoria. H.,
Monday, riding the quarter in 30 10, the
half in | ~ A., the three-quarters 40
20 end the mile in = % 80.
- The majority for Eagle, Democratic
candidate for governor of Arkansas, is
u ,0SG over Fizer, union labor and Re-
publican candidate. The total vote in the
State was 1911, AS, of which Eagle re-
ceved l0G.2G7 and Fizer S5,lSl.
The official figures of the census counts
in st. Paul and Minneapolis are as fol-
lows: st. Paul. June postal card returns
AZ, 500; schedules l42, 49l. Recount 49,
30l: June excess over the recount 900.
Minneapolis, June postal card returns
l9l .69l; schedules lSS,ll9. Recount
l64, lbs June excess over recount 23,3S0.
Robert Ray Hamilton of New York
has been found drowned near the Yellow
stone national park in the vicinity of
son of Gen. Schuyler Hamilton and
greatgrandson of Alexander Hamilton,
graduate of Columbia college and law
school, lawyer by profession, and of
late an active and useful public servant
as an assemblyman at Albany.
Heavy rains did much damage in the
West and Southwest last week. A Texas
dispatch of Friday says that the Rio
Grande river at Eagle Pass, Tex, is
higher than it has been for 10 years. All
the lower part of the city which is den
sely populated is six feet under water
Much property has been swept away but
no lives have been lost The rainfall
was especially severe in Ohio. Pennsyl-
vana and southwestern New York.
\ bill to forfeit the charters of the
several gas companies of Chicago has
been filed in the circuit court clerk
Office at Chicago by Corporation Counsel
Hutchins on behalf of the city of Chica-
go as complainant. The charge is that
they illegally combined under the title
of the Chicago gas trust, the name Of
which was subsequently changed to the
Chicago gas company for the purpose of
suppressing competition and creating a
monopoly. with the result that the city
and individual consumers are charged
eXorbitant rates for the gas.
Rev. j. w. Arney of Saranac, Mich,
who made himself famous by getting up
and managing trotting meeting in his
town last July, at which his own horses
won all the first prizes, has been tried by
the Methodist conference of his district.
Arney confessed that he was sorry for
having participated in the horse match
which made him notorious, promised
never to do it again. and the conference
passed his character and continued him
in service. Since the horse trot several
congregations have applied to the presid-
ing elder to have Mr.. Arney assigned to
them.
Charles and Catharine Claus and their
son otto of Maspeth, l.. l., are under ar
rest at Newtown, l.. l., charged with
violating the law relating to baby farm
ing. The authorities have discovered
several infants, some dead and Others
just alive, which are said to have been
placed in care of the Claus family and
neglected. The body of one was found
between two mattresses on bed in the
house Saturday afternoon. 1t is believed
that the Claus family is responsible fol-
the placing of many infants on door
steps and other places at Long Island
CITY and Newtown. The son Otto is re
ported to have made confession impli
eating his father and mother and foul
midwives residing in the city of New
York.