Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-17
DOMESTIC.


New York is dead.
New potatoes were dug at Marble
head, Mass, last week.
La grippe has caused freight block
ade on the Pennsylvania railway.
Three New York gentlemen will
erect chapel in Brooklyn to the men,
DRY of the late Henry Ward Beecher.
Astounding Irregularities have been
discovered in the old accounts of the
city of Cleveland, amounting, it is said,
to about S3,000,000.
Indians have disposed of $4,000 acres
of valuable land in Washington, includ-
ing the land on which has been built
Spokane Falls and Pennington.
New York detectives believe that a
gang of Anarchists in that city, foiled in
their incendiary purposes, have entered
into compact to commit suicide.
An agreement has been entered into
between the Central and Union Pracific
railroads whereby the ruinous competi-
ton between the two roads will come to
an end.
Kunze, one of the men convicted of
the murder of DR.. Cronin, has been
granted new trial. The other three
prisoners have been sentenced to prison
for life.
A package containing $1,000 was
stolen from the Wells Fargo express
office at Dallas, Tex, Monday. Just
how the money disappeared is not def
nitely known.
Four arrests were made in New York
on a requisition of Gov. Lowry of
Mississippi, charging the men with
aiding and abetting the Sullivan-Kil-
rain prize fight.
Fourteen men were killed Thursday
evening by the collapse of a caisson of
the new bridge in process of construc-
ton between Louisville, KY, and JEFF
fersonville, Ky.
A dispatch from Charleston, S. c.,
says that Strawberries are ripening there
and that unless blizzard comes along
the entire crop of 100000 quarts will
be harvested before March l.
The death rate in New York city
last week was nearly twice as large as
for the corresponding week of last
year. The death rate in London last
week was $40 above the average.
An old and wealthy citizen of Hooks
ton, Pa, was given a ride on rail
Tuesday night around the town by
so-called REGULATORS" on account of
his alleged i'll treatment of his young
wife.
Severe weather is reported generally
throughout the Northwest. A blizzard
piled drifts 20 feet high at Beardsley,
Mimi, Tuesday. From Neche, n. d.,
comes an account of veritable blizzard
which ragged for 81 hours, rendering all
travel impossible. The railroads are
blockaded all through that section.
Thomas Link, proprietor of the Cen
trail hotel of Tribes Hill, Montgomery
county, n. Y, wound up a protracted
debauch of several months Saturday
night by cutting his wife's throat from
ear to ear with a razor, and then cut
ting his own. Link died in few min
utes. His wife is in a very critical con-
dtion.
Rev. j. w. johnson of the Methodist
church of Huntington, w. Va, died
Sunday from injuries received Friday
evening, when, in company with Rev
w. G. Marshall of the Episcopal church
he was passing through the initiation
ceremonies of the Royal Arch degree
in the Huntington chapter of the Roya
Arch Masons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Rogalinski of Erie
Pa, left their four children at home
Tuesday night with Mrs. Rogalinski''
brother, while they went to make call
The man was intoxicated and he laiC
, his lighted pipe down on the bed il
which the children were sleeping. The
suffocated.
Prof Charles A. Clark, principal o
? the Albion academy, died at Milton
Wis. Monday night of what is be
lieved to have been hydrophobia. HI
was bitten by cat last March, but NJ
serious results were feared at the time
Recently, however, unmistakable sign
of hydrophobia appeared and his dealt
was a very painful one.
A movement is on foot at Omaha, Neb.
for the organization of a corporation t.
, bid on the Alaska seal lease. Several o
the largest capitalists are interested. Eff
forts will be made to secure an extension
of 30 days in time for the closing of bids
: either through the secretary of the treas
| ury or by securing the passage of a join
resolution by Congress to that effect.
Serious changes have been submitte,
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