Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-28
DOM STIC.

Monday morning.
Barker Brothers & Co., bankers of
Philadelphia, have failed.
Thomas Fawcett & Sons, heavy coal
dealers of Pittsburg, have failed for
about 100000.
Charles II. Easton, a Wall street clerk,
ruined by speculation, committed for
gerry and is fugitive.
Two men were killed and two injured
on Monday in New York city by the ex-
plosion of dynamite cartridges.
The descendants of the Pilgrims pro-
pose to erect a monument at Deli Haven.
The Congregational club of Boston has
the matter in hand.
L. w. Morgan, an employee of the CAL
ifornia electric company at San Francis
co, Saturday night received the full force
of 1000 volts, but is recovering.
DR.. A. M. Turner, an ex-member of
the Alabama legislature, Sunday night
choked his wife and little daughter to
death. The doctor has twice been in an
asylum.
Gen. Thomas S. Mather died al Spring
field, H., last week, of heart failure.
He was adjutant-general of Illinois dur
ing the war and signed Grants first COM
mission.
Jay Gould is said to have secured con-
troll of the Union Pacific. Gould admits
that he has considerable portion of the
Atchson stock, but denies that he has
got control of the road.
Albert H. Smith of New York, whose
recent forgeries for more than S35O,O0O
ruined the firm of Mills, Robson &
Smith, brokers, was on Monday convict
ed. He has not yet been sentenced.
The failure of the Indian Messiah to
appear "a Standing Rock agency has
brought Sitting Bull into bad repute
among the savages. The superstitious
savages at Pine Ridge agency still keep
up their orgies.
John Kellar, the millionaire real. estate
dealer of Chicago, was robbed of a tin
box containing over 100000 worth of
deeds, notes, mortgages and other valu-
able collateral the other night. 1t was
stolen from his buggy.
The Indian news from the far West is
not reassuring. The savages are ready
to fight, and fierce war seems to be i'm
minent. Gen. Miles telegraphs the war
department that the Messiah craze among
the Indians is spreading and big out
break may occur at any moment.
Fourteen children in North Braddock,
Pa, became violently i'll Tuesday after
noon after being fed with milk bought
from strange milkman. Some of the
children are yet in a dangerous condi-
ton. Four doctors were called in, and
they were unanimous in the opinion that
the symptoms were those of poisoning.
Word has been received at Albu-
querque, n. NJ, from Seven Lakes, in
| the Gallinas mountains, Lincoln county
: that four sheep herders were killed re.
. Gently by hail-storm. Sixteen others
: and sixteen hundred head of sheep were
! missing. The messenger says that il
was the seyerest hail-storm in the noun.
: tains ever known.
Thomas Anderson, Waterman on boarc
the bark Ellen Mcleod, lying at Har
beck's stores in Brooklyn, n. Y, was
burned to death at an early hour Monday
morning in the cabin of the vessel. ii,
is supposed to have set his bedding OF
fire with his pipe, after falling into
heavy sleep.
y A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man, say
the most important Judgment ever givel
in Manitoba was delivered by Judge Xii
lam Monday, in the celebrated appea
of the Roman Catholics against an &C
;, passed by the last legislature abolishln;
separate schools. Judge Kilan upheld
' the legislative act on every point, and ap
parently left the Roman Catholics moth
> ing to stand on. The case will be appeal
. ed to England.
h The American harvester company, whic
e was incorporated at Springfield, ILL.,, las
l. Wednesday, with capital of S35, 900 900
will absorb all the prominent makers q
mowers and reapers in the country.
:, will employ 1000 men and 10000 agent
. and will have an output of about 1000
machines year; it will divide the cour
= try for business purposes into central
eastern and western districts, with
manager for each.
EnDEI0A