Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19
General l1eps.

iHc NItdl CTOD III rance is expected
to reach only half the average.
}. X. Emmett, the well-known actor,
died on Monday at Cornwall, n. Y.
The noted desperate, Geronimo, was
shot and killed on Friday in Arizona.
Hundreds of the natives of Alaska are
said to have fallen victims to the grip.
The accounts of Paymaster Ward of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. are
said to be short abe ut $4,000.
Three members of one family in New
ork tenement house were burned to
death early Sunday morning.
1t is reported that the Fall River mills
propose to cut down wages 10 per cent.
This will affect $4,000 people.
a fire at Seabright n. j., Tuesday
night destroyed the larger part of this
summer resort. Loss 100000.
Owing to the effect of the Mckinley
tariff bill, 43 Welsh tin plate works will
shut down in July, locking out 10000
men.
Sad reports are received from the Mag
dalen islands of deaths from la grippe
and starvation, owing to failure of the
fisheries.
The agreement for close season IN
Behrlng sea was signed at Washington
Monday and proclamation issued by
President Harrison.
And now the London washerwomen
are on strike, and their riotous demon
strations Tuesday in North London were
of the liveliest character.
James L. Bryce, NJ. p. the author of
the American Commonwealth" sent an
ivy from his country seat in England to
the graduating class of Princeton.
One English paper advises the Prince
of Wales to sign remuneration of card
playing in the presence of Lord Salisbury
and the archbishop of Canterbury.
Rev. sam Small has been dropped from
the Colorado NJ. E. conference for alleged
shortage In his accounts as president of
the Methodist university at Ogden.
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius contin-
ues. The flowing lava now threatens to
attain the observatory. The principal
crater is throwing showers of ashes.
y letter to friend in Beaver, Pa. saws
that Rudyard kipling, the novelist, is
dying of consumption, and that at inter-
walls he cannot speak above a whisper.
The New York Life Insurance company
is reported to have lost from 100000 to
half million dollars by the dishonesty
of the companys Spanish-American
agent.
Sir William Gordon Cumming has been
cashiered. his commission in the army
having been annulled. He is the En-
glishman recently convicted of cheating
at cards.
Germans are aroused by the rumor that
the Rothschilds have made an agreement
with the standard Oil company by which
rho la il m hnv
over the German market.
The cargo of cotton on board the
steamer City of Richmond, from New
ork for Queenstown, caught fire at sea,
but the steamer reached her port in safety.
though the passengers were badly scared.
The skeleton of Calvin A. Beck was
unearthed at Hopkinton, \. H., on Mon
day. He is supposed to have been MUIR
dered by his brother, who since died of
starvation rather than use his money to
purchase food.
Another shortage of S445. 900 has been
discovered in the accounts of ex-City
Treasurer Bardsley of Philadelphia. The
investigation of the Keystone bank affair
is said to have brought in the names of
several prominent United States officials.
Grand Russian military maneuvers are
projected for 1892 to take place in the
presence of the ear. They are to in
clude the investment of Moscow by an
army corps, the occupation of NOlhynia
and the repulse and pursuit of the corps
to the frontier.
In emulation of their Masonic brethren
the Odd Fellows have decided to erect a
great temple of their order in Chicago.
1t will be located at the northeast corn
er of Van Buren, street and Fifth avenue.
The building will costs $1,000, 900 and be
lG stories high.
\ remarkable series of thunder storms
has occurred during the last few days in
Austria. Twelve villages in the vicinity
of Ling suffered from fires caused by
lightning. number of buildings being
destroyed. In six of these villages per-
sons were struck and killed by lightning.
BY formal order issued from the war
department the field or union of the ma
tional flag in use in the army will, on and
after July / next, consist of II stars in
six rows, the upper and lower rows to
have eight stars and the second, third,
fourth and fifth rows seven stars each,
in blue field
The baccarat scandal was brought up
in the House of Commons on Monday,
when the secretary of war said that the
officers who were mixed up in the Tran
by Croft affair had made what were con-
sidered the necessary apologies, and now
the matter would rest.
Mrs. Harrison and her grandchildren
left Washington yesterday for Cape May
Point, where she expects TO spend the
entire summer in the Presidents cottage.
The President will visit his wife at inter-
walls during the summer. and will prob
ably he at the seashore most of the time
in July and August.
c. X. Duval of Baltimore, who year
ago obtained valuable presents by writ
ing to Senators that he had named his
first-born son after them, was committed
for trial there Monday on the charge of
swindling. His method of raising the
wind this time was TO visit a woman
when her husband was absent and tell
her the former had torn his shoes
and wanted another pair sent him. The
l. .ith