Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-05
General l1eps.

A riot in Balboa, Spain, on Sunday,
was suppressed by the military.
The courts are to settle the question of
a new railroad in the AdirOndacks.
Thousands of dollars worth of wheat
in Kansas was destroyed on Sunday by
heavy hail storm.
1t is said that the killing of the Italians
in New Orleans has not occasioned any
excitement in Sicily.
Senator Colquitt of Georgia is reported
to say that eX-President Cleveland is los
ing ground IN the South.
DR.. Fordyce Barker, one of the most
eminent physicians in the United States,
died in New York on Saturday.
The weather bureau at Washington is
soon to be transferred from the war de-
partment to the agricultural department.
Advces from Rio Janeiro say that
President Da Fonseca is lying in a criti
cal condition at Petropolis. a town %
miles north of that city, from an attack
of asthma.
Prof. Charles A. Briggs of the Union
theological seminary sailed for Europe
on Saturday. He will spend the summer
at Oxford, and will return to New York
in September,
William NJ. Wilson, prominent citizen
of Berlin, y. H., was fatally stabbed
Sunday by John Donnelly, who also
stabbed policeman in four places. Don
nelly was insane.
A trestle on the Norfolk and Western
road near Lauray. Va, gave way Sun
day, precipitating two freight trains to
the ravine, 20 feet, killing one man and
fatally inju:ing another.
Secretary Foster has enunciated new
line of policy. holding that polvgamists
come under the debarred class of immi
grants, and hereafter should not be al
lowed to enter the United States.
Yale college will this year graduate
class Of 1S7-the largest by 81 in its his
tory. Fifty-two propose to study law,
AZ 90 into business. IL study theology.
10 medicine. and IS expect to teach.
a tremendous impulse was given to the
pearl button industry in this country by
the Mckinley bill. European manufac-
turers are now attempting to evade the
law by a subterfuge. which is likely to
be checked
John Peters, farmer living six miles
from Leavenworth, Kan. and his family,
10 persons in all, were eating supper
Wednesday night when IA bolt of lightn-
ing passed through the diningrOOm and
rendered them all unconscious. One of
the family, Carrie, y, was instantly
killed and several others received serious
injuries.
The queen has decided that the duke
of Flies daughter (the recently born
granddaughter of the prince of Wales is
to have only the rank and title to which
she is entitled as the daughter of a duke.
The queen came to this decision in spite
of the fact that the legal advisers of the
crown cOncurred in the opinion that the
prince of Wales's granddaughter should
rank as princess of the blood royal.
The queens decision, however, is final.
Strange insects of immense proportions
were attracted by the electric lights to
the railroad siding at quarry near
Syracuse. y. V, the other night. The
swarm was so great that the engine be-
came stalled, the rails having become so
slippery from the crushed insects. En-
animation of the new insects shows re-
semblance to what is known as the cleo
trio light bug, though the newcomer is
much larger. The outer shell of the back
is about the size and shape of half al
eggshell, which, when crushed by the
engine wheels. gave out cracking
sound like the explosion of a toy torpedo
The shell is black. of a slatey structure
and very brittle. 1t is supposed to be &
species of lithOdome-a rOck-borine
datory insect.