Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-14

Prince Borghese and family have dis
appeared from Italy since his failure be-
came known. His liabilities amount to
37,0O0,0O0 lire and his assets to 24,OOO,OOO
lire. The crash is causing failures among
other arstocratic families.
Hon. Sir Hector Langevin, the Cana
dian minister of public works, has ten
dered his resignation as a member of the
cabinet. 1t was charged against Sir Hec-
tor that he was intimately connected with
the recent bribery government contract
scandals.
Trouble is feared in the coal mines of
Middlesboro, Ky. The whites object to
the employment of colored laborers i'll
the mines, and the latter have frequently
been run off by the white miners. The
mine owners Monday applied to the
sheriff for protection, and trouble is
feared
Acting Secretary Grant of the war de-
partment has approved the recommends
tons of the board of ordnance and fortifi-
cation that the contract for the 100 high
power guns be given to the Bethlehem
Iron Co. of South Bethlehem, Penn. The
aggregate amount of money involved in
the contract is S3.5S0,313.
The police of Vienna have arrested
man named Schneider and his wife on
the charge of numbering and robbing in
succession a number of servant girls.
The body of the last one murdered was
discovered in a forest, and this discovery
led to suspicion that several others who
had disappeared had been similarly muir
dered.
4 most disastrous storm visited the
vicinity of indianapolis, Ind. Sunday
evening, doing incalculable damage to
crops and property generally. y church
seven miles from there was split through
the middle and lifted clear off its founda-
ton. A farm residence near by was to-
tally destroyed by the lightning and
wind.
Great Indignation has been caused at
Maysville, Ky, by J. Dexter Kehoe, an
employee of the State printing office and
an ex-member of the legislature, who
on Monday sold his father-in-law's lot in
the cemetery. He first dug up the bones
of bis wife's parents and threw them into
a wheelbarrow, where they lay until
charitable people buried them.
a new mineral recently discovered in
Texas is causing a considerable degree of
interest to be manifested throughout the
State. An investigation of it is being
made, and good results are expected. 1t
is a substance resembling asphalt, and is
said to be unaffected by water, heat. aci d
or alkalis, and it is claimed to be the
most perfect insulator vet discovered.
The employees of Theodore Kaiser of
Brooklyn went on an excursion to Lau-
retton grove, Cold Spring Harbor, l.. l.,
Wednesday, on the steamer Crystal
Stream and barge Republic. There were
800 persons crowded together on the up
per deck of the barge. Suddenly a
heavy squall struck the barge, and the
upper deck gave way, pinioning about
GO persons. Fourteen persons were in
stantly killed and 20 or more were
wounded.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says ::
There have been 30 violent deaths in this
city in the past two days, l3 of them due
to suicide. OF the Others 10 were plain
murder. This mortality is due to the
heat entirely. it being the theory of the
physicians that the hot weather has Il
depressing and irritating effect upon
those who are inclined to self-destruc-
ton. The hot weather also is provOca-
tive of murder, as is shown by the fig
ures.
Henry La Mountain, one of the passen-
gers by the excursion train wrecked at
Champlain, n. Y. on Wednesday of last
week, died the next day, making three
deaths in all. Sidney Williams of Mooer's
is not expected to live. Henry W. SWEET
of Ellenburg is very seriously hurt, and
Miss Lewis of lrona has an injury of the
spine which will probably be permanent.
There were about 30 persons injured.
The engineer of the Inflated train claims
that the accident was due to the failure
of the air-brake to work.
An exceedingly delicate question of
construction has been presented to the
treasury department by the worlds Col
umbian commission. When foreign COY
ernments were formally invited by the
President to partake in the exposition
no exception was of course made in the
case of China, and in anticipation of the
acceptance of the invitation by that
government, the commissioner inquiries
whether citizens of China who may come
to this country for the purpose of visit.
ing the fair will be debarred from land
ing under the exclusion act.