Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-01
General l1eps.

Kew. L, Dewitt IamageS new taOer-
nacle at Brooklyn was dedicated on Sum
day.
The conservative government in Eng
land has committed itself to programme
for free education.
The Jews are rapidly being driven out
of Russia, 500 families having just re-
ceived notice to quit.
Col. Miguel Lopez, who, it is said, be-
trayed Maximi'ian to Juarez, died in the
city of Mexico on Friday.
a duel in Roanoke, Va, Tuesday, re-
suited in the death of a son of Maj. j. II.
Flood, prominent tobacconist.
An explosion in dynamite factory at
Cengio, Italy, near Genoa, Wednesday,
killed five girls and injured 80 persons.
The police of Fall River, Mass, have
captured nearly 300 live fowls which had
been stolen by an organized gang of
thieves in the surrounding towns.
Count Won Moltke died at Berlin last
week Friday of heart failure. He had
attended a session of the reichstag in the
afternoon, and his death was very sud-
den.
The Pope believes that Catholics in
America should establish parochial
schools wherever there is sufficient means
to render them equal to the public
schools.
Mrs. Bette Eaton of North Bend, Ind,
sister of President Harrison, was badly
hurt in a carriage accident at Cleves,
about % miles west of Cincinnati, o.,
on Sunday.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of
the late Horace Greeley, was married to
Rev. Frank NJ. Clendenin at Pleasant
vile, y. y, on Friday in Johns Episco-
pal church.
The New York Ninth national bank
has lost 100000 by the dishonesty of its
late president, John T. Hill, who died
last month"; before his defalcatian was
made public.
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y ork Monday on his tour round the
world. He will be back in New York
July /. While in Italy he will interview
Premier Rudin.
State Treasurer Wilson of Illinois has
received from the United States treas
urer at Washington draft of 5000. 900,
Fl, g 81, 1,
the State of Illinois.
The Chinese government has notified
through the department of state, of its
unwillingness to receive Henry w. Blair
as our minister to China.
The chess match which has been play
ed by cable since October .. W. Steinitz
of New y DIRK city and Mr.. Tachigorin of
of Russia being the contestants. has
resulted in favor of the Russian.
y man employed in the post-oflice at
Pesth, Hungary, was seized with IA
homicidal frenzy Wednesday and muir
dered his wife, mother-in-law and three
children. He then drowned himself in
the Danube.
Ground was broken at Riverside park
at New York on Monday for the cree
ton of the monument in honor of Gen.
L. S. Grant, Monday being the Goth an
ceremonies were witnessed by thousands
of people.
The police recently raided religious
meeting of Stundists at Keff Rus. and
arrested II persons. who were sentenced
to two months imprisonment each. The
preacher was not allowed a trial. A rep
ettion of the offense will be at the risk
of exile to Siberia.
Chillicothe. H.. is excited over the act
of IL teacher in enc of the public schools.
Becoming angry at something two pupils
did, she tied their hands to stovepipe
and then lighted some paper in the stove.
The children's hands were severely
burned. The school board has dismissed
the teacher.
The influenza epidemic is becoming of
an alarmingly severe type in Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire, England. In many
villages of those counties every house
hold has been attacked by the disease,
and deaths are becoming much more
frequent. At Pontefract there are 400
serious cases.
Advices received at Paris from Chill by
way of Buenos Ayres state that during
a recent battle at Caldero five torpedoes
were discharged at the Gillian war yes
sells, sinking the monitor Huascar, as
well as the Blanco Encaada. President
Balmaceda's fleet, after administering
this severe lesson to the insurgents, re
turned to Valparaiso without having
sustained any damage.
Andrew McKenna, eight years old, and
Neil Moffat, IL, stole tive-gallon keg of
whiskey from wagon at Brooklyn, n
IL