Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-10
General l1eps.


rison ut Cape May.
OF l0.757 farms in Utah 9724 are made
fertile by irrigation.
Major Mckinley is confident of Re-
publican victory in Ohio.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin died suddenly
at Bangor Saturday evening.
Rev. C. II. Sturgeon, the noted Lon
don preacher, is fatally i'll.
The grasshopper has become burden
in some portions of the Northwest.
The grip is epidemic in Newfound-
land and thousands are down with the
disease.
Three students in Catholic college in
Maryland were killed by lightning last
Friday night.
William Henry Gladstone. oldest son
of the great commoner, died at London
on Saturday.
A leper mas been discovered among the
paupers at Lisburn, flourishlng town
in the North of Ireland.
cyclone at Baton Rouge Monday
blew down the penitentiary, killing six
convicts and wounding % others.
1t is said that Mr.. Blair has been again
refused by the Chinese government. who
have no use for him as United States
minister.
Vienna is frightened by a report that
three cases of genuine Asiatic cholera
has been discovered among the poorer
classes of Jews.
1t is proposed to erect large hall in
Washington in the hope thereby to Sc
cure the national conventions of both
parties there in future.
A curious disease, which disables the
arms and legs, has appeared in village
in Neshnlnovgorod, South Russia, and is
destroying many lives.
The steamer Dunholme. bound to Rio
Janero, was sunk in collision in the
English channel Sunday night. Seven
teen persons are missing.
The Kansas crop reports are generally
favorable, although the winter wheat
crop is not as large as some years. The
showing in Nebraska was never before
so favorable.
a dozen Italian naval officers attacked
the editors of an English newspaper in
their sanctum and severely injured them
with their cutlasses. The cause was an
article derlding the alleged efficiency of
the Italian navy.
John G.. Nicoay, who was President
Lncoln's private secretary, says Mr..
Lincoln did not oppose Vice President
Hamlin's denomination. He merely was
non-committal, personally preferring
Mr.. Hamlin should be the nominee.
Michael Donovan of Syracuse, n. Y,
left home on Saturday with considerable
money in his possession. Late that
night his mangled body was found on
the New York Central tracks. 1t is
thought be was murdered and his body
placed on the tracks.
Frederick Douglas, United States MIN
lister to Hayti, has returned home on
sixty days vacation. He says there was
pretty lively revolution down there
recently, but it was thoroughly quelled
by President Hippolyte and no more
trouble is expected.
The grip epidemic is having terrible
results on the Labrador coast. At River
Pentecoste, Point aux Esquimaux. PLAYER
Cove and Melgan dozens of people have
died, dozens are dying and many have
gone insane, and to make matters worse
provisions have run short.
The case of Amer Ben Ali, who MUIR
dered the woman Carrie Brown, or
"Shakspeare," in New York city a few
months ago, was tried last week and he
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree. 1t is believed that he
is the London Jack the Ripper
Ex-City Treasurer John Bardsley of
Philadelphia has been sentenced to IL
years in solitary confinement in the
Easton penitentary and to pay fine
equallng the sum to which he pleaded
guilty of embezzling. His stealings
amount to betweenyS400,0 and $780,
600.
The Cologne Gazette asserts that the
Mckinley law has destroyed the steel in
dustry on the lower Rhine. In part of
Westphalia, where a great deal of power
ty now exists, earnings have been re-
duced by 80 per cent, and there is no
hope that the country will ever regain
, its former prosperity.
: A report on education, prepared by
special agent of the census bureau, states
, that the combined bulletins for the whole
country show an apparent enrolment in
the public schools for 1880 of 9,95l COS,
and for 1890 public school enrolment
of 1882, 124, an apparent gain of en-
rollment of 26.54 per cent. The gain OF
population meantime was 24.S6 per cent.
Four men were executed by electricity
at the State prison at Sing Sing, y. y,
Tuesday morning. They were James j.
Slocum. Harris A. Smiler, Joseph Wood
and Shubuya Jugiro. So far as can be
} learned death was instantaneous. The
! men were shocked to death, not roasted,
as Kemmler was. Experts say the ex-
ecutions were success from scientific
standpoint.
While celebration was in progress
at Margaretville, III the Catskills. on the
Fourth, nearly one hundred men, women
and children were plunged into the
/, Delaware river at that point by the
, breaking of wooden bridge over which
they were crossing to the park where
, the exercises were being held. They
fell in heap into the water below, a
: distance of twelve feet, Only one per-
, son, a child, was killed.
, At Ravenna, O., Friday morning, fast
express on the New York, Lake Erie Il
a Western road, while standing at the
depot awaiting orders, was dashed into
! from the rear by freight. A day coach
+ on the rear was completely telescoped,