Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-22

The trustees of the Metropolitan muse
UNI of arts at New York have decided
to open the museum to the public Sunday
afternoons.
Four hundred negroes have been put
into the coal mines of the Oregon I'm
provement company, to take the place of
the whites who struck.
Sharp frosts and storms of sleet and
snow were experienced throughout
Great Britain Saturday night and much
injury was done to the fruit crops.
Northern Ohio was visited by frost
Sunday morning unequalled at this sea-
son in II years. What was left of the
early fruit was practically wiped out.
The cOroner's Jury at New York in the
case of Carrie Brown rendered a verdict
that she met her death at the hands of
Ben Ali, who is known as "Frenchy No.
l."
Charles W. Webster, cousin to Daniel
Webster, to whom he bore a striking re-
semblance, died at his home in Boscawen
Plain, n. H., Sunday night, aged g.
years.
The fruit trees in New Haven county.
Connecticut, are covered with bug worms
and are sights to behold. The farmers
are doing their best to fight the pests,
but seem to meet with put little success.
Michael Davtt SAID in an interview at
Liverpool the other day: "After the next
general election Mr.. Parnell will have
only four followers. Except as a pri-
vate member of Parliament, Mr.. Parnell
is as dead as a dodo.'
Two children, one eight and the other
four years old, were lost recently in Ne
hras To nd ho oil
miles distant from her starting point
They wandered away from their home in
a village and became confused among
the sand hills surrounding the place.
a. B. Wilson, ex-mayor of Great Bend,
Kan, and prominent in Masonic and
Knights of Pythias circles, has disap-
peared, after having embezzled 100000
He was the agent of several farmers who
were paying off their mortgages, and the
money placed in his hands for that pur-
pose has not been put 10 that use
The principal business blocks in the
town of Lamonte, Mo-, II miles west of
Sedalia, were burned Sunday, the loss
being $4,000. The fire was started by a
gang of tramps who proceeded to loot
the town as soon as the blaze was well
under way. \ number of houses were
ransacked and the citizens were terror
stricken.
y dispatch from Chester, Eng. says
that the wife of II. C.. Duncan of Wash
ington, ID. c., was found Tuesday shock
ingly injured on Snowdon mountain near
Bettws-y- in North Wales. favor
lite resort of summer tourists. Her hus-
band was arrested on suspicion and has
confessed that he battered his wife's head
with stone.
A tremendous cloud-burst of hail took
place about four miles west of Salina,
Kan, Saturday evening. The district
covered by the storm was two miles wide
and S to 10 long. The hail was as large
as hens eggs and almost completely de-
stroyed the wheat. One farmer lost $50
acres and another 200. The total dam
ages will reach $4,000.
President Harrison's remarkable Jour-
ney across the continent and back again
eliminated in an enthusiastic welcome to
his home at indianapolis Thursday after
noon, and after brief tarry renewed his
Journey toward Washington. He arrived
in Washington at ) 80 Friday evening,
exactly on schedule time. The running
speed averaged 10 miles an hour for the
ten thousand miles.
Tuesday morning at Tarrytown, y. y,
train containing a large quantity of
dynamite was blown up a short distance
from the station. The explosion was
terrific. 1t blew the train to pieces and
the report could be heard mile away
Two Americans and eight Italians were
instantly killed. Their remains were
picked up and carried to the station. A
large number of people were injured.