Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-02

Office at Atlanta, Ga has been arrested
on II charge vi embezzlement.
James Darling and Sandy Ferry. while
dynmniting stamps Thursday nrnr Gar
field, Pa, Ncre instantly killed. by tie
premature explosion of a cartridge.
\ great coal vein has been discovered
at Spitzbergen. and it is probable that
Russia will enforce her claim to the is
land. which heretofore has been regard
ed as valueleSs.
The condition Of affairs in the famine
stricken districts of Russia is appalling.
Women are selling themselves to support
their chieren There is no work for the
starving peasants.
4 band of armed men entered the viii
lage of San Antoine, Mo-. on Saturday,
and robbed the post Office and number
of stores. y band of viglantes was Or
ganized to pursue the thieves.
Mrs. Thurman, widow of Allen G.
Thurman, is dying at Columbus, o. She
has been quite low for several weeks
from an attack of the grip, coupled with
the nfirmties of her so years,
Miss Matte Reynolds was instantly
killed by being thrown from a carriage
while riding from church at Marietta,
Ga, Sunday evening. Her mother and
cousin were seriously injured.
1t is reported that Egan, the United
States minister to Chill, is a gushing
correspondent of the New York Herald
and suppressed news which the United
States government should have had.
A man named Jacob Brown has just
confessed to the murder in Centralia, H.,
eight years ago, of a man, for the alleged
killing of whom James Gray is now serv-
ing life sentence in the State prison.
a ship which reached Montreal on
Saturday while in the gulf of st. Law
renee passed through heavy snow
storm, and at Belle Isle the land was
covered with a thick coating of snow.
By the bursting of bomb at an Ital-
! lain celebration in Newark, y. j., Fri
day night, eleven persons were killed
and about 30 injured. The bomb was of
gas pipe and was loaded with dynamite.
Annie, seventeen-year-old daughter OF
| W. +. Myer, Shiloh Valley (Ill.) farmer,
has disappeared because her parents in
sisted on her marrying an Objectionable
sutton. 1t is feared she has killed her.
self.
Abundant harvests are reported from
most of the Turkish provinces, especially
from those situated in Asia Minor. 1t is
estimated that the 1.-THE revenue will eX-
coed that of any previous year by $780,
900.
There has been a revolutionary agita-
ton in several provinces of Brazil. In
many places the troops have mutnied
and the government will be obliged to
adopt strong measures in order to MAIN
tain order.
Thirty persons who attended dance
and supper at Plainfield, Conn, on Fri
day night, were taken seriously Ill be-
cause some unknown scoundrel had dosed
the coffee with croton oil. Several per-
sons are expected to die.
The Jacksonville, (Ind.) police station
was bOwn.up by dynamite Monday night.
1t is thought to have been the result of Il
plot to kill the police who have been
prosecuting criminals. No one was in
the building at the time.
At Floyd. Parish of West Carroll, La,
yestel V. Sheriff Gaddis shot and killed
JEFF Dunn during quarrel. Before he
died Dunn succeeded in killing Eugene
Marlborough, Gaddls's son-in-law, who
had come to Gaddis's rescue.
Nearly half of Emmons county. North
Dakota has been swept by fire. Several
people are known to have persisted and
hundreds of cattle were burned to death.
The loss on farm buildings, crops and
live stock will reach nearly 100000.
Joseph Black, farmer, living near
Cambridge, Ind, was driving with his
wife and two daughters at Harvey's
Crossing, on saturday, and fast mail
train on the Panhandle road struck the
carriage, killing all four of its occupants.
Advices from Peru report the murder
of tour American explorers on the River
Marauon. They were Californians pros
pecting for gold. The party was nun
dered in cold blood by the natives, who
mistook them for ecclesiastical emissa-
rles and spies.
Reports from - counties in different
parts of Illinois say that in all but one of
them there has been no rain for over six
weeks. In every county heard from
pastures are becoming parched by the
sun, wells are drying up and stock is
suffering greatly for want OF water.
Clarence W. Makepeace and wife of
Avon, Mass, had quarrel on Friday of
last week. The husband threw lamp
at wife, and the latter retaliated by
shooting him in the face with shotgun.
She says she thought it was unloaded,
and that she merely meant to brighten
him.
The Distillers' and Cattle Feeders
company of Illinois have decided to
operate the Manhattan distillery after
the japanese method of making whisky,
invented by Takamine, which is much
cheaper than the old way. Instead of
yeast a species of rice bug is used for the
fermenting process.
The gas went out in negro revival
meeting at Jacksonville, Fla, last week
Wednesday night, and the 500 negroes
thought the day of judgment had come.
4 rush was made for the doors and Win
dows, aud one girl was killed, three
persons fatally injured, and many more
or less injured
The biggest tlywheel in the United
States was turned Monday, in response
to the touch of President Whitney of the
West End Street Railway company of
Boston, at the new power house. The
wheel is y feet in diameter, 10 feet
inches face and weighs 50 tons. with two
belts / feet inches in width, and running
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