Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06
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Ark, was burned Saturday night; loss
about S25O,OOO.
The number of men killed by the re-
cent explosion in Pennsylvania mine
has been increased to l3l.
The bill granting New York city the
right to adopt measures for rapid transit
has passed the legislature.
Rev. M. j. Savage has decided to re-
main in Boston, and therefore declines
his recent call to Chicago.
The Interstate commission decides that
Boston has been charged too high rate
for peaches from Delaware.
1t is alleged that diseased hogs are be-
ing shipped to market from Kansas,
where the hog cholera is raging.
The Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain,
Michigan, is on fire, and eight men are
imprisoned with no hope of escape.
Senator Jones was elected United
States Senator for the fourth term by the
Nevada legislature Thursday, receiving
Of NOIcS OUT OI OU.
Sarah Bernhardt is playing in New
York city. She is to receive 5000 a
night and one-third of the receipts dur
ing her American tour. She expects
that will average sl200 night.
A surgeon of Decatur, H., has just
completed Il novel surgical operation.
He removed part of four ribs of cat and
inserted them in the nose of a young
lady, forming bridge for the nose. The
bones of the nose had decayed and were
removed.
The news of the death of Secretary
Window, who for many years made Wi
mona, Mimi, his home, was received with
universal sorrow at that place. Flags on
all the public buildings were at half mast
and the board of trade met and adopt
ed suitable resolutions.
William ii. Buttner and William ID.
Hughes, convicted of forging divorce pa
pers, were sentenced in the court of gen
eral sessions at New York Friday by Re-
corder Smythe. Hughes was sentenced
to five years imprisonment and Buttner
to seven years at hard labor.
Six blocks were burned and three per-
sons lost their lives early Monday morn
ing at Cygnet., o., l6 miles north of Find
lay. The dead are p. Maloney, Frank
Satterlee and Gertrude Satterlee. Sev-
eral others were injured. The loss will
exceed 100000; little insurance.
Helen Potts, the 20-years-old daughter
of George II. Potts, wealthy railroad
contractor, living at Asbury Park, N. j.,
died of morphine poisoning Sunday
morning in the Comstock select board
ing school at 32 West Fortieth street,
New York. The drug had been pre-
scribed to her for insomnia by Carlyle
w. Harris, young medical student, and
a friend of the unfortunate young girls
family.
An Omaha despatch of Tuesday says
Advices report )ne of the severest storms
IN the history IF the West in northern
below zero at Lead City and 800 and 40 o
below at Galem. Much stock is freez-
ing to death and great loss of life is
feared, especially in western Nebraska,
} among destitute settlers. At st. Paul,
MINI. the merclry got down to 20o be-
low zero.
IhipaOn of RI
the effect that the chairmen of finance
: and ways and means committees of the
worlds fair will report this week that
nothing less than $15,OOO,O 900 will meet
the necessities of the directors. That is
the total of the estimated expense of each
of the different departments. A large
part of this must be available for use be-
fore a dollar is received at the gates
This will put tn. directory in an awk-
ward position. At the utmost but So.
100000 will be at their disposal before
May l, 1893.
An agent of the United States treasury
department has )een at West Superior
Wis, for several days for the purpose OF
investigating the 'eported smuggling in
to the United States from Port Arthur
Ont, of a large number of Cinnamon
Since the beginning of winter a number
of enterprsing Individuals have gone in
to the business Quite extensively. Tn,
: celestials are brought from Canadian
: ports, from when'e they make their way
e to Port Arthur. There they are provided
t with transportation into the United States
in sleighs and wagons.