Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-30
General l1eps.

ing houses whose residents number co.
600 people.
Several deaths and 500 cases of cpl
demic influenza are reported from Nun
sterberg in Silesia.
Nearly one foot of snow fell along the
Inter-colonial railway in New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia Saturday night.
The last French survivor of Trafalgar,
NJ. Cartigny, lives at Nice. He reached
his Tooth year in September last
Secretary Tracy has decided to name
cruiser No. 10, being built by the Column
bia iron works of Baltimore, the Detroit.
Four princes, sons of the king of Siam.
are being educated in England, and are
described by the press as Remarkably
clever
Attacks upon the Salvation army con-
tinues at various places in England nee
essitating the assistance of the police
to the army.
Chancellor Goschen says that the
British national debt has been reduced
f33 900, 900 during the five years ending
last March.
South Australia declines to take any
part officially in the Chicago worlds
fair unless the American duties on wool
are abolished.
Rev. j. S. Morgan of Mulberry Grove,
H., is searching on foot for his son.
aged II, stolen, as supposed, by tramps
August IS, 1890
4 severe epidemic of typhus is raging
among Russian troops on the Austrian
and German frontiers, and the Russians
may have to withdraw.
Formidable floods increase along the
Thames and in Lincolnshire, Somerset
and the midland counties. Floods in the
south of France are also worse.
Major Mckinley addressed an audience
of 5000 people in Cleveland, Ohio, Satur-
day evening, and hundreds were unable
to gain admission to the building.
French smokers in 1890 consumed Gig
airs, cigarettes, snuff and pipe tobacco of
the value of l34, 100000 francs. There
was an increase of 100000 francs in eX-
penditure for ladies cigarettes.
The elections Sunday in the Argentine
Republic were attended with riots at
| COrdova and Tucumen. The police were
] loI fro tla rio m u
of the later were killed or wounded.
Mrs. Christian Bordner of Lewiston,
H., was l02 years old Monday. She
wildly remembers General Washington 5
death, being then 10 years old. She is in
good health and has 353 descendants.
While returning from church Sunday,
Katie Cole. colored Is, fell dead in IL
coughing fit, at PottStown, Pa. lnvestl-
CATION showed that the tight lacing of
her corsets caused the coughing which
killed her.
4 destructive meadow fire Is in pro-
gress in Clark county, Ind, and is
threatening IA number of farm houses.
1t extends for two miles, Hundreds OF
people are fighting the flames, but with
little success.
An abandoned woman was killed il
Berlin, Sunday, after the Jack the Rip
per" style; and Susie Carver, a handso me
) Cheshire Conn girl, was assaulted by
a tramp after similar fashion, but h,
was scared away before he could xii
her.
Thomas Doeillinger, defaulting treas
urer of the Pittsburg, Pa, school board
was arrested Tuesday as he was stepping
from a Rock Island train at Omaha. ii,
. at first gave his name as Henry W
Jones, but afterward acknowledged hi
identity. His shortage is S25 ,000
\ colored child, aged six years, died i
terrible agony of hydrophobia Saturda
afternoon at Marion, Miss. She wa
bitten a few days before by dog that il
n turn had been bitten by moccasi
. of hydrophobia, but was deemed harm
less.
e Walt Whitman is hopelessly paralyzeC
and but shadow of his former self. II
= may live for years, but is liable to die
4 any time as the paralysis is approachin
70 his heart. Whitman is nearly -, ant
= besides beng paralyzed, is afflicted wit
,r gastric, catarrhal and other maladie
= His home is at Camden, n. }.
u \ most disastrous fire has destroyC
H. the flourishing town of Meringen, in Il
x canton of Berne, Switzerland. The ii
ne started in house, and owing to pr
k vailing high wind, gained rapid headwa
ne spreading fearfully through the emit
town. Despite every effort, buildil
~ after building was caught and crumple
M More than 1000 people are homeless.
OF On Monday the New York Central
&C. Hudson River railroad added to its fl
Ike ities for transportation the Emp