Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02


Richard vaux elected TO succeed Samuel J.
Randall from the Third congressional district
of Pennsylvania
81. Mckinley tariff bill passed by the house.
20. Equestrian statue Of Gen Robert e. Lee TN
yelled at Richmond, Va.
80 Garfield memorial at Lake View cemetery,
Cleveland, o., dedicated
Railroad train fell through n drawbridge at
Oakland, Cal; 20 killed.
The Lutheran Orphans home at Philadelphia
robbed of $500 by John c. Fill the treas
2. Federal census begun.
o. Eugene COwles son of the late Editor COwles,
who had abducted his own child, shot by his
wifc's brother at Montreal.
16. 80 killed by explosion in Hill farm mine, Dun
bar Pa
II. Baron Won zedwitz German minister to Mex
leo married to Miss Mary B. Caldwell at Wash
ington.
Antonio Navarro married to Miss Mary Ander-
son, the famous actress at Hempstea |, near
London, England.
81. Worth Dickerson elected to succeed John G.
Carlisle from the Sixth Kentucky congress
sional district
"a. Antisugar trust decision sustained by the
New York state court of appeals.
e5. Salvador a miles at Sheepshead Bay, L.
l., in 2 minutes seconds, beating the record
and Tenney
quartermaster general of the U. S. army.
e.. Many deaths from intense heat in Chicago,
Wisconsin and elsewhere reported.
Dependent pension bill signed by the president.
JULY.
3. Idaho admission bill signed by the president.
President nominated Adam King of Maryland,
to be consul general at Paris
s, Passage by the Louisiana house of delegates
of the lottery bill over the governors veto;
senate passed it July 10.
10. Wyoming admission bill signed by the presi-
dent
H. 12 killed by fall of ferry landing at Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia
Il. killed in poi.ical fight at Yoeta Tex
ID. 10 killed by collision on tne Mouon Il. r., near
Springfield Ills
16. President named Gen. \. b. Nettleton of Min
nesota to be assistant secretary of the treas
ury, and Professor James Russell Solely, of
Massachusetts, to be assistant secretary of the
navy.
81. Tariff discussion begun in the U. S. senate
e.. II killed 10y poisoned ice cream at Pilot Point,
Tex.
IA killed and 20 injured by "A collision between
steamers Louise and Virginia near Tolches-
ter, Va.
%. Explosion in a mine Ss. Etenne, France,
12O killed and 81 injured
AUGUST.
2. CHAM. and Chaler, manager and treasurer of
the Erie Transfer company. of New York. ar
rested, charged with stealing $4,000.
8. At Boston, Charles Mccartney, Canadian
bridge jumper, jumped 1870 feet to his death.
6. William Kemmler executed in the state prison
at Auburn, NY, the first under the New York
state law providing for the use of electricity.
10. w. G. Veasey, of Vermont, elected command
er-ln-chef Of the G. y. r.
II. Robbers secured 10000 by "holding up the
limited Kansas express on the Missouri Pacific
10. 20 killed, fatally injured and 25 badly hurt
by the wreck of an express train on the Old
Colony r, r. near Quincy, Mass.
p. Defalcation in $4,000 confessed by the teller
of the Ca, ital City bank, Nashville, Tenn.
killed. 81 injured on the Mount Penn gravity
railroad at Reading, Pa.
%. Body of Capt. John Ericsson transferred to
the U. S. S. Baltimore to be tax IN t. Sweden
81. John Meehan Bank of England oober capt
ured IN Chicago.
Blows exchanged on the door of the house by
Messrs. Beckwith, of New Jersey, and Wilson,
of Washington; remark by Mr.. Cannon
about MIR. McAdoo caused great excitement
IS. Salvador ran a mile in 1855 at Monmouth
park, breaking the record.
80. Meat inspection and agricultural colleges bill
signed ~ the president.
81. Roy Wilkes paced a mile at Independence.
Ia, = 2:0si4 beating the world, record
The .loop t.s ' 5a5 '@2'T' at san Diego. cal,
t. drowned
u IL. IL. >
injured 81 near Florence. Colo.
-. Secretary NiuLOH consulted wi;u y .H. 4 TX
bankers IN regard 10 he financial ..i.lseucy
II. Sharp furry on the London Stock ESchauge;
Barring Bros, in financial diilicu.ti IS
Drowning Of Robert Ray Hamilton of New
York, in Idaho announced.
Secretary Window decide to BIy Sl6OJOOOO in
per cent bonds and to prepay the interest
on outstanding Is 10 relieve the financial strin
gency.
Defalcation of Lewis T. Young, clerk to the
Philadelphia health officer, in Sl1,O)O
Alleged defacation Of Loring X. Loons. n Chi.
caCo stock broker in $1,000.
10, - killed and 10 injured by the wreck of the
Pottsville express on the Reading r r. near
Sloemake!Svle, Pa.
River and harbor and anti-lottery bills signed
by the president.
Turkish man-of-war Ertzoul foundered at sea;
800 lost, among the victims being Osman
Pasha and Ali Pasha.
%. Langston and Miller won contested election
cases of Langston against Venable and Miller
against Elliott in the house.
&c. +. Burd GTubb, of New Jersey, named for the
Spanish mission. and Edwin ii. Conger of
Iowa, for the Brazilian mission by the presi-
dent
q. House adopted the conference report on the
tariff 1: vote 81 to 81.
y. Lig4t killed by u wreck on tae Baltimore and
Ohio Il. r. near Pleasant Valley, O.
20. Land grant forfeiture hill signed 10y the pres
ident
The president nominated members of the
continental railroad commission \. J. CaSsatL
George NJ. Pullman and Henry G Davis.
Smith \. Whtetield, of Ohio, named by the
president To be first assistant pustm aster gen
eral; James Iowrie Bell to be second ~ ,st-
ant postmaster general; Semproaius II. Boyd,
10 be minister To Siam; John N. Irwin. of
Iowa, " be governor OF Arizona, and Alfred
A. Freeman. of Tennessee, to be associate just
ice for New Mexico.
Reginald Birchall convicted at Woodstock Ont
of the murder of f. Z. Benweu and sentenced
to death
80. George $. Batcheller, assistant secretary of
the treasury. named for minister 10 Portugal
Senate passed the conference report on the tar
if bill
OCTOBER
!. Congress- adjourned
3. William H. Schneider turned over $4,000
which he had stolen from the FIRST National
bank of Columbus, Ind.
.. Mckinley tariff law took effect
Plural marriages forbidden by President Wood
ruff, of the Mormon church.
s. Rube Burrows, noted desperate and muir
derer, killed at Birmingham, Ala, after
having escaped from jail.
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