Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-06
General l1eps.

The natives of Madagascar have mas
sacred number of French soldiers.
y terrific snow storm ragged over
Northern Wisconsin Saturday night.
The grip is epidemic at Melbourne.
Australia, and in the surrounding coun-
try.
Russian ukase issued Monday pre-
hibits the export of all cereals except
wheat.
The city of Dover, n. H., is scourged
with diphtheria and some of the schools
have closed.
Thomas Ryan, United States minister
to Mexico. who is in Chicago, says Mexico
is enthusiastic for reciprocity with the
United States.
Burglars entered the house of Mrs.
Mary E. G. Dow at Dover, n. H., the
other night and stole iewelry and Sc
curities valued at $500.
At Georgiana, Ala, Tom Shepherd.
so, and his wife, were found in their
bed Tuesday morning Drained with an
AK. This is the fifth murder there in
ninety days.
1t is feared that Mrs. Charles Stewart
Parnell may not survive the shock caus-
ed by her husbands death. She is
growing rapidly weaker. She is at
Brighton, Eng
Timothy Healy. McCarthyite member
of the house of commons. has been
publicly horsewhipped in the streets of
the town of LOngford, Ire, by Nc
Dermott. the nephew of the late c. 5.
Parnell.
Charles F. Blisch, proprietor of the
Eagle Hotel in PeekSkill. y. Y, was
shot and killed Monday by Henry E.
Belts of Brooklyn, who says Blsch broke
up his family and ruined his life. Belts
gave himself up.
The fastest run on record from Chica-
90 to Detroit was made Saturday on the
Michigan Central road, 24G miles being
made in 6 hours 10 minutes, including
y minutes consumed in stops. The ay-
erage rate was siXty-eight miles an hour.
The English gun-boat Sabrina, while
engaged in gun practice Friday, shot and
Immediately sunk the fishing smacks
Sunbeam and Aurore, both of which
were anchored outside of the Plymouth
eng breakwater. One man belonging
TO the Aurore was drowned
Mrs. Sarah Deering of Denison, Tex,
Saturday, left her child in the front
yard a few moments. On her return
she found IA large snake coiled around
the child's neck. Upon killing the
snake the child was found to be dead
from strangulation.
The steamer Oliver Bierne has been
burned on the Mississippi near Ncks-
burg and lG lives lost. Many of those
were seriously Injured by falling spars
and timbers. and are in hospitals and
private houses at Ncksburg.
The Persian government is said to be
Dent upon eNtermlnatlnS the KaOl sect.
and the governor of lezd, who is a
grandson of the Shah, had seven strang-
led or beheaded. Numbers are rotting
in prisons, and many have fled to the
deserts, probably to die of starvation.
Nathan Harris of Rich Valley, Va,
has daughter, 10 years of age, who is
only two feet ten inches in hight and
weighs just forty and half pounds.
She is well proportional and intelligent,
and her hair sweeps the floor when she
stands erect. She is the eldest of four
children.
Julius l.. Rappanot of Peoria, Ill. has
secured Judgment of $50 against the
Western Union Telegraph company for
failure to deliver message The mes
senger failed to find Rappanot at home
and left note instead of returning.
The court held the company did not use
proper effort and diligence.
Gold was found on the banks of the
Missouri at Kansas City saturday at a
depth of III feet, while boring to find