Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-03
DOMESTIC.

1t is said that $1,000 coal miners in
Central Pennsylvania will strike on Nav
Both branches of the Maine legislature
nave passed bill providing for an educa-
tional qualification for voting.
y snow storm in Washington. Penn
sylvania and Virginia on Friday last left
several inches of snow on the ground.
6. W. Porter of Kansas City. high
chief ranger of the Missouri order of
toresters, has disappeared with the Or
der's money.
David Lewis, a pressman on the Du-
luth (Minn.) Tribune, has fallen heir to a
One-tifth interest in SIS. 000, 900 at Ports
mouth, England.
Citizens of Decatur, ILL.,. are bovcot-
ting the local cemetery because the body
of o. W. Crawford, VINO was hanged for
murder, is buried there.
Charles Elliott. gambler, of Spokane
Falls, Washington, shot two actresses
dead on the stage of Il variety theatre
Thursday night and then took his own
life.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby died at his
residence in New York Sunday evening
at 5.43 o'clock. The end was peaceful
lie had been i'll for less than a week with
the grip.
Gen, Mahone and John VI. Langston
have, it is stated, settled their differences
and will hereafter work in harmony for
the promotion of the interest of the Re-
publican party in Virginia
John Plankinton, Milwaukees fore
most citizen, died Sunday night. lie
built up great fortune in the packing
business. III which he was long associated
with p. ID. Armour of Chicago.
The lumber laden barque Dictator,
bound for England. was driven ashore
on the Virginia coast Friday, off Cape
Henry, and eight persons We're drowned,
including the captains wife and child.
The death rate in Chicago consequent
upon the grip epidemic has steadily in
creased from week TO week during the
month. The number of deaths during
March has been unprecedentedly large
about 5000.
Zoe Clayton. the actor, who started
from San Francisco several months ago
to walk to New York on wager. arriv-
ed at New York Friday evening, Miss
Clayton is IL days ahead of her time. She
has walked the distance, 1895 miles, in
6 months and 26 days.
Attachment proceedings were begun in
the circuit court at Chicago Tuesday by
the Pullman palace car company against
the Central Vermont railroad company,
to recover Sll3,739. The claim is based
on "A balance due on "A contract between
the two companies for the use of Pullman
cars on the Central Vermont roads.
The st. Louis stamping company has
begun erecting the first tin plate works
in this country. The stamping company
is turning out tin plates now in small
way, but it is expected that when the
new works are completed it will put on
the market between 400 and 800 boxes
Il day and the capacity will be increased
it desired.
The American national bank of Kansas
City, Mo-, which failed January 10, re-
sumed business Tuesday morning. The
bank has over SLIPS, 900 in its vaults. 1t
was predicted that there would be run
on the bank when it opened. But such
was not the case. On the contrary, it
received deposits from its old customers
and there is general feeling of conf
dence in the new concern.
The standpipe of the Defiance (O.)
water company collapsed Monday after
noon. The pipe was 40 feet long and
~ in diameter, and stood on foundation
of solid masonry. The lower 80 feet of
the pipe was torn into fragments, one
great piece being hurled against the
pump-house 100 feet away, crushing in
the side of the building, while the water