Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
General Veps.

There is a dearth of corn in the south
ern States of Mexico.
The Belgian authorities will allow no
more bull fights in that country.
The famine in Poland is growing
worse. Bread riots have occurred at
Zirwirie.
Typhoid fever has become epidemic in
Chicago. Germs in the lake water are
said TO be the cause.
A daughter was born to eX-President
and Mrs. Cleveland at their home in New
York city Saturday.
The own clerk of Rochester. n. H.,
has skipped with the dog : tax fees,
amounting to about $500.
In Boston September was the warmest
ever known, the mean temperature being
60, or 4.6o above the average for q
years.
Captain Eli Foster, who was one of the
100 officers to escape through the famous
tunnel under Libby prison, died in Chi
cago Sunday.
A movement is on foot to buy up all
the rice mills of the South by a syndicate
composed, it is said, of Standard oil peo-
pie and English capitalists.
The Russian Government has forbid
den press illusions to the famine on ac-
count of articles proposing an income tax
to relieve overburdened peasants.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has become the wife
of William c. Kingsbury Wilde, Il broth
er of the famous Oscar Wilde. They
were married in New York saturday
evening.
The Brazilian government has ordered
the purchase of 100000 cuttings of grape
vines IN the United States and Europe for
use in starting experimental vineyards
in thai republic.
John Brown. a well-to-do negro farm
er. near Chlldersburg, Ala. was murder
ed by masked white men Monday night,
presumably because he was a witness
against white men charged with incen-
diarism.
Showmen attached to e. G. Rogers
CllCuS. tAIllDlllbS a. Nit'Cii"' ~: ~
tempted Thursday to lynch Allen James,
who had mortally stabbed one of their
number in a quarrel. Townspeople pre-
vented it.
George Francis Train, at the Grand
Opera house, New York, Sunday night
declared that it was his last appearance
before an American audience and that il
the future he would be dumb to all say
children.
On Friday evening, at a social party
Miss Lizzie Costello of Wilkesbarre. Pa,
began barking like a dog. Physician
pronounce it a case of hydrophobia OF
the worst kind, and there are no hope;
of her recovery.
Thirty years ago JOIN Bond of Mitch
ell, Ind, enraged because of his father
sale of the farm. took to his bed. remain
ing there ever since. For some time h
has been growing weaker and his dealt
is momentari,y expected.
The grand Jury which has investigate
the collapse of the building in Par
Place, New York city, by which over 6
lives were lost, has reported that the evi
dence gathered would not warrant tn
finding an indictment.
Warren H.. Batchelder of Hampto
Falls, n. H., thinks that the ~artificis
Matching of ducks is a success. Til
year he sent 5000 to market. Next yea
he intends to run GO incubators, and wi
send 10, 600 ducks to slaughter.
The herring fishery on the norther
coast of Newfoundland and Labrador
reported to be a most complete failur
Strong gales have interfered with tn
lobster fisheries, and very little more ca
be done on the coast this season.
The Ohio river between Cincinnati al
Point Pleasant, w. Va, is so low tn
navigation is impossible and Is stear
boats, loaded with freight and passeI
gers, are grounded. 1t is estimated III
low water is causing a loss of 81 ,000, O(
daily.
A royal blue train on the Baltimo
and Ohio railroad, delayed by an elevat
fire on Monday, made a remarkable n
from Canton to Philadelphia. The d
lance. 90 miles, was covered in 81 mi
utes. A part of the way the speed W
~ miles an hour.