Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-07
General Veps.

Ipeople TO tne verge vi slai N"O'oh'
John Bell, we'll known as an intimtea
friend of Sir Walter Scott, died on Mon
day at Merose, Scotland,
The Canadian government has decided
to surrender the seven American hshihg
Vessels seized off Eastport
A niece of Secretary Blaine was SER
iously injured in runaway accident at
Washington Saturday night.
Smallpox is epidemic at Acapulco,
Mexico. The American CONSUL at Vera
Cruz is sick with yellow fever.
A Bessemer steel mandatory is now
n operation near Baltimore, the second
of the kind south of Mason and Dixon S
line.
Emperor William believes that the best
way to reduce drunkenness is to impose
Revere penalties on the sale of impure
liquors.
Abraham Backer, New York note
broker, a dry goods merchant and
manufacturer, has failed for about
81, 100000.
The governor of New Hampshire has
offered rewards for the capture OF Amy
lind for the arrest of Macarthur, who es-
taped from Dover Jail.
The patent office the past year was
more than self-suppotng. 1t granted
e5 1907 patents; 17A trade marks and 2S3
labels were registered.
1t is said that the Pope created much
Excitement in banking circles on Satur-
bay by ordering withdrawal of S2,OoO,-
boo from the bank of Rome.
A smash-up occurred Monday on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
road, and loss of life was narrowly aver
ted. 1t will cost the road about S25, 900.
Careful New York fianciers are said
to be taking gold loans at a much lower
figure than they will accept currency
oans, on account of the free silver agi-
ation.
The motion of Sir Henry Parkes in
avor of granting the right of suffrage to
women in New South Wales has been re-
ected by vote of 81 to 81 by the legisla-
i've assembly.
The 335th anniversary of the death of
gnatius Loyola, the founder of the
ociety of Jesus, was celebrated through
|ut Spain Saturday with the greatest
Pomp and ceremony.
Samuel Freeman, a wealthy merchant
living i'm the suburbs of Severance, Kan
as, killed his wife and one year old child
tuesday night and then shot himself.
No cause for the crime is known.
A Mexican, said to be man of wealth
nd influence, who arrived in New York
n Monday, says there is real danger of
revolutionary movement in Mexico,
nd that it is liable to break out at any
our.
Competition between the Spreckles
Philadelphia Sugar company and Havem-
yer of the sugar trust has gone so far
s to reduce graduated sugar to 4 cents
per pound, with 2 per cent discount for
bash.
Pension payments aggregating seven
md half million dollars have been made
by the United States treasury since the 1st
nst. The pension money was distributed
New York, Philadelphia, Topeka, In
Annapolis, Knoxville and Louisville.
Secretary Foster in letter to COM
nittee of Hebrews in regard to the mmi-
grafton laws as affecting the influx Of
Russian Jews, advises that they be scat
cred as widely as possible over the coun'
try and not concentrate in few locali
ties.
1t has been discovered that diphtheris
II its most malignant form is prevalen
the South Dakota hospital for the in
sane, located near Yankton. There arr
BOO people in the institution, and grea
alarm is felt. The hospital is under rigic
quarantine.
A Russian named Koton has arrived a
ht Breslau after IS years confinement il
Siberia. He had made numerous fulfill
attempts to escape and each time wa
visited with a fresh sentence. He full.
confirms George Remnants accounts o
he shocking state of the Russian
prisons.
The total receipts from customs during
he month of July were S23, 953,3S6, o
IS, S45, 1882 less than the receipts durin
the same month of last year, The re
ceipts at New York for July last wer
sll 1903 ,l69, or s5,s69,s47 less than i
July, 1890, and $2,4S7, 1881 less than i
July, 1889.
From Lima and Callao it is reporte
that smallpox is spreading every da,
and the citizens have not the slighte'
dea of what the authorities mean to
to check its spread. Old and young al
alike subject to it. The doctors say the
cannot get vaccine matter at any pri(
for their clients.
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