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

1t was supposed that he was mistaken
for the night Waterman by burglars who
had robbed a saloon, and in trying to
arrest them he was shot.
Mrs. j. 5. Palmer, wife of eX-Postmas-
ter Palmer of Portland, Me-, has secured
a patent on a process for bleaching wood
pulp used in the manufacture of paper.
1t is claimed that her invention is one of
great value, and one from which she is
almost sure to realize a fortune.
Henry F. Hardy, the notorious bank
robber, escaped from the Clinton, New
York, prison on Thursday of last week.
He secured a workman's frock and over
alls and quietly walked out, making for
the Adirondack mountains. He had been
gone an hour before his escape was MOTTO
ed.
A tourist from Chicago named Solomon
Schmidt inscribed his name and address
on the famous Niederwald monument at
Rudesheim. The guard caught him in
the act, and instead of having him i'm
prisoned made him fetch a bucket of wat
er and soap from the guard house and
scrub off the marks, his fellow tourists
deriding him meanwhile.
A big freight train robbery is reported
on the Milwaukee road between Lake
City and Red Wing, MIMI, on Saturday
night. A large number of railroad de-
t~ectives are working in that vicinity. 1t
is said that sealskins and fine imported
shawls worth several thousand dollars
were in the booty secured by the robbers
Abram Abrahams of New York and
James Muldoon of Toronto, together
with two Cinnamon, were arrested at Nj
agara Falls, Saturday, on a charge of
smuggling the latter into this country.
The story is that Muldoon has been in
collision with United States marshals in
this kind of business. Il
Queen L%illuokalani, the new ruler of
Hawaii, who succeeded to the throne
upon the death of kalakaua, is at the
point of death. She has had serious
fainting spells recently and her physi-
CIdH. DIs lIOSSCdus SOn vi th0 hOiNt
French physician, has pronounced her
trouble organic disease of the heart, and
her death may happen at any moment.
The United States commissioner of ed
cation says in his annual report that
there were enrolled during the fiscal year
lSS9-90 in the public schools of element
airy and secondary grade l2,Gs6,97 3 pu-
pills as against 9,S67 800 in 1880. The en-
rollment formed 20.27 per cent of the
population of 1890. The average daily
attendance on each school day in 1890
was S.144,93S.
The Ulster county On. W savings in
stitution has closed its doors and is in
charge of Bank Superintendent Charles
: NJ. Preston. Expert examiners have
= found already that the enormous sum of
S513,000 has been stolen by Treasurer
Ostrander and Mathew 7. Trumphour,
assistant treasurer, and it is feared thai
the stealings will reach a larger amount,
Trumphour has confessed.
+ During a recent night Journey of En-
: peror Francis Joseph of Austria an at
tempt was made with a dynamite bomb
l. or other bomb loaded with "A high eX.
: plosive to blow up the railroad bridge at
Rosenthal, over which his train was tC
5 run. Some railroad Waterman. it is said
l. saw the would-be assassins, as they wer,
on the point of attaching the bomb L
), the bridge structure, and by appearing
t upon the scene frustrated their design
At Altoona, Ia. Monday, 40 carriages
followed the remains of Nicholas Hem
= street to the cemetery. While windin.
down Il hill, a team of horses, frightened
d at IA threshing machine, ran away ant
l. dashed into and upset a dozen carriages
'e breaking six into splInters. Men ant
n women, panic-stricken, jumped out of tn
e carriages and were trampled upon by
runaway teams. One man was killed
:, two were fatally hurt and over 20 peopl
=, were injured.
80 The immense packing establishment o
. John p. Squire Il Co.. IN East Cambridg
- and Somerville, Mass, was partially dc
stroyed by fire Monday night, entailing
H. loss of about Sl50,000. The building
5 form a hollow square comprising sewers
acres. The fire caught in the hog builC
ne ing on the northerly end of the square,
III wooden structure four stories high, q
by GO feet, in which were 1900 live hog
ed These animals were all roasted to deaf
rk and the building laid fiat.
The newspapers of st. Petersburg d.
nounce the conduct of merchants al
members of the nobility for seeking pro
it from their stores of corn while Il
on peasants are starving. They make
ial strong appeal to the government to r
his move the edict prohibiting the export
rye and substitute therefor a heavy tt
i'll on the expectation of all cereals. r
ports from the Baku district and els