Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-23

united states marSnalS Oh MOnuay
captured eleven smugglers at Seattle,
Wash, on sloop filled with contraband
whisky. The smugglers, surprised, sur
rendered without resistance.
The Russian government has closed
the university of kieff and placed 800
students under arrest. This action has
been taken on account of the recent rev.
dictionary action of the students.
Aleck Morris was hanged at Madison.
Ga, Friday, for decapitating his wife's
father and mother with an axe four years
ago. He had protessed religion and
claimed that his wife led him into the
crime.
The New York and New Jersey bridge
company, amalgamated, proposes to
bridge the Hudson at a cost of 500, 0O0,-
600, and thus bring all railroads now ter
minatng in Jersey City into the city of
New York
Irving 4. Evans, a Boston broker, and
a son of Alonzo Evans of Boston, COM
mitted suicide Monday morning by shoot
ing himself at the summer residence of
Brice L. Evans in Allenstown, n. II. He
had been losing money of late.
The province of Granada, Spain, was
visited by terrific storm on Sunday.
The wind blew a hurricane. The town
of Granada and the whole surrounding
country were inundated, and immense
damage has been caused by the flood.
A shock of earthquake struck Burns
vile, Miss, at | o'clock Thursday morn
ing. Five other distinct shocks were
| felt before 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The shock was also felt at Middleton, at
Florence. Ala. Inka. Corinth and Nash
vile, Tenn.
The expenditures for pensions for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1891. as now
officially stated amounted to Sl24,4l3,-
95l 40. In the fiscal year ending June
30, 1890, we paid 500, ,534, while in
the year before that the amount was
SS7, 64, 09.1.
per's Ferry, in which John Brown was
captured, is to be taken to Chicago by a
syndicate. 1t is the intention to erect a
large building, the lower stories of which
will be used as a war museum, and the
upper stories as theater.
Great Britain was visited by terrific
storm on Thursday and Friday last. Lon
don was deluged with rain, swept with
fearful wind blasts. shaken by thunder
and startled by flashes of the most vivit
lightning. Much damage was done along
the coast and to shipping.
1t is officially announced at St. Peters
burg that there has been a complete fail
ure of the harvest in thirteen provinces
of the empire and a partial failure in sew
en- others, The czarina has given twenty
million roubles from her private purse
for the relief of the destitute.
James Parton, the well-known author
and historian, died at his home in New
buryport, Mass, on Saturday morning
Mr.. Parton has been failing some time
having given up his work about sly
weeks ago. Since then his decline ha'
been rapid. his disease being hypertro
ply and dilaton of the heart
r An Evanston, Wyo.. coroner has beel
to Jackson's lake and disinterred thu
body there buried before supposed to b'
n that of Robert Ray Hamilton. Surgical
. and other testimony proved beyond
doubt that it was IIamilton's body. TIT
unfortunate man was drowned while try
i inc to cross Snake river, and was burieC
in a rude box.
:, Miss Maggie Smith, a stenographer o
= Guthrie, Oklahoma, discovered DAY o
=, two ago that keokuk, chief of the low
;, Indians, was living on land that had no
been allotted to him. She at once file,
, on the land. She has taken possession
= and the chief will be elected. This CLAIM
- is highly improved, has brick hous
>, and fine barns on it, and is worth owe
$1,000.
Victoriano Viasco and Espernero Ra
- mirez have been counting the same spar
Ish beauty in San Antonio, Texas. Sh
~ was impartial and the rivals decided
-; determine their respective rights by
duel. At midnight Saturday they wei
:, to the Mexican quarter, stripped to IL
skin and fought with stiIettos until pr
, liceman forced an entrance and foun
i. both so badly wounded they may die.
" At menagerie in Buda-Pesth, HUI
T. gary, Monday, lion becoming enragt
W at the teasing of boy suddenly thru
his paw between the bars aud aimed
= blow at the boys head, tearing the sea
off. The lions actions, the shrieks
the wounded boy, and the sight of Il
blood caused the surrounding spectacle
IN to become panic-stricken and to rush f