Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-17
General l1eps.

The inventory of the estate of the late
Secretary Window places its value at
Sl99, 100.9S.
Senator Allison thinks the political
outlook in Iowa very favorable to the
Republicans.
An opium smuggler with 260 pounds
of the contraband article has been ar
rested in Chicago.
The London Times urges Englishmen
to exhibit fully at the Chicago Worlds
fair, on the chance of future gain.
Renewed efforts are being made by
Minister Reid to have the decree against
American pork in France rescinded.
Edward Burgess, the most successful
yacht designer of the century, died in
Boston on Sunday of typhoid fever.
Seven persons were sealded to death
and six badly scaded in a railroad acct
dent at Aspen junction, Col, on Sunday.
Dunbar, the American, who murder
ously assaulted his wife in Wales. has
been acquitted on the ground of insanity.
An English syndicate has obtained con-
troll of the principal glucose houses of
this country, the contract being closed at
Chicago Monday.
A census bulletin on the population of
Wyoming shows an increase during the
decade of 9,9lG, or l92.0l per cent, the
population in 1850 being 10,7S9, and in
1890, GO, 705.
a mysteriously formed lake is rapidly
filling in the desert near Salon, Colorado.
1t is said to be thirty miles long by
twelve wide. a branch from the Colora-
do river is feeding it.
OnJuly 1 an imperial bronze statue,
erected to the memory of Samuel ). Cox
by the letter-carriers of the United
States, was unveiled in front of Cooper
institute, New York city.
While President Carnot was opening a
new avenue in Paris, Monday, a mailman
rushed toward his carriage and fired a
pistol at him. The man was arrested.
The President was not hurt.
Hon. Hiram C. Wheeler, the Republi-
can candidate for governor of Iowa, was
born in New Hampshire in 1885. He now
has the greatest farm in Iowa, and raises
large droves of blooded stock.
August Hoenig, one of the leading car
pet manufacturers of Dresden, has failed
with liabilities of 100000 marks. The
failure is alleged to be due to the stop
page of American purchases owing to
the increased tariff.
Comptroller Lacey has made an assess
ment of 100000 on the shareholders of
the Keystone bank of Philadelphia, on
account of their individual liabilities,
being 100 per cent of the par value of
the stock, payable Aug. II, 1891.
The late Junius S. Morgan of New
York left $4,000 to found an E. j.
Phelps professOrship at the Yale Law
school, and now his son, j. PierpOnt Nor
gan, has given similar sum to endOw
another professorship in the same school.
Citizen George Francis Train arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on Monday and left at
midnight for Whatcom, the end of his
journey, where he arrived Tuesday. He
is in high spirits over beating his former
record and circling the globe in go days.
Rev. Charles H. Sturgeon, the London
preacher, who has been dangerously i'll
for some time past, but whose condition
recently has been such as to Justify hopes
of his ultimate recovery, has suffered a
relapse and is again in a very critical con-
dition.
The heavy and incessant rains which
have been prevailing in Australia for
overflow of the Yarra Iarra river. The
streets of Melbourne have been inundated
by the overflow, and thousands of peo-
pie are homeless.
The Oldest living triplets in Pennsyl-
vania are Rebecca, Benjamin and Samuel
Roller of SumnevtOwn, Berks county.
who recently celebrated their seventy.
seventh birthday anniversary. They are
l Il, It'll Ill
remarkably good health.
Gen. Benjamin Franklin Kelley, who
organized the first Union regiment south
OF Mason and DiXon's line and was OF
aterial assistance in securing West Vir.
ginia to the North, is dying at his farm
near Oakland, Md. He fought at Phil
lippi, the first battle of the war.
There is a revival in London of the ru
NOR that Lord Randolph Churchill is dis
playing curious jealousy and that there
is possibility of an immediate separa
ton from his pretty American wife OF
account of the attention paid her by Al
bert Edward Victor, Duke of Clarence
The Washington Star says 1t is sale
to definitely settled now that Minister
Douglass will not return to Hayti. Hav
ing brought back with him a reciprocity
treaty with Hayti, he is said to b,
satisfied with his mission and is ready t,
resign. 1t will probably be a Ions
time after he retres before another min
lister Is appointed.
BY order of the Roumanian govern
ment the Roumanian frontiers borderin,
on Russia have been cordoned witt
troops in order to prevent the influx o
Jews fleeing from Russia, In additio
no passengers from Russia are allowe
to land at Roumanian ports unless thei
passports have been previously vised a
some ROumanian consulate.
DR.. Leidig has raised sensation
Berlin by accusing Professor Bergmap
and DR.. Hahn of experimenting vii
cancer NEGOTIATIONS since 1887 on hospti
patients, without their knowledge or cor
sent. Doctors Bergman and Hah
admit the truth of the charge, but claiI
that in every case the patient has bee
past recovery. They add as an excus
. that it is necessary to select huma
beings for experiment, as the lowe
animals are unsuitable.
\ panic occurred at Tuesdays perfo
, nance of FOrepaugh's circus in Roc