Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-11
General l1ems.


Kansas City freight yards are blockade
ed by loaded grain cars, east-bound
Judge Benjamin Hall died Sunday at
Auburn, y. Y. He was William III
Stewards law partner.
South Sea Islanders are being taken I'd
Mexico to work on plantations there in a
way that suggests slavery.
a terrific gale in North Wales has
caused further great damage to crops
Prayers were SAID in the churches sun
day for fine weather.
And now a Chicagoan suggests I'd
Secretary Rusk that his rain producing
apparatus be used to create fogs, which
will prevent injury from frost
The British barque Fiji. bound from
Hamburg to Melbourne, has been wreck
ed on the rocks off Warnambool, Aus
tralia. Thirteen of the crew were drown1
ed
The town hall at Somerein, Il milea|
from Presburg, Hungary. has been blown
up by gasoline. 1t was completely
wrecked and three persons were fatally
injured.
Two conyicts in the pententiary atj
Frankfort, Ky, fought on Sunday. and
both Of them, with a third convict Wild
tried to separate them, were fatally ind
iured.
The new Gillian government is busily|
engaged endeavoring to reorganize the|
civil service and to arrange the tangled
finances of the country. Minister Egan' !
course appears after all to have been
creditable.
The latest census bulletin shows the
population of the State of Washington
to be 349,390, an increase of 1856. - peri
cent over that of 1880 Nine new coun1
ties have been formed, and in all the
counties except one large increases are
shown.
Jew named Elchenholz and several
companions have been arrested at
Odessa, Russia, on the charge of produce
ing in hundreds of wealthy Jewish Ger
man youths who wished to evade con-
scription an apparently serious skin
affection, by means of simultaneous in
iections of petroleum and croton oil.
At Findlay, o., Monday afternoon
while number of men were threshng
wheat, the machine exploded, wrecking
the place. William Null was killed and
four Others seriOuly injured. On investi
CATION it was found that dynamite cart.
ridge had been placed in a sheaf of wheat
by some person unknown, causing the
explosion.
John Carter and George Buro came to
town Saturday night, says an Evansville,
Ind, dispatch, and on their way home
Buro occupied the front seat of the car
riage and Carter sat Immediately behind
him. They quarreled, and Carter seized
Buro's head, pulled it backward and cut
his throat from ear to ear. Buro died
Immediately. Carter fled, but was cap
tured
on record Is that of |. Meredith, aged
seventy-eight, of Monticello. Ill. He
has been tapped 27S times, and an aver
age of thirteen pounds of water removed
each time, making 3Gl4 pounds of water
which has been removed from him. He
is now confined to his bed, and is gradu-
ally growing weaker and cannot live
long.
The Grady monument will be unveiled
October 81 at Atlanta, Ga. Among the
prominent gentlemen who have accepted
invitations to be present and to par
ticipate in the exercises are Gov
Hill of New York, Gov. Pattison
of Pennsylvania, Gov. Albeit of
! New Jersey, Senator Vest of Missouri,
Gen. Patrick Collins of Boston, Senator
Wolcott of Colorado and others.
Mrs. Daniel Lyons of Rockland, Mass,
thinks that Frank c. Amy, the Han
, over murderer, is her husband. Some
two years ago Mrs. Lyons, who wa;
then known as Mrs. Charles Sprague
, kept boarding house in Rockland
Among her boarders was one Daniel j
Lyons, who was employed in Studley';
box mill. After short time he married
Mrs. Sprague, and soon after he obtained
$500 from her and left town. He was
heard from in Philadelphia. but was
without money. He soon after returned
but in May, 1889, again ran away ant
has not been heard from since. Mrs
Lyons is of the opinion that the descrip
: ton of Amy corresponds with that O
5 her missing husband.
Edward Gillis, 8 years old, had hor
! rible and fatal experience in Wheeling
West Va, Sunday. Young ellis was
playing in the street, and near at hanC
J was dog kennel in which were confined
| six huge mastiffs worth 500 apiece
I ellis began teasing the dogs and the,
: became fearfully enraged. One of tn