Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-14
General l1eps.

a serious drouth affiicts some portions
of Connecticut.
The mercury touched $50 in New York
Monday, causing 80 cases of sunstroke.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster has
decided to attend the Bennington cele-
bration.
Another atrocious Whitechapel MUIR
der has been committed by "Jack the
Ripper"
A great amount of damage has been
done at Melbourne, Australia by a ire
mendous tidal wave.
Frederick Douglass, United States min
lister to Hayti, has rendered his resigna-
ton at the department of state.
a collision on the West Shore road
early Thursday morning killed II per-
sons and fatally wounded others.
a ukase has been issued prohibiting.
from Aug. p, the expectation from Rus
sla of rye and rye meal of all kinds.
Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. Russell Harrison
are in Paris, whence they will proceed in
few days to London, on their way
home.
The report that DR.. Baldwin of Flor
ence had come to America on purpose to
visit Mr.. Blaine is emphatically contra
dicted.
The volcano of Colima, Mexico, is in a
state of eruption. The city of Coima is
covered with ashes, and loss of life is an
tcipated.
The crops in India have failed, owing
to protracted drouth, and people and
their cattle are said to be already diving
of starvation.
William NJ. Fullerton, young Boston
newspaper man, has been appointed Par
is correspondent of the London Times,
to succeed NJ. Blowitz.
General Abner Doubleday, who aimed
the first gun fired in defence of Fort sum
ter in 1861, has been i'll for weeks at
Mendham, Morris county, Nj.
Moses Levy, formerly of Levy Broth
ers & Co. of New York, who failed for a
million dollars last May, is in prison
charged with swindling his creditors.
The real and personal valuation of Bos-
ton, 1891, is SS55,066, lib, gain of over
S33, 900 over 1890. The number of
polls has been increased about 1000.
Six schools for the propagation of So
calistic doctrines among the laboring
classes were opened in Berlin on Sunday.
They could only accommodate one-fourth
of the applicants.
Mrs. Leila Robinson Sawtelle, the first
woman in Massachusetts to be admitted
to the practice of law, died suddenly
from an overdose of medicine Sunday at
Amherst, n. II.
At Ripon, Wis. Mrs. William Drager
took three ounces of Paris green, then
went to an Clubhouse and disemboweed
herself. She lived four hours. Mrs.
Drager had quarreled with her husband.
The Grand Army committees on the
Logan and Sheridan monuments reported
to the national encampment Friday that
$4,000 had been received for the Logan
and $4,000 for the Sheridan monument.
The papers in the suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr.,
were served upon young James Monday
by the sheriff at Bar Harbor. Desertion
is the ground upon which divorce is
asked.
The "King of the Tramps" has sent
word to the secretary of the treasury to
the effect that band of scoundrels pro-
pose to set numerous fires in Washing
ton and during the excitement to rob the
treasury.
Grasshoppers are doing great damage
throughout Ohio. They have destroyed
the clover seed crop, are running the
wheat and cornfields and eating up the
pasture. Fruit trees are also being dam
aged by them.
David King, an Algona, Iowa, farmer
who was buncoed out of $1,000 by cou-
pie of sharpers, claims to have been hyp-
Noticed. Although commonly reputed
to be sharp and shrewd, King was easily
persuaded to draw $1,000 out of the bank
and wager it on three-card monte game.