Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-02

She is an armored vessel of twelve guns,
10000 tons and IL 800 horse power. Adj
miralty officials are greatly dismayed
and chagrned by the Benbow's return.
as the guns on the Victoria and Sans
Pareil are acknowledged failures.
Several members of desperate gang
of white robbers in jail under sentence
for robbery and train-wrecking over
powered Deputy Sheriff Melton at Gads-
den, Ala, Monday. They put a rope
about his neck and were hanging him.
when policeman appeared and fired on
the prisoners. They fled back to their
cells, and it was afterward found that
two of them were wounded. The rope
was taken from Meton's neck. He will
recover,
Gen. Boulanger committed suicide
Wednesday at the tomb of Nine De Bon
nemaine, who died recently IN Brussels.
She had been Boulanger's mistress and
it was greatly through her favor that he
was able to carry on his political intri-
CUES of couple of years ago. She in
herited fortune of 81 100000 all of
which she devoted TO the cause of the
then popular leader. When the French
government determined to arrest Boulan-
ger he fled with his mistress from France
to England and eventually to Brussels.
Early Wednesday morning collision
occurred east of Kent, o., on the New
York, Penns ylvania and Ohio railroad
between freight and passenger train
Three persons were killed outright and
81 injured several fatally. The passen-
ger train was the Michigan section of the
Olin family excursion. members of which
were going to the national reunion of
their kindred at Bennington this State.
many other Michigan people took advan-
tage of the low rates to visit friends in
the East The collision occurred on
long fill 30 feet high, in the middle of
which was bridge GO feet long over the
Pittsburg and Western tracks. Part of
the passenger train was on the bridge
when the crash came.
The annual report of Commissioner
Raum of the pension bureau. submitted
to the secretary of the interior. shows
that on June 30, 1891. there were G7G,lG0
pensioners borne upon the rolls of the
bureau being l3S. PIG more than were
carried on the rolls at the close Of the last
fiscal year. There were 222,2 first pay
ments of every description, requiring $685.
552, PA. being 500 .592 less than was requir-
ed for the l3U,5l4 first payments made
during the last fiscal year. At the ciose of
the ii .cal year there were 3S Oh pension
ers on the roll who remained unpaid for
the want of time and who were entitled
receive S4,SS3,2 42, which will be paid out
of the appropriation for the current fiscal
year and there remained at the close of
the fl seal year in the hands of the several
pension agents the sum of S5.1l3,o32,
which has since been covered into the
treasury. There are POS. 101 soldiers of
the Union now living, and of the surviv-
ors So, l3S are now on the pension rolls.
There are, therefore, 6SS,J49 survivors
who are not pensiOned and S19,9OS
deceased soldiers not represented On the
pension rolls.
Frank c. Amy, the Hanover murderer,
was on Tuesday taken to Woods vile, y.
H., in a special car and taken to the
court house on a cot. not being able to
walk on account of a broken leg. The
indictment was read to him by Clerk
GrisWOld charging him with the wilful
and premeditated murder of Christie G.
Warden on the night of July Il. Amy
in a clear tone pleaded mot guilty. and
was Immediately removed to Manchester
iail. Farmer Warden of Hanover had a
visitor Monday night. a woman calling
herself DR.. Mary Walker OF Boston
The woman asked to sleep in Christie 5
room for the night. Farmer Warden
consented. but assisted by several of tbs
neghhors watch was kept over the
room. At o'clock DR.. Walker was
aroused, and she informed the men that
she had come to save Christies murder
er. Seventy-iYe dollar. in money was
found upon her. and it was ascertaineo
that she had finished course of lectures
at dime museum in Boston last weel
and was on her way home to Oswego
In compliance with Geographic instruc
lions from Solicitor Mitchell of Boston
the woman was detained. She says Al
my was not the girls murderer.