Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-12-04
General l1eps.

Maine horsemen are to build kite
shaped track near Portland.
Dom Pedro, Brazil's deposed monarch,
is very i'll in Paris.
a malignant case of genuine leprosy
has been discovered at Clare, Mich.
The Mississippi at Galena, H., is
frozen solidly from shore to shore.
Rebellious Chinese are marching on Pc
kin and a great civil war is imminent in
the tlowery kingdom.
The date of the annual encampment
of the q. A. X. at Washington has been
fixed for June %, 1892.
Since July 10000 Russian Jews have
been forwarded to North and South
America through German ports alone.
Inventor Edison is modifying the
phonogragh in order that it may replace
the raised letter system of reading
for the blind.
y London soap firm has paid the treas
urer of the Gladstonian Liberals 100000
for good word from Gladstone as to
the merits of its wares.
Tsuda Snnzo, the japanese policeman
who attempted to assassinate the caro-
witch of Russia at Otsu last May has
just died in the penitentiary.
The brig Tahiti, having on board 210
Gilbert islanders who were being taken
to Mexico to work on plantations. has
been wrecked in the Pacific ocean and all
on board persisted.
The Dominion government at Ottawa
has decided to suspend for the winter the
regulation requiring that cattle be quar-
antined for ninety days before enter
ing the province.
John Springer, a heavy weight, and
William Noble, light weight, sat on Il
rail fence on Il bet for an oyster supper
for forty-elght hours in an Ohio town,
when Springer fell Off
One of the largest svndicatcs ever
formed for the importation of spruce
timber from Canada for pulp mills has
Just been formed by five of the larges t
pulp concerns in New York and Canada.
Commander in Chief John Palmer of
the Grand Army of the Republic is in
receipt of many communications favor
ing the purchase of Mount McGregor.
wnere General Grant died. for a home
for consumptiVe soldiers.
Isaac b. SaWtelle. under sentence of
death for the murder of his brother Hi
ram, asks for ii new trial. He confesseS
the crime, but says that others helped
him do it and that the scene of the muir
der was in Maine, not New Hampshire.
The influenza prevalent in Berlin is of
much more yirulent type than that
which caused so much suffering in 1880
Thirty deaths from the affection during
the eight days past are reported. Ply
sicians estimate that 40, 600 persons have
been attacked with influenza since No
vember in Berlin alone.
Influenza is raging with undated vir-
ulence TIN oughout the Australian colo
MES, and the epidemic is causing many
deaths. So many railway employees are
down with the maady that traffic is
seriously interfered with. People are
dying by the hundreds.
y wholesale escape of prisoners from
the Western penitentiary at Pittsburg.
IA, was frustrated on Saturday by the
discovery of an underground tunnel be-
neath the mat packing house. The
farther end of the tunnel was partly cut
through the foundation of the outside
wall. and only five feet of stone remained
to be removed.
George KEENAN,, the lecturer and writer
on the siberian exile system, is seriously
i'll from nervous prostratiOn in san Fran
cisco. For months he has been working
fifteen hours day on his new book
about Siberia, besides travelling and lee
turing at the same time, and his system
has been completely shattered.
Train robbers held up train bound
west just outside the limits of st. Louis
Monday night and robbed the express
car of about $4,000. Six men did the
job, and none of them has been caught.
The door of the car vas blown open
with sticks of dynamite. The messen-
ger received severe injuries in the eXplo-
sion, which nearly blew of one end of
the car.
Rev. DR.. John Hall, pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church. New York
narrowly escaped death Sunday at the
hands of an assassin. Three shots were
fired at him as he came out of the church
after the morning service. Happily all
of them missed their mark. John George
Roth, the man who tried to kill DR.. Hall.
II craZed creature with fanciful griev-
ance, is in the hands of the police.
Edward NJ. Field, Daniel \. Lindley
John f. Wiechers and Herman c. Hi.
mers, composing the firm of Field, Lind.
ley, Wieclers Il Co.. bankers in the
the Washington building, New York
made an assignment Friday to Charles
W. Gould, without preferences. Ed
ward NJ. Field is Il son of Cyrus W. Field
Who retired from the firm IN tha first N