Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-20
General l1eps.

Gen. b. F. Butler is seriously i'll in
Boston.
a gang of 10 safe-bowers was arrest
ed in Chicago Sunday.
Dom Piatt, somewhat noted iourna-
list is dead at his home near Cleve-
land. O.
Census bulletin No. 1872 places the pop
ulation of Maryland at 1,042,390. This is
an increase of 107 ~, or ll.49 per cent.
during the decade.
Several inches of snow fell at st.
Paul, Mimi, Sunday Reports from
various parts of the Northwest indicate
that storm was general.
Three Yuma Indians were sentenced to
death at Los Angeles, Cal, Monday for
numbering an old medicine man who fail
ed to bring rain when told to do so.
Allen G. Thurman celebrated his 18th
birthday at Columbus, Ohio, Monday.
Owing to the recent death of Mrs. Thur
man there were no public demonstra-
tons.
One hundred and two morphine pills
were swallowed sunday, at Washington,
by Belle Adams, who said she did not
care to live longer. Physicians placed
her out of danger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne of
| Knoxville, Tenn. will soon celebrate the
| I'D anniversary of their marriage. They
are respectively l0l and 81 years old, and
| have $50 descendants.
Hiram Chase, a full-blooded Indian of
the Omaha tribe, was admitted to prac-
tice in the federal court at Omaha, Neb.,
on Wednesday, He is the first Indian
=, ha of a If
Nebraska.
The council of administration of the
Grand Army of the Republic. in session
at Washington. Friday, fixed upon Sep
TENDER 20 as the date for the meeting OF
the grand encampment at Washington
next year.
At carpet auction in New York last
week sixty thousand pieces of carpet and
so 900 rugs were sold at an aggregate
price of $4,000 900. 1t was the biggest
sale of dry goods that ever took place IN
the United States.
4 huge fire has destroyed | 300 houses
in Hankow, China, and rendered 1900
people homeless. 1t is believed that a
number of women and children lost theil
: lives Two days afterward 200 more
houses were burned.
The low waterin the kennebec is caus
ing great distress in the cities and towns
1 al ,ng its bank. Mills are shutting dow
: daily. The city of Augusta is in dark
e ness. as the low water has caused til,
electric company to shut down.
Thos. f. Chacc of Providence. Il. l., i
!, in iail at New York on the charge -
!, smuggling into this country from Canada
opium prepared for smoking, on whicl
there is duty of SD a pound. Interest
II inc developments are looked for.
:, Bramwcll Booth. who acts as genera
:, of the Salvation army in the absence q
:, his father in Australia. is about 10 give
= dinner to 600 London thieves, and has az
=, pealed to the queen to consent to the u
., of her name as patron OF the banquet
= Frederick Turner. eX-sccretary an
: treasurer of the knights of Labor, VIII
i accused of being S3l 900 short in hi
: accounts with the order, has made an cN
a PLANTATION that i rs sensational aS ar
= the charges. He accuses Powderly c
II using the funds of the X. of l.. to pa
+ personal bills.
4 The Jury in the case of Rev. llarr
L. George, at Catskill, y. y, charged wit
: mans laughter in having caused the deaf
=. of his adopted daughter, Lolita Tow
h send. by malpractice. rendered verdi(
f. of guilty Saturday night, and he was sci
ii fenced to IL years imprisonment at har
labor in Dannemora prison.
e Black diphtheria in an unusually virl
,S lent form is epidemic at several points
TT Warren and Clermont counties. Obi
If The disease first appeared at Hills ST.
he ton, in Warren county, and practical
le the whole village have the disease, Il
in deaths averaging 90 per cent. of the case
tx Business is wholly suspended and Il
" schools are closed.
" The midnight train from Chicago, {
ne the Milwaukee and st Paul road, W
ne robbed near Western Union Junction
H. o'clock last Friday morning. The ro
ut beers are supposed to have boarded t
III train at the junction. As soon As 1t W
" half mile from the station in the opc
81 prairie, they stopped it and broke in
en- the express ear. Not Il great amount
lr. money was secured.
rs Walter Mace of Clintonvillc. y. y. h
a. discovered Il silver and gold mine
ut Chesterfield, Essex county. y. \. 1t
ed situated on the farm of Marcia Nicho
To The vein is eight feet thick. \ SAM
he of the ore was sent to Boulder, &C
M where it assayed 233 ounces of silver II
lr: six ounces of gold to the ton. 1t is wol
OF $500 per ton. There is great deal
MS excitement there over the discovery.
". The insane wife of saddler in Lit,
10y field, Eng, on Monday suddenly sci,
'af s carving knife and cut the throat of
VI daughter, nearly severing her head FRI
III her body. The mad woman then w
to room where two other daughters Ii
ION sought refuge, forced open the doors a
AL cut hoth their throats. causing their de;
Kill instantly. The woman by that time y
ly. soaked in blood from head to foot. II
Ike she gnshed her own throat with the fa
the knife, and sank senseless by the side
'al- her two last victims. She will proba
zen recover.
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