Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-03
General 11eps.

Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea were married
Oh Friday last near Brighton. Eng.
Capt. Shaw, head of the London fire
brigade, has retired after 30 years of SER
vice.
statue of Henry Ward Beecher in
front of City hall, Brooklyn, was unyeil-
ed Friday.
A cyclone killed six men and did c. H.
siderable damage to property at Mt.
Carmel, Pa, Friday.
Missionaries in Canton and Woo Hoo,
China have been massacred recently and
the mission buildings burned.
brakeman has recovered $1,000 from
the New York and New England rail-
way for injuries received in an accident.
The shoe and leather men of New Eng
land propose to raise $500 toward the
erection of the trade building at the
Worlds fair.
DR.. John l.. Northrup, instructor in
zoology at Columbia college, was burned
Thursday by the explosion of cask of
alcohol and died the next day.
Helen NJ. Wickens of Rochester. n. y.
has sued Druggist George W. Johns for
$4,000 because he sold her oXalc acid
instead of salts, and the mistake almost
killed her.
James \. Simmons. convicted of aiding
Peter j. Claassen. president of the New
York Sixth national bank, in the en-
bezzlement of the funds of that institu-
ton, has been sentenced to six years i'm
prisonment.
4 terrible thunder storm passed over
the town of Jagerndorf, Austria-Siesia,
Monday. Three villages in that neghbor-
hood fro nv thp 1iuhtniD o.
and three men and a number of cattle
were killed.
Epidemic typhoid fewer is raging in
the village of Valley Falls, r. l., thirty
two persons being sick. The health
officer has traced the cause to a contamin-
ated we'll, from which all the sick persons
have drunk
The census bureau has startled the
whole State of Pennsylvania by the an
nouncement that it has been succeeded
as the leader in the production of iron by
the State of Alabama, which is ahead by
good margin.
Rev. VIM. NJ. Ogden, rector of the
Episcopal church at Warrensburgh,
n. Y, fell dead in the pulpit while
preaching Sunday morning. He was %
years old and had been pastor of the
church for 20 years.
The State comptroller of California has
been advised by counsel not to pay the
S300,00 appropriated by the Legislature
for CALIFORNIA; exhibit at the World;
fair on the ground that the appropria
ton is unconstitutional.
Julia Adams of Redfield, Me-, aged /;
years, has been i'll with inflammation Of
the bowels for 20 days, during which
time she has taken no food and only
swallowed water. She has slept less
than two hours in the "a, and says she
does not feel the need of food or sleep.
A report comes from Cherokee county
n. c., of terrible cloudburst there thu
other afternoon. Two Illicit distiller!
named Harvey Agnew and Jacob New
ton, who happened to be near by, were in
stantly killed. \ number of farms TO
miles below were inundated and CROWN:
crops suffered loss of several Thousand
dollars.
''Steeple jim" Ferguson, the mos
noted rigger and steeple climber in tn
country, was killed at the penitentiary il
Albany, \. y, the other day. He wa
hanging in his boatswain's chair, whel
the bricks at the top of the tower, t.
which his graphing irons were fastened
gave way, throwing him 45 feet to tn
ground and killing him instantly.
A Joint stock company of New Yor
and southern capitalists, with capita
of 100000, has just been organized i
New York and will be incorporated vi
der the laws of the State of Florida t
cultivate a farm of 10000 acres. Tn
farm is in the southern part of Florida
little west of the St. Sebastian and 81
Johns rivers. The soil is rich muc
similar to that found in the valleys of tn
Nile. The company intend to rails
cocoanuts, bananas, oranges, rice, sugar
cane and other tropical products.