Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-25
General l1eps.

sNiNaha, uied suddenly at New port, X.
l.. SUNDAY.
\ riot is feared at Briceville. Tenn,
owing to the failure Of the legislature to
settle the convict question.
The original draft of the State consti-
tuition or Wisconsin is missing from the
archives Of the secretary Of states office.
hurricane struck Iquique Sept. Is.
II caused great damage to shipping in
the harbo:. Nine vessels were more or
less damaged.
man named Vanderbilt, who claims
to be related to the New York family,
mas been arrested at Springfield, Ohio,
for burglary at Dennison.
| Conscience money to the amount of
SlS,OOO has been returned to the State
national bank of Boston. From whom
1t came is not known to the bank officials.
Wm Berry's child died near Provi-
dence, X. l., the other day, from pea
nut lodging in her lung. Physicians
were summoned to the child, but she
died after four hours of suffering.
The President has signed the procla-
nation opening to settlement and home
stead entry the newly coded lands of the
sac and Fox, kiowa and Pottowattomie
Indians in the eastern part of Oklahoma.
Col Frederick y. Conkling, brother of
the late Roscoe Conklng, died in New
\ ork Monday of cancer in the stomach.
lie had filled many offices of trust and
was well-known lawyer. He was -
years old.
At Carson, New, Ralph b. Stanley was
Killed at base ball game Sunday by
being struck on the neck by a ball He
fell on ms knees, arose. tried to run, but
pitched forward on his face and died in
three minutes.
Dispatches from the Engadine valley,
switzerland, announce that a mail coach
has been overturned in a mountain pass
and that two ladies, who were among the
passengers, were killed and three other
persons severely injured.
Fred Harvey, who has number of
eating houses along the line of the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad,
has been granted perpetual Injunction
at Chicago, restraining the company
from running dining-room cars over its
line
1t is reported in London that the Lon
don and Westminster bank of that city
has been robbed of nearly or quite
,, 81 100000 in bills, which are supposed
, to haye been stolen from one room while
the bank officials were busily engaged in
another apartment.
The exhibition of the holy coat at
Treves, France, will end October 1. The
number of pilgrims who have viewed the
coat already exceeds the total number of
2 those who viewed it in the exhibition of
I lS44, and the total number in this eXhib-
; itiOn will probably reach two millions.
| hurricane Sunday evening added TO
D the damage done by the recent floods in
I Consuegra, Spain. Many houses, weak
= ened by the floods, collapsed. An cpl
r demic of influenza has broken out at
= Badaios capital of the province of that
: name. There are already oyer 200O Sc
t we're cases.
EXPresident Balmaceda of Chill shot
= himself through the temple IN his room
= at the Argentine legation in Santiago,
i Chilli, on Saturday. Ii seems that Bal
maceda left Santiago on August % last.
in the hope of making his escape from
Chilli, but seeing that every avenue of re-
treat was cut off, he returned there on
: September and went direct to the Ar
-, gentine legation, where he had since
" been.
=. y st. Petersburg letter says that we'll
J, authenticated case of cannibalism is re-
Il ported from the government of Penza,
where the famine RACES in its worst form.
t 1t is said that the starving family of Il
e peasant removed from the graveyard the
freshly-buried body of a woman of the
: better class who had died suddenly not
e from starvation, but probably from some
heart trouble, and fed upon portions of
: the flesh.
d y new story is out about William Tas-
colt, the now notorious fugitive. that
4 two days after the murder of millionaire
a Amos J. Smell he arrived in st. Paul,
where he remained week. Thence lie
. went to Winnipeg; thence to a farm fifty
! miles from that point, and eventually TO
the Turtle Mountain reservation, where
. he joined the Turtle Mountain band, hay
/ ing adopted the Indian costume and GUS
r toms and married a squaw.
Lewis \ ork, said to be an insane anar-
chist, attempted to commit wholesale
IS murder at Logansport, Ind, Monday.
Il Several young women were visiting at
y Works, and in the afternoon two gentle
men called. York went into the cellar
o and ignited fuse attached to a Jug con-
l. tanning dynamite, \ terrible explosion
II followed which broke the window glass,
If tore Oft boards and demolished the floor.
Fortunately the greater force was sent
# downward and the lives of those above
Y were saved.
5 Chicago will erect a tower for the
- W OIitl : IAN W uiCIl IL u Ot Sultllpl III
every respect to the famous Eitfel tower
q IN Paris. The total height from the bot
q tom of the foundations to the top of the
! flag stan will be ll50 feet, which is $50
q feet higher than the height of the Eitlel
tower. The height from the surface of
. the ground to the top of the flagstaff will
:. be ll20 feet, and from the surface of the
y ground to the focal plane of the light
!, house, which crowns the structure, will
= be 1910 feet
James Giblan, who died in a New York
hospital Saturday, had lived II days with
Il a broken neck. He was injured by a
u blow sept. 6, the blow crushing the fifth
y cervical vertebra aud severing the spinal
~ cori. Giblan was conscious for nine
II days. He conversed with his attendants
and received nourishment. Below the
n. collar bones his whole body was paral-
er wed and insensible TO pain. He could
lie nor nOva nuScle evening thp fpNOrS