Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-21

was found that Carleton Almy, aged 13
years, had been caught by the crank pin
and crushed. He died an hour after
ward.
The Saranac Lake club house, at the
head of lower Saranac lake, was. with
its contents, totally destroyed by fire
Sunday morning. The fire was discover
ed while the guests were at breakfast.
No lives were lost, bur the guests lost
all their personal effects. The loss is
unknown. A defective flue caused the
fire.
Since the stories of famine and death
in the Chingleput and North Arcot dis
tricts of the Madras presidency, India,
were told few days ago the situation
has greatly changed for the better. Good
rains have fallen in the presidency and
this will greatly relieve the suffering and
make an enormous difference in the
crops.
a terrific hail storm passed through
Merose, Mimi, Friday. Thousands
of acres of the finest wheat in this county
was knocked down in a few moments
and many of the farmers lost all their
crops. Large fields of wheat looked as
if they had been passed over with a land
roller. The width of the storm ranged
from two to five miles.
The jury in the case of DR.. Baker of
Abingdon, Va, charged with the murder
of his wife by poison, has brought in a
verdict of guilty. The conviction was
largely upon the testimony of Mrs.
Gilmer, woman of social prominence,
who confessed her criminal intimacy
with the accused and declared that he
had admitted killing his wife.
At Independence, Ia, Monday after
noon the stallion Nelson trotted mile
in 2 10 fiat. The day was one of the
most perfect of the season, still and
warm, and the track was as smooth as a
billiard table. The great stallion was ac-
companied by a runner, but as there was
no apprehension that he would show
such form the quarters were not timed
The remains of James Russell Lowell
were buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery on
Friday. The pallbearers were Oliver
Wendell Holmes. George William Curtis
President Eliot, W. ID. IIowells, john
/ Holmes, brother of DIR. Holmes. &. u
Cranch, G.. +. ChOate, Professor c. +
Norton, Professor Francis Child and
John Bartlett. The services were very
simple.
/ -NcNcI DclOTe has iowa harvested SucI
Il crop of cereals as it will this year. The
oats crop especially is immense. 1t will
easily average 60 to 20 bushels and il
many places will 60 100 bushels to the
acre. This great crop is causing rail
road officials no little trouble. All the
railroads are building large number OF
grain cars in order TO be prepared fol
the business when the movement Of
grain sets in.
Henry Henson, who killed his wife Ids
in 1889, was hanged at st. Louis, Mo.
Friday. He spent the previous nigh
joking with his guards, and in blasphem
Gus language refused to see a minister
Just before the hanging he asked for and
received whiskey cocktail "as a bra
GER so he said. He weighed 3l5 pounds
and the drop of five feet at the scafiolC
stretched his neck out foot. His necl
was broken.
The Bulletin DIES Hales of Paris ha:
been making inquiries in regard to the
wheat crop of France, and it publishe:
its deductions from the replies of large
number of correspondents. The result
of the investigation, the paper declares
shows that the wheat crop of Franc,
will not exceed S5,000,000 hectolitres
TO meet the normal demand of the coun
try it will be necessary to import $4,000,
600 bushels of wheat.