Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-02

Rev. DIR. John Witherspoon Scott,
President Harrison's father-in-law, died
at the White house, Washington, Tues
day, aged 81 years.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at st. Louis.
Every hospital contains typhoid patients,
60 being at the City hospital. Two
hundred and fifteen new cases were re-
ported Sunday.
Further trouble is feared in the Coal
Creek mines IN Tennessee. as the convict
leases have some time to run and the
miners are organizing to drive the con-
victs away by force.
/ The coinage of the new souvenir half
dollar coin for the Columbian exposition
has been begun at the Philadelphia mint
The machines will turn out 10000 of the
silver pieces each day till the full 5,000.-
600 are made.
| OF three horse thieves captured in
Sierra county, n. NJ, Saturday, one
proved to be woman known as the
'Kid." Her name is Alice Parker and
she comes from Texas. She was dressed
/ in male attire and carried a huge six
shooter.
Angelo and Joseph Zeppe, Italians,
sentenced at Pittsburgh, Pa, Tuesday
morning to hang for the murder of Frank
/
brains out against the prison walls. Both
men were seriously injured, but were
| detected before accomplishing their pur-
pose
! Wednesday morning a stone weighing
probably ten tons dropped from the sky,
striking the earth mile northeast of a
Colorado town. The stone is color en-
tirely foreign to the locality, being slate
cOlored, and the people are convinced
that it dropped from the much talked of
comet.
The Republican congressional COM
mittee claims that for the next congress
there were elected in November Dis Demo-
Gratis. l2S Republicans and Populists.
, Democratic majority of 81. Clerk Kerr
of the house recently claimed Demo-
cratic majority of 80, with Rhode Island to
hear from.
The war department is negotiating
with the Armstrong company of ElsWick,
England, for the acquisition of the de-
signs for a new rapid fire gun, which is
said to be 20 per cent more rapid in action
than any other gun. 1t is also in con-
temptation to secure the right to manu-
facture the guns III the United States.
According to reports from various OBJ
servatories, seven comets are now visible
in the heavens. Nearly all the astronO-
mers agree that the Holmes comet. now
so widely talked of, cannot be identified
with that of Biela. Professor Newton
of Yale believes the Holmes comet is a
new one and that it has never before
peeli ooserVeo'
Three men and two women were
burned to death at Middletown, Conn,
Saturday night, in a tobacco barn. The
victims were party OF unioreIia mend
ers seen near there oeiore 'he nre' II Is
supposed 'hey were drunk anu set hre
10 small amount OF nay, tne only con-
ients vi 'ie oarh' lie ou'IuIhS was
totaliy uestro!eu'
The negroes of Memphis, Tenn, were
wild with excitement Sunday night. All
the colored churches were crowded with
dusky wOrshippers. who every moment,
expected to hear Gabriels trumpet an
nounce the end of the world. Men, VIC
men and children fell upon their knees
, and prayed God to save them from the
devil. The comet attracted but little at
tehtloh among the Whltes'
Census Supervisor Porter, in his annu-
al report to the secretary of the interior
strongly insists that the census office be
made permanent bureau of the interior
department. III REGARD 10 the cost Oh tlle
. work of taking the lth census, Mr.. Por-
ter says that the total disbursements
from the commencement of operations
up to June 30, 1892, amounted to SOB
G93. OF this amount 81, 49,, 45S was paid
to enumeratOrs. The population and So
cial statistics cost 81 ,267 ,S6S; the stats
tics of farms. homes and mortgages
81 ,00o.771; printing and stationery
S63l $3.50.