Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-10-07
General l7ems.
DOME STIC,

Senator r. @. Mills is not yet able to
leave his bed. His engagement to speak
in Texas has been cancelled.
The railroad postal clerks of the West
are preparing petition to the govern
ment asking for safer mail cars.
physician of Gen. Grant during his fatal
illness, died in Washington on Sunday.
James Comes and j. a. Lomis, two
Hronauts, were fatally injured Mon
day by falling from balloon at Peoria,
Ill.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow. brother of
the late poet, Henry W. Longfellow, died
at Portland, Me-, Monday. aged %. He
has been in feeble health for some time.
Guy IIilms, a rich farmer at Fremont,
Iowa, Saturday night shot and killed
his two cousins. Byron and Barney
Clark. 1t was the result of a family
feud.
The embargo on imported rags and the
consequent scarcity have caused a gener-
al closing of the fine grade paper mills of
the country for one week, beginning on
Monday last.
\ rich deposit of nickel has been dis
covered in townships Ga and So in north
ern Minnesota. 1t is about twelve miles
long, nine or ten feet wide and has "a
considerable depth
Tho Ruona Vista hofa1 of
Col, was burned early Friday morning.
Gustavc Kearse, a lodger, persisted in
the flames, and Anna Gunderson, A.
McDougal and Tom Arnold were severe
ly burned. The hotel was an old land
mark.
All the great naval powers and many
of the smaller ones have accepted the
invitations sent by the state department
to participate in the naval display in
New York next April and will send
some of their latest constructed vessels
to take part in the exercises.
The powder mills at Schaghticoke, n.
y, blew up Friday evening. The en-
tire plant of seven buildings covering
several acres was completely destroyed.
IKE workmen had just left the buildings
and it is not known that any one was
hurt. The explosion was distinctly felt
in Bennington and windows were jar
red.
There was furry of snow at Roches-
ter, y. y, Wednesday morning. A
Kingston On. " dispatch of Wednes-
day says: The peaks of the Catskills
are covered with snow. Early this
morning snow fell to the depth of two
inches and the ground was white from
Delhi to Big Indian. covering section
of many miles.
The heaviest eight-wheel passenger en-.
gine in America has been sent out of tho
Union Pacific shops at Omaha to pull the
fast mail. With the tender coaed up
the engine weighs 2lS,000 pounds. Il
will run between Cheyenne and Laramie
over the continental divide, where grade
of % feet to the mile has to be surmount
ed.
\ sensation was caused at Homestead
Pa, Friday night, by the arrest for trea
son of a number of members of the advi
sorry committee of the Homestead strik
ers. Those arrested were Chairman
Thomas j. Crawford, William Baird
George Rylands, John Dierken and +
Brown.
Mrs. Harrison, who was removed TIVE
weeks ago from the Adirondacks t,
Washington, is alarmingly i'll and tn
chances are that she cannot last through
the week. She began to fail on Monda,
and has steadily grown worse. A dis
patch of Wednesday night says: Mrs
Harrison is worse today and it is reporte,
that she is having sinking spells. Tn
members of the presidents household ar
much alarmed.
Mrs. ID. w. Fack of Baltimore ask
the court for the annulment of her MAJ
riage to George w. Flack. She alleye
she did MT consent to the marriage G
her own yolition, but was hypnotised b
Flack, who had captured absolute COZ
troll over her, so that when in his socet
she had no independent thought or powe
of resistance. She states that she had n
desire for Flack's company, knowing b
had been IN Jail.