Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-02-03
DOMESTIC.


Coal dealers report decided shortage
of supply in Chicago.
An entire family of Lincoln county,
West Virginia, is reported to have per-
ished while camping in cabin on very
cold night.
The Blaine club of Chicago have decided
to start movement looking to the cree
ton of a monument to James G. Blaine
in that city.
Alarming devastations by grey and
black wolves are reported from Wyom-
ing. and So head reward is being paid
for killing them.
The forty apprentices on the New
York school ship st. Marys have been
sent to their homes because of the APP
pearance of scarlet fever among the
boys.
Several of the largest saw manufact-
uring companies in this country are in
process of consolidation under the name
of the National Saw Co., with capital
of $1,000 900.
The trial of Asa p. Potter, charged
with falsely certifying checks for Evans
81 Co., while president of the Nave
rick national bank, is exciting much i'll
terest in Boston.
BY the will of Mrs. Laura E. Merriam,
widow of Sias Merriam, Il merchant of
Chicago, Dartmouth college will receive
S750,00O. Mr.. Merriam graduated at
Dartmouth in 1874.
George B. Grover, British royal COM
missioner to the Worlds Columbian eX-
position, was found dead in his room at
the Virginia hotel, Chicago. Heart dis
ease is supposed to be the cause.
Typhts fevtr has appeared at Bellevue
hos pital, New York, and the property
has been placed under quarantine. One
employee of the institution has already
died of the malddy and on recent day
70 cases were reported there.
Gen. Abner Doubleday, U. S. A., died
at his home In Mendham, n. j., on the
9th ult. He had been suffering for
some time with Bright's disease. He
! leaves wife, but no children. Gen.
Doubleday was born at Ballston Spa,
n. Y, on June l6, 1919.
Rochester, n. Y, has been afflicted
with an epidemic of diphtheria, typhoid
and scarlet fever for several weeks past
and reports of new cases are on the
increase. Monday - new cases were
reported. Physicians state that the
sickness is owing to the water famine.
President Harrison has Just signed
bill which authorizes Chicago men to con-
strnct over the Mississippi river at New
Orleans the largest cantilever bridge
in America. Surveyors and engineers
will leave the city at once To begin pre-
liminary operations and within three
years the $5.000,000 structure will be
opened for traffic.
The physicians at the university hos
pital in Baltimore have a queer case in
John Tansh, who is unable TO swallow
food. his Gsophagus being choked. Ow-
ing to this organs nearness to the heart,
an operation was considered dangerous,
so Professor Tiffany cut open the abdo-
men and inserted silver tube into the
stomach. Whed Tanish gets hungry he
lies on his back and Il funnel is inserted
in the tube and milk and soup poured in
to the stomach. Then he goes out for
a walk.
South Dakota in the next 60 days will
witness the biggest influx of divorce
applicants ever known IN the State.
This will be due to the recent passage of
the new amendment to the divorce law
requiring six months residence instead
of three months, as heretofore. Under
the constitution no law can take effect
until 80 days after its passage, unless an
emeI gency clause shall be added. Tele-
grams are already pouring i'll upon the
hotels engaging rooms, and lawyers say
they are al % being engaged by wire.