Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-10-27
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Rev. ID. Philip Schaff. the well-knOwn |
Union theological seminary professor, is |
dead at New York
Lucy Stone Blackwell the noted advo-
cate of woman suffrage, died ut her home
near Boston on Thursday.
Mrs. Roscoe Conking died last week at
her home in Utica, \. Y. She was a
daughter of the late Hon. Horatlo Sey-
mour.
A fire in New York last Thursday
night destroyed $3.50, 900 worth of prop
erty, including the wallpaper factory of
Nevins 81 Iaviland.
The standing committee of the Albany
On. W diocese has unanimously con-
scented to the conservation of Rev.
Arthur \. c.. Hall as bishop of Vermont.
The forging department of the Ameri-
can AK and Tool company of East Doug
lass, Mass, was burned Saturday. Loss,
S200,000. One thousand men are thrown
out of work.
Wright Mills has been convicted at Ev
ergreen, Ala, of sending Il challenge to
Samuel ecker to fight duel The jury
fixed the punishment at two years i'm
prisonment. Mills is respectable farmer.
The national Women's Christian Tenn
perance union, in session ut Chicago,
Friday, elected these officers: President,
Miss Frances f. willard; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge;
treasurer, Miss Ester Pugh.
The president, cashier and directors of
the failed Madison Square bank of New
! York have been arrested for irregulari-
ties of one sort and another, including
perjury and forgery. The institution is
not likely to resume business.
The Michigan supreme court has rem
led IA decision on the woman suffrage
law passed by the last legislature per-
hitting women to vote at municipal Glec-
tons The court declares that the law is
utterly unconstitutional and void.
Thl teen visitors to the Worlds fair,
half of them women, fell in an elevator
200 feet from the landing under the great
roof of the manufactures building at
s 20 o'clock Saturday night. Their lives
were saved by the brakes on the car,
which caught and held it 30 feet from the
floor.
Investigation into the condition of the
iron industry at Pittsburgh, Pa, shows
that out of 25,00O men employed there
by 81 concerns one year ago on full time
at good wages only 10000 now have
work, and that on short time and reduced
wages. The majority OF the employers
reporting attributed the chief trouble to
fear of tariff changes.
G. j. Starkweather of Addison, n. Y,
became converted at Il Salvation Army
meeting IA few evenings ago and has
publicly confessed to drawing a fraudu-
lent pension of Si7 a month from the
United States government. IL is learned
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above facts. He has been drawing this
pension for six or seven wears.
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