Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-22
DOM ES TIC.

A special from Omaha says: William
+. Cody, Buffalo Bill" will be Il candi-
date for governor of Nebraska next
year.
A Pennsylvania passenger was wreck
ed Friday morning at Webster Two
trainmen were killed and fifteen passen-
gers Injured.
Twenty persons were killed by the
falling of the Jacksonville and Louisville
bridge over the Ohio Friday morning,
and forty fell unframed ten feet into the
river. The bridge was nearly completed,
when a heavy wind came up and blew
the structure down.
The police of Denver are receiving the
eXecratiOn of the local press because of
the number of bold crimes cOmitted in
that city of late. Not "A day passes but
one or more hOldups, burglaries and
sandbagging attacks are reported to
the police, and no arrests of Importance
are made.
Every department of the Homestead
iron works at Plttsburg, Pa, will close
December % for an indefinite period
Three thousand men will suffer by the
cessation of work. The shutdown is
due chiefly to lack of orders. That work
will not be resumed until after January
! is certain. After that date, readjusted
wages scale will 90 into effect.
u1ho obani,s In ,,.,-,rnnt of tha Stril,i N r
firemen on the Lehigh system are now
being sent from the headquarters of the
brotherhood at Terre Haute. Secretary
Arnold estimates the cost of the strike
to the brotherhood at $35,0O0. He
estimates the cost of the strike to other
brotherhoods as follows: Engineers,
$4,000; trainmen, $4,000; conductors,
100000, and telegraphers, $4,000. The
total makes the next largest outlay by
organized railway labo: to that of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy strike,
which cost the engineers Sl,000,000 and
the fremen S500,000 in cash.
One of the commercial agencies in its
review of business for the week ended
last Friday says: Aside from moderate
Improvements in demand in one or two
particular lines at st. Louis, Milwaukee.
Louisville, Savannah, Chattanooga and
Houston, none of which have special
significance, general trade remains dull
and is in many instances duller than
before. The interval for stock taking
and preparing for next years trade i:
only in small part responsible. Gen
eral trade is of a filling-in order variety
but smaller in volume than customary al
this time. Even the holiday trade ha,
fallen far below expectations in al
directions.
The Railway Age of last week publish
ed statistics of the railway recevership!
and foreclosures for 1898. These show
ton has gone into receivers hands since
the beginning of the year. For tn,
years 1892 and 1898 the companies fo
which receivers were appointed represen
10 per cent of the mileage aud nearly II
per cent of the capital stock and bond
OF all the railways In the country. Sine
January l, 1893, receivers have been APP
pointed for no less than II roads, will
nearly $4,000 miles of road, an outstand
ing bonded indebtedness of almost S75I,
100000 and capital stock aggregating
over 1854, 100000, making total o
almost 81 ,2SS, 100000 of stocks and bond
from which all returns are suspended
with certainty that large part of thei
value will be wiped out before the lon,
process of the courts is ended. This i
more than double the number of roads
mileage or capitalization of any prevou
year since 1891, when the number o
receiverships was 81, the mileage L OBS
and the stocks and bonds S7l4, 755. 900.