Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Gov. Flower has signed bill making
April p, the date OF the naval parade, a
legal holiday,
| A drought in Kansas has, il is said,
taken 90 per cent from the prospects of
the wheat crop.
A Mormon temple that cost five NIL
lion dollars was dedicated ut Salt Lake
City on Friday.
Manuel Rerizendos, IL years old, ate
wild carrots at Taunton, Mass, Monday
night, and died in an hour.
The railroad rates to the Worlds fair
have boen fixed. From all New England
points they are 500 60 for the round trip,
tickets being good to return till Nov. l.
The 20)th anniversary of the intro
duction of the printing press into the
city of New York was celebrated Satur-
day afternoon at the building of the
New York cotton exchange.
Benjamin Hall, who died in Troy, N.
Y, the other day, was well known in
literary circles and was a polished poet.
His best known works. however, were
historical, and especially in relation to
Vermont history.
Four persons were poisoned in Tekon-
sha, Mich, Tuesday, through Mrs. Polly
using arsenic instead of baking powder
by mistake in making biscuits for sup
per. Two of the four are still in IA criti-
cal state.
The Thingvalla line steamer Hekla,
which left Copenhagen March 8 for New
\ ork and which was spoken at sea by
the steamer NOrmandie with machinery
partly disabled, reached the latter city
on Saturday. Her shaft broke and after
being repaired broke agala. She was
finally obliged to ask a passing steamer
to tow her into port, She had nearly
1000 persons on board.
f. +. Barrett, postmaster of Keene,
n. H., disappeared on Thursday of last
week and on Friday search for him
was begun. He was found on Monday
wandering about the railroad Station at
Cincinnati. o. He could give no account
of himself and was locked up by the
police, who discovered his identity from
papers in his pockets and notified his
friends. The supposition is that he be-
came suddenly insane.
An aerolite fell near Osawatomie, Kan,
Sunday, striking the monument of John
Brown, erected by subscription origi-
mated by Horace Greeley in 1868. The
meteor broke off the left arm of the
statue and passed through the dome and
nave and through six feet of clay south
of the crypt, stopping only at bed rock.
Experts say the aerolie is composed of
pelium, a metal known to exist only in
the sun.
Prairie fires did great damage in Ne
braska on Friday and Saturday. The fire
extended over much of the State. Much
grain and hay in store, together with
many barns and other oulbuildings, miles
of fences, dozens OF dwellings and
many bridges were burned. A Burling-
ton railroad bridge at Duuning AID an
other at Hastings were destroyed, de-
laying trains somewhat. At kearney the
fire burned near enough to the own TO
destroy a brewery just at the edge. At
Dunning an old lady named Bartlett was
burned so badly that she may die The
region burned over is the chief grazing
section of the State, and the destruction
of the grass means Il great loss to stock
men in this respect, as they will be COM
PEELED to seek new pastures.
a great wind storm ragged IN Iowa.
Missouri, Indiana. Illinois and Ohio on
Tuesday. The wind struck the village of
Parker, la, with irresistible force. The
trighteped people were given moi a
moment to flee to places of safety. OF
the business houses situated around the
public square, few were left standing.
Every residence in the town was dam
aged more or less, aud half of them were
completely destroyed. 1t is known that
several persons were killed and large
1 number injured. but it is impossible to
/ learn the details at present. In the town
of Akron, Ia, houses were thrown from
their foundations and overturned and
many of them blown to pieces. A
double-span wagon bridge across the
Sioux river was wrenched from the piers
and dashed up against the river bank
The iron rods were twisted and bent out
of all shape. Several persons were killed
and Injured. At Page City, Mo-, thr, c
persons were killed and IA large number
injured. At Centralia, H., cloudbursl
caused the entire city to be submerged
doing thousands of dollars worth OF
damage. a little river winds through
the thickll settled part of the city, along
which are a number of cottages witt
Easements, all of which were flooded anC
the contents totally ruined.