Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-22
DOMESTIC.


Dartmouth college has the largos.
freshman class in its history.
Several cases of smallpox bovo bo..,
discovered at New York and BROOKLYN.
Milton Hay, once Abraham Lincoln.s
law partner died on Friday at spring.
field, III. P' '"s
Inc fastest mile ever made in = raco
'o'f-was trotted at Washington nark
Chicago, last Friday byAlix.
The yellow fever has broken IN. nf,
at Brunswick, Ca, and the ipbabitanta
are heeing the place, against which all
the surrounding country has establisbod
a quarantine. -'''i'U
The Fort Edward Furniture oon,.
factory at Fort Edward. \. y was
burned last Friday. Loss. s7O.o0o.
Insurance, $4,000. Several Hremen
were overcome by the heat and NARROWLY,
escaped with their lives.
over ooo New England pensioners
nave been suspended by the pension do
partment pending an investigation 90
'heir claims. In many cases the veterans
were not notified of this action until ther
called Tor their pension money.
Eight persons were killed ond 49,
tha'i twenty injured Monday night nv
rear-ehd collision between two sect,ors
OF train near Manteo on tbe uIirois
central railroad. The first section sto,
pea 10 take water, but no flagman was
sent back to warn the engineer of tl,o
section following.
a band of moonshiners has hoor IL.
ooNe'eu III the mountains of Georgia. II
mas upwards of 100 members. Whom.
eyer member of the union is arrested IT,
Is the duty of the other members to coo
that he is released. Each is sworn 70
XIII any member who informs on an
other.
Last week shortage of more than
oooo ounces of gold bullion. valued at
SI34'OOO, was discovered at the pb,ladal-
phla mint. Henry S. Cochran. weigh
clerk OF the mint, has confessed TO the
emoezzlement of the bullion. and over
Sloo,OOO of it has been recovered. C.cb-
ran mas been in the employ of the mint
lorty years at salary of $1,000. He is an
eccentric character, who seems not TO
nave known what use to make of the
gold after he had stolen it.
lhere was triple lynching almost
within the shadow of the CITY of New
orleans, Sunday night, but it was con-
Quoted SO quietly that the account of the
affair published next morning surprised
the community. The victims of the mob
were three negro brothers named .Julian.
ana their oiiense was the shielding of y
fourth brother, Roselius Julian who IN
Friday shot and killed Judge Victor
EStoplnal, while the latter was irving
MN Tor trivial offence, and seriously
wounded the judges son, who tried 70
capture him. Roselus fled and hid and
his brothers would not tell where he
was.
a passenger train on the Mineral
Range railway in Michigan was held I'M
last Friday forenoon at Boston. a small
station about five miles east of Calumet.
and the American Express company's
safe was robbed of $4,000. The train
was tagged at Boston, and as the en-
glneer slowed up masked man stepped
on board, and took the throttle from his
hands. Two others entered the express
car and had the messenger bound be-
fore he realized that anything had hap
pened. They took the key from his
pocket, opened the safe, took out the
cash, which they dumped in bag, and
jumped off the train and rode away be-
fore the passengers knew that the train
had been held up The robbers have all
been captured and part of the money
recovered. The express messenger in
charge of the robbed safe was in the
Mot