Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-08-25

health. She Will remain at Lucerne.
Switzerland, until Oct l, when she will
start for home.
Louis F. Menage, ex-presdent of the
Northwestern Guaranty Loan and In
vestment company of Minneapolis, is
said by Chicago paper to be hiding in
the mountains of Chile.
Twenty-Five pensioners at the soldiers
home at Marion, Ind, were notified
Monday that their pensions had been
suspended. Over 100 in that institution
have been dropped from the pension roll.
An invasion of grasshoppers as marked
as that of 1876 occurred at Fort
Scott, Kan, Friday night. They APP
peared from the south and by morning
had laid waste all lawns, stripped trees,
and were so thick on the streets that the
ground was almost covered.
L. j. Bovee, prominent resident of
Leroy, n. Y, his wife, daughter and
niece were struck by train while on
their way to church Sunday morning
and instantly killed. All were mangled
beyond recognition but fer the clothing
they wore. Miss Bovee was decapitated.
Incendiares tried, Saturday night, to
burn every church in Dover, n. Ii. One
was set on fire and badly damaged.
Waste saturated with kerosene was piled
in them and kerosene put on the carpets.
The general opinion is that some dement,
ed person with a mania for fires Is doing
the work.
The drouth which prevails over nearly
the entire State of Maine has reached a
severity unprecedented in the crop-grow-
ing season for many years. Acres upon
acres of grain, corn and potatoes are
ruined beyond recovery already, and
much more will share the same fate UNI
less rain comes within a few days.
An anti-Chinese convention has been
called by San Francisco labor council
to meet in that city next month. The
object is to make an appeal for the en-
forcement of the Geary law. The pros
poets are that this movement will be the
beginning of an anti-Chinese agitation
such as that city has not seen for 10
years.
Mrs. sarah Middleton of Walker county,
Ga, on Sunday morning on the way
to church reached from the buggy to
pluck twig from bush near by, when
She was bitten by katydid in the hand.
She was taken with a severe pain in her
arm. and before reaching home it was
She died Wednesday.
Mrs. Belle Kinds, a deserted wife. a
years old, residing at Waterbury. Conn,
has brought suit for damages to the
amount of $4,000 against Miss Eliza
beth Williams of New Bedford for the
alienation of the affections of her hus
band, Frank f. Kinds, clothing drum
mer. The papers have been served on
/ i- caiA IN hn
several times the amount involved in the
action.
The New York physicians are talking
rather an interesting new theory regard
ing cancer. 1t is that it can be ousted
from the human body by erysipelas. 1t
happened this way: a patient in the
New York Cancer hospital accidentally
became inoculated with the virus of cry
sipelas several weeks ago. AS the dis
ease progressed it was noticed that the
patients caucerous condition improved
This fact suggested the ACCESSIBILITY OF
inoculating other patients with the
poison of erysipelas. Accordingly
several cases were set apart and expert
ments carried out. The results in both
forms were very satisfactory.
In point of attendance at the World
falr last week was q recOru-Dreaher
The number of visitors during the sever
days was 720,476, an increase over the
previous week of 1l0,37S. The grea
feature of the fair this week is the live
stock exhibit, which is said to be the
largest and most complete show of it
kind ever held on the American cont
nent. There are 1905 head of cattle
l0l7 horses, 1900 sheep and 1900 hog
on exhibition. There were horses from
every State in the Union of every grad
and variety. The car of Russia ha
sent 81 horses to the fair. Some o
them have pedigrees that run back II
wears, and there are stations IN tn
group that 100000 could not buy.