Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-29
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Boston's fund for the relief of its poor
amounts to ST., OBJ IS.
! Smallpox has broken out in Fall River,
Mass. and the health authorities are be-
lug kept busy vaccinating people.
! Edward S. Stokes has been appointed
receiver of the Hoffman house corpora
ton of New York city, which is insol-
vent.
A shock of earthquake was felt at Bed
ford, Pa, Sunday afternoon and fright
ened the ople, who ran out of their
houses.
S. II. Hart, who was the president of
the State bank of Buckley, WASH, was
arrested at Baltimore, Md, Friday, on
tn" charge of embezzling 100000 of the
funds of that bank.
A crank made an attempt to kill MavOr
Henry b. Tyler of Louisville in his office
Tuesday afternoon. The crank said he
was Philip j. Schwartz. After demand
ing his rights on property-hOders he drew
revolver, but the mayor, after Il strug-
gle, took it away and called the police.
d. w. Fox of Plalnville. Conn. is APP
parently dying from hiccough which
cannot be stopped. He was suffering
from grip, and week ago began to
hiccough at intervals. Since Friday he
has hiccoughed continuously, producing
delirum, and his condition is now criti-
cal.
A cave-in occurred at Mulhall Station,
Pa, early Saturday morning, where the
Carnegie Steel company is erecting a
large furnace. About 20 men were at
work when the accident occurred. John
L. Medic, a Hungarian. was killed, and
John Horoski fatally injured.
A suit has been begun in the New
Jersey supreme court by Thomas A.
Edison VS.. the Edison United Phono-
graph company for 81 100000 damages,
alleged to have been done him through
the sale of monographs in this country
and abroad. The company has brought
"A counter suit for 100000.
f. NJ. Field, who has been in an in
sane asylum for 81 months, is now de-
cIared to be sane, and will be brought to
New York to stand trial on the indict-
ments brought against him for his con-
nectiOn with the disastrous failure of
Field, Lindley g. Co. The indictments
are for forgery and grand larceny.
Indian Territory is sink-hole of
crime, according to Gov. Fishback, of
Arkansas, and he suggests that the gov
ernment assert its right of eminent
domain. He says over 200 murders were
committed in the Territory in year and
that most of the train robbers of the
country have their headquarters there.
Gov. Pennoyer has written an open
letter to Pres. Cleveland in which he
says that more than two-thirds of the
people of Oregon are without employ
ment and more than one third without
sufficient means of support. This state
of affairs, he says. is due to the recent
silver legislation, and he urges the Pre-i-
dent to take speedy action in the matter.
1t is said In New York that Andrew
Carnegie, the "stee king" Will leave
the country for Egypt January 4. and
that he has issued an order to his mana
gers to start up on the day of his depart
ure every iron mill with which he is
connected, and keep them in operation
all winter. He has ordered also the ex-
p 'nditure of $1,000 IA day during the win
ter for the relief of the unemployed poor
of Pittsburg.
The Wakefield building, a six-slory
structure, bounded by Canal, Travers
and Friend streets, Boston, was DESTROY
ed by fire last week Friday evening. The
building aas packed with combustible
material in the shape of dry lumber. sash
and blind stock, cotton fibre, wool and eX-
celslor, and it burned so fiercely that a
general alarm was sounded. Que man
persisted in the flames. The total loss
exceeds Sl50,000.