Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-08
General 17ems.
DOMESTIC.


at the Philadelphia mint, which Secre-
tary Carlisle recently directed should
be done by December 1, was completed
last week.
Seven Lyouths, sous of prominent
citizens of Argyle Park, ILL.,, were
poisoned the other day by eating caster
beans under the impression that they
were China beans. Two of them may
die.
The failures in the United States dur
ing the week ended Friday number ed
only 27S against 236 for the same week
last year, and in Canada 4S against 33
last year. Only four of the weeks
failures were of liabilities exceeding
100000.
Sir William FDawson, the Montreal
geologist. says that last week Tuesdays
earthquake was no doubt the result of IA
settlement or giving way in the rocks
along the junction of the Laurentian
and Sllurian formations. From what
he can Judge, the earthquake came from
a great depth and nearly vertically.
The yearly tax of the jay Gould
estate in New York city amounts to
$lS2,000. 1t has JUST been paid under
protest, and the trustees of the estate
threaten to remove the legal domcile of
the children. and with that their per-
sonal property, beyond the taxation
power of the New York tax commits
soner.
Princeton defeated Yale in the big
foot ball game at New York, Thanks
giving, by score of 6 to 0. Yale's de-
feat was great surprise all around,
especially to sporting people. Practi-
cally all the betting had been against
Princeton, and their victory meant heavy
losses for Yale men and in fact hun
dreds of New Workers. The, crowd out
was the largest ever seen at a Thanks
giving game.
r. G. Dun & Co. say IN their trade re-
view for the week ended riday: 1t can
not be said that business during the past
week has grown better or worse. For
some days the gain in demand and in
transactions which had been previously
noticed evidently continued. But after
ward tariff uncertainties were thought
to affect some branches of business, and
whatever the causes the state of trade
was less clear. Money was everywhere
abundant, with rates comparatively
low. Reports of different branches of
trade and from different cities frequent
ly mention tariff uncertainties as cause
of Il natural hesitancy, but it will take
some time to determine whether the
general tender cy toward Improvement
has been checked or to what extent.
The volume of trade has been some
what increasing and yet not as much
as was expected. Speculative markets
have shown but little changes except
for trust stocks. The industries are
waiting with visible uncertainty regal d.
ing the outcome of legislation, and be-
leis that the pending tariff bill will or
will not be passed affect action as much
as the varying judgments in regard to
its effect if passed.
The. wool growers of Montana are al
most in "A panic over the threatened
placing of wool on the free list. EX-
traordinary losses from the severe
weather last winter, and the ruinous
nj laI
and mutton sheep since the election of
a congress hostile to the Mckinley tariff,
have driven them almost into bank
ruptcy. They are TO man up in arms
to protest against an editorial in the
Helena Independent, Democratic, which
says: "Mapy of them strongly favor
putting wool on the free list as the best
means of making a steady market for
the Montana product at living prices,
but not one of them, so far as we
have learned, believes the Mckinley law
to be of any use to the wool growers,
although there are those, of course, who
believe in it In some degree. Copies
of this editorial were sent to all the
sheep men of the State, irrespective of
party or size of herds, and their opinions
asked of it. AS may be imagined, they
made haste to reply promptly, and scores
of answers are at hand. Not one sup
ports the contention of the newspaper.
On the other hand, without exception,
they declare that free wool will lnevita-
bly, wipe out the sheep business in
Montana, the threat of it alone having
shrunk the value of their investment
from SG,OOO,OOO to 100000
FOREIGN.