Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-15

The attorney general of the United
States has sent telegram to United
States Marshal Gard of California in
structng him to enforce the Geary act.
The marshal is further instructed to
carry away all Chinese ordered to be
depOrted, and to see to it that the orders
are carried out. Five are already in jail
to await the sailing of a steamer 20
China.
Lawyer Francis II. Weeks, who fled
from New York last spring after embez-
Zling large sums of money from estates
and individuals for whom he was a trus-
tee, has been arrested in San Jose, Costa
Rica. The arrest was made at the request
OF United States Minister Baker. Weeks
will be held to await eXtradtion. His
stealings will amount to several hundred
thousand dollars.
Frederick L. Ames of Boston, vice.
president of the Old Colony Railroad
company and millionaire, was found
dead Wednesday morning in staterOom
on the steamer Pilgrim, soon after her
arrival at New York. He was in good
spirits when last seen. He was found
lying on his face upon the floor. Death
was caused by cerebral apopleXy. Mr..
Ames was the richest man in New Eng
land.
The engineer of the Massachusetts
railroad commissioners says as to the
cause of the recent Chester accident in
which II persons were killed: "ln its
original condition the bridge would not
have broken down under the fatal train.
My examination of the wreck showed
very clearly, however, what had caused
the disaster The structure had been
gagged in repairs and had been left in
whole story"
Captain j. G. B. Adams of Massachu-
sets was chosen cOmmander-in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, by ac-
at indianapolis, last week
Colin Walker of Indiana was
elected senior vice commandments
and j. c. G. Bigger of Texas junior vice
Resolutions on the pension
question were adopted and the national
council of administration was instructed
to have a test case taken to the supreme
court to determine the right of the secre
tary of the interior to revoke pension
without giving pensioner hearing.
William Sayres, boy 20 yers old, was
assisting in the preparations for a balloon
ascension at Wheeling, w. Va, Friday.
Just as the balloon started skyward one
of Sayres feet became entangled in the
ropes between the balloon and the para
chute. In an instant he was ierked
from the ground. Thousands of specta-
tors saw the young man carried into the
clouds hanging head downward and in
danger of dropping at any moment. Tie
succeeded in getting hold of one of the
ropes and drew himself up to the rim of
the balloon, where he chung until landed
safely on the Ohio side of the river.
Three masked men entered the Farm
ers and Merchants bank at Delta, Col,
Friday morning. Pointing Winchesters
at Cashier Blachley they demanded the
urrender of the cash in the vault. Blach
ley refused to show the robbers the COM
bination of the safe. Grasping a small
bag of coin the outlaws shot the cashier
dead. and, springing upon their horses,
which were waiting outside the bank.
they rode furiously down the main street.
A hardware merchant, whose place of
business is opposite the bank, took short
cut to point where the desperadoes
passed in leaving the town and shot two
of them dead. The third robber escaped.
Twenty masked men held up Lake
Shore train at kendalville, Ind, 40
miles from Chicago, near midnight Mon
dav night. They shot and seriously
wounded the engineer of the train when
he refused to throw up his hands.
Dynamite was exploded under the eX-
press car, while armed guards were
placed at the doors of each car. The
of the express car was beaten
il sensible, the safe blown open with
dynamite and according to the latest re-
ports, about $4,000 in currency, which
was being shipped east from Chicago,
stolen. None of the passengers were
injured. 1t was the boldest
crime of the sort in recent years. The
scene of the robbery was a stretch of
timber through which the road passes a
mile from the town.