Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-14
DOMESTIC.

her record second.
From 5000 to 10000 acres of wheat in
the region around Wheaton, Mimi,
were destroyed by hail storm Monday
night.
President Cleyeland, who was on Fri
day reported i'll at his summer home
with rheumatism, is better and able to
go fishing.
Bad cheese poisoned ITO persons at
Mansfield, o., Tuesday. 1t is feared that
II of the sick will die. The cheese was
made near the city.
Judge Blatchford of the United States
supreme court died on Thursday last at
Newport, r. l., aged 70 years. He was
born in New York city and was of
English descent.
The Benson mines of magnetic iron ore,
at the terminal of the Carthage and Adj
rondack railway, west of Topper lake,
N. Y, have closed Four hundred men
are thrown out of employment.
The Kansas City Safe Deposit and
Savings bank, one of the largest institu-
tons of its kind in Missouri, made an
assignment Tuesday. The statement
places the assets at 100000 and the
liabilities at Sl,7O0,000
John Martin, st. Joseph, Mo-, farmer,
sold his farm to three men Friday for
$25, 900. They put the money, which
was in large bills, into bag and left it
with Martin. He gave them $1,000 in
small bills for change. The $4,000 was
all counterfeit. The men escaped.
Systematic plans for robbing the Gin
cinnati Southern railroad have come to
light. The Is conductors and Is engi-
neers involved issued fraudulent time
checks, which the time keeper, an accom-
plice, would accept. The steal is S4O,-
600.
The Chamberlain Investment Co. of
Denver, Col, the largest real estate con-
Germ in the West, closed its doors Mon
day morning. The liabilities, direct and
contingent, are S2,362, llS, and assets
$3,000,000. The vice-president of the
company is located in London, where
three-quarters of the liabilities will tall.
They have other fixed offices in New
York, Fort Worth and San Antonio,
Tex.
Moses Williams, colored, lives on
farm about five miles east of Fayette
vile, Tex. He is 60 years old, but no
one would take him to be more than
about so. He was married twice and
had born to him forty-five children. By
the first wife he had twenty-three child
ren-three boys and twenty girls-and
by the second twenty-five children-twO
boys and twenty girls. He says he has
about forty grandchildren.
The presidents of the trunk lines met
at New York on Wednesday to discuss
the single fare excursion rate to Chica-
go. 1t was finally agreed that special
trains composed only of day coaches
will be run to Chicago to a schedule of
not less than 80 hours, at the rate of one
limited fare for the round trip by the
route travelled. Tickets are to have a
return limit of 10 days, and are not to be
good in sleeping, parlor and chair cars.
and no stop-over is to be permitted in
either direction.
There is widespread and general suf-
fcring in the several established iron
ranges of the Lake Superior district. 1t
is the worst since the black days of 1872.
There is scarcely mine on the Marquet-
tie, Menominee or Gogebic ranges that
is not either completely closed or great
ly curtailed in operation. Miners have
!, been thrown out of work for the past
three weeks, and now the number of
idle men in these ranges is at least 5000
greater than it was less than month
ago. The total number of unemployed
is nearly $4,000.
For years past large maple on the
grounds of Attorney Maxwell at Pitts
burg, Pa, has been known as "the
whispering tree" and as such excited
+ curiosity and superstition. A peculiar
5 murmuring could be heard within its
t trunk. 1t became current rumor that
a murder had been committed there. Mr..
S Maxwell finally became annoyed at the
: superstitious talk which the tree
: nrnnnntaH an1 1act xVaal- it dOmp
e When the axe had penetrated several
3 inches into the trunk water gushed forth
t and continued running. He finished
t telling the tree and had it sawed into
d lengths. Two decayed streaks had Ell
/. sued down to the roots, several of which
u were hollow and ran down into tn,
y stream. The water had worked up tn,
l. roots and up one decayed streak anC
Is down the other until it had established
permanent way. 1t was the waite
= which caused the whispering noise, ant
the secret was out.
Cando, n. D.. was startled on Satur
: day by the arrival In the village of Mis-
Anna Kreider, but partially dressed an
almost frantic, with the announcement
ID that her fathers family were bein
= butchered by the hired man at their HON
near there. Citizens who hurried to tn
t. homestead found an awful spectacle o
If wholesale butchery. The father was ly
IN ing in his bed the mother in the kitchen
IL where she had been preparing breakfast
4, three girls, aged respective 10, IL, an
st years, and one 7-year-old boy wer
s. lying stiff and stark where they had fal
ur en- from wounds inflicted by a double
d. barreed shot gun in the hands of ALDER
ur Bomberger, farm hand. BOmbergC
On was distant relative of the family, VIII
RS had been in Mr.lKreider's employ abol
ms nine months. The father was the fir:
of victim. then the mother and the childre
e. in the order named. Miss Anna,
ID preous supplications, induced the fier
is to spare her life and those of her thr'
lis remaining little brothers. AT the muzz
of his gun he compelled her to prepa
a his breakfast, with the corpse of h.
he mother lying at her feet. The murder
Ter has been captured in Manitoba and is
he the county jail.
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