Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-21
DOMESTIC.

Sheriff Warner of Crittenden county,
Ark, was shot in the arm by robOer
and robbed of $4,000 Monday night.
Cashier Bush of the burst Elmira On.
" national bank has been arrested for
classifying the books of the institution.
The local directors of the Worlds fair
decided at meeting on Friday to rescind
their former action and to close the |
Worlds fair on Sunday after July Is.
Baron Sohlberg, a millionaire Aus
TRAN nobleman, has just married Anna +
Wilkower, whom he met while she was
working as a chambermaid in the Palmer
House, Chicago.
Charles Miller of Mattoon, ILL.,, letter
carrier, Tuesday night shot and fatally
wounded Miss May Mack because she
had discarded him, and then drowned
himself in pond.
Miss Lizzie Byram, aged 10 years, of
Newark, n. j., died Monday of hydro
phobia, the result of bite from a pet
dog, inflicted early last April. Her suf-
ferings were horrible.
A train on the New Haven road Friday
morning struck and killed two men on
the track near Pelhamvile, n. Y. The
men were apparently fighting and paid
no attention to the engineers whistles.
The foreign exhibitors at the Worlds
fair will bring suits against the govern
ment for damages amounting to $780,
900. They declare the exhibits have
been ruined by rain, snow and sunshine.
At Henryville, Ind, Thursday night,
by a collision of two freight trains 10
men were killed, two fatally injured and
two others ale missing. A carload of
race horses were mangled in the wreck.
The Glen House in the White Noun
tains was burned Sunday night. 1t was
insured for Sl30,000. The owner says
the total loss is $4,000. The house
will not be rebuilt this year aud per-
haps not at all.
If conditions continue favorable Kan
, sas will have the largest corn crop in
the States history, with the single eX-
ception of that of 1899, when the yield
was 273, 100000 bushels, from an acre
F age of 6,S2O, SOB acres.
William }. Cook,a Wales Mass farm
er, was cut nearly in two by his moving
f IN lchine Friday morning, and died before
e aid could be summoned. He was NOW
/ ing with a pair of oxen that ran away
throwing Mr. Cook to the ground direct
~ in front of the knives.
: The bank of Mound Valley, Kan, wa;
n robbed at noon Thursday by three mel
who rode INTO town, entered the bank
q tied and gagged the cashier, secured al
: the money in sight, which amounted Il
b. 5000, and made their escape.
DR.. Lewis, health officer of Northamp
- ton county, n. c., reports the existenc
. of disease there resembling cholera
= Persons attacked die in six or seve
, hours. Twelve deaths have occurred
- The disease is being officially investi
10 gated.
r. The National bank of Kansas Cit
d suspended payment Friday afternoon
and is now in the hands of the cOmptrol
Ter of the currency. The assets, Presi
" dent Chick says, will be between 81,
III 100000 and S3,000,00O and liabilities be
8 tween 100000 and $l,O00,00O.
% All the glass factories at Elwood
Ind NJ hot
n 5000 and 1000 men are out of employ
10 ment. Many of the families cannC
90 even provide bread for their children
and in some cases there is actual su
ferlng from hunger, without any pro
III Pect of relief.
no DR.. Henry c. Meyer has been arrest,
no in Detroit and brought to New Yor
q. He is charged with poisoning two wiz,
oil and three or four other persons. Mey
,+ is native of Minden, Prussia.
mo came to this country when quite yOun
being now only 35 years of age, al
settled In Chicago.
at
nv An incoming passenger train on t
10 Grand Trunk road ran down a crowd
rt street car in Chicago, Monday nigh
inf killing four people and iniuring Gig
" others, two of whom may die. The c,
ost lision occurred at the 10th street eros
-, ing, which is network of tracks a
n has always been regarded as dangerou
ry, A disease over which the doctors are
ar dispute has ragged with considerable v
OT; lence In the town of Anaconda, Mon
wv, for the last 10 weeks. 1t is alternate
ent called black measles and black small-pc
Ter, The first case appeared about May
art and at present there are about go patiel
So; In various pest houses, and the yell