Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-01-06
6eneraI l7ems.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Chicago society is agitated over the APP
pearance of picture of Mrs. Potter Pal
mer on brewery calendar for 1893, used
without her consent and without her
knowledge. Mr.. Palmer is very angry
David II. Blanchard of Boston has de-
cided to give $4,000 purse, divided
$4,000, $500, $500 and $1,000. open to all
trotting stations of the 2:l2 class, for a
race at Mystic Park September ID, 1893.
At Haverhill, Mass, the other morning,
by the explosion of a frozen water pipe
connected with the cooking stove, Mrs.
Anna NJ. Merrick was struck with pieces
of pipe and stove and probably fatally in
jured.
The Great Northern passenger train
which reached Spokane, Wash, Friday
from the east ran into a he'd of oyer one
hundred antelopes near Blackfoot noun
tain, Mont, disabling the engine so that
another had to be procured. Seven of
the antelopes were killed.
Twelve hundred half pound cans of
Struggled opium. valued at $4,000, were
found inside the sheathing in the hold Of
the steamer Oceanic, from Hong Kong, at
San Francisco the other day. The duty
would be about $1,000. 1t was the larg-
est seizure in years.
Kilgore, small town in Carol coun-
ty, o., has been almost depopulated by
malignant diphtheria. The disease stal t.
ed about two weeks ago and increased as
the weather grew colder. Fully fifty
persons have died. The victims were
not confined to the young, many in mid
die life having died. The disease is be-
ginning to abate.
Long Island City, n. Y, was shaken
the other morning by an explosion at the
tunnel shaft of the New York and Long
Island Tunnel company. Workmen had
been thawlng out dynamite cartridges in
front OF the shaft, preparatory to using
them in blasting. They exploded with
terrific force, causing the death of five
persons, fatally injuring two others and
wouuding 20 more.
Commissioner Raum has prepared
some figures on pension expenditures,
more recent by several months than
those contained in his annual report
They show that on December l, 1892
there were 900, SS5 pensioners on the roll
Since July l, 1892, 5S,766 original pen
sions had been granted and increases in
/ 30.305 cases had been allowed. The
number of claims pending December II
was 776,6S7. For the first six months OF
the present fiscal year there was paid on
on account of pensions $50, 423,9O3.
Orders have been issued by the navy
department at Washington to Rear Adj
miral Benham, commanding the EurOp
can squadron, directing that his flag
ship Newark and the gunboat Benning
ton shall convey the Columbian cara
wells Pinta and Nina from Spain to the
United States by the way of the Yves
Indies. The Newark is now at Smyrna
and the Bennington at Cadiz. TIN
former will visit Naples to receive tn
Vatican exhibits, Marseilles to receiv
the French Columbian relics and will
then proceed to Cadiz to assist in fittins
out the caravels for their voyage acros
the Atlantic over the original course ia
ken by Columbus. The caravel SAINT
Maria, representing the discoverer'
flagship, will be sent over separately by
the Spanish government, but will ioi
the other vessels at Havana. The Ell
tire fleet is to start from Cadiz not late
than February 10, SO to ensure their al
rival here in time to participate in tn
Columbian naval review at Hampto