Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-23
DONE STIC.

! A bill has been Introduced IN the New
York as senb'y to prcvelt the display
of foreign flags on public buildings.
The Indiana State board of health has
p used resOlu ions to the effect that all
Iramps in the State must be vaccnated.
The Harvard faculty has issued an
order that no punches or distilled liquors
will hereafter be allowed on class and
commencement days.
The Illinois supreme court refused TO
grant supersedeas in the case of Pat
rick Eugene Prendergast, who is to be
hanged in Chicago today for the murder
of Mayor Carter Harrison.
A wholesale poisoning occurred at
Hillsbore, Ind. Monday The family and
servants of DR.. Hays were all taken
violently sick after eating canned chicken,
and three deaths will probably result.
The new big l3-inch gun, the largest
ever made in the United States, was fired
twice Wednesday at Indian Head, Md,
proving grounds, in the presence of
company of distinguished officials, and
proved to be a success.
Monday was the Goth birthday of
Names celebrated apostle of prohibition,
Gen. Neal Dow, and was celebrated by
him at his home in Portland, as well as
by temperance societies in many places
in this country and abroad.
A severe wind storm passed over
northern Texas on Sunday and Monday.
The death roll will reach 20, and the list
of injured l00 Accounts from Emory
say the place was knocked nearly out of
existence. The river in front of Dallas
is rapidly rising.
Within six weeks 1000 miners, mostly
from Colorado and the northern States,
h I'VE gone into the new COchita gold
district. % miles west of Santa Fe, \.
NJ. The rush is now on at the rate of
60 a day. The assay runs from to II
ounces in gold to the ton.
Joseph Stephenson, while eXcavating
In Warsaw, Iud Monday for a cellar on
a lot recently purchased by him, threw
out an old iron kettle containing $4,000 in
in greenbacks. An old man named B,ue
formerly lived alone on the place and
committed suicide eight years ago.
The New York Civil Service Reform
association make specific charges against
Gov Flower. Carl Schurz and others
show that he has connived at the illegal
removal of State positions from the COM
petitve to nOn-cOmpetitive schedules.
The legislature is asked to investigate.
The worst blizzard of the season was
IN progress on Tuesday in Montana, Wy
oming and Nebraska and was causing
large losses of stock in the Black Hills of
Dakora. On Wednesday another storm
was blowing on the North Atlantic coast.
1t did much damage to shipping at St.
Johns, n. F.
Isaac Prouty & Co.. the largest shoe
manufacturers in the world, with Office
in Boston and factory at Spencer, Mass,
have failed. The failure is the largest
in The shoe trade for many years. The
firm has done a $2,000,000 business "A
year and has pay roll of between $780,
600 and 5000. 900 Il year with 1900 hands
employed.
John Parrott. who lives at Forest Hill,
Ky, found his l2-year-old son dangling
from the limb of tree Saturday with a
rope about his neck. The boy was I'M
nscious. The father cut the rope and
by applying restoratives soon had his son
conscious. The boy said that two COM
panions became enraged with him and
strung him up.
Receipts of fresh eggs at New York
Monday and Tuesday, as compiled by
the Mercantile exchange, footed up
52,777 cases, equal to ,GSS, 1854 dozens OF
~, AOOsOOo cRRSs QUIZ tIOIulOuS ItCtlpts
in two days have never before been equal.
: ed so early in the season, and probably
have not been reached in the flush of the
spring receipts in previous years. which
usually comes in April.
= A daring robbery was committed al
= Centerville, Ia, Monday night. Burg
lars pried open the door of the vault OF
the Centervile national bank with
crOwbar and carried of coal scuttle full
I of silver dollars, amounting to $4,000. NJ
! attempt was made TO open the safe which
contained the currency. The robbers haC
a carriage or light wagon, and made goOC
their escape into the country.
William f. Powell, farmer, anC
seven of his children at Bingham. Ill.
are in dangerous condition, the result
= of eating poisonous hcrse-radsh. The
horse-radish had been put into an empty
tomato can and In a sholt time It ab
sorbed poison from the tin.
1t is said that 100000 in counterfeit
silver dollars have been put in circulation
at Omaha. The bogus coins contain tn
same amount of silver and alloy as i
placed in the regular dollar by the gov
/. eminent. The makers have simpl,
started an opposition to the government
!. and their money cannot be detected iron
the genuine. They are making none,
fguratively and literally. 1t is said tina