Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-06

The Yale boat crew defeated Harvard
in the collegiate race at New London,
Conn, last Friday by seventeen lengths.
1t was was a dull race and was seen by
10000 people.
Southwestern Minnesota and eastern
South Dakota suffered much in death
and destruction last week by wind
storms. Ten persons were killed and 20
or 30 injured.
Mrs. Sallle Chapman Gordon Law,
better known as the mother of the
Contederacy." died at Memphis, Tenn.
Friday, aged 80 years. During the war
Mrs. Law organized the southern hospi-
tai corps.
John ID. Rockefeller promised S65O.000
more to the Chicago university some
time ago on condition that S350,000 be
raised to add to it by July l. The
amount was completed Saturday and
Mr.. Rockefeller will be notified at once.
Five hundred men were discharged in
the Brooklyn navy yard Monday morn
ing because the congressional appropria.
ton has given out. The probability of
discharge is also hanging over 800 other
men who are drawing pay out of another
appropriation.
Carlos Ezeta, the fugitive president of
the republic of Salvador, accompanied by
his wife and four children. arrived IN
New York Sunday evening from Colon.
His brother, Gen. Antonio Ezeta, is now
a refugee on board of the United States
man-of-war Bennington.
Moody Merrill, BostOn's missing finan-
cier and trustee. who left his many Credi-
tors with a highly complicated condition
of affairs to unravel, Is now living in
Chihuahua, Mexico, where he was re-
Gently married. His bride was Hester
Ciprico, of "A Spanish line which came in
with COrteZ.
Thursday night deliberate attempt
was made to blow up the Witness news
paper Office at Montreal, a dynamite car
fridge being hurled through a rear window
into the press room. Several of the win
dOws were shattered and portion of the
floor torn up. No motive for the act is
known. The Witness is strong tenn
perance and ultra-Protestant paper.
Sunday was the hottest day that New
Orleans has ever seen, the mercury regis
tering 80 in the shade and ll5 in the sun.
From some of the adjacent towns come
reports that the thermometer registered
l04 in the shade. Sunday was also the
hObNNcl va tNOl ltllCCA III OhlduO-
ma. From to o'clock the thermome-
ter registered 10 degrees in the shade
and l2G degrees IN the sun. Grass and
crops are burning up. owing to hot
winds.
The coming month will be a memoir
able and unprecedented one in North
Carolina for the carrying into execution
of death sentences. In the one county
of Montgomery eight men will be hang
ed within eighteen days. All of these
criminals have been convicted of murder
In Franklin county two muldeTers will
be hanged on July ID, and in August
several other executions will take place
in the State, including one negro muir
derer and two others convicted of as
sault.
Col. III. G. Parsons, owner of Natural
Bridge hotel and one of the most promi-
nent Republicans in Virginia, was shot
and killed Friday morning at Clifton
Forge. Va, 10y r. a. Goodman, a Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad conductor.
There had been feeling existing between
Col. Parsons aud Goodman for over a
year. growing out of the latter's refusal
TO allow Mrs. Parsons to ride on his train
when that lady had forgotten her pass
book. Col. Parsons was Nermonter
and served during the war as captain of
the first Vermont cavalry.