Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-16
General l1ews.
DOMESTIC.

Rev. DIR. Talmage has resigned the pas
torate Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
There were in Boston last week 12O
cases of diphtheria, % of which were
fatal.
The official returns show that the Re-
publican candidate for governor in Ten
nessee has 1000 majority.
Gov.-elect Morton of New York has
filed statement showing that his cleo
ton expenses aggregated $1,000
Gen" Coxev, who ran for congress
\ IN Ohio, got only S.53S votes. against
IN0,006 for Raft, Dem, and q. $50 for Tay-
Tor, Rep.
The Cook gang of outlaws have part
of Indian Territory completely under
control and outrages by them are report
ed almost daily.
The Minnesota legislature elected last
week will have "A Republican majority of
los on Joint ballot. There are but nine
Democrats in the house and three in the
senate.
The puddlers i'm the PittSbburg, Pa,
iron works are to have their wages adj
vanced 10 per cent. This change is owing
to the recent elections. The wages will
will now be Sl40 per day.
Forest fires are raging in west Tonnes
see and eastern Arkansas and cloud of
smoke has settled down over Memphis
and the surrounding country. The smoke
is so dense on the river a to prevent
boats running. Much suffering and large
property losses have been caused.
The peninsula of Virginia was covered
with about one inch of snow Monday
morning with the thermometer at thirty.
Never before in the knowledge of the
oldest citizens has snow fallen there at
this season of the year.
\ party consisting of 800 families of
the Pullman unemployed will arrive i'm
Alabama during this week and establish
"A single tax colony after the ideas of
IIenty George near Blabclv. They have
secured 200O acres of fertile land.
The largest cotton fire in wears took
place at the Texas and Pacific wharf,
New Orleans La. Monday night, causing
a loss of S750.000. Forty freight cars
loaded with cotton were consumed, max
ing about Is, 900 bales of cotton destroyed
altogether
The Elkhart. Ind. knitting mill, EN-
ploying over 100 hands, was completely
demolished by hurrowing muskrats un
dermining the building. The extensive
machinery and thousands of pairs o.
holserv were hurled into the St JOSEPH
river, Monday, by the caving in Of the
earth.
The Maenncrchor club of Sharon. Pa.
gave a 'possum bake. Their friends pro
nOunced the dish superior TO any they
had tasted before, bur George Jones. who
sold them the 'poSsum. admits that the
Wand was Maltese cat. The club Ia.
brought suit, and there are qualms ii
Sharon Stomachs.
The outbreak of typhoid fever at WcS
leyan uni, erSity i attributed 10 oyster
eaten by the students 1t appears tina
the oysters in question. after being
dredged in the sound were left, as Is tho
custom. TO "faitcn" in some fresh waite
near the mouth of the Connecticut river
II so happened that the sewer of tow
where the typhoid fever was raging emp
tied into the river not far from wher
the oysters were deposited.
The great American transatlantic
liner, the st. Louis, was launched OF
Monday at the Cramps shipvari. nea
Philadelphia, aud was christencd b.
! Mrs. Cleveland The -. Louis. if tin
expectation of her builders i reached
will be superior to any liner in the worl'
except the Campania and the Lucania
which bold the transatlantic records
The new American liner is 500 'onS larg
err than either the Paris or New York
and lG feet longer on the water line
Her engines will he quadruple expansion
with force of 10000 horse power.