Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-16
DOME STIC.

DOMESTIC.
Both houses of the Massachusetts legis-
lature have passed the bill abolishing
Fast day.
The committee appoiated by the State
senate to investigate the police depart
ment of New FORK city began its work
on Friday
The Republicans swept the city of
Augusta, Me-, Monday. electing the
mayor. six out of seven aldermen, and II
out of l6 cOCnclmen.
Dun q Co. say the failures in the
United States last week numbered 2lS
against 1913 last year. Scarcely single
one of them is of Importance.
The official call for the annual con-
vention of the national Republican
league has been issued. Denver, Col,
is the place and June 26 the date. The
convention will be in session several
days.
a trust to regulate the price of tropi
cal fruit at all the principal ports of the
United States is the latest device. and all
the leading importers have agreed to
Join it as soon as the organization is per-
fected.
Daniel Coughlin, charged with the
murder of DR.. Cronln, was found not
guilty by the jury at Chicago on the Sth
inst, and Il trial lasting four months
and one of the most famous in this
country is ended
III New Y orl Times says: That Levi
=. Morton, eX-vice-president of the
United States, is willing to become the
candidate of the Republican party for
governor of that State is no longer
matter of doubt among certain poll
ticians.
Forty ladies of Boston and vicinity Or
gained an association to be known as
the daughters of Vermont at the
Parker House in Boston last week Thurs
day. Miss Helen Winslow, formerly of
Westtield, is chairman of the committee
appointed TO complete the organization.
Lumpy jaw has broken out among
800 head of cattle fed at one of the cot
ton seed oil mills III Little Rock, Ark,
and much excitement prevails, as it is
charged butchers have slaughtered many
of The diseased cattle and sold the meat
Lee Frank, a prominent butcher, has
| been arrested.
The steam yacht Natalie, bought in
NeA York, and which sailed from Sa-
vannah with arms and ammunition to be
used by General Manigat in an attempt
to overthrow President HyppOlyte of
Hayti, has been captured by the Hay
tians, the cargo landed and the entire
crew shot.
Robert II. Peck of Hartford. Conn.,,
was shot and instantly killed for $50,
which he had in his pockets, in West
Hartford saturday night. The crime
was not known nor the body discovered
till o'clock the next morning. The
assassins were two young men, whose
identity has not yet been fully es-
tablished.
A case of smallpox was discovered
among the passengers in the smoking
car of New York, New Haven and
Hartford train bound for New York
Monday morning. The patient was
made prisoner in the baggage car I'M
til the train arrived at the Grand Union
station in New York, when he was
turned over to the medical authorities.
Arrangements are nearly completed by
=. II. o. Havemeyer of New York for the
establishment of game preserve near
his country home at Palmer's Hill, Conn.
The purchase includes about 1900 acres,
J and some 400 acres will be secured on
lease from farmers who will not sell their
property outright. The country is al
ready a favOrIte ground for quail and
partridges, and 1t is understood that MIR.
HaYemeyer intends to introduce English
pheasants.
The coroner's jury at Ithaca, n. Y, on
Wednesday rendered the following YER
diet in the Cornell university hazing
scrape, in which cOlored servant was
suffocated: "Henrietta Jackson, in our
= opinion, came TO her death on the night
, of February 20, 1894, by reason of the
inhalation of chlorine or other Irritant
gas manufactured and introduced into a
J room in Masonic block in Ithaca, where
} the deceased was at work, by person OF
3 persons to this jury unknown"
t A shortage of 100000 has just been
' discovered in the accounts of j. Y. Me,
Kane, the Gravesend political boss, who
, is at present serving term at Sing
= Sing for refusing to surrender the
Y election tally sheets to the court. 1t /:
e said that bonds amounting to $500, 900
a belonging to the town, have been by
= p0thecated. Mckane is also accused
: of borrowing money and not paying 4
e back; of Irregularities in connection
Y with an estate for which he was trustee
: and of leaving his family bankrupt.