Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12

ed last week and this week all the pupils
of the public shoots are being treated.
1t is reported that the defalcation of
Teller Bennett of the Globe national
bank of Providence, X. l., will amount
to $4,000.
A decision of the New Jersey supreme
court, with regard to the law governing
them, wipes out the race tracks at Glou-
cester and Gutenberg, as well as every
other track in the State.
f. e. Chick. once publisher of the
Aldine at New York, has been commit
ted to an insane asylum. He persisted IN
demanding of George Gould 100000 with
which to re-establish his paper.
b. w. Moore, pension attorney of
Buffalo. has been arrested for defrauding
the government through the pension de-
partment. 1t is said he has swindled the
overnment to the extent of $l5O,OOO.
The people of Colorado are going in
for gold mining foi all they are worth.
In the year Just closed the gold output
of the State was SIS, 100000, or more than
twice the value of that mined In 1890.
Hotels in the Worlds Fair district of
Chicago are being transit rmed into flat
buildings. and families are moving In by
the hundreds. Over two-thirds of the
$500 flats are finished, and very few are
vacant.
/ Fifty.two prisoners are now in the
Cook county iail at Chicago charged
with murder. Five hundred other prison
oners are in the jail awaiting trial. AT
no time has the county jail been so
crowded with prisoners as within the
last few months.
There was IA marked increase in the
movement of general merchandise at
the port of New York last week as COM
pared with that of the preceding week, the
total standing at ,S45, against
S4,26l,179. Last year. in the same
week, the imports were S9,l0O,O56.
Another rich gold strike is reported
in the Black Mountains north of Ell
Paso, Tex. The strike was made in the
Mormon lode at the 200-foot level, where
the vein suddenly wIdened to five feet of
solid ore which is yellow with gold.
The whole camp went wild over 1t.
GOV. Mckinley was inaugurated 1T
Columbus, o., Monday, for his second
term. About 5000 men were in the i'll
augura,iOn procession. His inaugural
deprecated the condition of the working
classes and warned the Republicans of
the danger of a large working majority.
An Omaha (Neb.) Judge has sentenced
Louis De France to imprisonment for
life for stealing one cent. DE France
held up IA mall-carrier at Gordon and
only seemed "a penny. The punishment
is fixed by law, and the court in pro-
nolncing sentence said it was too severe,
but he had no recourse.
A fire caught Sunday evening in the
casino on the Worlds fair grounds and
before the progress of tie flames could
be stayed that building, music hall, the
peristyle and the big manufacturers
building were burned. The loss Oh
, buildings is placed at SS00,000. Presi'
dent IIiginbOtham says the value of the
exhibits stored in the manufacturers
building will not exceed $1,000, 600 and
= the loss to exhibitors will not be over
100000. The damage to exhibits was
entirely by water and smoke.
: AS horse and cart were passing
along Leidesdortf street, in Folsom
Cal, Monday, one wheel went entirely
out of sight, throwing the horse off it:
feet. Investigation developed the fact
, that the Chinese have been running
mining drifts beneath the streets anC
the railroads, honey-combing an entire
section of the town, and possibly un
dermining some of the business streets
! 1t has long been known that IA large
l body of rich, auriferous gravel lay be
? meath the property owned by the rail
! road company, but the company would
g not permit it to be mined. Considerable,
r excitement exists, as it is impossible t
, tell how extensive the workings are.