Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-02-23
DOME STlC.

Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered in Chicago.
All the Worlds fair buildings will be
torn down in a few days.
Lack of coal causes much suffering in
Lane, Cove, Greeley and Sheridan coun-
ties, Kansas.
Bill Nye, the humorist, is seriously i'll
with heart disease at Niagara Falls,
where he went to give lecture.
1t is reported that another rich gold
strike was made a few days ago in The
Camilla mine at Cripple Creek, Col.
The lower house of the Massachusetts
legislature has voted to abolish Fast day.
1t is pr0posed to make the first Thur sday
in April holiday and to cal it Puritans'
day.
Matthew Ashton, IL convicted murder
err in Jail at Madison, Wis, pending APP
peal to the sLpreme court, died of small
pox Friday morning. He was worth
S350,000.
Ex-Postmaster-Gener Wanamaker is
accused of violating the alien contract
labor law by importing from Ireland
lace-mallers and Il wood carver. TIE
penalty for each offence is $1,000 fine.
John Jacob Arnold of Lockport, n.
Y, defau ting county treasurer and
bank cashier, pleaded guilty Monday to
three indictments for forgery, embezzle-
menl and making false entries. There
are still 81 indictments against him.
During performa nee in the circus at
the midwinter fair in San Francisco, the
other night. he electric lights went out
and in the darkness one of the keepers,
| NJ, .aA nd
bly, mutilated by two fierce lions. lie
died from the injuries.
Joseph keppler, cartOonist and editor
of Puck, died suddenly Sunday after
noon at his home in New York from
spinal trouble brought on by overeXer-
ton at the Worlds fair in Chicago. lie
was born in Vienna February |, 1888.
lie was known among journalists the
world over.
The grain men say the recent heavy
snow will make "A wheat crop this year of
100, 900, 600 bushels in Kansas. The area
seeded was over 4, 800, 900 acres, according
to the latest report of the State board OF
agriculture. This is a greater area than
that which produced the phenomenal crop
of 1892.
Three masked men wrecked a passen-
ger train near Los Angeles, CAL, Friday
morning early. The engine and two
fruit cars were ditched. The express Cal
was blown open with dynamite anG
looted. Engineer Thomas and the fire
man and express messenger were badly
hurt. The robbers got away.
Erastus Wiman. formerly New Yorl
manager of the commercial agency of Il
G. Dun g. Co., the builder of the Slater
Island Rapid Transit company, and l
prominent advocate of the annexation o
Canada to the United States, was arrest
ed in New York on Wednesday, charged
with embezzement and fOrgeries amount
ing to 1929, 900. He was arraigned befOr
Judge MARITIME in the general session
and committed to the tOmbs in default o
S25 900. 1t is alleged he took the none,
from Dun & Co. while in charge OF thei
business.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin of Sat
urday says regarding the wool trade
The sales of wool for the week are 206
600 pounds foreign and l,265, 400 pound
domestic. The sales show Il total de
crease from last year at the correspond
ing date of l5.l74,600 pounds. The re
ceipts of wool at Buston since Januar
i ! similarly show a decrease to date q
S 10, 459 bales domestic and l6,6Sl bale
o foreign. The market is utterly dull an
e featureless, the few buyers attendin
j picking up small lots from the bargai
5 counter, There is a general weakenin
c in washed fieeces toward the free trad
G basis. Ohio NX has sold at 2l3 cents
e "A half cent lower than last weeks quot;
/ ton, which was the lowest on record.