Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-04
DOMESTIC.

Wednesday was the hottest day ever
experienced in Gloucester, Mass, at
this season. the mercury reaching %.
freddy Wilson, one of the most no.
torious burglars and highwaymen in the
West, was lynched at Missouri Valley,
Ia, Tuesday.
The white miners have warned the
negro miners of Pittsburgh, Kan, to
leave the State within IS hours under
penalty of death.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has dis
charged thousand men between Mon
treal and Vancouver on account of fall
ing of in business.
Twenty thousand copies of a pamphlet
protesting against breckenridge rc-elec
ton to congress have been printed for
circulation in his district.
United States Senator Francis b.
StockL ridge of Michigan died at Chicago
Monday evening. His home was in
Kalamazoo. He was born at Bath, Me-,
April o, 1926
An Adventist gospel boat has Just
been launched at Allegan, Mich. When
fully equipped it will be taken to the
Mississippi, where it will do duty as
missionary craft.
Abram Corrant, who died the other
day at Jacksonville, Fla, at the age of
81 wears. was veteran of the Mexican
and Indian wars. Corrant had been
married twice and was the father of 40
children.
Twenty-Five new cases of smallpox in
Chicago were reported to the health de-
partment Tuesday. The total number of
cases reported during April was sos.
The public schools of the city have been
closed on account of the epidemic.
The trial of Mrs. Halliday will begin
at Monticello, n. V. in about two
weeks. The murderess has been in
formed thereof and is trying to starve
herself, but is forced to take food. She
is still in chains. The defense will be in
sanity.
The Sioux City Stock Yards company,
s.. 300. 600 authorized capital and $1,000
600 paid up, organized at Sioux City,
Ia, Monday, by filing articles of incor-
pOration. The company is made up of
creditors of the Union stock yards and
absorbs that property. The stock Is
held by 320 banks. located in all parts
of the country.
The imposing front of the st. Charles
Hotel, on st. Charles street. New Or
leans. is all that is left standing of one
of the most famous obstetrics in the
United States. The fire that ragged be-
! hind the walls of the hotel from II
O'Clock Saturday night until 3 o'clock
Sunday morning was one of the tiercest
New Orleans ever experienced One
man was burned to death.
After a long wait the Worlds fair
stockholders are to be paid ten per
cent dividend This was decided at a
special meeting held Saturday afternoon.
The fair had cash balance OF 81 100000.
The dividends 70 be paid are City of
Chicago. S500.000; Columbian museum,
on stock transfer. Sl50.000; stockhold-
ers. $4,000. The balance will be held
by the the treasurer until all the affairs
of the company are settled.
Friday night the Inhabitants of the
quiet little village of st. Alban, some
Is miles from Quebec in the county OF
Port Neut, heard terrific noise resemb.
ling the roll of thunder in the distance
1t turned out that the high water had
undermined the banks of the st. Anne
river and that huge landslide had Oc
Cured. Seven houses were carried into
the river. One of them was occupied
by a family named Gauthier, numbering
four persons, all of whom persisted. The
ground which slid into the river
measured about six square miles. Whole
farms were destroyed with their stocl
and farm produce. The old bed of the
St. Anne river is now gone and thu
river runs miles from where it courseC
before. The losses are estimated a
$500. 0O0.