Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-27
DOMESTIC.

| 1t is believed that the Masons of Gin
cinnati have expelled Col Breckenridge.
The business portion of Great Bend,
Pa, burned Monday night. The loss is
heavy.
Gov. Tillman of South Carolina has
issued his proclamation opening the
State dispensaries on August l.
In the first Maine district Republican
congressional convention, Tuesday,
Thomas b. Reed of Portland was unani-
mously renominated by reclamation.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Chenoa, H., was burned Tuesday
Fifty-four buildings were destroyed.
Only four business concerns are left.
The Lawrence Mill company of Lowell,
Mass. has posted notices announcing
that the mill will begin next week to run
Oh half time. This will affect about
1900 operatives.
At an early hour Tuesday morning fire
destroyed 26 tenement houses in st. Jean
Baptiste village in the northern part of
Montreal. The damage is estimated at
$50 900; insurance, ST. 900. There was
no loss of life.
Mrs. Leland Stanford and her attor-
neys have notified the government that its
claim for Sl5,000.000 against the estate
of Senator Sanford has been rejected
This means that the demand of the gov
eminent will be paid only AS the result
of long litigation
Mrs Mary Roberts was shot Thursday
night at Yankton, 5. D., by her hired
man, John Sidden. Trouble had been
experienced with thieves who stole
clothes from the line, and Sidden declar-
ed he would wait for them. Mrs. Rob
erts was gathering in the clothes, when
Sidden. taking her for a rObber, shot and
killed her.
Every geyser in the Norris basin, Vel
| lOwstone park, Col, was playing Satur-
day. The new Crater geyser, which has
| been quiet for some time, broke out with
terrific force, throwing rocks weighing
twenty-five pounds to the height of two
hundred feet, and steam rose five hun
bred feet, accompanied bya roar which
could be heard ten miles.
Richard LennoX, notorious forger
and burglar, known in Europe as well
a. in the United States, has been cap
tured at New York, and will be tried at
Milwaukee for swlndlng banks. He
was one of four operators who had
euded for six years the smartest detec-
tives. The gang is said to have swindled
banks out of upwards of 81 100000.
Action was begun at Duluth, Mimi,
Saturday 10y the international Trust com
pany, in the name of one hundred credit
or. against the American Loan anC
Trust company, asking that receiver be
appointed and that the defendant com
pany be restrained from disposing OF
any money or property. 1t is alleged
| el u liuI, = in
cess of the assets.
-Four hundred pounds of loose powdei
exploded at Fort Pulaski. Ga, last Fri
day. The accident fatally wounded
Ordnance Sergeant William Chinn, ser
iou-ly injured Mary Washington, hi
mother in law. and set fire to the fort
causing intermittent explosions of am
muntion aud doing much damage to thC
fort Chinn started fire to drive on
mosquitoes.
The other day a gold brick of 55C
ounces arrived at the Denver mint from
the Fist national bank of Albuquerque
The assayers, after applying AL the tests
pronounced the brick mixture OF cop
per and zinc, without a trace of gold
The brick has a bronze appearance look
ing as many gold bars do when not quite
clean. The bank purchased the brick
from alleged miners for Sll 900.
A commission of royalist statesmen ar
rived at San Francisco from Honolulu
Friday on the Rio de Janeiro, on the way
to Washington to see President Cleve
land and OBTAIN from him an explicit an
swer to question whether he will do
ANYTHING more to redress the ALLEGED
wrong done to Queen Llliuokalani ant
. the Hawaiian people by the action o
Minister Stevens; also what answer h
makes to the various protests of hersel
and her people recently sent FORWARD
against the republic of Hawaii.
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