Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-04-27
DOMESTIC.

The Champlain canal will open for
navigation May 8.
The New York publishing firm of c.
L. Webster & Co., in which Mark Twain
is partner, has assigned.
The Saranac Lake House at Saranac
Lake, n. Y, was burned Monday night.
Loss, $4,000, and insurance small.
jesse Seligman, the New York banker,
died on Monday at Coronado Beach,
Cal, where he had gone for his health.
The supervisors of Gogebic county,
Mich, have appropriated $4,000 for
road improvements on the demand of Il
body of idle men.
Carson Lake of New York city, who
was employed for time on a Rutland
newspaper during the campaign against
Senator Edmunds in 1856, died the other
day of paresis.
Six hundred and fifty textile workers,
dozen of them women, left Philadel-
phia Friday on IA special train for WASH
ington for the purpose of petitiOning
the senate to kill the Wilson bill.
Mrs. Elizabeth Goss, widow of the late
Joe GOss, the well-knOwn prizetighter
and sporting man, committed suicide at
( Boston Friday. She was about to be
tried on charge of embeZZlement.
A letter has been received at Minnea-
polls from eX-President Menage of the
Northwestern Guaranty Loan company,
stating that he will soon return and
answer to the indictment charging him
with the ENLIGHTENMENT of Sl,0OO,OOO.
He is now in Central America.
Joseph White of New Britain, Conn,
claims to be the youngest man who serv-
ed in the war of the rebellion. He is
now less than 40 years old. In January.
1861, when nine years and eight months
old, he was enlisted as "A drummer in the
10Th New Hampshire regiment
Thirty-six silver mine owners in the
Mineral creek district at the foot of
Mount Tacoma, Washington, will put
into circulation certificates of stock
coined of silver from their mines to re-
leve the financial stringency and in
creasing the circulating medium.
At mass meeting in Cotton, CAL,
Sunday, resolutions were adopted rec
ommending that in view of the deplora-
bic business depression and restitution
of the unemployed, Gov. Markham issue
proclamation requesting that boards of
supervisors provide public work.
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tinental Investment and Loan society of
Chicago have been asked to sacrifice 20
per cent of their Investment to save the
concern. The assets amount to $lSS, 900
and the liabilities foot up S225,000 The
deficit is said by the officers to have
been caused by extravaganza of the past
management.
Three negro barn burners were lynched
in Tuscumbia. Colbert county, Ala,
saturday, at about midnight. Two hun
dred masked men took the three men
from Jail and marched them to the Ten
nesee River bridge. There rope was
tied around the neck of each, and the
victims were then compelled to leap
from the bridge.
sunday at Bessemer, Mich, John
Gest showed his wife how to operate a
partly self-cocking revolver, swapping
the lock on empty chambers. His wife
took the weapon and pulled the trigger.
| a report followed and the ball struck
Gest in the head. killing him instantly.
Mrs. Gest went insane and was a raving
maniac inside of ten minutes. She tore
handiuls of hair from her head and it
took four or five men to hold her. She
died in great agony in few hours.