Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-06-01
DOMESTIC.

Eleven cases Oh SmallpOA HdNe OceH
d scovered at Worcester, Mass.
The Viking ship has been given to the
Field museum, jackson park, Chicago.
Millions Of locusts, said to be of the
II or Il year family, have appeared at
Decatur, Ill.
a representative of an English syndi-
dictate has offered $1,000, 900 for the plant
of the Elgin. H., National Watch COM
pany.
Smallpox is epidemic at Atchison,
Kan, and all colleges, schools, churches
and places of amusement have been
closed for two weeks.
The Republicans of the 9TH district of
Kentucky have decided to nominate a
candidate for con! ress. This is COLI
Breckenridg district.
a Chicago paper says that Gov. Altgeld
is on the point of resigning his office, the
reason for such action being found in the
governors continued i'll health.
The city council of FL Paso, Texas,
has passed an ordinance forDidding wO-
men from wearing on the streets of the
city what is known as the divided skirt
The Pueblo, Col, Savings bank, which
Closed last June, will reopen with new
legations of more than $1,000 900. 1t
had hundreds of small depOsiters when
it closed.
Portsmouth, Il. l., puts in claim to
the Oldest living Free Mason, in the per-
son OF W. f. Cook, 81 years of age, who
was made Mason in 1919, and has
therefore been member of the craft for
Just three-quarters of century.
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vict and former justice of the peace at
Gravesend, n. Y, has come back from
Canada and given himself up. He con-
fesses to having stuffed the ballot boxes
at Gravesend in the interest of the DEM
ocrats.
The assignee of the Union Loan and
Trust company of Sioux City, Ia. states
that the liabilities are over $1,000, 900
and it will pay only five cents on "a dol
lar. Hedges estate, whose liabilities
are $1,000, 900, will pay % cents on the
dollar.
More than 400 fowls have been des-
troved by State inspectors on eX-Vice
| President Morton's stock farm at Rhine
beck, n. Y. The fowls are afflicted with
"A malady believed to be tuberculosis.
The infected fowls had roamed about in
fields in which last year were pastured
diseased cattle.
Thirty well-known citizens of Tecum-
sch. AN Indian town 80 miles east of
Oklahoma City. o. r., have been indicted
for horse stealing. Seventeen have been
arrested. The organization extends from
Arizona to Arkansas. Many murders
have been committed by the gang.
A distinguished Chinaman named Kim
Wing has reached Mobile on the way
from his home in Merida, Mexico, to
Hong Kong. China, where he goes to get
2O0,0O0 of his countrymen to settle IN
Mexico. They are to be employed on
coffee and hemp plantations operated by
Wing.
Rev. Zachariah Parker, a Methodist
preacher, was convicted at Paris, Tex.
Friday. of forgery and fraud. Before
the war Parker owned slaves in Tennes
see. one of whom enlisted in the UnioI
army and was killed. BY forgery anC
false claims Parker mas for Is year,
drawn pension in the name of the widow
of his former slave. The woman ha
been dead 10 years.
The Missouri Pacific passenger tri il
from the east which arrived at Pueblo
Col, Friday morning narrowly escaped
going through bridge 80 miles east o
Pueblo which had been weakened b.
high water. On the train was Rev
+. Dewitt Talmage of Brooklyn, VIII
was awakened by the jerking of III
sleeping car, and, looking out of tn
window. found the car of the track i
the middle of the bridge, which wa
slowly sinking beneath the weight
the train. Fortunately the engine wa
powerful enough to pull the cars up tn
incline, but no sooner had the last Ca
gained the solid ground than the struC
ture sank into the water.