Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-13

A cordial invitation has been sent to
Gladstone to visit this country this year.
1t Is signed by more than one hundred
representative Americans, including the
vice. president of the United States, the
chief Justice OF the United States, the
speaker of the house of representatives,
United States senators and members of
congress from forty States of the Union,
the presidents of Yale, Princeton, Column
bia Cornell, Pennsylvania, Rochester
and Syracuse universities, all of whom
have respc nded with degree of hearth
ness indicative of a national sentiment.
The six largest buildings which formed
the boundaries of the court of honor of
the worlds fair at Chicago were burned
by an Incendiary fire early on the evening
of the 9TH The buildings destroyed were
the terminal station, administration. man
ufacturers', electricity and mining build
ings. machinery hall and the agricultural
building. The art gallery, which has
been rechristened the Columbian muse
UNI, and the government buildings were
saved, together with the minor buildings
south of machinery hall and the agricul-
tural building. The fire started almost
simultaneously at three points so selected
as to afford the best possible opportunity
for the spread of the flames.
The dispatches to the daily papers of
yesterday indicate that the great strike
of railroad men, which practically para
lyZed the business of rail- Dads centering
at Chicago for a week, Is over. The cor
respondent at Chicago writes under date
of Wednesday: "rhere was more of a
business aspect at the stock yards today,
and although receipts were very small,
there was prospect of liberal arrivals
very soon. Prices were quoted weak,
owing to the declines at western points.
They were for the most part nominal.
The rates were as follows: Cattle, Sl.13
to $3.50; hogs, 50 % to $725; sheep, 81
to S4.5O, The General Managers as
ISOLATION has quit hiring men. More
men than are needed have already been
employed General Manager Eagan
claims, and this morning he wired to all
points in the United States where branch
employment agencies have been estab-
lished, closing them. The num-
Der of men employed by the as
ISOLATION has reached into the thous-
ands. 1t is said that the Great West
ern has a complete outfit of new men,
all of its old ones having quit work
The stock yard district from Thirty-tirst
street south to FOrty-seventh street is
practically under martial law. The
pickets extend to Hastead street and
even the main street adjoining the Transit
house is patrolled by troops. In an Off
cal statement the General Managers
association saws the railroads are hand
ling the usual number of trains, and that
the strike is practically ended" From
Thursday of last week till Tuesday of
this Chicago was the scene of great dis
order, the strikers destroying cars and
amount of S5.0OO'OOO. During the n
hours ending at midnight last Friday.
there were sixtv-two fire alarms in
Chicago from burning railroad property.
nearly all being on the south side. Sev-
eral times the railroad shops were on fire.
The number of alarms from July to one
o'clock july 6 was 334, the largest ever
recorded in the history of the department.
On Saturday the scenes of violence were