Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-02
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in several
towns and cities in Connecticut
A large mount of Struggled opium
has been seized in the State of Washing
tOl.
Five cases of smallpox were discover
ed IN single tenement in New York
city on Monday.
Ex-President Harrison, who is travel
ing across the continent to San Francisco,
is getting veritabe ovation at all the
cities where he stops.
gang of girl counterfeiters has been
unearthed in Omaha, and two of its MEM
bers are under arrest, with the prospect
of others being soon behind the bars.
Gus Ebb and three Others were found
dead in the woods Saturday in the Semi
mole reservation, O. r., where they were
caught in the recent blizzard while hunt
ing.
Norman l.. Munro, the well-known
New York publisher, died at the Hofl-
man House Saturday night, as the result
of an operation to relieve his suffering
from appendicitis.
AT Chicago, Saturday, Judge Bretano
denied the motion for new trial in the
case of Eugene Prendergast, the muir
derer of Mayor Harrison, and sentenced
the prisoner to be hanged March %.
A dispatch from Kittaning, Pa, says:
The wife of David Roseberger, farmer
living near here, gave birth to five chill
dren, three girls and two boys. All the
children appear healthy and are likely to
live.
Erastus Wiman of New York, who
was last week arrested for forgery, has
pleaded not guilty and is out on $25,O00
bail. Gen. Tracey, his counsel, asserts
that his client is innocent of the crime
charged.
The village of Harris City, 10 miles
west of Findlay, o.. is bankrupt, and
will be appraised and sold at sherifi's
sale. Nearly the entire village is owned
by the Exchange bank of Ottawa, which
recently failed.
The ''greater New York" bill has
passed the senate at Albany. 1t simply
provides that the question of consolidate
ing into one municipality the places
about New York harbor shall be sub
mtted next fall to vote of the people.
The city of Brooklyn, according to the
police census, contains 56,676 persons
who are suffering from enforced idleness.
OF these. 46,GSS are men and 1888 are
women. Most of them have been idle
for months, seeking work, but unable to
OBTAIN it.
The Iowa house of representatives on
Monday passed a resolution asking post
ponement of the final vote on the Will
son bill in congress until after the next
election, "to give the people of the
United States chance to vote on the
question"
Two cases of smallpox have been found
among the 400 convlcts in Sing Sing
prison. The two prisoners afflicted were
, employed in the rag-sorting industry
aud it is supposed that the disease was
contracted from some of the old rags
sent there to be sorted.
| Rev. Byron Beall of Lincoln, Neb.
was assaulted Oh the street in that city
Tuesday evening by Fred Convey, gam
3 bier. Beall was not seriously injured
1 Covey was arrested. The assault was
e the outgrowth of sermon preached Sun
day night by the minister.
, The placer gold discoveries along thu
t Wenatchee river, between Wenatche
: and Leavenworth, near Everett, Wash.
e are attracting great crowds, several hun
! bred claims having already been located
I A railroad brakeman swan the ice-coll
n river few days ago to locate a claim.
Jacob A. Moore, aged 50, and Mrs
; Jane Raymond, his housekeeper, age
90, respected residents Of Bushville, fiv
miles north of Monticello, N. Y, wer
murdered Thursday night by an unknow
= assassin. Moore had lately received per
sion money and the supposed motive wa
r robbery.