Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-09-28
DOME S1IO.

Nine. Fursch- Madi, the noted opera
singer, died Friday at Warrenville, y.
j., of cancer of the stomach, aged II
years.
The great organ which stood in festi-
val hall at the Columbian exposition has
been purchased and presented to the
university of Michigan by friends and
graduates of the institution.
Fire at Portland, ore, Sunday after
noon, destroyed property to the value of
the Pacific Coast company's elevator.
Miss Mary f. Bartlett of Revere,
Mass, has brought suit for Sl50,000
damages against the estate of the late
Dr.. Henry j. Bgelow for alleged breach
of promise.
Water was let into the Sault ste. Marie
canal Tuesday night. 1t is expected the
great enterprise will be ready for navi-
CATION within month at the latest. 1t
cost about Sl,00O,000.
Three negroes who have worked the
entire eastern country for pennies. the
sum total of which amounts to $1,000,
were arrested in Chicago on Tuesday.
They had operated from Portland, Me-,
westward.
The battleship Maine, in her prelimi-
nary trial trip Tuesday of New York,
proved herself to be the fastest battle
ship of ours or any other navy. She
made l7.55 knots an hour. Her ma
chinery worked like a clock. and she
was turned in cables length in a sea-
way.
Daniel Mullane, New York
youth, went the other night to call upon
n young woman, and while ascending
the steps of her house took hold of the
iron railing and cropped dead. Ihe rail
ing was heavily charged with electricity
that came from an impeI fcctly insulated
trolley wire.
Ralph Conklin, boy of Is years. sin
gle-handed, robbed the Bloomfield Il
Skiles bank at Mt. Sterling, III. Monday.
and compelled the cashier to hand over
Sill. The cashier fled when the boy
entered the bank and commanded him
to throw up his hads. The robber was
caught and the money recovered.
The schooner Col. Cook, stone laden.
was abandoned in Lake Erie Monday i'm
a sinking condition. The Cook was
small craft, but she had a history. About
thlrty-four years ago, on Lake Michigan.
she ran into and caused the sinking of
the excursion steamer Lady Elgin, by
which nearly three hundred lives were
lost.
The big stallion race. for which the
New England Trottng Horse Breeders
association offered purse of Sl5.O 900 and
which brought together Directum, Arion
and Nelson, was trotted Wednesday
afternoon at Mystic Park, Medford.
Mass, in the presence of fully 10000
I rA1n Ia,
straight heats; Arion second, and Nelson
third. Best time, 2l0.
\ hundred of the suilragist women of
Topeka, Kan, will come out in reform
dress. They have entered into an agree
meni, and adopted costume which is to
consist of Turkish trousers covered by a
skirt reaching to the fold close or loose
waist, as the wearer may prefer. and
cloth leggings to match the trousers. 1t
is the intention of the Topeka women to
organize into relief squads, so that a
number of them may be on the streets
all day. aud thus the community will
become familiar with the reform.
\ terrific cyclone passed over sections
of the State of Iowa last Friday. Many
ruined homes and deaths of the estimated
number of - were the result of it. At
/ Knoxville the damage by hail to win
dOws was very great. During the storm
the roar was like that of number of
trains crossing a bridge at the same
| time. The hail was as large as walnuts,
and fell to the depth of two and one half
feet in places. City Marshal CASTOR
claims to have scooped ten bushels of
the frozen balls of his porch that morn
ing. The rainfall was three and one
half inches.