Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-30
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w. Z. Thatcher, paying teller of the
Brookline, Mass, national bank, pleaded
guilty, Monday, to embezzling $1,000 and
was sentenced to five years at hard labor.
Prendergast, the convicted murderer Of
Mayor Carter Harrison, who was to have
been hung at Chicago last Friday, was
respted for two weeks till April 6, his
counsel claiming that he was insane.
II. G. Wiltse, settling clerk for the
United States Express company, is miss
ing from Chicago, together with three
bags of money said to contain $1,000
each. Plnkerton detectives have been
put on the case.
The l6 Gravesend On. y election in
spectOrs who pleaded guilty to conspira-
cy were on Tuesday sentenced TO terms
of Imprisonment ranging from % days to
six months, and a number were in addi-
ton ordered to pay fines of 5000.
Mysterious stealing of mail matter on
a large scale is reported at South Bend,
Ind. 1t has been conducted since last
July. but no one has been detected.
More than $4,000 has been stolen, and
the chief sufferer has been the Indiana
Travelling Mems Accident association.
The dynamite works of the Acme Pow
der company at Black Run, near Pitts
burg, Pa, were blown up last week
Thursday morning. Three men and two
women we're instantly killed, and ada
cent buildings were badly wrecked. Five
tons of dynamite were stored in the build
ing at the time of the explosion.
Reports from the peach district of Del
aware are ominous. Peach growers
around Milford, the centre of the Della
ware peach district, are of the opinion
that The entire crop has been killed. The
definite extent of the damage will not be
know until warm weather cones and
thaws the buds, but the worst is feared.
The wool dealers of Boston met Tues
dav and adopted memorial to Congress
condemning the Wilson tariff bill in its
entirety and calling for the influence
and votes of the members of congress
at large kill it, claiming that it has been
prepared without practical knowledge
of the relations of the manufacturers to
so-calied raw materials
The wrecking steamer Orion, which
sailed from Boston March Is for Ruuca-
dor reef for the purpose OF saving the
stranded warship Kearsarge. found ON
reaching the reef that the kearSargc had
been set on fire and her hull entirely bro
ken up. After becoming satisfied that
there was absolutely nothing left of the
Kearsarge that could he saved, the Orion
set out to return to Boston.
A convention of the negroes of Ala
bama at Birmingham last week consider
ed the question OF emigration to Africa
Three thousand delegates were present
The depressed condition of the race anC
the fact that they are making no pro
gress was discussed 1t was the sense O1
the meeting that, Africa being the nat
ural home of the negroes, those in this
country should return to that continen
as soon as possible and establish there
great nation.
The Boston journal says that tn,
Columbian Liberty bell is wanted il
Holy Land on Christmas eve, 1899. !
request for its presence has been eX
tended by the committee in charge o
the celebration of the closing of tn
nineteenth century and the commence
ment of the twentieth century of tn
Christian era. The celebration is to b.
held at the very spot where the shep
herds received the angels message tina
is cast in the bronze of the bell "GlOr
to God in the highest, and on cart
peace, good will toward men," At tn
same moment the corner stone is to b
laid of great temple to be erected i
the Holy Land in honor of Christ.
Hiram Knoblock of Bremen, Ind,
years old, tried a coal oil remedy 70
changing his red hair, with the resul
= that all of his hair and most of his seal
were burned, while the house of hi
aunt, Mrs. James Gruber, was set on fir
and her life endangered. Hiram ha
been very sensitive about the color of hi
hair. 1t is not fashionable color nea
: Bremen, and the boys and girls of hi
acquaintance took delight In calling hiI
i "BricktOp" and other names. A tin pee
dler called at the Gruber house Monday
r and offered to give Hiram receipt tha
| would change his fiery locks to a rave
blackness. He wanted SO for the secrt
but as Hiram only had 1925 cOnsente
to take that. The peddler told Hiram /
wash his hair In coal oil for seven night
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