Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-18
DOMESTIC,

George Decker, the California murder
err, confesses that he has killed 10 per-
sons.
The Broadway cable system of New
York city will be in full operation by
June l.
A fire did half a million dollars dam
age, principally to coal and lumber
yards, at Pawtucket, r. L., Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the Populst
leader, is dangerously i'll OF typhoid
fever and nervous prostration in Kansas.
The supreme court of the United States
has refused writ of habeas corpus for
the release of John Y. Mckane from
Sing Sing.
All the mines of Blair and Cambria
counties in Pennsylvania are now closed,
except the mill mine in Johnstown. The
men are peaceable.
The mercury fell to the freezing point
early Friday morning in Sandwich,
Mass. and the result will be heavy
loss to the cranberry crop this fall.
The bodies of two young Englishmen,
w. NJ. Rogers and w. Mcdonald, were
found on IIarquhala desert, 60 miles from
Phoenix, Arlz. The men were prOspec-
tors and persisted of thirst while attempt
ing to cross 40 miles of desert on foot.
LII fight among Hungarian miners
at Laurelton, Ohio, Tuesday night six
men were murderOusly slashed with
knives and beaten with clubs. Several
women took a hand in the fight. All the
: parties were arrested. Several will die.
SIX families of EsquimauX, comprising
. 16 people in ALL reached New York Sun
day from Copenhagen. They are under
contract to the government of the United
States and are bound for Alaska, where
they are to breed and train reindeer for
three years.
Forty-nine national banks in New
York city on May showed loans and
disc cunts amounting to $33O,597 ,055 and
. lawful money reserve amounting to
$l9l ,95S ,052, a large gain as compared
with the February report. Individual
deposits increased $35, 100000 during the
last 60 days.
Two thousand employees of the Pull
man Palace Car company, at Pullman,
ILL.,, quit work Friday. The men de-
manded restoration of thirty-three
and one-third per cent cut in wages
made last fall, which was refused. The
management claim that the works run at
4 daily loss and are kept open only to
give the men employment.
he lneudl WlllCu IldI NdIu lduudtc>
are to present President Eliot on com
mencement, in commemoration OF his
4 having finished a quarter of Il century as
president of the university, is to cost
about $1,000. 1t is to be cast in gold,
5 and will contain on one side raised
representation of President EliOt's face
aud on the other an appropriate inscrip-
ton.
A fire believed to have been of incen-
diary origin on Sunday destroyed Tai
IMAGES tabernacle in Brooklyn and the
Hotel Regent adjoining and damaged
other buildings, causing total loss OF
81. go. 600. The fire was discovered ii
the organ just after the close of the
morning service. The tabernacle will be
rebuilt. This Is the third time Tamagei
congregation has been burned out. Th'
last tabernacle was dedicated on Apr
2G. 1891. 1t Twas brick structure
with brown stone trimmings and o
Romanesque architecture. 1t was 100 b!
l20 feet and had seating capacity o
81 $500. The school room was large enough
to hold 1900 persons. The building wa
put up at cost of 100000. including al
organ which cost 100000.
Boston had the biggest fire Tuesda.
afternoon since Thanksgiving day
1SS9-a fire covering larger area tina
any since the memorable one of rS7z
While the financial loss is not a circun
stance to that of either of those two fires
yet in less than three hours about l
acres of territory were burned over
The baseball grand stand and bleacher;
large school house, an engine hous
and l64 wooden buildings and l3 brio
buildings were burned and some 100
families made homeless. The loss is COZ
servatively estimated at from 100000
to S500,000, although one authority put
it at Sl,000,000 The indications al
that the fire was caused by carelessne;
and mischief and became beyond contr'
through stupidity. 1t started on ii
baseball grounds and was set by boys.
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