Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-04-26
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The New York State board of health
reports that the grip has caused at least
5000 deaths the past winter.
1t is stated at Des Moines that j. 5.
Clarkson is organizing a company to
start newspaper at Chicago to be call
ed the Register and that half the capita
has been raised. 1t will be free silver
organ.
City Comptroller Wetherell of Chicago
is preparing a financial state ment of the
city's resources. 1t will disclose the fact
that the city is at present in debt to the
extent of $G,000,O00, or more than two
thirds of the years appropriations.
r. a. Blandford, a former prominent
citizen of Austin, Tex, and high Of
fetal in the order of Odd Fellows, for II
years "A fugitive from Justice, has surren-
dered himself. In 1881 he was indicted
for embezzlng several thousand dollars
fled to Mexico.
Owing to cut in the appropriations
for the State militia by the South Dako-
ia legislature. Gov. Sheldon has notified
each company in the State that after
July next all assistance from the State
will be cut off. 1t is not expected that
the companies will pay their own ex-
penses, and the result will be the aban-
donment of the entire State guard
Omaha is being flooded with counter
felt money. Bad bills have been in cir
culatiOn for some time, but Monday it
was discovered that new counterfeit sill
yer dollars and half dollars are in circu-
lation, all of 1887 date. The federal
authorities believe that fully $4,000 in
counterfeit silver is now in circulation III
Omaha, South Omaha and Council
Bluffs.
y special dispatch from indianapolis
SAYS that eX-President Harrison will be
the candidate of the bimetallists of 1896.
This is stated on the authority of Re-
publican of national reputation after IL
talk with the eX-president. He said that
Harrison would be nominated in the
Republican convention as a compromise
candidate. The silver men of the West
know his sentiments, which were de-
clared in a speech in 1891 at Junta, Col.
NJ. F. Campbell, who recently arrived
in San Francisco after an extended visit
to the famous Gunsight mine, near the
line of southern Arizona, says the cam
els of the desert are increasing very rapid
ly and that there are now between 300
and 400 of them. This is surprising, he
says, considering the large number that
have been killed and palmed off for beef
IN the past few years. and the lnroads
made upon the bands by passing show
men. Mr. Campbell gave interesting de-
tails of these tawny denizens of the
waste places, introduced so many years
ago by Ben ButterwOrth and now grown
wild.
The arrest at Butte, Mon, of +. l..
Spaulding, IA Salvation army leader, on
the charge of counterfeiting, has result
ed in the discovery of most extensive
counterteiting scheme. The testimony
upon which Spaulding was arrested was
given by young man named Haidlow,
who immediately disappeared. Haidlow's
statement was that Spaulding was one
of the men who put the stuff in circula-
tlon, and that the counterfelung was
done in a secret tunnel near the city by
gang of 10 men. The officers think
IIaidlow has been made away with by
the counterfeiters. lie told the officers
lot of counterfeit dollars could be
found in the chimney of an old variety
theatre. The stuff was found there
Monday. Several arrests haye been re-
Gently made on testimony furnished by
him, and in each case counterfeit money
was found on the persons arrested.