Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-01-25

Three people were hurt by rear end
collision of trains on the Brooklyn
bridge Monday. \ thick fog caused the
accident.
Mobs of unemployed men are creating
disturbances in Montreal. The mayor
has promised to find work for them and
they threaten violence if he does not do
so.
The big passenger steamer, State of
Missouri, struck Il rock in the river near
Alton, Ky, Saturday, and sunk in 80
feet OF water. AT least 81 passengers
were drowned. She was long stern
wheeler plying between Cincinnati and
New Orleans
Indana's natural gas supply will be
exhausted in less than four years, ac-
cording to the annual report Just made
by the State gas inspector. He esti-
mates that at least S2j,000.000 worth of
gas has been wasted in Indiana alone.
The Schenectady works have turned
out two monster locomotives, the largest
and heaviest ever built at the shops.
They are for the Central Pacific railroad.
The engines are to be used in heaV V
mountain work. They have four pairs
of drivers and two pairs of truck wht els.
One of these engines weighs l73,0OO
pounds the tender weighs, when load
ed, 93.S00 pounds and carries 1000 gal
Ions of water and twelve tons of coal.
Friday evening, Sam Iloieing. a farm
er, living near Paramount, Nina. went
to the house of +. b. Whitney, his
father-in-law, and shot and killed both
of the old people and his wife, who had
left him and gone to live with her par
ents. After committing the murders
Ia in cd t,, hi h,-
and barricaded doors and windows in
anticipation of siege. He kept the
sherti's posse at bay until the next
morning, when the house was ridded
with bullets. An entrance was then
forced and llOteling was found dead,
having shot himself in the head.
Edward o. Quiglev, broker of the
firm of Quigley d futile, dealer in bonds
and other Investment securities. has
been arrested at New York. The charge
against him is the ny pothecation of
forged bonds amounting to SlGG,00O
With the Mercantile national bank of
New York city. Qugley secured adj
vances of about Slll,000 ON the forged
securities. The bank, however. will
not lose this sum in its entirety, attach-
rents having been levied against -eCur-
ties held by the prisoner. Quiglry adj
mitted his guilt. but denied that his part
ner. Iuttle, i, in any way complicated.
The financial loss by the fire and The
explosion of giant powder ut Butte.
Mon. last week L. SlG3 600. The list of
known dead has reached total Of 80
Four men in the hospitals cannot re-
cover. The list of the injured has also
increased. There are 30 in the hospitals
and 30 have been reported from different
parts OF the city. Monday night parts
of body was found at Meaderville, two
miles from the scene. The owners of
the burned warehouses claim there was
not over 100 pounds of giant powder in
the buildings. The conclusion shook
houses III Belgrade, 81 miles east of
Butte.
The body of Barrett Scott, the default
ing treasurer of Holt county, Neb., who,
while our riding with his family New
Years day. was fired upon by ii party of
Vigilantes, and after beng wounded was
dragged from his carriage, biindfOldeG,
and then placed in another vehicle and
taken in a northerly direction, was found
Sunday night in the Nobrara river about
300 feet below the bridge on the Boyd
county side, close up to the bank aud IN
about seven feet Of water. \ new hemp
en- rope about one and One-hali inches in
diameter was around his neck AMI the
END, abou three feet long. ,a> dangling
in the water. Evidence showed jhat he
was hanged by the vigilAutes before be-
ing thrown over the bridge into the water.