Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-07-12
General l1ems.
DOMESTIC.

Hills, So. Dakota, Monday night.
There are at present 67S4 patients in
the insane asylums of New York county.
There are adequate accommodations for
1000. The result is that every institu-
ton for the mentally afflicted is fearful
" overcrowded.
The Utica Herald reports IS deaths
from lightning in this country during the
last three months. OF % people killed
by lightning in April May aud June, 10
were women. There were 10 deaths in
in the South, as compared with 80 IN the
North.
Capt Paul Webb, the swimmer, lost
his life at Cpur d'Alene, Idaho, the 18th,
in an attempt to ride down 5000 foot
chute into Lake Cnur d'Alene in his
barrel. The barrel left the chute and
struck the ground. His spinal column
was broken.
Five dead and injured is the record of
accidents at Chicago on the 4th. Three
were victims the day previous. Three
were hurt by pistols, tirecrackers injured
seven and stray bullets wounded eight.
There were great many fires from eX-
plosives, few serious.
Mrs. Catherine O'Leary, owner of the
fractions COW which, in barn in the
rear of 1877 Dekoven street, in October,
1871, kicked over Il lantern or lamp and
started blaze which cost Chicago $780,
600. 900, died in that city the night of the
Sd inst. of acute pneumonia.
Monday evening the town of Canton,
Kan, was struck by tornado and great
damage done. Nearly every house in
the village was Injured and many were
entirely demolished. 4 score of persons
were injured. Many farmhOuses in the
path of the storm were damaged.
Archbishop KAN of st. Louis has
made a decision that removes the ban
placed by some priests OF Grand Army
funerals Under his ruling members of
the @. a. X. attending funerals may en-
ter the church wearing their uniforms
aud insignia and may conduct their tu-
nerals in accordance with their ritual in
Catholic cemeteries.
While 10000 people sat in the new
grandstand at the Buffalo (N. " driv-
ing park the afternoon of the 30 Sec
ton of the stand fell. The cause was II
weak stairway, which held 40 or 80 peo-
pie at the time. The stairway took with
it section of the grandstand and piled
about 60 people, men, women and chill
dren, in a mass. Thirteen persons were
hurt, two fatally.
At the house of Elisha Clarke, Mt.
Sterling, Ky, the other day two children,
boy five years old and Il girl two years
old. were drowned in a wash tuO in
which there were only eight inches of
water. The little girl was entirely in
the tub and the boy was lying across the
edge of the tub. with his head and
shoulders under water. They had been
left alone IN the house for an hour.
while the mother went to neighbor's
for milk
\ large pilgrimage from Sherbrooke,
Windsor and Richmond, Que. left the
latter town at 10 o'clock Monday night
for the shrine of ST. Anne de Beaupre.
There were two sections of the train.
which was over the Grand Trunk road,
one few minutes after the other. The
last section was taking water at Craig 5
Road station when the second section
dashed into the rear Pullman. smashing
it into kindling wood and killing, it is
reported, every body in the car except
the Pullman conductor, who jumped.
/ Engineer Mcleod and Fireman Perkins
of the second section were killed outright.
The Pullman coach telescoped the first
class cars of the first section, killing a
number of passengers, including three
priests. The number killed was ID and
20 were hurt, some of them so badly
that they cannot live.