Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-07-19
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The wife of II. II. McDondald. ST., now
i'm Jail at San Francisco awaiting trial for
forgery and embezZlement in connection
with the wreckng OF the Pacific bank,
has fled with about $4,000 with which
her husband had entrusted her to provide
for his legal defence.
The town of Wallin, Mich, has been
destroyed by fire. The hotel, store, saw
mills, warehouse, coal kiln. 5000 cords
of wood and twenty houses have been
burned. The people are homeless and
without clothing, One child Is missing
and many persons have been overcome
by the heat.
Emil Michaels of st. Louis, aged 30.
who was last week detrauded out of all
his money in IA business transaction, and
who was to have been married Monday
evening. died at that hour from poison,
self-administered The mother of his in
tended bride died suddenly Monday morn
ing from heart disease.
Two bodies, supposed to be those of
Alice and Nellie Pitezel. daughters of
b. +. Pitezel, whom Ii. ii. Holmes, now
under arrest in Philadelphia. is alleged to
have made away with for the purpose of
defrauding the Fidelity Insurance Co,
were found Monday in the cellar of "a
house in Toronto, Ont.
Reports from half "A dozen counties of
western Minnesota and as many more
South Dakota counties are to the effect
that there is a protracted drOuth in that
region. and wheat has already been
damaged at least 33 per cent. In many
places which few months ago promised
enormous yields there will not be more
than FIVE to six bushels of wheat to the
acre.
Victoria Woodruff Martin was arrest
ed in New York last Saturday, just as
she was about to sail for Europe, on an
order issued by the court in suit
brought by Mrs. +. G. Wells to recover
$500. the value of the goods which she
says Mrs. Martin wrOngfuly and felon-
lously converted to her own use. Mrs.
Martin, it is alleged, destroyed certain
articles of furniture and trunks which
Mrs Wells, who is Mrs. Martins niece,
says belongs to her. Mrs. Martin gave
$1,000 bill in place OF bail, and was re-
! leased.
Chicago and Milwaukee are to be united
by an elevated bicycle road. A capital
stock of 81 600, 900 has already been sub
scribed and paid in to build the road.
| The plan is to construct a wooden ele-
waited road, sixteen feet wide, on a nearly
straight line between the two cities, and
to have the terminus in each city as neal
the business center as possible. 1t is to
be toll road. but the purpose Is to make
the toll between Chicago and Milwaukee
only ten cents. Its projectors predict
that it will be patronized by 10000 pas
sengers per week.
The Banque du Peuple, a prominent
French bank of Montreal, owing to diff
culties which impaired its credit, has de-
cided to suspend business in accordance
with the banking act which allows banks
to suspend payment for 80 days pending
an investigation. Owing to the resigna
ton of Cashier Bosquet, many of the
banks hest customers withdrew theil
business. The bank was one of the lead
ing institutions in the province of Que
bee. 1t has branches in Quebec, St
Roche, Three Rivers, st. Johns, St. Re
mi. st. jerome and st. Hyacinthe. 1t il
SAID depositors will be paid in full.
At Baltimore specially designed eiec
trio locomotives of great weight will
haul the regular trains of the Baltimor,
and Ohio road. This will be the first ser
ious attempt to displace the steam locomO
tive in regular steam railroad service. Oh
its complete success much depends. If i
proves economical, there is no question
that roads like the Pennsylvania ant
New York Central will give the matte
of changing their motive power, for 10
cal if not for through traffic, serious con
: slderation. Two of these electric loco
motives will be used to haul the Bait
more and Ohio trains through Bait
more's IS, 900 tunnel, which is 743
feet long, extending under the bushes
part of the city.