Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-15
DOMESTIC.

fist on the staff of Puck, died at Phla-
delphia last week of paralysis.
F. d. Marshall, a Chicago merchant,
was murdered in his store Friday night
by four robbers, who shot him and
escaped.
News has reached Lexington of the
lynching of Or. Farrell at Ellston, Ky.
Farrell was wife beaten. He went
home drunk and whipped his wife
Chief Shaw of the New York fire de-
plrtment fell from ladder, Friday, and
received fracture of the skull. from the
effects of which he will probably die.
The Indiana Republicans chose Nc
Kinley delegates to the st. Louis con-
vention last week. EXPIRE, dent Ilar-
rison did not address the convention, as
had been expected.
Gold to the amount of S5,S50.000 was
exported from New York last week.
The business failures of last week num-
beIed 23S in the United States, against
227 last year, and 10 in Canada, against
"a last year.
The California Republican State con-
vention elected Mckinley delegates to
st. Louis. The platform declares for
free silver at the ratio of l6 to | and
instructs the delegates to st. Louis to
vote for Mckinley.
The cattleman of Central Kansas have
organized for the shipment of fat cattle
direct to Liverpool and will send the
first shipment south via Calves ton.
The difference in prices between cents
at Kansas City and IL cents at Liverpool,
they say, will Justify this movement.
During a cyclone at Clark, S. D., Fri
day, the house of G. fl. Lndland was
taken up by the wind and carried 80
feet and totally destroyed. There were
10 people in the house and Mrs. Lind
land is reported killed, while other men,
bers of the family are more or less in
iured.
Col. F. X. Hahn, manager of the New
York city elevated railroads, committed
suicide al Clifton Springs, y. Y, Friday,
by crawling under a west bound freight
train on the New York Central road.
The body was discovered by one of the
tranmen, who Immediately stopped the
train. The body was found to be cut in
two, the right arm being severed from
the trunk.
DR.. w. Johnson, colored, bishop of the
Kansas district of Mt. Zion Baptist
church, and living at Fort Scott, has
been arrested on an indictment by the
federal grand jury charging him with
making false pension aflidavits. Failing
to give bond, he was sent to Jail. He en-
listed. it is alleged, as Wyatt Hogan and
after the war changed his name to john
son. Later, as Hogan, he secured a big
back pension
The financial plank adopted by the
Democratic State convention in Tennes-
see, Friday, says: "We demand the
restoration OF the money of the consti-
tuition by law providing for the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver as full legal tender money at the
ratio of lG to l, regardless of the action
of any other nation" The platform
also demands laws, State and national,
making gold and silver legal tender for
all debts, and prohibiting contracts dis
eliminating against either; the repeal of
10 per cent tax on issues OF State banks,
tariff for revenue only, and an income
tax.
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew is quoted as
follows on the political issues "We have
suffered for years because of the doubt
about our currency. 1t has been one of
the causes of the financial and industrial
depression from which we are still suf-
fering. The unanlmity for protection
places that principle so far out of dan
ger, and the feeling of the country is SO
acute on the currency, and the determI-
nation TO settle and dispose of It is Sc
emphatic, that both the Republican and
/ the Democratic national conventions
, have got to make it the leading issue
and the one that fails with fight losing
BATTLE
The Michigan Republican State con.
ventlon elected Mckinley delegates &c
the national convention. The majority
, of the resolutions committee reported 8
: gold standard financial plank, which
was rejected. A debate followed which
= lasted over an hour and which was only