Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-07-10
DOMESTIC,

The New York Recorder has gone into
the hands of a receiver The debts foot
up Sjlj, 900 and the assets S2lj.0 900.
About 100000 glass workers are out of
employment at Pittsburgh, Pa, because
of the closing of the factories-some of
them for a few weeks and others indeti-
ntely.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who died
the lst at Hartford, Conn, was buried
Friday at Andover, Mass, beside her
husband, Calvin f. stowe. who died in
1887.
a letter carrier named Smith arrived
in New York from Chicago on a bicycle
at 1921 Saturday afternoon, lowering
the record by four hours and fifty-four
minutes, making the trip in 142 hours
and quarter.
William Kruse, for 81 years head book
keeper and confidential man with the big
dry goods importing house of C. A.
Audfmordt & Co. of New York, has
fled to Europe. He had lost heavily in
Wall street, and used other peoples
money.
There were p failures of bicycle firms
in June, and any number of attachments
of wheels consigned for sale, made to
anticipate expected failures. Many
more failures are expected this month.
The trouble is attributed to the cutting
of prices.
The current issue of the Chicago Rail-
way Age gives tabulated statement of
the railway receiyerships created during
the six months of the current year end
ing June 30. This shows that Is lines,
all told, have been placed under the
charge of the courts. These Is lines
operate and control 1896 miles of road
and have a total bond and stock indebt-
edness of Sl9O,3G 900.
Mrs. Fleming has been paid the
balance of the trust fund by the New
York authorities. The fund is from the
estate OF Robert Swift Livingston and
came to Mrs. Fleming on the death of
her mother 1t was on the charge of
having poisoned her mother that Mrs.
Fleming was recently tried and acquitted.
OF the fund, which originally amounted
to over $50, 900, about S2l 900 was paid
out, it is said, to Mrs. Flemings' law
yers at the time of her trial.
\ San Francisco dispatch of Friday
says. Lucky Baldwin, the millionaire
horseman, had a wonderful escape from
assassination to-day at the hands of Miss
Emma A. Ashley, the sister of Miss
Lillian Ashley, whose suit for So, 900
for alleged betrayal has been in progress
before Judge Stack for several weeks
and is now drawing to a close. The
plaintiff was on the witness stand short
ly after the court convened this morning
and it was while he was being examined
that her sister drew a revolver from a
hand bag which she carried and fired
a shot at Baldwin, the bullet grazing his |
head" The Ashley sisters were born In !
Chelsea and lived in Randolph for some
time. They have relatives in Montpelier,
Randolph, White River Junction and
other places in Vermont.
Bradstreet's of saturday says; Gener-
al trade in both commercial and indus |
trial lines is dulleT, but the falling OIL is /
in part the usual midsummer dullness. |
few changes are noted, !
but most of them are decreases in either /
prices or demand. The sentiment of the |
trade from New York points is that the
immediate outlook for business is not
favorable. The general industrial situa-
tlOn shows no renewal of activity. The
apparent improvement in wool has dis
appeared. Manufacturers refuse to buy
raw material simply because it is cheap.
A large amount of wOollen machinery
remains idle, and the iron and steel in
dustries are as flat as heretofore. Bust
ness failures in the United States for six
months number 1902, the largest six
months total since records have been
The increase compared with
1895 and 1894 is ID and l6 per cent re-