Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-22
DOMESTIC,
rllent.

The New \ Ork Democratic State con-
vention will be held at Saratoga June 24.
Rev. Mr.. Rhodes, living y miles east
of Timsop, Tex, while blowing his
field. unearthed 10000 Mexican dollars.
The money was buried in leather
satchel.
Experiments made at the university of
Missouri on the effects of the Roentgen
rays upon diphtheria bacilli all confirm
the theory that the germs may be de-
stroyed by the rays.
Henry Bodies, eX-city treasurer of
Omaha, was sentenced Saturday to
term of 10 years at hard labor in the
State penitentiary and in addition to
pay fine of S2ll 900 for embezzlement.
Gov. Morton, replying to a newspa-
per's request for his views on the money
question, writes: "Our last republican
State convention declared the position
of New York State republicans, includ-
ing myself, on the money question. l
stand on the New York PLATFORM
A cyclone near Guthrie, O. r., Friday,
damaged buildings, orchards and crops
to the extent of many thousand dollars.
Seven houses were destroyed, including
the large residences of Samuel Dennison
and Charles Skinner. Mr.. Dennison and
"A boy named Wilson were fatally in
iured.
The prospect tor all kinds of fruit east
of the Rocky mountains is fully equal to
the very best for years. Aside from iso-
lated sections in the Middle and New
England States the winter was not
severe enough to damage fruit buds, nor
yet open enough to induce premature
growth.
The Idaho republican convention de-
cared for free coinage of silver, protec-
ton and reciprocity. The resolutions
state that the free coinage of silver
would open to the United States the i'm
mense trade of China and Japan, and in
struct the delegates to work for a silver
man in the st. Louis convention.
Dun's Review of Saturday says of the
wool market: Sales for the week have
been little larger than for previous
weeks, the business being rather more
active in low medium and low priced
pulled wool, but in other grades deal
ings are remarkably dull and largely Sc
cured by concessions. Foreign wool is
also very slow of sale, and little is doing
in carpet wool.
Ferdinand Schumacher of Akron, o.,
president of the American Cereal COM
pany, popularity known as the Oatmeal
King TUNED over his personal property,
valued at 100000 for the benefit of
his creditors. The estimated liabilities
are Sl,l00,000. Mr.. Schumacher is a
prominent prohibtionist and lost a for
tune in an attempt to found strictly
prohibition town, Hartman, Tenn.
Governor Morton has signed the greater
New y ork bill, and on Jan. !, 1898, unless
the leg lslature should in the meantime de-
cree otherwise, the cities of New York,
Brooklyn and Staten island will be con-
solidated into one city, which will be the
second in size in the world. The imme-
diate consequences of the governors
action will be the appointment by him of
a commission of fifteen members, whose
duty it will be to report to the legisla-
ture before Feb. /, 1897, a plan for the
government of the proposed munich
pality.
A terrible cyclone swept through
Northern Texas Friday afternoon, dew
astating two counties, causing an APP
palling loss of life and enormous damage
to property. The main cyclone, which
passed through Sherman, went between
Denison and Potsboro. The width and
strength of the storm did not vary. 1t
maintained breadth of about $50 or 200
yards through the entire county. About