Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-06-19
DOMESTIC,

New York. was nominated for a second
term Friday.
The resignation is announced of Presi-
dent Egbert c. Smyth of the Andover
Theological seminary after period of
Is years.
A fire at New York, Friday, in the
building occupied by the American Horse
exchange resulted as near as could be
learned in the loss of about l25 horses.
The Carnegie people have decided to
build an addition to their works costing
at least 81 600, 900, says Pittsburg des-
patch The new plant will be for the
rapid construction of heavy ordinance.
1t is understood that there will be an
advance of % cents per ton on all do
nestle sizes of coal, both at the east and
west, on July l, and an increase in the
output for July of about 100000 tons
to 100000.
John Il. Best, wealthy st. Louis
lumber dealer, committed suicide Fri
day at his residence by cutting his
throat with a razor. His act was due to
temporary alteration of mind produced
by fright at the violence of the recent
cyclone.
Fred Hunter, 13-year-old Albany.
n. Y, bicyclist, was drowned Friday.
He was riding along the river front on
bis bicycle and took header into the
stream his machine following and strik-
ing him as he went down into the waters
of the Hudson.
Mrs. Willis Lindsay, wife of well-to-
do dairyman of Edmonson county, Ky,
gave birth to twin boys Friday night.
They are grown together from the hips
to the shoulders, being more firmly
united than were the Siamese twins.
The hands of one are like claws.
The American line steamship st. Paul,
which grounded Jan. % and was got of
February ), has been ibelled by the
Merritt Wrecking company, the Chap
man Derrick and Wrecking company
and the North American Insurance COM
pany of New York for salvage.
The engagement of Henry Payne
Whitney, eldest son of ex-Secretary
William c. Whitney, to Miss Gertrude
Vanderbilt, daughter of Cornelius Van
derbilt, is announced. The announce
ment of the engagement of Miss Grace
Wilson of New York to Cornelius Van
derbilt, Jr., has been made.
The Taylorville. H., coal mining
works were destroyed by fire Saturday
morning and 81 men entombed alive.
The lire, which was caused by an eX-
plosion of gasoline. spread rapidly
through the mine, cutting off the men at
work in the lower levels. Those rescued
were taken out through a shaft that the
fire did not reach.
The jury at San Diego, Cal, has dis
agreed in the suit for $1,000 for alleg-
ed libel brought by DR.. J. c. Hearne
against NJ. II. De Young, proprietor of
the san Francisco Chronicle. The Jury
stood six to six. The alleged libel con-
nected Hearnes name with the murder
of Amos j. Stillwell in Hannibal, Mo-,
eight years ago.
Frank Maloy of Providence Is at the
Rhode Island hospital hopelessly blind
in both eyes. Another man whose name
i, withheld is dead and still another Is i'll
from the effects of drinking wood
alcohol. The men were all employed
at the American Electrical works at
Phillipsdale The alcohol is kept at the
works for the purpose of cleaning the
betting.
A special from Bryan. Texas. says thar
"A mob of 300 men took from the lail
the other night Louis Whitehead and
George |. Johnson, who assaulted DR..
Wilson's daughter last saturday and
Jim Reddion, who assaulted an Italian
woman. The criminals were taken
three miles from the town. where an
other section of the mob had a great fire
and it is supposed that all three were
cremated. The woods were picketed
and no one was permitted to approach.
The st. Louis convention hall was ded-
icated last week Thursday night by i'm
pressive exercises and in the presence of
a large number of people, for the most
part from st. Louis, who will see the in
side of the building for the only time
during the convention. Senator Carter
and other members of the national COM
mittee and some of the most prominent
people in the city occupied seats on the
stage. The services consisted of vocal
and instrumental music and speeches.
A crank walked into President Wv
ckofl's office in the New Amsterdam
bank, New York city, Monday after