Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-12-18
General l1ems.

pany which paid for it having become
lnsolvent.
Prune, peach and apple trees on Puget
sound and in eastern Washington have
been destroyed by thousands by early
cold weather. 1t is estimated that fully
500, 900 trees have been killed.
President Cleveland left Washington
Sunday night on another duck hunting
expedition. This time he will be the
guest of the Annandale club on its pre-
serves in South Carolina.
Venezuela has accepted the terms of
the arbitration as agreed upon between
Secretary Olney and Lord Salisbury, and
an extra session of the Venezuelan con-
gress Will be called at once in order that
the memorandum may be carried into
effect by the necessary treaty between
Great Britain and Venezuela.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Saler was wrecked on the night of
December Z, four miles north of Villaga-
ria, Spain, two and half miles from
land. She must have broken up imme-
uiately, as parts of the wreck were al
ready ashore. She had aboard 2l0 pas
sengers, mostly steerage, and crew of
65, all of whom persisted.
Henry Farmhouse of Brooklyn, n. Y,
took a notion to kill himself, so he put
clothesline around his neck and hung
out of the second story window of his
home. Then he concluded that he didn't
want to die and tried to Chamber back.
His wife discovered him, and in her
anxiety to save him took knife and
cut the rope, letting him fall to the yard.
He was dead when picked up.
The Standard Oil company and the
Rockefellers have bought 100000 worth
of real estate from the Calumet Canal
and Dock company embracing 5000 feet
of dockage along Lake Michigan and the
Calumet river in South Chicago. Upon
! this land the Rockefeller interests will
build the largest steel plant in the cOun-
try, including blast furnaces, steel rail
mills and mills for the manufacture of
structural iron. The total cost of the
plant will be Sl0,000,000.
The principal manufacturers of white
paper used by newspapers have reached
practical agreen ent to pool interests
and to deal with consumers only through
general agency, which is to be estab
lished in New York. The plan in
wolves the formation of a national as
ISOLATION, capitalized at a moderate
amount, which is to control the produce
of all the mills. Thirty companies are
interested in the movement.
This "A hours between Saturday ant
Sunday evenings were prolific of muir
ders and fatal shooting encounters II
Chicago. During that time two mel
were murdered and the mutilated body
of a third, supposed to have been assas
slnated, was found. Besides these
three men were shot and two of then
fatally wounded during quarrels. 4
third is dying of stab wound. SOM
of the guilty men are in the hands of tn
police, but the perpetrators of the tw'
most atrocious crimes are still at large.
Bradstreet's of Saturday said of th
business situation: There has been NJ
improvement in general trade this week
except in holiday specialties. Unseason
able weather has again delayed demand
for winter goods, and the approach o
, the period for stock taking will proloni
the season of dizziness well into mex
month. The tendency of prices is NOR
, cOnspicuously downward. Novembe
gross railroad earnings are the poores
for over two years. There are 3Sl bust
, ness failures reported in the Unite
,, States this week, % more than last wee
4 and 6S more than in the like week on
/. year ago.
a jacksonville, Fla, despatch says
Antonio Maceo, the Cuban hero, is dead
He was murdered. Letters received tC
day from Cuba leave no reasonabl
doubt that he was led into an ambus
under the pretext of parley for peac
1 and assassinated in cold blood. Wit
y him tell Francisco Gomez and about 3
4 other staff officers. Even when the il
/ surgent general realized that he ha
/ been betrayed he fought against hop'
4 less odds. With his little band of pr
< triots he charged his treacherous execl
}; TONERS and with the shout of "Cub
i libre :" on his mangled lips, pierced
|. the face and body with bullets, he roc
y, to death. People here can find no lal
guage except oaths in which to expires
their horror and indignation.