Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-07-17
stores, save one, and the post-office were
DESTROYED. Total loss, 100000

stores, save one, and the post-oflice were
destroyed. Total loss, 100000.
AT the st. Josephs hospital in Phila.
delphia, Tuesday, 100000 in money
and Jewels we're stolen from Mr..
and Mrs. Moore, patients at the institu-
ton. The valuables were taken from Il
trunk. william II. Thompson, a pro-
fessional nurse at the hospital, Is sus-
pected as the robber. lie has disap-
peared.
The report OF the commissioner of i'm
migration at New York shows that the
immigrants during the year ended July
numbered 263 700, an increase of 12,7Sl
over the previous year. The average
money that each arrival brought to this
land was Sligo, which is above the total
of previous years. Two thousand six
hundred and twenty-four immigrants
were for various reasons sent back.
The decline of the gold reserve below
Sl00, 000. 900 is exciting renewed discus
sion ut the treasury in Washington re-
gardng the efficiency of the last bond
issue. The net reserve has held its
ground very well during the six weeks
since the end of May, but 1t suffered
heavy losses before that date, and the
end of six months will see two thirds OF
the gold proceeds of the bond sale With
drawn from the treasury.
In view of the many robberies in Chi
cago the chief of police has sent warning
to the various banks and to private bank
ers to take extra precautions III guarding
their places of business. The conse-
quence of this warning has been that
banks generally have armed their EN-
plUyeeS in charge of the cash, and extra
policemen have been on duty where they
can watch the cages of the receiving and
paying tellers.
The total pro luction of crude petrole-
um in the United States in 1870 was o.
9S3.529 barrels. valued at S51,60l ,20,
against 49.34I,5l6 barrels in the previous
year, valued at $50 ,522,O 95. Since the
beginning of operations in Ittusvllle.
Pa, in 1859, the enormous total of 1O9,-
7l3, 403 barrels of crude petroleum have
been produced in the country, of which
SIC, G57 ,2G0 barrels represent the product
of the Penns ylvania and New York oil
fields
Judges johnson. Dennison and Cole of
the southern department of the Kansas
court of appeals have handed down a
decision which declares invalid TIE Kan
sas divorce law that has been in opera
ton for % years and by which it is esti-
mated that from 81. 900 to $4,000 msm1t-
ed couples have been separated. 1t was
argued by the attorneys in the case that
such decision would disturb the proper
~ rights and custody of children adiudi-
Gated in divorce proceedings since the
law has been imperative. but the court
replies that the legislature is responsible
for that.
\ San Francisco dispatch says; On
orders from Washington, the coinage of
silver at the mint in this city will be re-
sumed at once. These orders. following
so closely the nomination of Bryan at
Chicago, are believed to have political
significance. In the past year little
silver has been coined here. Now.
according to the plans of treasury
officials, the Pacific coast is to be deluged
with silver. 1t is the belief here that the
administration has two objects in view
to disprove the bimetallists' claim that
there is not enough silver in circulation
and to divert so much silver coin into
the channels of trade as to make business
men heartily disguised with the coin.
In the Il months during which the
Cuban revolt has lasted Spain has lost
over 60, 900 of her soldiers in Cuba and
has expended nearly 5000. 0OO.0OO in the
prosecution of the war. The strain is one
which would really try the strength of
powerful and wealthy nation, and it is
one under which Spain, in her weakness
and poverty, grOans within hearing of
all the world. 1t has been made mani
fest by Intelligence from Madrid that
Spain has become utterly weary of the
prolonged contention in Cuba, and is
consumed with a desire for its termina-
ton in some manner. The assertions in
the Spanish army in Cuba have been num-
bered by the thousands. There is rec
ord OF II Spanish generals who have left
Cuba for Spain under various preteXts,
and there are on file at Havana the
names of nearly 400 officers who have
applied for leave to return 10 Spain.
Not few regiments are in a state Of de-
mOraiizttiOn. Every Spanish camp is
ravaged by disease.