Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-09-04

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snakes are frequently seen in eastern
seas.
From official treasury figures the
receipts of the government during |
August in round numbers were $25 800, |
600, and the expenditures S36,OOOOOO, |
making the deficit for the month SlO,5OO,- !
600. For the fiscal year the receipts |
have been S54, 59l 900 and the expendi- |
lures SIS, 09l ,000 making the deficit for
the year to date 1923 ,49S, 900.
Captain General Weyler is about to
issue decree placing certain limitations
and prohibitions upon the raising of the
next sugar and coffee crops IN Cuba.
BY this plan he hopes to deprive the in
surgents of their resources and bring all
iof the planters to the support of Spain.
Over 80, 600 more Spanish troops are to
be sent to Cuba during September.
Serious floods are reported along the
MOSQUITO coast IN the neighborhood of
Blue Field, Nicaragua. The town of
Rama was completely submerged, the
water rising to the roofs and sweeping
away many houses. The British steam
er Hawk, which went to the rescue, was
carried out to sea by the force of the
flood waters, and was with difficulty
rescued.
The Kings County elevated railway
of Brooklyn, capitalized at S4,75O,OOO,
went into the hands of receiver Tues
day morning. Gen. James Jourdan,
the president of the company, was APP
pointed receiver. The cause of the step
was the failure of the company to meet
accruing bond and debenture indebted
ness. Since the trolley cars were intro
duced the receipts have fallen off over
one-half.
A San Francisco despatch says: China
has thrown down the gauntlet to the big
coal miners of the United States. The
American bark Colorado, which has just
arrived, brought mixed sample cargo of
coal from the TOnquin district. The
conslgnees promise to push the Chinese
product on the market at prices far be-
low those that the Pennsylvania and
Welsh Goals of the same character are
now bringing.
Over 5000 people were killed at Con-
stantinOple in recent riots by the Arme-
mans. The police have discovered an
Armenian bomb factory in full opera
ton. The work of making bombs was
carried on in an underground vault near
the northern walls of the city. At Has
skein the houses of number of Amer-
cans living in that place were attacked by
Turks, the male heads of the domestic
establishments being absent. All of the
Armenian servants in the dwellings were
killed and the houses sacked. The ladies
escaped to Yenikei for protection, having
lost all their personal effects.
Frederick Gordon Rev, the Cornell
student who disappeared on October ,,
1894, and was supposed to have met with
foul play. has been heard from. His
70 r Paw of Rufa1O Y Y has
received letter from him in India, stat
ing that he was in good health and bound
for home. His reason for leaving col
lege was that he found his knowledge of
French and German was limited and was
confident he would be unable to keep
up with his class, and rather than fail he
believed it would be better to go among
the people and learn the languages. He
worked his way on boats to his present
home.
Bradstreet's of Saturday said of the
business situation: The volume of
general business has not increased with
in the week. An encouraging influence
is found in lower rates for foreign eX-
change, the movement of Sl0,000,00O in
gold from abroad to the United States
and the expression that not less than
S25, 100000 in gold is to be imported in
une Lear future. Conspicuous among
checks to trade are greatly increased
firmness for money at nearly all financial
centers. The record of this weeks BUSH
ness failures in the United States shows
a large increase over last week, 800
compared with 2G4, gain of "a. Com
pared with the week a year ago the in
crease is l30."
The New England Homestead has
been gathering facts about the apple
crop of the country and says: This year
the heavy crop is in the North and East.
where orcharding is conducted on bust
ness principles, and where there is every
disposition and facility to take care of
the fruit. On this account even if the
total production be no larger than last
year, the resulting commercial supply of
applies will be considerably larger. The
present returns show nearly perfect
prospect in New York, unusually good
In northern Ohio, but varying In the
central and southern portions of that
State. Reports from Michigan Indicate
never a larger crop or better quality, the
same being true to less degree of On
tario The Indiana crop is spotted and
short, Illinois irregular, a rather poor
outlook in lower Missouri, trees resting
and the Kansas crop smaller. The short
age abroad is serious and there will be a
heavy export demand, but it is still i'm
possible to forecast prices.