Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-03-13

\ kdnG VI GI'fH SbOuS lntu dIItelcu
in ChicAgo Friday hid $4,000 of good
money IN a suchel.
The Pcnu-y lvania supreme court has
affirmed 'uo verdict of murder in the first
degree in the ease of Herman w. Mudg
ert, alias u II. Holmes. found guilty of
the ulrdcr IF BENJAMIN f. Ptezel.
Burglars entered the house of Gen.
Field of Bull'tlo, y. Y. early Friday
evening and .tole jewels aud money ag-
grcglting SGO.0O0 to $4,000, including
diamond nee l<lace, the finest in the city.
SIX person. we're in the house ut the time.
In consequence of the flood the Kcnne-
bee river H. u iine for distance of five
miles j. on MISS of ice. logs, lumber aud
wreckage OF bridges and houses from up
the river There are $1,000, 900 feet of
logs, besides sawed lumber, and the mass
is packed SOLID nearly to the bottom and
many feet up on the rivers banks.
Stephen Powell, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent men on Long Island,
WAS murdered late Saturday night as he
was returning from his place of business
at Hampstead Mr.. Powell, who was
superintendent of The Hampstead Gas
and Electric Light company, was in the
habit of carrying large sums of money
upon his person.
The New York supreme court has af-
flrmed the decision in the suit of william
X. Ladlaw against Russell Sage of New
York by which L4idlaw received $4,000
damages, with an allowance of $1,000
for costs aud counsel fees. Laidlaw is
the man whose body partly stopped
bomb thrown at Mr.. Sage by crazy
Bostonian named Norcross few years
ago.
New York florists have been negota-
ting with firm of Grand Rapids. Mich,
for their new carnation, the MurellO,
Offering $4,000 for 100000 plants and
the exclusive right to propagate and sell
for a single season. The new carnation
was grown from seed planted five years
ago and has shown no signs of deterlOr-
ating. 1t is bright red in color, often
exceeds four inches across the top, and
is very fragrant.
The New Y ork Sun says the total mum
Der of cigarets made in this country last
year was 3,620,000,000 The total num-
Der of male persons in the United States
between the ages of Is and II was re-
turned by the last census AS l3, 900;
but adding those ABOVE II years of age
and making allowances for the increase
! in population since 1890, it is safe to say
that there are lS,000,0 900 men and boys OF
'clgare- smoking" aye in the United
States, and this would give an average of
200 cigarets for each man and boy in the
republic every year, provided, of course,
that cigaret smoking was general instead
of being, AS it is, restricted to very
small fraction of the whole population,
mostly in the cities and large towns.
Dun's Review of Saturday says
Prices of wool have declined, according
to the quotations printed by Coates
Brothers Of Philadelphia, an average of
2.4 per cent within the month of Febru-
airy, presumably because of the failure
of the proposed tariff bill, which included
duties on wool. At present the sales are
the SIN llest recorded for wears, at the
three chief markets only 1903. 900
pounds the past week, against 4.S5S 300
II year ago, and G,3l0,G 600 in 1892. But
domestic holders are still some what OBJ
stinate, because prices abroad have been
raised by the London sales. and it is be-
lieved that the stocks of domestic wool
held here awaiting transactions are un-
usually large. There is no Improvement
whatever in the demand for wooden
goods, and a number of establishments
have closed, or reduced working force.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of Mon
day says: The members of the free sill
yer wing of the Democratic party of thi:
State have issued an address to go TO the
Democratic voters relative to their duty in
selecting delegates TO the national con
vention. The address urges mo com
promise" on the silver question. Ii con
. cludes "Let Arkansas and other South
ern and Western States send delegates
to Chicago, and if the enemies of Dem
ocracy should capture the citadel, either
In platform or nominee, let them with
draw, issue an address and adjourn tc
meet In st. Louis July -, and there, free
from unhOly and corrupt eastern allies
construct a Democratic ticket which
will unite under the banners, of not I
new. out the same old party, purified
and rendered acceptable TO the heart,
and Judgment Of the people, their fellow
patriots Of all parties, and which vii
sweep everything west of the Blue