Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29
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Los Angeles, Cal.
The Massachusetts legislature has
voted to refer to the next legislature a
resolve providing for statue of the late
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.
Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau, controlling
the Metropolitan opera house and ABB
bey's theatre in New York and the
fremont theatre in Boston, have made an
assignment.
Miss Mona Selden of Friendship, n. j.,
is engaged in the business of furnishing
frogs legs to the markets of New York
and Philadelphia. She has been in the
business five years and is said to make
$4,000 a year.
Valera, a mining village about 10
miles west of Newton, Ia, was nearly
wiped out of existence by cyclone Mon
day night. Fourteen people are reported
killed. Several other towns in the reg
ion also suffered.
General Lucius Fairchild, ex-secretary
of state of Wisconsin, and ex-governor
of the same State, died at Madison last
Saturday evening. General Fairchld
was prominent Grand Army man and
had been Ommander-n-chief
Prominent republicans from eighteen
counties of New York met in New York
city the other day to declare their allie
glance to the candidacy of William Nc
Kinley and to take such action as would
help along his campaign if nominated.
BY the confirmation of Frank w.
Joplin, nominated some months ago to
be postmaster at Elizabethtown, Ky,
the sister of the late President Abraham
Lincoln re tires from office. This woman,
Emily I. Helm, had held the office for
several years.
A gas explosion in Coffeyyille, Kan,
Friday, wrecked two two.story build
ings in the centre of the city, causing
the instant death of David Carter, the
fatal injury of Matthew Atkinson and
Eliza Pihsley (both colored) and the
wounding more or less seriously of ID
others.
A disastrous cyclone and water spout
passed over Oklahoma Friday night.
At Edman 20 houses were demolished
and Henry Rich and daughter were kill
ed. At White Eagle, 30 miles north,
three cyclones formed within an hour
and y houses were destroyed and 40
head of cattle killed.
A contract has been made for the
erection of a steel arch bridge to take the
place of the present Niagara suspension
bridge, built by Roebling in 1865. The
arch measures $50 feet and the centre
will be 260 feet above water level. This
is the longest single steel arch ever de-
signed, being over 100 feet long.
The Wyoming democratic State con-
venton had but one plank in its plat
form, as follows: at is resolved that
we, the democracy of Wyoming, demand
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold as primary redemption money
at the ratio of lG to /, without waiting
for the action of any other government"
According to the address of the bish-
ops at the quadrennial conference now
in session at Cleveland, the Methodist
church shows a gain of 1856 900 cOmmun-
icants since the last conference, making
a total membership in this country of
2,79G,G56. During the same time the
Sunday schools of the church gained
100000 pupils. The church also added
81 100000 worth of property to the
$ll3,0 600 owned in 1892.
The pOpulists of Indiana make the an
nouncement that within the last ten
days an understanding has been reached
whereby the populsts of every State in
the Union are to accept the platform and
candidate of the Chicago convention, in
case both are for free silver. Leading
populists, who do not care to have their
names used at this time, say it is alto
gether likely that their party will be a
thing of the past by August l.
The police of Salt Lake City are look
ing for Rev. Francis Hermans, late pastor
of the Scandinavian Methodist church
of that city. He is accused of seven
murders, two of which were committed
in Salt Lake City. Both victims were
young women employed by him as
domestlcs. The body of one he cut up
and cremated in the church furnace.
The other disappeared. The police have
found books, apparel and other things
in the pastors room in the church which
have been identified as the property of
the missing girls. The last heard from