Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-08-27
General l1ews.

per cent. as compared with two years
ago.
Michele Angiolillo, who shot and
killed Senior Canovas del Castillo the
prime minister of Spain, was executed
| Friday.
"A dispatch from Rome says that Prince
Henry and the Count of Turin will both
be accommodated by the Pope, as the
Roman Catholic church forbids dueling.
James, Reynolds died at his home in
New York Sunday. lie was one of the
leading spirits in the old Fenian Brother
hood. He fitted out the Catalpa expedi-
ton.
A meeting of over 1000 people in
Athens Sunday adopted an address
urging King George to reject the pro-
posed peace treaty with Turkey and to
resume hostilities.
1t is said that the game of golf was in
vented in ancient times, by a lonely
shepherd, who could find nothing better
to do than to knock stones into rabbit
hole with his crook.
An English woman, a niece of the late
Lord de Tabley, has turned her art into
a practical channel. She has been paint
ing signs for two Norwich taverns, The
Smoker and The Windmill.
The prices of foreign crockery will be
advanced from 10 to - per cent. The
movement was decided on at the recent
meeting of the national association of
jobbers in crockery in Chicago.
y queer religious service was recently
held at Douglass, On the Isle of Man.
The Gospel was read in Gaelic, a hymn
sung in Manx, g prayer offered in Welsh,
and sermon delivered in English.
The Carnegie Steel company, of Pitts
burg, has received an order from Cramps.
the Philadelphia shipbuilders, for thirty
tons of diagonal armor, to be used in the
construction of the battle-ship Alabama.
1t is announced that by the year 1901
a passenger may take a through ticket at
London and go via Siberia to the capital
of China or Japansnside of fifteen days,
instead of thrtyeight days, as at pres
ent.
Before leaving New York Yang
Yu, the ex-Chinese minister to the
United States, presented to the Metrcpol-
itan Museum of Art a very valuable
bronze vase said to be more than 1000
years old.
a convention of sugar beet growers
was held on Saturday at Rome, New
York. Many of the 900 farmers in the
surrounding counties. who are raising
beets for the factory at Rome, were in
attendance.
a coachman named Henry Carlson, in
the employ of millionaire of Green
witch, Conn, has recently come into an
estate worth $4,000 by the death of his
parents in Russia. His name of Carlson
is assumed.
By his will Senator George left small
legaces to his sisters. His library goes
to j. w. George, and his political library
to j. L. George, Jr., grandson. The
balance of his books are divided among
the other heirs.
The condition of many of the gold
seekers at Dyea is said to be pitiable III
the extreme. Some are short of money
and provisions, while others are not
physically able to Withstand the hard
ships of long winter.
The Mexican government is engaged
in war of determination against the
fierce Nucatan Indians, who have never
been subdued. 1t Is thought that the
conflict may precipitate a war between
Mexico and Guatemala.
The government of Peru has ordered
its postage stamps made in the United
States. The first order for 100000
five-cent postage stamps has been given.
and another for 1000, 600 stamps of other
denominations will follow.
a headend collision between passenger
and freight cars of the Troy and New
England trolley road, near Abba, New
York, resulted in the death of Robert
SaXby and fatal injuries to Perry Scriy.
ems, the motorman of the passenger car.
William b. Felts, who was to have at
tempted to fly from the summit of Pixies
Peak to Colorado Springs, has disappear
ed leaving his machine behind. His
friends fear that he has been lost in the
mountains, but the skeptical think he
has run away.
What is known as the Florida patrol
has been established on the coast for the
purpose of keeping out any possible case
of yellow fever which might come from
Cuba. In this service the Marine hos
pital and the state board of health are
assisted by the revenue cutters.
Thomas Ball, the sculptor, who for
the past thirty years has resided In