Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-12
General 17ems.

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A British naval officer is to assist
China in the reorganization of her navy.
The British steamer City of Agra,
from Liverpool for Calcutta, has been
wrecked on Cape Vannano, Spain.
The Utah legislature in Joint session
on Thursday ratified the election of Hon.
j. L. Rawlins as United States senator.
Charles w. Brooke, the well-known
criminal lawyer, died Saturday at New
Brighton, Staten Island aged 81 years.
The burglars who looted the bank at
Eldon, Iowa, few days ago secured be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 worth of
bonds.
A bill was introduced in the Kansas
senate on Saturday by Senator Hanna,
populist, for letting out all county
offices to the lowest bidder.
The First national bank of Franklin,
Ohio, has suspended. The bank owes
depositors $4,000, and has assets of
Sl5S,000 and a surplus of $4,000.
1t is stated that J. Addison Porter of
Connecticut has been offered the private
secretaryship to President-elect McKin-
ley and has accepted. He is an editor.
Cyrus Z. BREEDER, formerly cashier of
the First national bank, Bethlehem, Pa,
has disappeared, and experts have found
a shortage in his accounts of over Sl3,-
600.
The United States government has
practically completed the purchase of
Fishers island and a part of Plum is
land, at the eastern end of Long Island
sound, for defence purposes.
The Southern Mutual Building and
Loan ASSOCIATION of Atlanta, Georgia,
has been placed in the hands of re-
ceiver. The association has, it is said,
81, 250 600 loaned on real estate.
There is much dissatisfaction in Ma
drid over what are believed to be the
excessive concessions made to the Gu
bans In the scheme of reform and it is
thought that cabinet changes are likely
to result.
The Prince of Wales has proposed the
creation of fund.- to be called the
Prince of Wales Hospital fund, for Lon
don, to commemorate the sixtieth ami
versary of the queens accession to the
throne.
The New York legislative committee
on trusts began its inquiry In New York
city Saturday, taking up the subject of
the American Sugar Refining company
and the trade war between the sugar
trust and the Arbuckle Bros.
On account of the adverse action of
congress Secretary Lamont has revoked
his order for the West Point cadets to
visit Washington for the Inauguration,
and Secretary Herbert will not order the
naval cadets away from Annapolis.
United States secret service officers
have arrested John De Pree, an engraver,
and Peter Witzel, at Grand Rapids;
Simpson Craig, at Jackson. and man
named Hauck, at Belding, Mich. for
making and passing counterfeits of the
$50 treasury note.
The draft of the reform protocol. as
completed by the ambassadors in Con-
stantinOple, is drawn up on the assump-
ton that the sultan will accept the pro-
posals. There is no reference to re-
sort to coercion on the part of the
powers to enforce them.
The governor of Wisconsin has decided
State against the Wisconsin Agricultural
society's grounds near Milwaukee. The
society has paid no interest at all on the
mortgages, which aggregate SlGS, AIS OF,
and with the unpaid interest amount to
over $20j, 900.
The United States Rubber company's
factory at Millville, Massa chusetts, closed
Saturday night for an indefinite period.
owing, it is stated, to over-production
of rubber boots. Eight hundred peo-
pie have been employed there on short
lllnt lOl tilc past lev nOuliics
almost years ideness.
The Northwestern national bank of
Great Falls, Montana, was closed Fri
day by two of the directors, who tele-
graphed the comptroller of the currency
that the cashier of the bank had Thought
securities in violation of instructions
and that their action had been based on
that fact" The amount involved is
said to be $lSO,OOO. The bank is claimed
to be able to pay all deposits.
The president has signed, on the recon-
mendation of the secretary of the in
terror, an order reducing the number of
pension agencies In the United States
from eighteen to nine. 1t is expected
that the change will effect an animal
saving of expense TO the government of
at least Sl50,000. The agencies will be
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