Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-26
General l1ems.

The bills Introduced in the United |
States senate since the beginning of the
session number 975.
Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were
hanged at Newport, Kentucky, on Satur-
day morning, for the murder of Pearl
Bryan.
1t is reported that the Greeks in Con-
stantlnople, of whom 10000 are well
armed, are plotting revolt against the
sultan's government.
Charges of wholesale legislative cor
ruption have been made in the Iowa
house, and Speaker Byers has resigned
pending an investigation.
President Mckinley has decided that
public matters will not permit him to at
tend the Decoration day celebration at
jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
f. d. Stegar, assistant secretary of the
Old Mutual Assurance society of Vir-
ginia at Richmond, is said to have disap-
peared, leaving a shortage in his &C.
counts of $4,000.
a Chicago despatch says that the
piano and organ firm of Estey & Camp,
which has been in business in Chicago
for 80 years, has taken steps toward
winding up its business.
a locomotive drawing an express train
on the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad exploded at Englewood,
Illinois, Sunday mornir g, and the engi-
neer and fireman were instantly killed.
1t is feared that the Dutch mail steam
er Utrecht, which sailed from Rotterdam
February IS for Batavia, Java, has
foundered in the vicinity of Ushant, and
that the 100 persons she had on board
are lost.
William Fees, farmer near Wamego,
Kansas, last week shot and fatally
wounded his wife, her mother, Mrs.
Johnson, and his sster-in-law; wounded
Mr.. johnson, his wife's father, and then
killed himself.
A passenger train on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad was derailed near Oak
land, Maryland, on Saturday. General
j. 5. Fullerton, of st. Louis, was killed,
and ten others were injured, Mrs. NJ. d.
Phelps, of Barre, VT, probably fatally.
The senate Friday confirmed the follow
ing nominations; John Hay. ambassa-
dor to Great Britain; Horace Porter, am
bassador to France Henry White. sec
rotary of embassy at London, and Perry
5. Heath to he first assistant postmaster
general.
The supreme court of Michigan has
decided that the office of mayor of De-
troit became vacant when Hazen 5. Pin
gree took the oath of office as governor
of Michigan on January l. a new cleo
ton must be held to elect a new mayor
for Detroit.
According to advlces brought to San
Francisco by the steamer Peru, Prince
Eul Wha, heir apparent to the throne of
COrea, is kept prisoner by band of po-
litical plotters who are intriguing to de-
throne his father and place the young
prince on the throne.
Walter Hughes was shot and killed in
Houston, Texas, Friday morning while
in the act of breaking into the house of
Frank Dunn, a wealthy resident of the
city. Hughes had concocted a scheme to
kidnap Dunn's little daughter and hold
her for $4,000 ransom.
The river steamer Sunol. bound from
San Francisco to Vallejo, cOllided in San
Francisco bay with the bark Olympia,
bound in from Philadelphia. The Sunol
turned bottom upward and sank. The
crew and passengers were picked W
by boats from the Olympia and other
vessels near at hand.
The Arizona legislature, before it;
final adjournment on Friday, adopted
resolutions denouncng Governor Franci:
for refusing to return several bills which
the legislature wanted to pass over hi;
veto. Governor Franklin, on the othel
hand, openly charged members of boil
houses with corruption.
Two engines of the Denver and Gull
railroad were in collision in Denver, Col.
Friday. The wreck caused an escape Of
steam and two young men on their way
to work, Hugh Mcbride and Patricl
Casey, were caught in the escaping steam
and killed. One of the engineers hai
been arrested for negligence.
Owing to a state law, which has beer
sustained by the supreme court of tn,
United States, requiring that expires
offices in towns of Florida having from
fifty to one hundred inhabitants mus
pay State tax of $40 and a county ia,
of So, the Southern Express compan.
will close about 40 of its offices.
The long overdue snip Il. F. Cakes
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