Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-08-06
General l1ews.

Ine may or OF Oakland, Cal, has signed
an ordinance prohibiting high hats in the
theaters.
Ex.Queen Lilluokaani had an audi
ence with President Mckinley before he
left Washington.
The treasury department has decided
that the new tariff law went into effect
after midnight, July %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone on Sunday.
July %, celebrated the ffty-eighth an
niversary of their wedding.
B. f. Mckinley, said to be an uncle Of
the president, has been appointed as
sistant postmaster at San Francisco.
The King of Siam arrived in England
last Friday and was received with royal
honors. He was lodged in Buckingham
palace.
Smallpox is reported epidemic at Biz
mingham, Ala. Fifty well-developed
cases are known and a number of deaths
have occurred.
1t is reported from Constantinople
that the signing of the preliminaries of
peace awaits only the reply of the Greek
government fixing the dates of the pay
ment of indemnity.
The commercial treaty between Great
Britain and the German zollverein.
in force since lSG5, was denounced last
week by Great Britain, and ceases to be
operative year hence.
The French chamber of deputies, by q
vote OF SIS to Is, adopted the recon.
mendaton Of the budget committee APP
propriating 100000 francs toward
strengthening the navy,
The new gunboat Helena has arrived
at Washington navy yard to receive
her silver service from the citizens of
Montana. She Is the first actual var
ship to reach the capital city in many
years.
SiX-year-old Henry Whitsom Of Union
Hill y. j., is in critical condition as a
result of having swallowed a motto but
ton alleged to bear the Inscription, II
have troubles of my own; don't mention
yours"
\ mob Of forty citizens of Madison
vile, Ky, took Ephraim Brinkley. coll
ored, from his home and lynched him,
on general principles. He was suspect
ed of a number of crimes, including a
recent murder.
Col. Fred d. Grant has resigned his
position of police commissioner of New
\ ok city because he disagreed with his
ellow-commissoners as to the method
of obtaining evidence against disorderly
houses which they had decided upon
The British foreign Office has uoti-
fled Ambassador Hay that it accepts
the proposition of the United States
for an International conference on the
question of pelagic sealing in the Berng
sea, to be held i'll Washington during the
coming autumn.
The British government is preparing
to largely augment the patrolling force
in the Boring seal fisheries. Three ex-
ira men-of-war are on the way and two
more will be detached from the China
fleet and sent thither.
The largest grain harvester in the
world is in use on Roberts Island in the
San joaquin river, near Stockton, Cal.
The machine has a cutting line of -
feet, and turns out three GO-pound sacks
of wheat every minute.
1t is reported that China is about to
reorganize her army on the lines of the
German military, and has placed orders
for rifles in Germany. new Chinese
navy is to be constructed, half of the
contracts for new vessels going to Eng
land and half to Germany
In two weeks the total sales OF wheat
for export in the United States was
in the neighborhood Of 100000 bushels.
About fifty vessels have been chartered
within the last ten days with a total ca
pacity of G,000,0O0 bushels.
DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage emphatically
denies that he has resigned the pulpit Of
the First Pre-. byterian church of Wash
ington, ID. c., and says that he will be
back at his post the second Sunday in
September. providence permitting.
An organization, to be known as the
Elizabeth Ross Monument association,
having for It's sole object of existence the
erection of monument to the memory
of the designer of the stars and stripes,
as been incorporated in Minneapolis.
1 DR.. +. Benjamin Andrews, who recent
ly resigned the presidency of Brown uni
versity, has accepted the presidency of a
new organization to be founded by John
Brsben Walker, and to be known as the
Cosmopolitan Unlversity.' 1t is to be
modelled after the Chautauqua school,
and will be conducted by correspondence.