Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
General 11ems.

mission in the interest of bmetallsm.
The extraditIon treaties with the
Orange Free State and the Argentine
Republic have been ratified by the
United States senate.
A treaty for the settlement of the
Alaskan boundary was signed in Wash
ington on Saturday by Secretary Olney
and the British ambassador.
The governor of Ohio has appointed
a commission to receive funds and build
monument to General Phil. II. Sherl-
dan at Somerset, in that State.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, who has
been suffering at Stamford, Connecticut,
for several weeks from an injury to her
hip, is reported to be steadily failing.
At Wayne, Nebraska, on a recent
night, c. X. Rush Drained his wife and
three children with an axe and then
hacked the bodies to pieces. He is in
sane.
An engine and one car fell from ting
elevated railroad at Fulton and Brad
ford streets, Brooklyn, Thursday night.
Several persons were injured, two proba-
bly, fatally.
AS a result of fire in Big City, Mich
igan, Thursday morning, Theodore
During, aged IS, was smothered, and
Florentine j. Van Emster, druggist,
was fatally burned.
An official report shows that there
have been 1895 cases of the bubonic
plague in Bombay and 1915 deaths, and
694 cases and GA deaths from the
plague in Karachi
In Kansas City, on Saturday evening,
three masked men entered the store of
John A. HeIlman and robbed it of
$1,000 worth of crucifiXes and church
fixtures and $50 in cash.
Postmaster George A. Draper and his
son Charles w. Draper, assistant post
master at Cheyenne, Wyo,, have been ar
rested, charged with the theft of a regis
tered package containing $500.
Arthur Palmer, the Mamaroneck, New
York, murderer, was arrested in st.
Louis the other day. He killed his
mother, sister and brother the night of
Jan. Is. He is believed to be insane.
Twenty-Five thousand four hundred
and seventy-eIght immigrants arrived in
Canada during 1896, as against 25,57l in
1895. OF these s643 went through to the
United States, as against 1854 the pre-
vious year.
Sheriff r. E. Ellison of fairfield, S. c.,
is under bonds, charged with obstruct-
ing the mails. In enforcing a judgment
against the Southern railroad some
months ago he chained down train at
Wynnsboro.
Two more members of the Mckinley
cabinet are definitely announced: Ly-
man j. Gage, president of the First ma
tiOnal bank of Chicago, secretary of the
treasury, and Gen. Alger of Michigan,
secretary of war.
The grand jury at Chicago has indicted
William A. Burns and twelve others on
a charge of victimizing the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad out of thousands of
dollars worth of transportation by
means of forged tickets.
The First national bank of Olympia,
Washington, closed its doors last week
because of the withdrawal of $780, 900
State funds, which precipitated a run.
The liabilities of the bank are said to be
100000 and the assets S23O,OO0.
The free silver republicans and the
populists of the Washington legislature
nominated Judge G. F. Turner for
United States senator on Thursday night
and the legislature in Joint session Fri
day elected Turner on the first ballot.
A train on the Southern Pacific was
held up two miles south of Roseburg,
Ore, by three men Friday morning, the
express safes blown open and their con-
tents carried off. The explosions set fire
to the express car and it was destroyed.
Henry Heitfelt, a Nez Perez county
farmer, has been elected by the Idaho
legislature to succeed Dubois in the
United States senate. 1t is said that the
senator-eect has but limited command
of the English language. He is a popu-
list.
Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court confirms the report that
Chief Justice Fuller and himself had
been selected as arbitrators on behalf of
Venezuela in the matter of the settle
ment of the boundary line dispute with
Great Britain.
Mrs. Nellie Schroeder and her five
little children were burned to death in
their home in Hoboken on Saturday
night. Another fire in the same city
early Sunday morning destroyed three
tenpments and Mabel ManUIas 2 vaars