Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-28
General l1ews.

1t is declared that Spain will never
agree to the sale of Cuba, nor to foreign
mediation in a question which she re-
CARDS as exclusively concerning herself,
Emile Grace Briggs, daughter of
Professor c. A. Briggs, graduated with
highest honors from the Union Theo-
logical seminary in New York recently
and received the degree of bachelor of
divinity.
Governor Black has refused to sign
the graduated inheritance tax bill"
passed at the recent session of the New
York legislature. He takes the ground
that the proposed law would bear un-
equally upon taxpayers.
Two dams on the st. Croix river, in
Noya Scotia, burst on Thursday, partly
destroying three others, and swept
nearly 100000 feet of uncut timber in
to the Bay of Fdndy via the Avon
river and Basin of Mnas. The loss is
$4,000
The steamer Empress of India, at San
Francisco from Yokohama, brings news
of fire which completely destroyed tie
town of Hochioi. in the silk district of
Japan. Nearly 1000 houses were de-
stroyed, and between forty and fifty
lives were lost.
Albert NJ. King, the l9year old mes
senger of the Boylston national bank
of Boston, ran away last week with
about $50, 900 of the banks funds. lie
was arrested at Pennington. Me-, on
Saturday He had with him S30,940 of
the stolen money.
William L. Bryant, an inmate of the
soldiers home at Montevista, Colorado,
has made an affidavit that he was in
Emmanuel Baptist church in San Fran
cisco the day of the murder of Blanche
Lamont, and saw Pastor Gibson carry
ing her body to the belfry.
Richard NJ. Scruggs, st. Louis mil
lionaire, and his secretary were arrested
by custom house inspectors as they
stepped off the steamer st. Paul on its
arrival at New York on Saturday.
Laces and iewery valued at $1,000
which they failed to declare, were found
in their possession.
George Louis Shaw, Baltimore mer-
chant, was arrested in that city Thurs
day on the charge of having aided and
allotted Cashier Barnard to embezzle
S32 900 of the funds of the Fort Stan
wix national bank of Rome, New York,
in January, 1896. Barnard committed
suicide at the time.
a New Orleans despatch says lit is
thought there will be no further damage
done by the overflow. The losses in
Louisiana are estimated at 81 ,750,0OO; in
Mississippi at IS, 800, 900, and IN Arkan-
sas at S4,250, 900, or total of Sl3,50O,
900; not as serious a loss as in many
previous years of overflow, when the
river was not nearly as high as it is
now"
An armistice of seventeen days was
agreed to Thursday by Turkey and
Greece. 1t includes the land and sea
forces of both combatants. 1t is asserted
that the powers have agreed upon the
chief conditions of peace, namely, in
demnity to the amount of E5,000,00C
and the rectlfcation of the frontier, de,
tails as to which have not yet been
settled.
John f. Johnson, president of the
= State national bank of Logansport
Indiana, was arrested Saturday fol
p criminal violations of the national banl
act. 1t is charged that Mr.. johnson
! procured from the bank about 100000
3 on forged notes and about 100000 adj
: ditional by making false entries in the
individual ledgers and by certificates OF
r deposit.
By an explosion of gasoline in st
= Louis on Thursday night, resulting from