Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-06-11

A violent wind and rain storm oc-
Cured in Northern Texas on Thursday,
unroofng buildings at Fort Worth, Ar
lington and other points. The rain was
so heavy that street car traffic was
stopped, cellars hoooed and the streets
made impossible for time.
Seth Low, president of Columbia uni
versity, and formerly mayor of Brook
lyn, has been selected as candidate for
mayor Ct Greater New York by the eX-
ecutive committee of the Citizens union.
He will be nominated formally at con-
vention to be held at an early day.
The body of Augustus n. Schmittman,
a wholesale flour merchant of New York
city, and 20 years of age, has been
found in a field near Rhinecliff, New
York. Mr.. Schmittman's skull had
been crushed in. Whether he was
struck by a locomotive or fell from a
train is not known.
Charles r. Zchau, the receiving teller
of the German American national bank
of st. Paul, Mimi, who on Thursday
confessed to stealing package of Sl3,-
GOO the previous Saturday, has added to
that confession the further statement
that during his connection with the bank
he had taken at least $500 more.
1t is reported from Ell Paso, Texas,
that Francis Schlatter, who claimed to
perform miraculous cures by divine
power. was recently found dead in the
foothills of the Sierra Madre, thirty-five
miles southwest of Casa Grande, in the
state of chihuahua, Mexico. He had
been fasting and apparently starved to
death
A committee of the Illinois senate, APP
pointed to investigate the alleged misap-
preparation of funds of the unworthy of
Illinois by c. w. Spaulding, of the de-
funct Globe savings bank. has made a
report charging that Ex-Governor Alt
geld was heavy borrower of the failed
bank and that he must have known of
its condition when he recommended
Spauding for treasurer of the university
board.
DIR. Lewis +. Preston was arrested in
Denver, Colorado, Friday. on warrant
charging him with the murder Of
David Prank, a cigarmaker from Brook
lyu, New FORK. DR.. Preston is econ
sumptive specialist" 1t is said that his
method of treatment is to run a trocar
or hollow needle through the walls Of
the chest and introduce an electric wire
into the lungs Prank died under this
treatment.
The advocates of a higher duty on
wool are confident, from assurances re-
ceived from members of the finance
committee of the senate, that they will
secure an increase over the rates origi-
nally reported by the committee of an
average of cent a pound. This in
crease would give a duty of 9 cents on
first class wool, 10 cents on second and
> cents on the lower quality of third
class wool. They are also hopeful that
the dividing line in third rate woods can
be lowered to 8 cents.
Charles Mitchell. a negro under SEN
tence of twenty years imprisonment for
an assault committed on Mrs. Eliza
Gaumer, was taken by a mob from the
Jail in Urbana, Ohio, Friday morning
and lynched. Several hours earlier two
men were killed and 10 wounded by a
company of Ohio militia. during an at
tack by the mob on the jail. Additional
troops were sent to Urbana from Spring
field, but they were sent back by the
mayor Just before the lynchers sue
ceeded in breaking into the Jail.