Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-10
General l1ews.

used by the owner in his daily business,
j. ). Smith, colored, nominated by
Representative White, of Chicago. for a
cadetship at Annapolis, failed to appear
for examination, and has lost his chance
for appointment.
a number of representative freight
men of Minneapolis and st. Paul has
been summoned to appear before the
federal grand jury to testify as to
charges of illegal rate cutting
The war department has annuled the
contract of j. S. Flynn, of New York, to
furnish $4,000 tons of stone for the Duck
Island, Conn, breakwater. for failure to
fulfill the conditions of the contract.
The award of the contract for furnish
ing postal cards to the government dur
ing the four years beginning Dec. ] is
still pending. An estimated aggregate
OF 2,3OOOOO,0 600 cards are involved in the
contract.
over seventy-tive applicants have pre-
sented themselves so far for examination
for the Office of supervising architect in
the treasury department. The practical
examination is now in progress, and Will
end September 10.
Severe earthquakes, followed by
tidal wave and great floods. occurred in
Japan in the early part Of August. A
thousand houses were DESTROYED and zoo
persons killed and injured. Sixtv.fve
villages were inundated.
The Duke of Westminster has appealed
to the British public for funds for the
relief of the distress which prevails in
Athens among the refugees from Thes-
sally and Crete. He says that there are
more than $4,000 fugitives depending on
charity in Athens.
The North American Commercial COM
pany reports that its entire seal catch in
Behring sea for the season was 10000
skins, the smallest by far in years.
Instead of over seventy sealers in the
Behring sea, as there were last year.
there are this year only twenty-nine.
The Southern Pacific railway COM
pany is experimenting with crude pc
troleum as fuel for locomotives. The
management has equipped seven loco
motives with oil burners, and the tests
have been so successful that it Is proba-
bic that it will be adopted throughout
the system.
a severe hurricane and floods de
vastated the country along the Gulf Of
California. The town of La Guacimas.
near the mouth of the Yaqua river. was
swept away and the region for miles
around Inundated. Three schooners in
the lumber trade are missing and sup
posed to have been lost.
An agreement has been arrived at
between the American dynamite trust
and the Nobel trust English and
German, by which the American com
pany agrees to withdraw from the
South African field upon the condition
that the Nobel trust abandons its plans
to establish factory in the United
States.
There is talk of a revival of the an
nual football contests between the
cadets of the West Point Military
academy and the Annapolis Naval acad-
envy. 1t is said that Secretaries Alger
and Long aud Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt look with favor upon the re-
vival of the sport, and will give their
approval to a series of a matches.
The entire staff of sales managers of
Sunlight soap for the different sections
of the United States have been invited
by their employers, Lever Bros, to take
a free trip to London and to Port sun
light, England, where the head works
and model village of the firm are To-
Gated. The party sailed on the Ma
estic, Sept l, and expect to be away for
about four weeks.
The British steamer Windward which
sailed on June 10 for Franz Josef Land
to bring back from the Arctic regions
the members of the Jackson Harms
worth expedition, who have been at
Cape Flora for three years, where they
have erected an observatory 1000 feet
above the level of the sea, has been
sighted near Aberdeen on her return
trip, and signaled. with all well on
board
a novel battle took place one day last
week at Atlantic City between a setter
dog and shark over 1 feet long. The
shark was swimming Just beyond the
breakers, and the dog swan out ana
attracted the fish, which, after fierce
struggle, he killed and brought to shore.
I The contest was witnessed by a large
crowd, but the noble animal ran away
before any one discovered to whom he
belonged
The body of Capt. Henry Arkwright,
who was aidde-camp to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, and who was