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

The supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that tax lien has priority of
mortgage lien upon real estate.
A son was born to the household of
Grover Cleveland, ex.president Of the
United States, at noon last Friday.
The agricultural chamber of Branden-
burg, Germany, has passed a resolution
against the importation of American
Fruit.
Over $500 Klondike prospectors left
Seattle. Wash, during the past summer.
aud 5000 more are there waiting for
kpring.
Searchlight, the 3-year-od son of
Dark Knight. has broken the worlds
pacing record of ,; 09i, making the mile
N , :O7.
] BY the death of relative in London,
4he Capps family of Springfield ana
82ivertOn, H., have fallen heir to over
81 900, 900.
FOR the first time since the Reforma-
! ion the law courts of London were
opened with 4 special service in West
nnister Abbey.
Joseph Jefferson, the great actor,
recently declared that he does not intend
o become back number by retiring
rom the stage.
At Dunlo, Penn, a mining town near
Jonhstown, water became so scarce
owing to drouth that it was being sold at
30 cents a barrel.
There is a family in Albion, Mich, in
which the birthday anniversaries of the
father, mother, two daughters and son
fall upon the same date.
Andrew Carnegie. who is in Paris, says
ne will offer the Carnegie armor plant to
he government. If the offer is not ac-
Eepted he will sell it abroad.
The monetary commission has accumu-
ated mass of suggestions by aid of
which after Nov. 3 a measure will be
Drafted for submission to congress.
There are fifty manufacturers of imita-
-ation butter in Germany. A factory in
Mannheim produces 5000 pounds daily
rom a preparation of cocoanut butter.
Walter Il. Houghton, postal clerk ar
rested for the theft of $1,000 order
package, returned Sl4,700, which he had
concealed in the barn and chicken coop
1t his residence at Cheyenne, Wyo.
The body of John Foyle, engineer of
he New ork Central train wrecked at
1arrisOn's, was brought up with Crap
bling irons from the big hole made by
he engine when it plunged into the mud
1t the bottom of the Hudson.
AT the close of business on Saturday.
he last bushes day of the month, the
kold reserve in the United States treas
ry amounted to Sl53, 55l ,Sll, which is
by a few thousand dollars the highest
point recorded since November, 1890.
A bill to prohibit football playing has
;,,fr IN hn isl Ia
ure. The death of player in a game
Vas the cause of the bill. We may now
xpect bills to prohibit bicycling, row.
big, hunting, ETC., on the same grounds.
W. S. McClelland, graduate of two
European universities and master of
light languages, is shoveling dirt for the
port, Ind, because he can not find other
Employment. He is not dissipated
han.
The secretary of agriculture, in his re-
Ort 20 the president. recommends that
gents for the department should be sta
oned at each of our more important
american embassies for the collection of
Information of interest to American
hrmers.
The United States ambassador to Ger
1duN has Decl W luC SldNC
department to vigorously renew its re-
hOnstrances against and to demand the
epeal of the prohibition of the impOc-
alton of American cattle and fresh meat
rom this country.
In order to save $1,000 expressage
pom S4,000,O00 worth of bonds which
he executor of the Fair estate wanted TO
transfer from New York TO San Fran
isco, the papers were packed in three
ress suit cases and sent across the CONT
ent as ordinary hand baggage in the
are of two men.
A Butte, Mont, despatch says that the
Troublesome Cree Indians have reentered
he state from Canada and "are slaughter
pg game that Is protected by the state
nd killing cattle on ranges. Ranchers
re appealing to the authorities for pro-
ection, but so far no action has been
aiken to deal with the Indians"
Another horror has been added to the
flight of starvation in Dawson City in
he form of a mysterious and fatal dis
ase, which is carrying of an average of
We men a day. Twenty-fCur hours
fter the victim is attacked his body
urns black from the waist up. and in a
majority of cases death results within
+. wo days.
The most remarkable car robbery case
record in the south has ended at Dali
on, Ga, in the conviction of one white