Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-26
General l1ems.
Hog cholera is prevalent IN Dutchess
and Columbia counties, New York.

hug cHOleTd Is prevalent Ill DulcneSS
and Columbia counties, New York.
George S. Dyer, town treasurer of Ply
mouth. Massachusetts, is said to be a
defaulter to the amount of over 500
William Lampson, who died recently
at Leroy, n. Y, bequeathed his estate,
valued at $1,000, 900, to Yale university.
a bill making II punishable offence
to wear a high hat at a theatrical per-
Torrance has passed the Colorado assem-
IDLY by vote of ~ to Is.
Steiuitz, the American chess player,
has died at DR.. Morosoh"s institute in
Moscow, to which he was recently taken
after losing his mental balance.
The Kansas senate has adopted reso-
luton proposed by United States Sena-
torelect Harris in opposition to the
Anglo American arbitration treaty.
The Missouri supreme court Saturday
rendered decision the effect of which is
to open to women nearly all the elective
county and State offices in Missouri.
The senatorial deadlock in South Da-
kota was broken Thursday by the re-
election of James II. Kyle, by the votes
of the republicans and few populists.
Bishop Turner, of the African Metho-
dist church, has complained sto the
Georgia State railroad commission that
the railroads of the State do not furnish
eating accommodations for negroes.
James Mcknight. president of the sus-
pended German national bank of Louis
vile, Ky, is under arrest, charged with
misrepresentation of the banks funds and
with conspiring to misappropriate said
funds.
United States Senator Cannon and
Governor Wells of Utah have suggested
to the legislature of that State the plac-
ing of statue of Brigham Young in
the statutary hall of the capitol at Wash
ington.
Messrs. Thorne and Sergeant, officials
Of the Texas Pacific railroad, who plead
ed guilty at New Orleans to an indict-
ment charging them with violating the
Interstate commerce law, were fined
$1,000 each.
The gunboat Wilmington. one of the
three built at Newport News for the
navy, made her preliminary trial on
Saturday, and exceeded her contract
speed of thirteen knots an hour by one
and three-guarters knots.
President Cleveland has pardoned
Frank Porterfeld of Nashville, Tenn,
eX-presdent of the First national bank,
sentenced in December, 1898, to ten
years in Kings county penitentiary and
costs for embezzling the banks funds.
Governor Bushnell of Ohio has an.
nounced that when Senator Sherman re
signs to enter the cabinet of President
Mckinley he will appoint to succeed him
Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, to serve until
his successor is chosen by the legisla-
ture.
a freight wreck occurred on the
Illinois Central road, near Knmundy,
H., on Thursday. The engineer, fire
man and one brakeman were killed.
The cause of the wreck was the break
ing IF the axle of the drivers on the en-
CINE.
The Wakefield Rattan Co. of Boston
and Haywood Brothers & Co. Of Gard
ner, Massachusetts. are to be CONSOLE
dated under the name of the Haywood
Brothers 4 Wakefield company The
capital of the new company will be So
000,0O 0.
President Cleveland will not make
nominations to fill vacancies in the gov.
eminent service which may be caused by
designations occurring between now nd
the 18th of March next, but will leaye
such places open to be filled by President
Mckinley.
Six members of the Spicer family
Rev. Thomas Spicer, Mrs. Spicer, Mrs.
William Waldron, Mrs. William Rouse
and twin babies of the latter-were
found murdered in their house, near
Winona, North Dakota, on Thursday.
1t Is supposed they were killed by In
dans.
Mrs. Hattie Chaplin, aged 33 years,
wife of W. H. Chaplin, postmaster of
Falls Village, Connecticut, and Charles
F. Mead, travelling salesman, were
found dead in the dining room of the
C1apin home on Saturday. 1t is be.
lieved that Mead shot the woman and
then himself.
G. w. Smalley, the American cores
pendent of the London Times, definitely
afiirms that President-elect Mckinley
has offered the position of ambassador to
Great Britain to Col. John Hay and that