Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-11-12
ALLOVER THE WORLD
ATE OCCURRENCES OF GENERAL IN
TEREST BRIEFLY TOLD.

Pension List Still on the Increase-Nine-
teen sailors Lose Their Lives in Wreck
on Lake Erie-Attempt on the Life of
Pres. Moraes-Other Interesting Items.
The annual report of the commissioner
f pensions shows that there were ad-
led to the rolls during the year the
ames of SOL now pensioners, and
here were restored to the rolls 3,07l
pensioners who had been pre- viously
3ropped. The whole number of pen
toner's on the rolls June 30, 1897, was
76.Ol4. The amount disbursed was
s139. 949.7l735. This exceeds the
mount disbursed during the fiscal year
3S96 by the sum of 81 ,5S4, lS0.1S.
The Western Transit company's steam
D Idaho, which left Buffalo last Friday
|sfternoOn for Chicago, laden with pack
Age freight, foundered off Long Point In
IKE Erie during furious gale early
urdav morning. The second mate
Ind one sailor, who succeeded in reach
4hg the rigging, were rescued by the
teampr MaripOsa late in the afternoon
nd landed in Buffalo. The rest of the
rev, numbering nineteen, were drowned.
An attempt was made Friday to assas-
Innate President MOraes of Brazil. The
allv wounded while shielding the chief
xecutive from soldiers dagger. Cen
raj Bethencourt, minister of war, who
vas of the presidents party, was shot
nd killed.
A passenger train on the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad was held up by four men
ear Grants Station, % miles west of AL
buquerque, \. NJ, Saturday night. 1t is
ot known whether they were successful
h obtaining booty, but it is thought a
lrge amount of money was carried by
|he train.
Between now and Dec. lG, the date of
he sale of the Kansas Pacific road, a
indicate will. it is reported, be formed
With j. Pierpont Morgan at its head,
o buy the road for the use of the Chicago
nd Alton. The Kansas Pacific road is
lmOst indispensable as an outlet from
Kansas City to Denver.
Three colored desperados held up the
hining town of Marquisville, Ia, on Sat
rdav. "They walked into the pool
DOM, and calling on fifty miners to hold
p their hands, one of the party went
Through their pockets. The miners had
ust been paid and quite sum was
+ aiken"
1t is reported from Washington that
he Carnegie and Bethlehem companies
ave purchased the right to use the
Nrupp process in making armor plates
his would prevent the government
sing this process in its own armOr plate
actory if it should establish one.
An attempt will be made to break the
trike that exists in the northen Illinois
istrict by having 500 Chinese coal miners
AXE the places of Americans. They will
II bear arms, live inside gatling gun
quipped stockade and be guarded by lOC
ormer Chicago policemen.
Articles of incorporation of the Skag
[ay and Lake Bennett Tramway com
ANY have been filed in Portland, Ore
he capital stockis S250,000. The com
any is to build and operate a railroad OIL
Famway from Skaguay, Alaska, ovel
White Pass
The Rev. George A. Reader, student
the Boston University Theological
chool has been requested to Withdraw
rom that institution by the faculty fol-
fficiating at a marriage which tool
lace in lions cage at the 700 in Boston
asst week.
Senator WOlcott and General Charles
Paine, members of the monetary com
lissiOn appointed to confer with Euro
can governments concerning interna
onal bimetallism, arrived at New Horl
ist Friday on the steamer Campania.
United States Consul General Lee re
lrned to Washington Friday to receiv,
ny instructions that it was deemed
ecessary to give him before his depart
re for Havana. He left in the after
Don on his way to Cuba.
1t is reported from Honolulu tina
ontracts have been signed in New \ orl
pr $4,000 tons of Hawaiian sugar of thu
rOp of 1898. Another large block o
ugar will be taken by the new refinery
t Port Costa, Cal.
The negro colony at Cedar Lake, nea
+ Decatur, Ala, on the Louisville ant
ashville railway, founded by a wealthy
+ English woman, Mrs. Lillian X. Ray
+. 5as, on Saturday, formally inaugurated
The ordnance bureau has made ties
t Indian Head, firing l0-inch armor
iercing capped shell at a l44 inch nicke
teel harveyized plate. The shell wen
E hrOugh the plate aud exploded on tn
ther side.
The Georgia house of representatives
V an almost unanimous vote, rejected
n adverse report from a committee OF
bill to make the birthday of jefferson
Pavis legal holiday In that state.