Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-24
General l1ems.

winter.
all Rivers mills produce almost, if not
he, three-Quarters of the print cloth sup
of the entire country. During the last
&c or four years the output has in
Psed 10 per cent.
gift of 100000 to aid in bringing
hut a union of Christian churches has
Ia presented to the Pope by the brothers
bnomas, Turkish subjects, who were
entlv created Roman counts of the
lean.
t Cape May, n. j., the tide has
| he'd up tons of dead menhaden, which
Farmers of that region are gathering
using for fertilizlng purposes. lt is
posed that the fish died as result of
e disease.
gricultural experts have information
] the present harvest in Ireland is the
st since 1879. and that the sutferings
1 he poor during the next eight months
equal if not exceed the horror of the
inc of 1916.
! he Transcontinental railway COM
v. capitalized for 5000, 100000, pur-
rs to build an elevated road between
v York and Chicago, and run trains
Electricity, reducing the time between
two cities to eight hours.
he United States steamer Lancaster
arrived at Bahia, Brazil, where she
take aboard for the United States
sailors from the American bark Olive
6er, accused of mutiny and the muir
of the captain and mate of the vessel.
sale of the unclaimed effects found
he ruins of the Paris bazaar, which
burned with such appalling loss of
will be held in Paris shortly. They
Ide diamonds valued at 5000 and
70 in coin. The proceeds of the sale
be for the benefit of the French
sury.
hited States Vice Consul at Teguci-
Ii, Honduras, reports to the state de-
ment that the American schooner
e Vane has been confiscated and her
imprisoned for smuggling at the
of Onioa, on the north coast of
duras.
be president of the Peruvian senate
asked for the appointment of COM
ion to report upon the proposal to
lie the marriage of nOn-Catholics.
non-existence of such a law leaves
ireds of children of foreigners in
illegitimate.
btitication has been sent the Ameer
Afghanistan' London commercial
by the British war Office that no
material or machinery for the man
lure thereof will be allowed to cross
rontier of Afghanistan during the
ent crisis.
e ex-Empress Frederick, of Ger
y, has forwarded TO her son, En-
William, a magnificent album of
os of the festivities in London and
pithead, attending the celebration of
jubilee. 1t is gift from his grand
per, Queen Victoria.
Norl- fDaN 6ron,or eu,ollowod hi
teeth and the efforts of number of
lcians to dislodge them have failed.
are still in his stomach and do not
to cause any Inconvenience. 1t is
able that an operation will have to
artormed.
e Reading flyer" from Camden to
/. ltlc City, y. j., has made an aver
f siXty-nine miles an hour during
asst summer, and has never failed
rive on time. This is said to be a
Prmance without parallel in the
ry of railway service.
company store at Bloomsbury,
Mexico, owned by the Ration Coal
Coke company, has been blown up
s lnpOwder. A few days ago the idle
RS were notified that they might re-
work at cut of 20 per cent. They
ed this and walked out.
thousand operators on the Chase
: g machines in the shoe factories of
kton, Mass, and vicinity, struck
week. Should the strike become
al , 800 men will be affected. The
miners at Diamondville, Idaho, are
rike for increased wages and the
ion of the truck store system.
shrinkage of the birth rate in
Pc is now attracting serious atten
and a national society has been
I'd to endeavor to remedy the evil.
hands that the government pass a
educing taxation in proportion to
lumber of children in the taxpayers
y and that the government educate
are for all children over six in any
y.
|. |. Cruickshank is in prison in
pm, without bail, charged with at
ing to defraud Lady Randolph
hill and her sisters, Mrs. Frewin