Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-06-04
General lzews.


The Florida house has passed an act to
prohibit the instruction or attendance as
scholars at the same school of white and
colored persons.
President Mckinley has appointed
Hon. Whitelaw Ried special ambassador
of the United States at the queens
jubilee in London.
The secretary of agriculture has desig
mated board to 20 to Alaska to investi-
gate the needs of an agricultural expert
ment station in that territory.
There was collision between a freight
and passenger train at American Falls,
Idaho, Thursday. Nine men were killed
and eight others seriously injured.
A despatch from the city of Mexico
says that party of American capitalists
have made an extensive purchase of
coffee and tobacco lands in the. States of
Vera Cruz and Oaxaca.
Judge Burnell in Oshkosh on Satur-
day sentenced Banker T. c. Shove of
Manitowoc. Wis. convicted of illegal
banking. to pay fine of $1,000 and the
costs, which amount to almost the same
sum.
w. f. Hale, cashier of bank at Wa
tertown, Tennessee, which failed about
year ago, was convicted on Saturday of
unlawfully receiving deposits. and sem
fenced to five years Imprisonment. The
case will lie appealed.
Fred Beeson, an employe on the ranch
of Harry Morse, at Sunol, California,
used arsenic by mistake instead of bak.
ing powder in making batch of bread.
Beeson is dead. another man is dying
and several Others are dangerously i'll.
With her 4-months-old child clasped
in her arms. Mrs. Elizabeth Hennigge
the other day Jumped from the roof of
the three-story tenement house in
Brooklyn where she lived. She was
instantly killed. The child escaped
without a scratch.
\ Milwaukee despatch quotes Karl G..
Corn, until recently the manager of the
beet sugar factory at Menominee Falls,
as saying that company of foreign
capitalists has been formed which will
enter upon the manufacture of beet
sugar on gigantic scale In that and
other states.
OF the 100000 appropriated by con-
gress for the relief of the flood sufferers
in the Mississippi and Red River valleys,
about one-half remains uneXpended.
Secretary Alger attributed this economy
to the excellent work of the officers, who
gave their personal attention to the
relief work.
Squire Frank Osborne. a prominent
farmer, was shot and instantly killed by
L. J. Barber, car inspector of tie Chatta,
nooga, Rome and Columbus railroad. 1t
Crawtish Springs. in Chickamauga park.
Tennessee. on Saturday. \ bitter feud
had existed between the two men for
several years.
About 25OO persons were driven from
their homes in FL Paso. Texas. by last
weeks rise in the Rio Grande. The
most serious effect of the flood. however,
is the shifting of the course Of the river,
by which it is feared about fifty blocks
of the city will be transferred to the
Mexican side.
The leaders of the democratic party in
Washington declare their intention to
rescnd the fusion of the last campaign
reOrganize HE democrats and conduct
future campaigns upon the Chicago
platform a general meeting of demo-
cratic committeeman has been called to
this end, to meet at Spokane June H.
Henry O. fIavemeyer, president of the
American Sugar Refining company. was
acquitted in Washington Thursday Of
the charge of contempt growing out Of
his testimony before the senate sugar
investigating committee. The court sus-
tanned the motion made by the defence.
and instructed the Jury to find verdict
of not guilty
The Canadian steamer Luis ShaclllLna
was sent to the bottom of Lake Erie, of
Long Point, Ontario, Friday night, by
collision with the steamer Tecdmseh.
The crew had Just time to get into the
small boats and managed to keep a6oat
until daylight, when they were picked
up by the Tecumseh, which had been
searching for them all night.
President Mckinley has under con-
sheraton report from the commission
er of pensions on the consolidation OF
pension agencies ordered by President
Cleveland shortly before the change of
administration. The commissioner re-
port recommends complete revocation
OF the order, allowing agencies to stand
as if the order had not been made.
Frederick de la Tour Booth-Tucker.
commander of the Salvation Army i'm