Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-10
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e OCCURRENCES OF GENERAL IN
TEREST BRIEFLY TOLD.

eraI Thousand Indians Disinheritcd by /
ncle Sam-Spanish OHicial Admits That
pncentrados Are starving Antitrust
aw i'm Illinois-Other Briefs.
Judge Springer, in the United States I
rt for the northern district of the
ian Territory, has decided that those
ians who have separted themselves
. IN the present Cherokee nation, or
m the old Cherokee nation east of the
sissippi river and have taken up their
Alence In the states, and the eastern
of Cherokee Indians who remained
ne states after the treaty of 1885, have
cited their rights and privileges as
lens of the nation. The opinion affects
re than 1000 people who are applicants
citizenship in the Cherokee nation
property interests valued at over
)OO,O 900.
enor Canaleias, the special commits
Ter of the Spanish government, says
re are 10000 concentrates peasants
'inar del Rio province, gathered in
n the country in the neighbOrhood of
towns for protection from the insur-
It's, or to prevent them from Joining
enemy, and that they are all in want.
his number 10 900 are orphans, and
majority are children of tender years.
he Chicago grand jury has returned
bills under the Illinois antitrust law
inst five prominent stove repair manu-
urers. The complaint was made by
EN- c.. Selleck, hardware merchant,
follows civil suit for $4,000 dam
in which Mr.. Selleck charged the
manufacturers with having conspired
lin the business by forming combina-
to force up the price of stove repairs.
amuel j. Parkhill, "A years old, OF
oklyn, who on Thanksgiving Eve was
Eried to a woman fifty years his
or. committed suicide Sunday. The
osition of their families compelled
couple to separate and Parkhill then
anne so depressed that he took his life.
Washington despatch says that it is
Drted on high authority that "the po-
Dn of attonery general to succeed Mr..
[enna, who will be nominated to the
ted States supreme bench to succeed
ice Field, has been offered to Gov
pr Griggs of New Jersey, and that he
consented TO accept
he governor of Illinois called a special
ion of the general assembly, to meet
ember :, to consider amendments to
Law : for the assessment of property
taxation, and regulating the manner
onductng primary elections, and to
a reapportiOnment bill.
amonds valued at 100000 were
ID in a Maiden lane iewelry establish
t by the custom house authorities,
= Emanuer J. Lassar, a saloon keeper,
wife. and Max j. Kassar, a ieweler,
arrested and held in $1,000 bail
nited States Treasurer Roberts Mon
received a telegram stating that
reorganization committee had de-
ted IS, 100000 in New \ ork to the
it of the United States on account of
sale of the Union Pacific railroad.
Exeter, New Hampshire, on Sunday
1t, Mrs. Annie Fitzimmons, Edwin
Quinby and his wife were poisoned
drinking wood alcohol. Mrs. Fitz-
mons and Mrs. Quinby are dead and
/, Quinby is reported dying.
ne sergeant-at-arms of the senate was
ucted by the committee an rules to
rec the rule prohibiting the sale of
or in the senate wing of the capitol.
re was no liquor on sale in the senate
lurant Monday.
be annual debate between Yale and
yard at New Haven was won by
!, who took the negative side on the
ton: "Resolved, That the United
es should annex the Hawaiian
hds."
be commissioner of internal revenue
mates that the receipts from all
ces for the current fiscal year will
gate at least Sl55, 900, 900, an increase
1897 of about $500 coo.
cretary General Congosto, speaking
Captain General Blanco, said Mon
that the utterances of the president
S message were in general viewed
satisfaction.
be delegation of native Hawaiians,
have come tn this country TO present
ptest against the ratification of the
Xation treaty, reached Washington.
hyor elect Van Wycll, of New York
out but Sl5S.75 for election expenses.