Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-07-16
General l7ews.

Hail las large as walnuts" fell on Sat
urday at Massilon OHIO. Corn and
other vegetables were almost ruined.
Princess Kaiulan, niece of ex-Queen
Liliuokalani, and so.called heir to the
thrown of Hawaii, has Just attained her
majority.
The state department has been in
formed that the cases against the Com
petitor prisoners will be brought to an
issue at Havana within a very short
time.
The Queen Regent of Spain has par
doned los Cubans who had been de-
ported to the Spanish penal settlements
of Ceuta, Fernando and the Cheflarine
islands.
The order of President Cleveland is
sued last February, reducing the number
of pension agencies in the United States
from IS to .. will be revoked by Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Fourteen people are now known to
have been killed in the tornadoes and
cloudbursts in the northeastern section
of Minnesota on Tuesday and Wednes-
day of last week.
Capt. Gel of Rome has invented riff
from which 50 shots "a minute may be
fired without removing the weapon from
the shoulder. Tests of the new arm are
being made by the government of Italy.
Senator Isham 6. Harris of Tennessee,
died in Washington last week. He had
almost completed his 79Jh year Flu
neral services were held in the senate
chamber Friday afternoon and the body
was taken to Memphis for interment.
Shortages amounting to $1,000 were
found in the accounts of the county
dispensers by the South Carolina Dis
pensary Board OF Control recently.
1t is "Hobson's choice" when dishonest
state officials are pltted against saloon
keepers.
over 1000 Cheyenne and Arapahoe H.
dlans held council and dance at Oar
, lington, Oklahoma, demanding that the
recent anti-bigamy law be not enforced
against them. 1t is alleged that they
are also contemplating a migration into
Mexico.
The reprieve granted by the governor
of California to Theodore DuIrant, the
murderer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie
Williams, expired Friday last. 1t will
not be renewed, as the appeal to the
United States supreme court serves as a
stay.
Judge Simonton, in the United States
circuit court at Charleston. South Caro-
lima, on Saturday handed down de-
cision which makes perpetual the IN
junction recently granted prohibiting
state dispensary constables from inter-
fering with the original package stores.
Word comes that PATHS husband.
Nicolini, Is dying at her Welsh castle,
Craig-y Nos. He has hemorrhages, is
greatly emaciated, and can hardly cross
the room without assistance. Patti
passes most of her time with him; In.
deed the dispatch says that he cannot
bear to have her out of his sight.
j. Pierpont Morgan is said to coutem-
plate the extension of the thrd-rail
system, which has proved so successful
on the New York, New Haven and
Hartford road. Mr.. Morgan controls
nine great railway systems and the re-
port credits him with the intention of
substituting the new electrical device
on all of them.
Lightning struck 1000 barrel oil tank
near Olean, n. Y, Sunday afternoon.
A cannon was procured and shots fired
at the surrounding tanks to allow the
OIL to escape and prevent other tanks
exploding. The escaping oil became
lgnited and 20 acres of oil began burn
ing. Blooms were built to prevent the
spread of the burning oil and keep it
out of the river.
1t took just forty hours to transform
the peaceful merchant steamer Teutonic
into an armed cruiser, with an armament