Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-12
General 17ews.

"A severe shock OF earthquake occur
red in the vicinity of Niagara Falls on
Friday night.
Four members of the Palmer family,
of Touca, Illinois, have died of measles
within the past ten days.
The members of President McKinley's
cabinet all took their oaths of Office in
Washington on Saturday.
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
ask for an extra credit for the purpose
of lifting out SIX additional warships.
President Mckinley has issued his
proclamation for an extra session of
congress. 1t is called to meet Monday,
March 10.
The supreme court of California has
denied a new trial to Theodore Durant,
the murderer of Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams.
Negotiations are progressing at Louis
vile fol- the consolidation of the Bourbon
distllleries OF Kentucky. y committee
has been appointed to fix valuation on
the plants.
Ex-Secretary Olney has dehni ely con-
cluded not to accept the professorship of
international law at Harvard, but will
resume his law practice IN Boston in the
course of month.
Hugh Smith, - years old, has been
arrested IN Perry county, Pa, charged
with the murder of Malinda Snyder, an
lS-year-old girl, who disappeared twen-
ty-eight years ago.
Alonzo j. Whitman, SO years old,
former state senator of Minnesota, was
arrested in New York on Saturday, ac-
cused of swindling the Columbia bank of
that city out of $3.50.
James p. Kernochan, a well-known
business man of New York city, was
knocked down by a team on Fifth
avenue the other day and died of his
injuries two days later.
The New York chamber of commerce
has adopted resolutions urging the
United States senate to ratify at an early
day the arbitration treaty between the
United States and England.
Auditor Frank y. Borst, eX-Treas urer
Reuben Swavel and eX-SurveyOr Jacob
Hook of Waterloo, Indiana, are under
arrest charged with embezzling and forg-
ing sums aggregating nearly $4,000.
Mrs. Nicholas Sehorn, wife of Detroit
saloon keeper, has been arrested on sus-
picion that she caused the death of her
husband and his ten-year-old stepson.
whom she alleged were asphyXiated by
coal gas.
d. d. Moody, ex.clerk of DeKalb
county, Indiana, on Saturday pleaded
guilty to charge of embezzement of
5000 of county funds during his term
of office, and was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary Tor one year.
y Salem, Ore, despatch says the tenn
porary house organization adjourned
Thursday and the last remnant of the
Oregon legislature of 1897 left the city.
1t is expected that Governor Lord will
appoint successor to Senator Mitchell
in few days.
John and Percy Henderson, father and
son, were burned to death in their board.
ing house, in Wheeling, West Virginia
on recent morning. Both men had re
tired and were asleep, and it is supposed
that some mlscreant poured oil on theiI
bed and ignited it.
j. ID. Stockton was indicted by the
grand jury at Des Mones, Iowa, on Sat
urday, on a charge of coercion of EN-
ployees.3 He is manager of the Clifton
Coal company, and the charge is that he
compelled employees to buy at the com
pany's store.
The Italian bark Anitas, which left
Paysandu, Uruguay, for Baltimore, OF
August Is, 1896, is at last safe in port
after one of the slowest trips on record
The vessel was given up as lost week;
ago. She was not heard from at al
for months.
The Iowa iron works at Dubuque, a
which the torpedo boat Ericsson anC
the revenue cutter Wihdom were con
structed, went under the sherff's ham
mer on Saturday for $4,000 to the Ger
man bank, holder of mortgage fol
$57, 900. The plant cost Sl50,000.
More than fifty indictments have beer
returned at Boston against the Turkish
consul general, Iasigi, now in custody
in New York. The charges are embez
element and the sum total is over 500,
600. The question as to the right of thu
state courts to try Iasigi lis still unsettled
The Rock Glycerne 'company's maya
zine, on the Fassett farm, about a mil,
and half from Wellsville, n. Y, blew
up the other afternoon. There was NJ
loss of life nor great damage to property