Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-21
General 17ems.

General llepS.
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Ia military train was wrecked in Russia
iday, and lO2 men were killed and GO
hers seriously injured.
The United States gunboat Nashville,
her official trial trip Friday, averaged
I knots, winning bonus of about
! 900 for her builders.
John E. Doehring, ex.city treasurer of
Rlleville, Illinois, hanged himself in
bit city on Saturday. He had over
avn his salary $500 and could not
. tile.
"a Southern Pacific passenger train was
d up by three masked men at Lozier,
xas, Friday morning. Two safes were
bwn open, and the robbers escaped
tn $4,000 to $4,000.
As result of fight among women
4 ployees of a cotton mill at Dallas,
xas, on Saturday, Mrs. Eva Bennett
d Eta Hulsey, sisters, were fatally
bted by Mrs. Addie Turner.
Judge Gibbons, in Chicago on Satur-
decided the American Tobacco COM
ny to be an Illegal corporation, and
Dhibited its agents from carrying on
" business within the confines of H.
" o:s.
1t is stated that the revolution in Uru-
ay has been checked after a desperate
: tile at Tres Arbales, in which a large
mber of reyolutionists were killed and
cir leaders driven to the frontier.
William Ii. Goodwin, president of the
lott national bank of Boston, was
led on Thursday night while he was
liking home from business. A decaved
Rnch of tree snapped of by the wind
upon his head.
A Tacoma, Washington, despatch says
sale Of the assets of the Ibank of Ia
ma to J. j. McKone for $3.50 has been
hfirmed by the superior court. The
be value of the assets was more than a
arter of million dollars.
Wally' O'Connor, said to be a noto-
us bank thief, is in custody in New
prk, under suspicion that he was impli-
ted in the holding up of Cashier Lyman
BIB, of the Yonkers savings bank, on
bril- -, when S4400 was taken.
4 south-bound Atchison, Topeka and
hte Fe passenger train went through a
stle sixteen miles south of Ardmore,
llan Territory, Sunday morning, and
down a twenty foot embankment.
teen members of the crew were iniur-
some Of them fatally.
he democratic members of the senate
bnce committee have decided not to
Pr substitute for the tariff bill as re-
tied by the finance committee, but to
oppose amendments which, while they
reduce the rates, Would, if added to
rates of the Wilson law, produce
licient revenue to meet the demand of
4 government.
M elderly man with his throat cut
N ear to ear was found on the public
thway near Reidsville, n. c., on Sat
lay. He could no. articulate, but
s pte on a slip of paper that he was
hrles Preston, public scht oil teacher,
had been attacked by two young
n who carried him into the depths of
pine woods and cut his threat when
y found he had no money.
he sultan declines to agree to an
listice until his terms of peace are ac-
ted. He demands the annexation of
essaly, an indemnity of f10,000,000
rkish and the abolition of the capitu-
ons. IT these conditions are declined
Turkish army will continue TO ad-
ice. 1t is regarded as quite certain
the powers will not consent to a
4 recession of Thessaly. Even Ger
. by is believed to be resolute on this
Mt, because it would involve a viola
of the Berlin treaty and imperil the
ce of the Balkans.