Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-22
General l1ems.

Anna Gould, gave birth to a son III
Paris, Monday.
Senator Sherman of Ohio has accepted
the place of secretary of state in the
Mckinley cabinet.
J. T. Headley, the historian, died at
his home in Newburg, y. Y, Saturday,
of paralysis. He was born In 1873.
The United States treasury deficit for
the first half of January is S6,S6O.963
and for the fiscal year to date Sl4,I63,-
300.
A bag containing $1,000 in bills was
stolen Monday from wagon belonging
to the Metropolitan Traction company in
New York.
The government has purchased site
for forifications on the outskirts of Gal
weston, Tex, and will erect buildings
there costing from Sl50,0OO to $780,
900.
Australia had last year 9,1GO miles OF
railway open. The capital expended on
them has been S5S7 900 600; the net reve-
nue. oyer working expenses is q per
cent.
Two hundred million dollars worth of
property, real and personal, including
S4O,O00,0OO in hard cash, is what the
late shah of Persia, Nasr-eddin, left be-
hind him, according to official state
lnents.
Thos. Lowe, 26 years old. who has
been arrested at Denison, Tex, for dis
posing of mortgaged property. cOnfesses
to being the husb band of l6 wives, all of
whom he had married within the last
eight years.
Hon. Thomas Collier Plat was Fri
day night nominated for United States
senator by the republican members of
the New y ork Legislature in Joint caucus.
OF the $40 votes cast Mr.. Plat received
142. with : for Mr.. Choate. The demo-
Gratis have nominated Senator Hill.
\ party of emgrants enroute from
Missouri to Oklahoma by wagon train
were held up and robbed of all money
and valuables in the mountain country
on the western line of the Creek Teserva-
ton. The robbers secured about $1,000.
The United States supreme court has
decided that those provisions of the
State dispensary of liquor law of South
Carolina, which forbids citizens of the
State from importing liquors into the
State for their own use, were in contra
vention of the interstate commerce
clause of the national constitution and
therefore invalid. Justice Brown dis
scented.
Couriers WHO have slipped through
the Spanish lines in Matanzas province,
Cuba, bring the news that General Go.
mez is undoubtedly marching on Havana
slowly but surely, and that his advance
guard is laying IN waste the country as
they proceed. The people of Havana
are becoming thoroughly alarmed at the
situation.
Fifteen little girls and boys are dead
as a result of a fire at the Buckner
Orphan home IN Dallas, Tex, Friday
night, and nine others are seriously
burned and crushed. Three of the in
jured, it is thought, cannot recover.
The fullness of the holocaust was not
discovered and fully realized until Sun
day night.
Franz Mayor of New York president
of the American Friends of Cuba, will
present a petition to the United States
senate when the Cameron Cuban indie
pendence resolution, or any other Cuban
independence resolution, comes up before
that body for consideration. Sixty
thousand petitions were sent out by this
society, nearly all of which have been
returned with more than 100000 sigma
tnres.
The house of representatives commit
tee on Pacific railroads decided Friday
10 reopen the question of a settlement
with the roads. a subcommittee was
appointed to consider the presentation of
substitute for the defeated Powers bill
in the line of Mr.. Harrison's plan for a
commission to be appointed by the presl-
dent to represent the government and
make settlement.
A Bombay, India, despatch says
Over half the population of this city, es-
timated to amount to about 100000 has
fled from the plague, and the erstwhile
crowded streets, docks and bazaars are
not recognizable. Business in piece
goods, metals, crockery and hardware /;
at a standstill. The money lenders have
vanished, the courts are deserted and the
Judges and officials have gone to {
healthier cline. 1t is estimated tina
100000 persons are eneamped at Andhe
II, from whence they will soon be forced
to migrate on account of the lack o
water and sanitation, threatening t