Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-10-22
General 17ews.

STA was LAID at Vladvostock last week.
There have been several cases of small
poX in Atlanta, Georgia, and the board
of health has decided to begin compul-
sorry vaccination.
James S. Dodge, of Elkhart, Ind,
department commander of the G.. A. r.,
has declined the appointment as consul
at Nagasaki, Japan.
Over 1000 persons received the commun-
ion at the service in connection with
the Convention of the Christian church
in indianapolis Sunday.
Two million dollars, the agreed pur-
chase price, was on Saturday paid over
to the old stockholders of the J. |. Case
Threshing Machine company of Racine,
Wis.
The Spanish cabinet has ordered an
examination of the documents in the
case of the American schooner COMPETE
tor, with the view of an eventual settle
ment by the courts.
The subscriptions in London to the
loan of the Canadian government,
amounting to $4,000, 900, have been clos
ed, having totalled up f4,2O5, AGO at an
average of e91 los. sd.
a San Francisco despatch says there
are 1900 prospectors in the new Ruth
creek mining district in the northern part
of the state of Washington a few miles
! g., 80 Do
1t is reported that Senator Cullom has
secured from the president a promise
of the consulate at Rio Janerio for an
Illinois man, and that Eugene Seeger, of
that state, will be given the appoint
ment.
1t is announced by London newspaper
that, in view of Lord Salisbury desire to
resign the premiership, an early recon-
struction of the cabinet is probable. tits
said no serious difference of opinion ex-
lists among the ministers on the matter
of policy.
The town of Windsor, the seat of
Hants county, Nova Scotia, thirty-fve
miles from Halifax, was wiped out by
fire Sunday. Few buildings in the town
were left standing and 5000 people are
homeless. The losses are roughly esti-
mated at S3,OOO,OOO.
Over %, 900 barrels of American apples
were shipped to Great Britain recently
and the price per barrel in Liverpool
averaged S3.75. The choicest Newton
pipns brought from $3.50 to S7.25 bar
rel. Our American apples have secured
an established reputation abroad
The southern textile association has
accepted an invitation to meet with the
New England cotton manufacturers at a
meeting to be held in Philadelphia on
October 27 The motive for the NEE ting
is the propagation of the cotton manufac-
turing industry in the Uuited States.
A Duluth, Mimi, despatch says that
Andrus S. Merritt, who, with his
brothers, were among the earliest de-
velopers of the Mesaba iron range, re-
Gently made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors. No statement
of assets and liabilities has been filed
On board the steamer Miowera, which
has arrived at Vancouver from Honolulu,
Is boy on his way to Philadelphia,
where he is apprenticed to a Geographic
firm at So per week. The American con-
sui has detained the boy, claiming that
his entry into the United States will vio-
late the law.
w.. j. Bryan has offered large sum of
money to Ewing college, Benton, H.,
to be known as the Mary Elizabeth Bryan
Prize Fund. The income is to be used
annually during commencement week in
cash prizes for the best essays on the
science of government. Mr.. Bryan's
mother was student at Ewing college.
She was principal of the Young ladies
college, and resigned on account of i'll
health.
A sensation has been sprung in the
state of Sonora, Mexico, by an ecclesias-
teal edict from archbishop Lopez, the
seat of whose archepiscopal see is Her.
mosillo, the capital of the state, excom-
municating all members of the Masonic
fraternity. Nearly all the highest Off
Gals in the state are members of the
Masonic fraternity and at the same time
Catholics. The accommodation in
cludes the wives and other female men,
bers of families.
DR.. ID. S. Jordan, who was on the way
to the international sealing conference in
Washington, was interviewed in Mime
apolis. He said: Zone great obstacle to
the success of negotiations in the past is
the fact that we have never come into
any conference with clean hands. Ameri-
can hands have destroyed one-third of our
own herd, which once had a cash value of
$25, 900, 900, and. more than half the devas-
tation of other herds has been due to