Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-08-20
6eneral l1ems.

was Il years old.
Congressman Ashley b. Wright was
found dead on Saturday evening at his
home in North Adams, Massachusetts.
The japanese government has placed
with the Vulcan works at Berlin an or
der for $50 ton battle-ship to cost
So, 600, 900.
The Baron Won Thielmann. the retiring
German ambassador to the United
States, has been appointed secretary Of
the Imperial treasury.
The will of Washington Covington.
wealthy citizen of Peoria, ILL.,, bequeaths
81 100000 toward the establishment If
university at that place.
Associate Justice Stephen J. Field. Of
the supreme court of the United States.
yesterday established the record for the
longest service on that bench.
The settlement of the big strike at tbe
Fulton mills, at Atlanta, Ga, was the
work of ex-Secretary IIoke Smith. An
agreement was reached on terms suo-
gested by him.
The new chimes Of st. Patrick's cathe-
dral' New York, were blessed Sunday
afternoon by Archbishop Corrigan. The
chimes, which cost $4,000, are said to
be the finest in the United States.
Emory p. Close, United States district
attorney at Buffalo, says he has dis
covered wholesale Chinese evasion
conspiracy, which has been operating at
Watertown, Malone and Plattsburg.
The Union Iron works of San Fran
cisco has accepted the navy departments
terms for the diagonal armor for the
bulkheads for the battleship Wisconsin.
now under construction at their ship
yards.
The Canadian collector of customs at
Ottawa, Ont, has been Instructed to
give the benefit of the reciprocal tariff
to Germany and Belgium. The claims
of other countries have not been con
sdered.
While workmen were making an ex-
cavation at Anderson, Ill.,. they I'M
earthed the tomb of an Indian chieftain
which is supposed to be that of Chief
Massasoit, who had his camp where the
city now stands.
An epidemic of suicide Is raging in
Paris. From two to five cases are re-
ported daily. In one alley of the Bots
de Nincennes six bodies were found IN
one week. The morgue is so full of dead
bodies found in the Seine that there is no
more room for them.
Several thousand Armenian agtators
invaded Turkey from Persia. They
killed 200 of the Migrlki tribe, including
women and children. The wife of a
chief was tortured to death. An effort
is being made by the authorities to
capture the marauders.
John Jacob Astor has donated SIS
900 toward fund to purchase Elmwood,
the home of James Russell Lowell at
Cambridge, Mass. 1t is proposed to
convert the property into park and
throw IL open TO the puDllc.
Detectives and internal revenue officers
raided little frame house in Chicago on
Saturday and found an illicit distilery
capable of turning out fifty-twO gallons
of "moonshine" day. Samuel NARROW
and his son were taken as proprietors.
The steamer Belgica with the Ger
lache Antarctic expedition on board
sailed Monday morning from Antwerp
The expedition will arrive at Graham 5
Land early in December. The crew
numbers twenty-one men and there are
provisions for two years.
The Count of Turin and Prince Henri
of Orleans fought duel with swords
near Paris Sunday morning. Prince
Henri was seriously wounded in the
right shoulder and the right side of the
| abdomen. The Count of Turin was
wounded in the right hand
Sir Wiltrd Laurer, the Canadian pre-
Mier, said to members of the Golden
club, who presented him with a GOLD
medal in recognition of his attachment to
free trade, that the commercial suprem-
acy of Great Britain was assured until
! the United States adopted free trade.
In an address before the London cham
Der of commerce, Mr.. Louis II. Davies.
Canadian minister of marine and fish
cries, said every yestlge of feeling in
favor of union with the United States
had long disappeared. The Dingley bill
e he said, had built up prohibitiyc wall
e against Canadian trade, which the domin'
ION government had, therefore, resolved
to greatly transfer to Great Britain.
Michel Angiolillo, the assassin of Pre-
a mier Canovas del Castillo, who was tried
by court martial, was found guilty and
sentenced to death When permitted tC
/ speak for himself he denied that he hao
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