Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-24
LLOVER THE WORLD
( OCCURRENCES OF G GENERAL M
TEREST BRIEFLY TOLD.

gress Adiourus for the Holidays lie
f for the starving Gold-Hunters-Evi
8nces of a Prehistoric Race in Indiana
rms Here and There.
bngress on Saturday adjourned for
holiday recess until Jan. D. Both
ses agreed on the conference report
i he Klondike relief bill. II COM
Inises the amount of the relief at
Il 900, provides for securing the
ent of Canada 70 extending the relief
,e Canadian side. and authorizes the
,f the army to carry out the relief
lures. 1t also provides that the
Ilies must be purchased instead of
donated A resolution was
. bted by the senate calling on the
: of the several executive depart
for information as to what posi-
in their departments ought, in their
ion. to be excepted from the opera
of the civil service law, and what
res in the law ought TO be made.
senate also adopted a resolution
!. asing from $4,000 to S62 900 the
INT to be expended by the govern
on the buildings at the Trans
ssippi international exposition at
ha.
president on Saturday signed the
resolution passed by congress for
eief of miners in the Yukon river
nv. Brigadier General Merriam'
handing the department of the
nbia. has instructed Major J." ii.
er. Fourth Cavalry, stationed at
Walla Walla, to proceed by next
ier. to Dyea for the purpose OF
no a preliminary investigation as to
most feasible route and the best
for transportation of the govern
relief expedition to Dawson.
structure of sun baked blocks of
las been urearthed by workmen in
vel pit few miles north Of Rich
Ind. Ii is four by six feet in
md was evidently built in "A pre-
lie age. Thorough investigation
be made deeper in the pit and
d it. in expectation OF the dis
of evidences of settlement OF
toric people at that point.
commissioners for the United
and Canada in the arbitration of
ering sea claims have completed
work. 1t is not known what claims
been ruled out, but it is under
that the total approved claims
mount to more than $1,000 600. 1t
be recalled thar the Paris award
tied to only $4,000, which CON
refused to appropriate. preferring
trate the claims
trial of John Anderson for de
Of the captain and mate of tie
ler Olive Pecker in the South At
lon August 6 was begun ar Nor
irginia, Monday. The line of de
will be that Anderson "was sub
b uuheard of and unparalleled
es. and thar his dee ds were COM
in self-dcfCnce to save his own
Spanish minister in Washington
Dlpd the Madrid government that
|nericin government expects 10
= nd sufficient majority in the
of representatives to cheek all
" morions until the ,ummer recess
next. thu, securing Spain Il
for year.
q of reduction of 10 per cent in
WIS given at the China, Pembroke
.hster cotton mills, at Suncook,
hampshire, employing 1900 opera
md at the AmOry, Stark and
~ mills, at Manchester, in the
ate, employing 1000 hands.
will he no reception at the White
pm New Years Day, owing to the
leath of the mother of President
X lev. 1t is understood that the
officials will omit their usual
ear's receptions out of Difference to
Fident.
acts for the first group of build
the Pan-American Exposition,
hlo. have been let, and ground
broken early in January. They
t between 100000 and 100000.
french chamber of deputies
a proposal fixing upon ten
days work for railroad en-
This is to be followed by ten
rest
es received at the Spanish lega-
Washington from Havana say
f IL was shot with Aranguren on
E last by order of Alexander
eZ.