Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-17
General l1ews.

Last Friday there was clash between
the deputy sherins at Hazleton, Penn.
The deputies fired into the ranks Of the
strikers and about a score were killed
Thomas Vsssick Hawkins, colored,
who was formerly porter in the tax col
lector's Office at Washington, d. c., and
who disappeared in August with about
$4,000, has been captured in Toronto.
Benjamin Brewster, president of the
keokuk and Des Moines railroad, died
at CazenOvia, n. Y, aged GO years. He
was associated with John ID. Rockefeller
in establishing the Standard Oil COM
pany.
The war department has granted the
request of the secretary of the interior
for four troops of cavalry to protect the
authorities of New Mexico in the arrest
of Zunl Indians. They will go to Fort
Wingate.
The breaking of lange deraied and
overturned car containing sixty-two
campmeetng eXcursionists on the Maine
Central railroad, near Waterville, killing
one and seriously iniuring thirty-two
persons.
The body of Mrs. John Drew, the
famous actress, was buried on Sunday
in Glenwood cemetery, Philadelphia.
The services were held in st. Stephens
church, of which she had been life
long attendant.
Reports from the most prominent corn
growing districts show that the yield of
corn will be less than last year, owing
to unfavorable weather, but on account
of higher prices the farmer will receive
more money for his crop.
Dispatches from Paris to the London
Times give the text of petition sent by
the American Chamber of Commerce in
Paris to President Mckinley for the
establishment of reciprocity in trade be-
tween France and the United States.
At Skaguay, Alaska, the condition of
hundreds of klondi6e pilgrims is de-
plorable. Deep anxiety, failures and
crimes are prevalent, and many are
breaking down under the terrible trials
of their situation and becoming insane.
The corn yield in Missouri this year
will be 10000, 900 bushels as against
2OO,0OO.O0O bushels in 1896, and 2jO,OO0,-
600 bushels in 1885. The value of this
years corn crop at present prices is
S37,000.000, as against 3l00O,O00 for the
crop Of last year.
There are at the present time three
electrical railways in Japan, and work
on four others will begin about the mid
die of September. The apparatus for
these new roads has nearly all been
purchased in the United States during
the past few months.
An interesting character in the White
House is the old colored doorkeeper who
guards the entrance of the office of Mr..
, Porter, secretary to the president. His
! name is Arthur Simmons, and in one
: capacity or another has been in service
> since the time of President Lincoln.
. At Erie, Pa, Monday, Mrs. Mary
n Manhaus apparently died. While pre-
: pairing the body for burial the under
: taker discovered signs of life Restora-
: tives were applied, and the woman re-
Y vived and will probably recover. She
Il had merely been in nervous swoon.
:, Two farmers. l.. l.. Lawson and Rob-
e err Derregon, living near Perry. Okla,
+ fought duel, one using pitchfork and
l. the other a ditching shovel, resulting in
: the death of Derregon. whose heart was
y pierced by the pitchfork. They luarreled
n over the ownership of a tract of land.
/ Jacob Wilson, San Francisco tramp,
d has received word that the United
h States supreme court has decided suit
d in his favor that will give him large
u portion of the $4,000, 900 estate of his
e father, Jacob Wilson, ST.. banker and
= broke, Wall street, New York, who died
e in 1851.
II The torpedo boat Rodgers, at Annapo-
n lis, on Saturday made its third unsuc-
IS cessfu effort to meet the government
l. speed requirement. Twenty-four and a
r half knots an hour is the speed necessary
'e to an acceptance, and in this she failed,
Il owing, it was said, to the bursting Of a
o pipe in the engine room.
- Cases of yellow fever appeared in
y Louisiana last week and later cases of
II the plague were discovered in New
Orleans About half a dozen have
Il been reported but no panic is feared, as
the matter is in the hands of the United
" States Marine hospital officials, who
, think they can prevent the spread of the
fever.
~ The Columbus convention on Saturday
" finally accepted the proposal of the
. Pittsburg operators for the settlement OF
u the coal strike in western Pennsylvania
Sc Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana anC