Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-06-18
General 11ews.

Mass, at noon the 9th inst. The flakes
quickly melted after reaching the
ground.
Three men were killed and one was
badly injured by freight wreck on the
Boston and Maine railroad near Exeter,
n. H., the 9th inst
The floods in New England last week
caused the loss of nearly dozen lives
and damage to railroad and mill property
estimated at 100000.
receiver has been appointed in New
Haven, Conn, for the New Haven Char
Co., manufacturers of bicycles and roll
ing chairs. Liabilities, $4,000.
By an explosion at Hern's powder
works, at Reading, o., Saturday, James
Flger, aged 10, was instantly killed and
Manager Herns was badly injured.
Prof Alvin G. Clark, the famous tele-
scope lens manufacturer, lied at his
home in Cambridge, Mass, last week, as
the result of stroke of apoplexy.
The city of Augusta, Me-, last week
celebrated its centennial anniversary
The orator of the day was Chief Justice
Fuller of the United States supreme
court.
Philip Reilly, president of the John
Martin Lumber company and vice presi-
dent of the st. Paul national bank. com
mitted suicide in ST. Paul, Mimi. Friday,
/ by shooting
Lorenzo V. Peck, cashier of the First
national bar of Fultonvile, n. Y, was
arrested last week at Taunton, Mass, on
the charge of the embezzlement of $1,000
from the bank.
The governor of California has decided
to grant a respite until July in the case
of Theodore Durrant, who was under
sentence to be hanged Friday for the
murder of Blanche Lamont.
Two men from, Holyke, Mass, while
engaged in efforts to save lumber which
was being carried down the Connecticut
river by the flood waters, were drowned
at Thompsonvllle, Conn, on Saturday.
The boiler of the locomotive of rail
way train from st. Johns, Newfound-
land, for HarbOr Grace exploded on Sat
urday, killing Engineer Glasgow and
fatally iniurIng the fireman and brake
man.
Claude G. Harrington, superintendent
of the national academy of design at New
York, has been arrested on a charge of
grand larceny. He is accused of having
embezzled over 81 900 of the academys
funds.
The head of a woman, who had appa-
rently been dead three or four years, has
been found in the cellar of a vacant house
in Rushvile, Ind. 1t is supposed she
was murdered, but there Is no clue to her
identity.
Senator Aldrich, who has been i'll, has
gone to his Rhode Island home. His
physician directed that he should 90
where he would have absolute rest and
be free from the possibility of any CON
sultation on the tariff.
1t is reported from the City of Mexico
that a new volcano has broken out about
two-thrds of mile from Tehuanterec
the opening of the volcano the village of
MistiQuilla was destroyed.
A Chicago despatch says that at the
end of seven days investigation of the
alleged cutting of grain rates, the Inter-
state commerce commission practically
acknowledged its failure to secure any
evidence, and adjourned to a date not
fixed
jerome Smeathers, his wife and seven
children were poisoned at Yelvington,
Ky, by paris green. The poison was on
a shelf and mice cut the paper The
contents slfted into a bucket of water
below. One child is reported dead and
two are dying.
While the canvasmen were at work on
the big tent of Ringing Brothers circus
at Wahpeton, North Dakota, on Thurs
day, the centre pole was struck by light
ming. Charles Walters and Charles
Smith were killed and four other en-
ployes were injured.
The secretary of the navy has declined
to permit three of the cadets of the naval
academy, who sought to resign, to leave
the service. He holds that, as these
young men have been educated at the
expense of the government, they should
render service in return.
The governor of Illinois has signed the
Allen bill, which authorizes fifty years
extensions of existing street railway
franchises, allows scent fares to con-
tlnue, permits consolidation of COM
panes, and makes no provision for COM
pensation to municipalities.
Ida Lathrop, % years old, was found
unconscious the other day in the coalb.n