Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-03-11
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

In the trial of Captain O. NJ. Carter by
court martial David N. Carvaho, expertin
handwriting, testified that the signatures in
most of the bids and bills submitted were
written by M. A. Connolly, Captain Carriers
clerk.
Adrian Braun, who stabbed and killed
his wife while she was visiting him in the
State Prison at Sing Sing, is a close prison
er in his cell. lie will remain so until he
is called to face the trial jury in White
Plains.
Indian Head, historic pIomontory on
the west bank of the Hudson, about a mile
north of Fort Lee, was blown to rock dust
and hundred ton boulders by the biggest
blast that has yet shaken the Palisades.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, says the
State will not abandon the effort to convict
the Ripley county lynchers. Detectives
are searching for "Arch" Wright, one of
.he mob, for whom a warrant is out.
Spanish hate of Americans is asserting it.
self since two warshps arrived at Havana.
One American newspaper correspondent
was arrested, and the police chief angrily
General Merritt returned unexpectedly
to Governors Island from his tour of i'll
spection, and proiectiles are being shipped
to Key West, for which point the General
will start in few days.
A man who said he was William Muir
ray, of Erie, Pa, was taken off train at
Cleveland and is in hospital there suffer-
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act like an infant
The occupation of White and Chilkoot
Passes, leading to the Klondike, by Cana
dian Mounted Police is confirmed A
Canadian Collector is collecting taxes at
Lindermann.
Five little children, while in ''carryall"
Oh their way to school, where run down by
a trolley car in Lenox avenue, New York
City, but all escaped without any serious
injuries
The Rev r. C. Hanna, of Stonington,
Conn, who lost his memory through
| fall, met the tancee whom he had forgot
zen and wooed and won her the second
me.
:. $. Rogers, of Syracuse, has solved, so
he believes, the problem of perpetual mo-
ton. The idea came to him in dream,
ne says, and now he is building a machine.
Secretary Alger sent note to the SEN
ate Committee on Military Affairs recon-
mending that the Governments Klondike
,elief expedition should be abandoned.
Judge Bradley, of the [. S Supreme
Court finding a colored murderer tiippant
after sentence. said his was case in which
ynching probably would be justiiiabe.
Policeman James Farnan, OF Bridgeport,
'onn., while overtaking two burglars who
we're carrying off their booty, was shot in
he head and probably will die.
a special cable from Madrid says Spain
nay ask a mixed commission to sit on the
Maine disaster in case Spanish and Ameri-
IAN investigators fail TO agree.
At a meeting of prominent Republicans
1t san Diego, Ca, steps were taken to
promote the candidacy of L. S. Grant Tor
senator from California.
The work of terrifying New York IIar-
DOR is so nearly complete that Gen. Mer-
lit announces the city is safe from any at
JACK from the sea
Fifteen of the leading wire and nail firms
II the country consolidated as the Ameri-
IAN Steel and Wire Company, with a capi-
al of $50, 600, 900.
Actor Radcliffe was taken to Blackwel's
Stand to begin the term of Imprisonment
or six months to which he was sentenced
or wife-beating.
Fred Moore, murderer of Tom Ander-
ion, was taken from the county Jail at Sen
ltobia, Miss, and shot to death by mob
If fifty persons.
English statesmen say that they do not
hink European interference probable in
he event of war between Spain and the
United States.
The NIantonomoh, at League Island
Navy Yard, is ready for her crew. All
ihips at that point are being prepared for
iea service.
Secretary Long said that the element of
Spanish official participation in the disaster
o the Maine had been practically elim-
a. lated.
= a cable dispatch from Rome states that
NlSllpl INC ldNllNdi III inc
: italian Chamber, was killed in duel.
Captain General Blanco, in an interview
With a special correspondent, says life is
:. perfectly secure in Havana.
Johnny Wild, long a popular come
iian, died at ais home, at Ayerll Park,
lear Troy.
Professor Klebs, of Chicago, declares
le has dcovered the real cause of yellow
ever.
General Weyler has denied that he
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