Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-02-11
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Citizens of Alaska Want More Govern
ment Proteotion-A Big Cut in the For
tifcations Appropriation-Emile lola on
Trial-FIotsam and Jetsam.
A petition is being largely signed by
the reputable residents of the coast
towns of lower Alaska asking the gov
eminent to provide for the safety of life
and property there by establishing some
form of administering justice. The pres
ence of at least 300 soldiers is desired
and it is suggested that martial law be
declared. The arrivals now average 300
daily and include many criminals and
desperate men.
The United States house of represen-
tatives, during its entire session on Satur-
day, had under consideration the bill
making appropriations for fortifica-
tions and coast defences, less than one
half of the members being present
during the session. The bill was passed,
carrying $4,144,912, against ,157,l4l
last year.
The trial of NJ. lola and M. Perreux,
manager of the Aurore, was begun in
Paris Monday. They are being prose-
cuted by the government as the result of
a letter which the novelist caused to be
published in the Aurore in December
last, rejecting upon high officials con-
nected with the Dreyfus case.
Wesley Wheeler, real estate dealer of
Rochester, n. Y, said to be worth $780,
900, was convicted Saturday of grand
larceny In defrauding Captain Giles F.
Kits out of $500 by false representations
in real estate manipulations. He was
sentenced to eight years in Auburn
prison.
John Anderson, the convicted murder
er of Mate Saunders, of the schooner
Olive Pecker, has been granted a stay OF
proceedings. Judge Golf, who presided
at the trial, has signed the writ of
error, and the case will 60 before the
United States supreme court on March I.
The Winthrop Knitting mills, at Lake
port, N. H., which have been closed
down for several months, have resumed
operations on full time. The company
starts in with 100 employees, and hopes
within short time to have another
hundred at work.
Rear Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge,
Jr., reached the age limit Sunday,
which places him on the retired list of
the navy. His father is also on the re-
tired list with the rank of rear admiral,
the first case of the kind in the history
of the country.
At a meeting of the Prussan diet the
minister of agriculture declared that
American horses developed influenza af-
ter Improvisation. He said that if the
transportations increased it would be
necessary to adopt a suitable quar-
antine.
Fishing boats from the Middle Banks
have brought to Gloucester, Mass, news
of the wreck of at least two large vessels,
which probably foundered during last
weeks gale. Large quantities of wreck
age were found of Eastern Point.
BY the collapse of the roof of
burning building in Boston on Saturday
dozen firemen were carried down in
the ruins to the lower floor of the
building and six of them killed. The
others were seriously injured.
Four thousand overhead wires belong
ing to the telegraph, telephone and other
companies in the downtown districts of
Chicago will be cut down by the city
unless steps are taken to place them I'M
der ground before March l.
Adolph Sutro, ex-mayor of San Fran
cisco and builder of the famous Sutro
tunnel, has been adudged mentally in
competent, and his daughter has been
appointed guardian of his estate. Mr..
Sutro is over 80 years old.
The Spanish cruiser Vizcaya sailed
from the Canary Islands for New York
Friday. The Spanish steamer Cuidad de
Cadiz will be armed and used as a cruiser
to escort the Spanish torpedo fiotilla to
Cuba.
The steamship Drumelzier sailed on
Sunday from Sabine Pass, the new har-
Dor on the southeast coast of Texas, for
Liverpool. She is the first European
steamer to sail from that port.
The magnitude of the operations of
counterfeiters during the past two years
has caused Secretary Gage to ask for an
increased appropriation for suppressiDg
counterfeiting.