Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-12-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
News Notes From Every Part of
the Civilized World.

Lady Cook, who was Tennessee Clanin, !
will enter business in London as a stock |
broker.
President Mckinley says that he will !
send the peace treaty to the Senate on
January 4.
Mr.. Knaak, an American accused of
slandering the German Emperor, was
acquitted in Berlin.
The awful secrets of Cabanas and
MORO at Havana have been destroyed
as far as possible.
T. f. Wardner, editor of the Boston
Traveller has been sent to Jail for con-
tempt of court.
The battleship Oregon will be ordered
to Manila, while the Iowa will go to
San Francisco for repairs.
BY the explosion of a powder maya
zine at Hang-ChOw three thousand sol
diers are said to have been killed.
Three prominent business men have
been summoned to court in Darien. Ct.
charged with playing rolf on Sunday.
The damage to the battleship Massa-
chusette will take six weeks to repair
and viii cost between $50. 900 to $1,000
The American Federation of Labor
reelected Samuel Gompers President.
and adjourned to meet in Detroit next
| year.
The Director Of the Mint has report
| ed that the United States Government
now has more gold than any nation on
earth.
Liliuokalani has formally protested
| to the Senate against assumption Of
sovereignty over the crown lands of
Hawaii.
In its preliminary report the Mica
raguan Canal Commission places the
cost of building the waterway at S135,-
)00 900.
Congress will authorize partial i'm
prOvement of New York HarbOr. leav-
ing the full work to be provided for in
the future.
Cubans have been warned by an
American proclamation not to modest
spanish troops after evacuation next
Sunday noon.
MultipleX telegraph apparatus cap
able of sending ten messages over
single wire simultaneously will be test
ed this week.
The report that the British Amba,-
sador was ordered to negotiate for the
abrogatiag of the Bulwer-Clayton
treaty is untrue.
An employee of the Standard Oil Com
pany in Cleveland testified that he had
assisted in burning a large number of
the company'- books
Rear-Admirdl William 7. SAMPSON
has arrived in Washington from New
York, in response to orders from the
Navy Department.
C.1+,f,, 4, .,,.,,1 f',-..1r.,,-...
formed the Commissioners in Cuba that
the evacuation of Havana would be
completed by January l.
The donation of $40, 900 worth of
property by Mrs. Fuller of Bayonne.
n. j., to the Salvation Army will be
fought by her half brothers.
The Pope, on receiving c ristmas
greetings, said it was time for Europe
to unite to stop "unheard-of Outrages
and savage determinations.
John w. Bool1walter who has Just
spent three months in Russia, says we
will make a woful error if we fail to re
tain that country friendship.
a special cable despatch from Havana
says that Mai Or-General Merritt was
offered the post of GOvernor-General of
Cuba, but declined to accept.
The announcement was made at the
annual meeting of Keely motor stock
holders at Philadelphia, Pa. that the
inventors secret died with him.
a special cable despatch from Manila
says that minor insurgent officers have
revOlted against AguinaldO and at
tackled towns held by his troops.
Percy NJ. JaiTray. centre rush of the
Harvard University Football Team,
died suddenly at Cambridge, Mass,
from an attack of spinal meningitis.
Negotiations are reIorted to be in
progress for the consolidation of all the
Missouri lead companies with the iuten-
ton of forming one large corporation.
Rear-Admiral George Dewey is now
the ranking officer of the United States
Navy, having attained that position by
the retirement of Rear-Admiral Bunce.
President Mckinley returned to
Washington from his trip in the South.
He expressed great satisfaction with
the reception everywhere given TO him.
djutant-General COrbin testified be-
fore the Investigating Commission that
no preparations We're made for war un-
til Congress passed the official DECLARE
ton.
1t is stated that Secretary OF the Navy
Long has decided to resign at an early
day although he has not formally
made known his intention 20 the Pr--i-
dent.
Messenger boys have been robbing
the United States Government by using
cancelled revenue stamps instead of the
ones given to them by Wall street, New
York, brokers.
The Navy Department has sent a gen
eral order to all of the nine naval stat ons
that the strictest economy is to be ex-
ercised in all expenditures of public
money until further orders.
The State Department has not yet
been advised of the reported negotia-
tions of an eXtradition treaty between
the United States and Mexico The
present treaty is about to expire.
The Scorpion has arrived at Temp