Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-29
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

Mrs. Dora Hildebrandt Schmidt. Of
! Ioughkcepsie, accused 10y John
/ Schmidt of having killed Henry Gru-
Der in Client, has been placed under
arrest.
1t is reported that the Abyssinian
/ expedition under Prince Henry of or.
leans and Count Leonticff. a Russian
scientific explorer. has collapsed and
is returning to France
According to dispatch from Mad
rid Scnor Sagasta the Premier, has
again offered to resign and has been
counSolcd 10y the Queen Regent to adj
wise with other political leaders relq-
tive to his future course
Secretary Long has received infor-
mation Of the arrival of the second
Philippine expedition at Manila. ON
the way over, it is said. the army tool;
possession of Wake Island, a body Of
land lying about two-thirds of the way
over from Honolulu to Manila.
Two other regiments from Tampa
the G9th New York and the 81 Ohio
will pass through Jacksonville en-
route to Fernandina. The 32d Nichi
gan stopped for an hour or two. and
many soldiers rushed uptown to see
the city.
The authorities of Madrid. as well
as those of the Canaries. have been
seized with a panic over the possible
seizure of the islands by Admiral Wat
sons squadrons. and powerful garri-
sons have been stationed on the isl.
ands of Lanzarote and Graciosa
The faculty of Cornell University is
to be represented in this war. Dun
can Campbell Lee. Professor of Ora
tory, has just enlisted with the 203d
Regiment, Col Schuyler He has been
appointed sergeant, but has not vet
been assigned to any particular com
pany.
Gen. Skaters plans contemplate the
marching of his army north into the
mountains with a view of preserving
the health of the troops; and a cam
paign against Holguin, which is occu-
pied by 10000 troops under command
of Gen. Luque, may be the result Of
this movement.
The gunbOat Iroquois, formerly the
tug Fearless. is about to make the
longest tow ever undertaken. She is
to haul the ship Tacoma from San
Francisco to Manila by way of Homo
lulu, n distance of about 5000 miles.
The Tacoma is to carry 100 horses and
12O mules and coal supply.
A draft for $4,000 for Admiral Ger
vera and his men has been sent to this
country by the Spanish Government.
This statement is made by Emilio NJ.
CASTILLO. president of the Spanish Be
nevolent Society of New York, who has
just returned from II visit to the adj
miral and the other Spanish prisoners
at Annapolis.
Fire which started in the three-storv
warehouse of the Atlantic White Lead
at Hudson avenue and Gold
street, Brooklyn, at half past seven
O'Clock Tuesday morning did $4,000
damage in less than an hour. The
contents Of the building were very in
hammable, and the third and second
floors were wrecked before the flames
were controlled.
The steamship Trave. which arrived
at New York Thursday, reports that
on Monday she sighted the steamship
Friesland from Antwerp, for that
port. The Friesland signalled that she /
had broken her shaft and had made /
repairs. The accident oc- |
CURED last Thursday when she was
five days out. The Friesland was pro /
ceeding under slow steam.
Lightning played curious freaks
near Port Jervis. y. Y. Wednesday. +
Among the several places struck were
three lodges of rocks in the mountains.
some three to six miles distant from
each other. One of the lodges struck
showed, upon examination. melted
spots in it indicating a mineral depos-
i of both copper and zinc, which had
run down the seams of the ledge for
several feet
over million dollars on the way 70
Santiago to pay Gen. Skaters army
have been held up at New York and
deposited in the Sub-Treasury there
and the soldiers at the front will go
without pay for the present. This has
been done at the urgent request of
Gen. Shafter He feared the effect OF
the distribution Of so much money
among 10000 men in a foreign land
and cnbled asking that the nav be-
withheld.