Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-16
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

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sent to a widow in Newark, N. J.
Plans are being perfected for the
peace jubilee to be held in New York.
Gen. Miles ordered the regular SOL
diers at Camp Wikoh returned to their
old posts.
An explosion of gasoline wrecked !
three buildings and killed several per- !
sons in Philadelphia.
The Spanish instructions have been
received, and the Porto Rican Commits
sioners will begin work at once.
Three hundred revolutionists are re-
ported to have been killed during last
Wednesdays election in Guatemala
The assassin, who was at once seized
and hurried away, has been subjected
to a rigid examination in his cell.
Lieut.. Sears was hit by a, brick in
San Juan while bearing a letter from
the American Commission to Macias.
Acting Secretary of War Meikleiohn
announced that all the troops at Mon
tauk Point will leave there before this
week
A three-year-old child in Paterson,
n. j., was killed by whiskey that it
drank from a bottle carelessly left
within its reach.
Money is getting scarce on account
of the large amount locked up in the
United States Treasury. and rates on
call loans are much higher
Samuel Schwartz, who figured in the
hat-boX mys cry, is sponsor for a fe,-
low cOuntryman who claims to be an
heir to $15,OOo,0o1 property.
Surgeon-Gcreral Sternberg has or
dered that the sick be sent away from
Camp Wikoff at once, for fear Of the
effects Of the equinoctial storms.
Rear-Admiral Dewey says he con-
siders the situation at Manila critical.
1t is understood he has asked for an
additional cruiser and battleship.
Queen Victoria restored to his rank, Col.
FRANK Rhoades, brother of Cecil Rhoades,
who was dismissed from the service for his
part in the armed raid into the Transyaal.
Acting Chairman Allison, of the Sen
ate in nee Committee, says the war
taxc- W not be repealed at the forth
comA- session of Congress
Corporal Edwards. Of the Seventy
first New York Regiment, supposed to
be dead, was found among the fever
stricken patients on hospital ship
Shinnecock.
Owing TO Blanco's refusal to receive
Red Cross supplies American troops
may be sent to Havana to take the
place of the Spaniards sooner than had
been planned.
The bridge being built across tie .,.
Lawrence near Cornwall Ont, by the
New York and Ottawa Railroad, fen
and large number of workmen, prob
ably forty, were killed.
The Spanish transport Satrustoqui
has arrived at Santander from Santiago
de Cuba. There were eighty-threo
deaths on board Of her during the voy-
age Gen. Liuares was also a passen-
ger.
Mayor Van Wyck has requested the
President TO allow the volunteer and
regular regiments 20 mobilize in New
York before being disbanded or dis
t. Ibuted for the purpose of celebrating
a peace jubilee.
A pretty woman's body, dismem-
bered and tied in pieces of canvas, was
found in a creek near Bridgeport. No
clue to her identity or that of her muir
derers has been found.
A cable message was received from
Havana which says that the Spanish
/, authorities absolutely refused to allow
the Comal to land provisions which she
carried for the starving inhabitants OF
Cuba unless the full duty were paid.
Die.rrt-At-orney Kenefck anC
Sheriff Kilgallon prevented the La
vigue-r,rna lsht at Buffalo. The sher-
iii even refused TO permit a boxing eX-
hibition. This action means that the
Mccoy Corbett fight will not take
place at Buffalo.
There is mystery still, and plenty o.
it. in the disappearance at Coney Isl
and of Miss Louise King. The police
think that she may have been drowned
Lut they believe it much more likely
that they have to deal with a romance
than with a tragedy.
Both houses of the Spanish Corte
} were n II uLl' III. II H. 10 D. iF- '.'. AZ g.
: ed that Sagasta was responsible for tn
loss of Cuba. Other members attacked
the generals of the army, declaring tina
! they ought to be stripped of decoration
and hung by their sashes.
Sugar Rehning in Hawaii.
Honolulu, Sept. 13.---A wonderful
impetus has been given to the suga
industry by annexation. Improve
ments are planned and under wa.
which will involve an eXpediture .
millions. Refineries will be built T.
handle the raw sugar of the variou
plantations, and it will not be long be
fore the sugar of the islands will all b
shipped to American markets in re
fined state.
J Alger to Visit All Camps.
Washington, Sept l4.-Secretary A
afta,. tho ahipat meat