Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-22
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BRIEFS.

what injured by a bicyclist on Tues
day.
King Albert of Saxony is at Dresden,
and is suffering from occasional hem
orrhages, but his general health is
good.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
post office at East Moriche, L. l., about
2 o'clock. They got stamps to the
amount of 1920 and $75 cash.
Henry H. Bidwen, Quartermaster of
the United States auxiliary cruiser
Oneida, was arrested at Mobile, charg-
ed with robbing the mails.
A selling combination of all flint
glass bottle manufacturers of the Pitts
burg and Western districts has been
successfully started in Pittsburg.
The Prussian frontier officials have
been ordered to prevent the mporta-
ton Of American pork lacking the
American inspectors certificate.
One man was injured and 100000
worth Of property was destroyed in a
fire at the shops Of the Central Rail-
road Of New Jersey at Elizabeth, N. j.
The London Statist thinks the worlds
wheat crop for 1898 will be 100000
quarters larger than the crop of 1897,
reaching about 325oo0.O0O quarters.
The leading members Of the new
China party are assembling from all
parts of the world to aid in the rebel
lion against the present government
Of China
The President has appointed n. ..
Murphy to be Governor of Arizona, to
signed 10 accept a colonelcy in an army
regiment.
Martial law was declared in Skagua,
p. c., as a result Of the killing Of
"Soapy" Smith, notorious gambler. and
the subsequent arrest Of several mem
bers Of his gang.
The steamer City Of Seattle arrived
at Seattle from Skagway with twenty
returned Klondilters and Yukoners,
who had $4,000 in gold dust and $780,
o0o in drafts.
Tom Linton defeated James Michael
in a tWenty-mile race at Manhattan
Beach, finishing nearly one mile in the
lead. Mchael's tire punctured and
he lost two and one half laps as a
run next Saturday
Irving Scott. the American shipbuild-
err is returning from Russia. to which
country he had been summoned by the
Car for the purpose Of advising in
regard to Russian naval construction.
His mission has been wholly success
full.
Apart from the playing the chief bus
mess Of the American Whist Congress
at Boston, was the election Of officers,
the report Of the committee on changes
in the laws. and framing an entirely
new and separate code for duplicate
whist
II. F. Brewer reduced the worlds
amateur swimming record for a mile
from 26:46 1-2 to 26:19 2-5. The perform
ance took place at the Lurine baths
In San Francisco. The water was quite
warm. or the time would have been
still faster. Brewer covered the first
half mile in 1853
James Dumping. a Philadelphia in
ventor. was killed in Bronx park. New
York. through an accident to patent
dumping car which was his design.
Prince Victor Emanuel, Count Of
Turin, with his aide de camp, Signor
hi Carpento. of Italy. arrived at New
port from Bar Harbor.
Two freight trains were wrecked on
the New York Central a mile and a
half north Of Croton. blocking all traf-
fic and causing delays of passenger
trains of from one to three hours.
Many cars of valuable freight were
completely demolished, though the
crews of the trains miracuously es-
capped injury.
William Passage, seven years old, Of
East Sixteenth street, New York. went
on an excursion to Riverview Grove,
opposite Yonkers. With several COM
panions he was playing along the cliffs
Of the Palisades. when he lost his foot
ing and fell fifty feet to the bank Of
the Hudson river below. He was un-
conscious when several men reached
him.
1t is proposed by the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary society of the Prot
estant Episcopal church, to invade the
territory of the Copper River district,
in Northern Alaska, with missionary
effort. For that purpose, the Rev.
Henry J. Gurr of Colorado has
been appointed as a pioneer missionary,
and he will start at once from San
Francisco for his destination
The Frankfort Zeitung says Russia
has commenced making reprisals
against Germany owing to the failure
of the latter country to fulfill the terms
of the commercial treaty. by which she
undertook to grant exceptionally ia
vorable rates on Russian grain and
other products.
The German exports for the fiscal
year to the United states from the Con-
sular district of Frankfort We're S3l. 80
095. sol. or S659S,3S1 less chan the pre-
ceding year The decrease in the
northern half of Germany is larger in
some districts. More than 50 per cent
of the loss is in sugar exports. In the
Magdeburg district alone the loss on
sugar is 60 per cent.
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing commissioners, to meet a SINH
lar commission on the part Of Great
Britain and Canada for the purpose Of
adjusting the relations between the
United States and Canada: Senator
Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana, SEN
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