Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-01-14
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New YorI's Dry Dock scandal-short
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William Henry Theodore Durrant was
hanged at San Quentin, California, Fri
day, for the murder of Blanche Lamont
in church in San Francisco in April.
1895. just before his execution Durrant
was received into the Roman Catholic
church. He made d statement on the
gallows protesting his innocense.
final appeal was made to the supreme
court of the United States, in Washington,
in his behalf but the court refused to
grant the writ of habeas corpus asked
for.
The Turkish government has taken the
position that a government is not prop
erly to be held responsible for Individual
property lost or damaged during times
of riot. This is in reply to the demands
of our government for idemnity for the
destruction of American mission proper
tv. Our minister has asked the state
department for Instructions.
The investigating committee appointed
by the Illinois state senate to investigate
the workings of the Chicago police de-
partment met in that city. AS an out
come of charges which have been made,
Adolph Kraus, president of the civil
service commission, who is a prominent
Democrat, entered suit against Attorney
E. r. Bliss, leading Republican, for
$4,000 damages.
A Washington despatch says that it is
believed at the navy department that the
showing made not only by Constructor
Bowles, but by the board of civil en-
gineers recently appointed, as to the
faulty character of the work in the con-
struction of drydock No. 3, at New York,
will result in the courtmartial of Civil
Engineer A. G. MenOcal.
Mrs. Augusta Mack, jointly indicted
with Martin Thorn for the murder of
William Guldensuppe, pleaded guilty
to manslaughter in the Queens county
court at Long Island city Monday and
was sentenced by Judge Garretson to
u years imprisonment at hard labor.
Rev. Dr. John Hall Sunday announced
10 the congregation of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York, his re-
tirement as their pastor. DR.. Hall has
been forty-eght years in the ministry,
thirty years of which he spent as pastor
of the Fifth Avenue church.
Notices were posted in all departments
of the Hamilton Cotton mills, at Ames-
bury, Mass. recently, that on Jan l.
reduction of II 10 per cent. will be made
in the wage scale. The reduction will
probably be accepted by the 800 en-
ployes of the corporation
All the window glass factories in the
country under the control of the Ameri-
can Window Glass company have been
put in operation This amounts to a
production of $500 pots, and will give
employment to 10000 men, $500 of whom
will be skilled workmen.
1t is stated that Governor Black of
New York will not pardon or commute
the sentence of John Y. McKane,
former political leader of Gravesend,
whose term of seven years Imprisonment
in Sing Sing will expire in April next
by limitation.
A San Francisco despatch says there
seems to be no place for the body of
Theodore Durrant. Both creamatories
there have absolutely refused to handle
the remains and no cemetery has yet
consented to receive him.
Leaders of the various parties advocat-
Ing the free coinage of silver had a con-
ference in Washington on Saturday. A
plan for holding the silver forces to.
gether for the congressional campaign
next fall was discussed.
DR.. Nichols Bray, of Dubuque, Ia,
has invented range finder for ascertain
ing distances on land and sea, but intend
ed especially to guide gunners in naval
combat. The instrument will measure
any distance up to 10000 yards.
The Weavers' union in New Bedford,
Mass, is unanimously in favor of a
strike. In addition to the reduction in
wages the weavers object to the system
of fines enforced in some of the mills.
During services in the cathedral in
Havana Sunday, a man fired several re-
volver shots. The people dispersed amid
great confusion. The man was disarmed
and sent to a hospital for the insane.