Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-11
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

Emperor Francis Joseph is said TO be
about to marry again.
Overstudy and lack of proper food drove
insane Yale divinity student.
Gen. Weyler is alleged to have stolen
$1,000, 900 at Manila, Gen. Otis is inves-
tigaling
Winsted's wild man has broken loose
again and is charged with soaring Connec-
ticut voters.
Secretary Long has ordered that the tor
pedo boats at the Navy Yard remain in
commission.
French Army chiefs have plan to let
Dreyfus be liberated without vindication
in public trial
Great Britain has given Chicago an extra
ordinary order for the chief ingredient of
smokeless powder
Negro troops at Camp Poland refused to
obey white officers, and it was necessary
to threaten them with death.
Vickers, Sons, & Maxim, English ship
builders, may establish branch for build
i ing walships in this country.
The Attorney General of Ohio will push
4 the fight against all the branches of the
Sta d I'd Oil Trust in that State.
The steamship Croatan of the Clyde Line
was destroyed by fire near Cape Charles.
Five persons persisted in The flames.
-Four whaling vessels arrived at San
| Francisco from the Arctic bringing cargoes
= of bone and sperm oil worth $780, 600.
Anthony Post, twelve years old, picked
up a live electric wire in Newark, n. J. and
5000 volts passed through his body. He
may die.
Fire at the National Capitol wrecked the
United States Supreme Court room, ruined
the valuable law library and destroyed
/ price less records.
Vermont bank robbers dragged two cur
ious citizens from the street, bound them
hand and foot and then resumed their at
tack on the safe.
Spain will evacuate, and the United
States occupy Puerto Principe Nov %,
General movement of troops to Cuba will
begin Dec. l.
The American Sugar Refining Company
Ids VII lUotlN OOlIlplGtcu d OOIlldCO ny NIlCh
the entire sugar crop of The Hawaiian
Islands, amounting to rs 1000 tons, will be
delivered to the company.
The Paris Temps announced upon semi
official authority that Major Marchand's
position at Fashoda being untenable. the
French force at that place will be forthwith
instructed to evacuate.
The steamer Panama, which was rumored
in despatch from New York to have been
wrecked off Cape Mays has arrived at
Havana. She landed eight passengers and
left for Key West
Gov Black of New York has appointed
Frederick A. Ward of Brooklyn as a JUS
tice of the Supreme Court to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the resignation of Justice
Augustus VanWyck-
The Crew of the wrecked schooner Jen-
ME f. Wiley, who had subsisted for twen-
ty-three days on seaweed and raw fish,
were brought to New York by the Ward
line steamship Saratoga.
The newspapers at Berlin assert that
David's TOMB on Mount Zion, to which
Emperor William was admitted by the
Sultan's express order, had never been
seen by Christian since 1887, it being a
Mohammedan shrine of the most sacred
character.
General blancO will leave Havana
November 20. Preparations are being
hurried forward for his Departure and
he will doubtless go to Barcelona,
leaving General Parade to close up
matters reiating to the final evacua-
ton of Cuba.
The London Coroner's jury which
has been investigating the death of
Harold Frederic, the correspondent of
the New York Times, rendered a YER
dict of manslaughter against Kate
Lyon, a member of the late Mr.. Fred
cries household, and Mrs. Mills, a
Christian scientist.
The Echo de Paris prints despatch
from Touion saying that the entire French
Mediterranean squadron is ready to sail
and that leaves OF absence, even for day,
have been stopped. Repairs upon ships
are being pushed with the greatest activity
and forts and batteries are undergoing
special inspection.
Emperor William is much displeased
over several Earring incidents of his
trip TO Jerusalem. The reply of the
Vatican to his notification of rights
acquired at Mount Sion is considered
extremely curt, W lille on all important
occasions the French Consul General
attended in order to assert Frances
guardianship of holy places.
Cotton Under Five Cents