Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
SUMMARY or; THE NEWS,

as thanksgiving DAY.
Marchand has left 'ashoda and reached
khartoum on his way to Cairo.
Eighteen Mormon missionaries have
sailed to make CONVEX IS in Europe.
The Pullman Con pany will obey the
court and sell the tov II of Pullman.
Riverhead, L. l., is the battlefield of a
war against dancing nd playing cards.
Col. w. J. Bryan is convalescent and
says he will accom- any his regiment to
Cuba.
Special correspondents at Spain's naval
stations report that sic could not fight us
again.
The Sultan's special representative is to
lie We the Kaiser's suite because of un-
pleasantness.
A Newark, N. j. man who locked out
his wife because she came home late, was
fined three dollars,
United States Senators have opposed the
assumption by this country of any portion
of Spain's Philippine debt.
France accepts the Dreyfus decision
calmly, and even shows conciliatory dis
position toward England.
All the Philippines have been demanded
of Spain, and her Peace Commissioners
asked until Friday to reply.
a warnt is out for the arrest of Henry
NJ. Mcdonald, the would-be silver candi-
date for Governor OF New York
Harry Brooks shot and killed Mrs, EN-
ma lIibbits at Long Branch. He says ne
didn't know the pistol was loaded
Patrick Dillon, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
closed folding bed in which a child was
sleeping. The baby was suffocated.
1t is stated in Washington that it is prac-
tically settled thai America takes the entire
Philippines and assumes $40, 900, 900 of debt
there.
The Cuban Assembly met and will send
a committee to ask Mr.. Mckinley if he
intends to observe CONGRESSES pledge of in
dependence.
Gov Russell's compromise plan was not
approved, and the issue between the races
in North Carolina lemains as bitterly fought
as ever.
The operation of Porto Rican telegraph
lines is expected to shed light on the sub
ject of government ownership of railroads
and telegraph.
ndecision over construction in Cuba of
permanent landing places shows the Ad-
minstration has not decided on long or
short occupation.
George Wiley, of Hackensack, n. j., a
victim of lockiaw, is recovering due to the
administration of antitoXine through the
walls of the abdomen.
United States Ambassador Porter pre-
sontcd Commissioner Peck and the other
American Exhibition Commissioners to
President Faure.
Lloyds has received authentic news of
the loss of the BritsN steamer Callahan.
which sailed from Accra on Oct. 10 for
Liverpool. No lives were lost
f. F. Knowlton of Brooklyn, committed
suicide at West Upton, Mass. He was the
head of the biggest straw-goods factory in
the world and father of Countess Sierstopff.
The report of Gen. John NJ. Wilson,
Chief of Engineers, says the operations of
our tleet in the West Indies show that land
defenses will insure our harbors safety in
case of attack from sea.
Twelve-year old Kate Boose was locked
up at the police station at West New
Brighton, Staten Island, charged with
twice breaking into and rObbing the post
office at Linoleumvile.
The steamer l.. F. Doty, with sixteen
| aboard, is believed to have gone down on
Lake Michigan with all hands on board.
The Doty left Chicago Monday with tow,
and has not been heard from since.
Permission has been obtained from the
Government by the Panama Railroad Com
pany to establish terminal facilities at
Laboca upon the payment of 100000 and
the granting of loan to Colombia of ST.
00J.
Tie St. Petersburg Zeitung says that the
commission charged with the duty of TAX
ing precautionary measures against the
bubonic plague has engaged a staff of forty
,ctor,, who will proceed Immediately to
! Samarcand
Approaching the Windward Islands on
Oct 20 the steamship Calico, from Rio,
was struck by lightning, which split the
main truck about the same time an aerolite
fell close to he snip. When it struck the
water there was a report like that OF can
non and water was splashed over the ships
decks.
Tie coal operators of Illinois interested
in the Virden situation are preparing pc
tition to be presented in one Of the United
States courts for an injunction to prevent
Gov Tanner from interfering with the inn
portation of aborers to take the place OF
men formerly employed at the seat OF
trouble.
The widow of the Cuban General Jose
Maceo, brother of Antonio Maceo, was
one of the applicants for rations at the
American free distribution depots at San