Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-07-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Geographic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

ma mas tStdullSlleu leDer
colony in the Debrugea, an ancient
mOnastry.
Lake Seneca's famous sea serpent
mas been captured. 1t is an eel thir-
teen feet long.
OllVer II. Payne's new steam yacht.
the Aphrodite. has arrived at Havre
from this port.
another strike has been declared on
the lines of the Big Consolidated street
railway system of Cleveland.
secretary Wilson in an interview at
seattle sad that expansion would be n
great alu TO the trade of the Pacific
coast.
Dr. Edward McCOrn. who shot Cliff
ton White. a Long Island boy cherry
purlolner, has been refused admission
to bail.
The Conwell-Wilcox Iron COMPANY.
OF FiShkill Landing. y. Y, voluntarily
granted 10 per cent. increase in
wages.
MI the tin-plate mills in the country
nave started rs Il result of the wage
scale n"r e,nent. This means work for
10000 mon.
burglars blew open the safe in n
hotcl Office at Delnarest. y. J.. and car
rled away seven hundred dollars
worth Of plumber.
y serious collision between trains of
the New York. New Haven and Hart
tord railroad ccc''rrtd ut New Haven.
No one was killed.
The Vienna police lave asked the
New York autho ties to look for Theo-
dore lleckcl. a how charged with muir.
dering an aged widow.
1t is reported at Victoria that the
steamers Roanoke and Glronne will
Drin@ to Seattle and san Francisco
S'|Wn.uOO in Klondikc gold.
1t was reported in WASHINGTON that
Senator Chandler had lodged a COM
plant with the President against Civil
Service Commissioner Brewer.
Fires at Fort Duchesne were be-
loved to have been caused by White
River Utcs. who wish to destroy the
cavalry equipment of the soldiers.
The Rev. Mr.. Shields and his wife
and Miss Macbeth. missionaries in
Eastern Tibet, barely escaped with
their lives from native rioters.
~ II. Brown is under arrest in South
Dakota charged with numbering his
wild man. He says the wild man"
was only a highly developed monkey.
Lewis &. EagorS and August Lin
man. employees in the Doscher sugar
refinery in Long Island City have been
arrested for burning soft coal and held
for trial.
1t is reported at Perth Amnoy that
George NJ. Valentine. the alleged de-
fauting cashier of the MiddleSrv
County Bank, will plead non vult AMI
take his sentence without trial.
Americans are being replaced by ma
uvcs III the Cuban mail service.
Mary Vaughan. of Cedar Falls. Ia.
is dead by the bite of kissing bug.
William Jennings Bryan spoke at a
great mass meeting at Humphreys. Ne
braska.
Gen. Otis cables that typhoons and
heavy rains made the sailing of trans
ports impossible.
The National Fair Company. to give
fairs and eXpositions, las been incor-
porated at Albany
An incend.ary appeal to Cuhans
signed Retancourt has been scattered
broadcast in the island.
The Milwaukee Brewing Company of
New York City has been Incorporated
at Albany with capital of $3.OoO.OOO.
Wireless telegraphy will be uscu as a
means of communication between the
different islands in the Hawaiian
group.
r. f. VI. Cooper a poor ST. Louis
man. has been heuueathed SluU.GuO 10y
John {. Gregg, of Cripple Creek, whom
he saved from drowning.
Three Oaks. Mich. having with
population of LOCO contributed S1.132
10 the Maine fund. ret the cannon
Dewey sent from Manila
Cashier George VI. Valentine has adj
mittcG taking the funds of the Middle
sex County Bank AT Perth Amboy, y.
!" ana the city lost S129OOU.
The Filipino Junta will move to La
buan from Hong Kong. where it is too
closely watched by American officials
to he of any service to the natives.
The Furnoss Line steamer Manches-
ter Port has put into 81. Johns with
her bows stove in, having collidcd with
an iceberg in the Straits of Belle Isle.
Frank VI. Eastman of Harrisburg eX-
planned the Pennsylvania system of
bank taxation to the New York State
bankers Association ut Alexandria
Bay.
because it refuses to pay Sl0O for
the privilege the Standard on Com
pany is deharrcd from crossing New
Jersey public road with pipe line to
its Bergen Point retincries.
Governor Pingree has put three cent
fares in operation on DetrOtS street
railways.
Herr Rose. German Consul-General
al Apia, Samoa, called upon President
Mckinley.
The State Department has provided
olcycles for clerks at Havana living at
distance.
Lenore Jackson, of Chicago has been
ordered to play before Queen Victoria
at Windsor.
a German flag was torn down by n