Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15


in their engine. Tie fall was so sud.
den that neither moved from his post
and they met instant death.
Chicago, Sept. 12.-Jay Parker n
local amateur baseball player, has sign
ed with the New York Club. and will
leave for the East within few DAYS
New York, Sept Pit has been def
nitely decided by Assemblyman Nazet
and Frank Moss that the levying of as.
sessments on the judiciary when they
were candidates for office will be prob
ed to the bottom.
burlington. Vt, Sept. 10 Charles f.
Dewey. brother of Admiral Dewey.
will go TO New York for the celebration
attending the arrival of the admiral in
that city. Eight or ten other relatives
of the Admiral will also be present on
that occasion.
London. Sept. 12.--It is said that tho
Amalgamatcd Coats American Thread
Company has absorbed a leading Rnl
gian firm and intends taking others
with view to controlling the South
American markets, now supplied by
Belgium.
London, Sept. 12.-Rudyard Kipling
recently wrote n poem and offered il
for publication to w. W. Astor. IT
was not printed, doubtless because If
told of the defeat of the English by
the Beers. Kiplng's next poem was of
quite a different character.
Lyons, y. v, Sept. 12-At the Wayne
County Republican Assembly Conven.
ton, in Palmyra. +. W. Griffith of
Palmyra was nominated by acclama.
ton. Resolutions were passed strongly
indorsng both the National and State
Administrations.
New York. Sept. 12.--The bodies of
Mrs. Rose Welsh and her one-year-old
son Tommy We're found on the Green.
point meadows. on Greenpoint avenue.
near Whale Creek, Williamsburg. The
woman had given carbolic acid to the
baby and then taken deadly dose her.
self.
Erooklyn, n. Y, Sept. IAN cleo.
trio car on the Fifth avenue elevated
road, set on fire h. the burning ont
of fuse. created a panic among the
passengers thnt wa, har1 To overcome.
All of the passengers escaped uniniur-
ed. but tie motor car was completely
destroyed and the passenger car con.
siderably scorched.
Brockton. Mass. Sept. 12.-At the
bicycle races at the new track here
John II. Dubois in a five-mle. unpaced
pursuit race. rode in worlds record
time, defeating Claude Hamilton of
Lowell in four and a quarter miles.
Dubois continued for five mile record,
lowering the mark of 1912. made by
II. Clark, at Denver, by five seconds.
Springfield, H., Sept. 1.-THE Ma
tional Guard of Illinois will not take
part officially in the Dewey day cele.
bration in New York The Governor
has directed Adjt. Gen. Reece to grant
leave of absence to such organiZat ions
as shall desire to go at their own ey-
pense, but there is no appropriation
from which State money can be drawn
for that purpose.
Bulawayo. Sept. 13.-An unconfirmed
report is current that an exploring
party which recently left here for Lake
Tanganyl'a. in Central Africa. has.
with only one exception, been murder
ed by the natives.
Washington. Sept. 13.-The State De.
partment has issued a warrant for the
surrender to the Swiss officers of vii.
helm Mueller, who is charged with em-
bezzlement of between 6.0OOf. and Z.
000f. of public money in the Canton
of Ulcers. Switzerland. Mueller. who
was arrested in New York is willing
to return to Switzerland.
Trenton. y. j.. Sept. 13.-The resi-.
dence of Henry w. Green. a Trustee of
Princeton University and the Presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees of the
Lawrenceville Preparatory School was
entered by burglars and robbed of sev-
eral thousand dollars worth of bric-a.
brac, tapestry. &c. The house adioins
the State House. and is in the most
fashionable section of the city.
Hampstead. l.. l.. Sept. 13.-Richard
Ciphers, Jr., the nine-year-old son of
Richard Ciphers. n painter of this
place, was struck by Il bat while he
WIS Watching IL bdll SdH'e mere ana
fatally injured. The bat slipped from
the hands of one of the players and
struck the boy. who was standing near
by, in the left temple. The lad re-
ceived a compound fracture of the
skull.
New York Markets.
Wheat.-No. > red 721ac elevator.