Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-26
GENERALNEWSITEM
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK THE WIDE
WORLD OVER.

Organized i'm this Countrywide Alas
kan Boundary Dispute Grows Serious.
A special from Toledo, o., says a
syndicate backed by English capital is
being organized to control the largest
Portland cement works in the United
States. The plants to be absorbed are
at Sandusky, Castillo and Cleveland, o.;
Chicago, Union City, Ind; Cold Water
and Bronson, Mich, and others. The
company will be capitalized at 81 200, 900.
The Troy Business college reached
fourth place at the Inter Scholastic Meet
held at Union college, Schenectady, last
Saturday. Twenty-Five schools were
represented. L. A. Nanny of the Troy
Business college won the 2 mile bicycle
race, also the ] mile bicycle race. J. P.
Powers of the same institution secured
third place in vaulting.
Kang Iu Wey, the Chinest reformer,
who fled from China, is reported to be
behind a scheme to form companies in
every city of consequence in the United
States, Canada and Australia, which will
attempt to control Chinese capital in
order to further all Oriental industries.
About $50, 000, 900 worth of stock will be
issued.
Salvador Cisneros, the Marquis of
Santa Lucia, who was president of the
Cuban provisional government, has pub
lished a statement at Havana in which
he expresses confidence in the United
States, but explains that the Cubans are
NATURALLY suspicious at the wholly I'M
defined policy"
In connection with the reassembling
of the Joint high commission, the British
government has entered a protest against
the despatch of additional American
troops to the territory, and the contro-
versy has assumed a more serious aspect,
in view of the great commercial interests
involved.
Ex-President Cleveland has broken
the record for bass catching at Middle
Bass, o.. He pulled in l25 pounds of fish
while Captain Bob" Evans caught
forty-tive bass, from one to two pounds
in weight. Mr.. Cleveland and Captain
Evans left for home Wednesday.
Western railroads have agreed to
cease making any reductions from the
Missouri river to California for the trans
portation of the army and navy and
United States volunteers returning to
their homes. This arrangement will go
into effect June l..
Efforts are being made in Boston to
form a combine among the confectioners,
including all the prominent concerns east
of st. Louis. Several Boston firms and
many of the larger plants in New Eng
land outside of Boston have given option
on their plants.
The last portions of the Atbara bridge,
the contract for which was awarded to
a Philadelphia firm, have left Alexandra,
and will arrive at Atbara in about three
weeks, and the bridge will be finished be-
fore the arrival of the usual floods on the
Nile.
The sale of the household furniture
and the other effects of the late magician,
Hermann, was concluded 10 the Fifth
Avenue Art Galleries, New York, on
Saturday. The total amount of the three
days sale amounted to about SIS 900.
The postofice at Pinold, Franklin
County, Pa, has been closed, because
free rural delivery has been extended
through that territory, thus absorbing
the entire business and rendering the
local postoffice unnecessary.
On June 0 Fitzsimmons and Jeffries
will meet at the Coney Island On. W
Sporting club in a contest for the heavy
weight championship of the world,
Both men are in excellent condition and
a fierce contest is expected.
The steamship Victoria arrived at
Tacoma, Washington, reports that the
Don Juan de Austria has been added to
the list of captured Spanish gunboats
being repaired for use in the American
navy at Hong Kong.
\ resident of Galveston, Tex, going
home late at night, recently, thought to
experiment with a pocket electric search
light which he had just purchased, and
unexpectedly caught a negro in the act
of robbing a store.
Lord Mimic, governor general OF
Canada. and President Diaz, of Mexico,
will accept the invitations to meet
President Mckinley at Chicago Oct. 0 at
the federal building cornerstone cere-
monies.
Chief of Scouts William II. Young, an
old Rocky Mountain Indian fighter, who
again distinguished himself under Gen,
Lawton fighting Filipinos, died from
wounds received in battle last week.
Director of Posts Vaille, at Manila,
has notified the ~postofice department
that he has established a railway post
service between Manila and Malolos, the
former Filipino capital.
Troops have been massed in all the
provinces Of China to resist further
European aggression. Germany is push
ing forward her troops to punish natives
and grab more territory.
Gen. Wade Hampton of Confederate
fame, who is reported to be in INDECENT
circumstances, has gracefully declined tC
accept a home as a gift from the people
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