Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-10-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefs
and TerseIy Told.

'eHerul DenJaInln L. Tracy is 0rrang.
ing to establish stock farm at Goshen
N. Y.
Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the
linotype machine, was reported ill at his
Baltimore home
The lynching of n white man at vii.
son, La, for alleged horse stealing was
reported from New Orleans.
Tom Meyers, forger, who escaped from
the Waukegan Qlls.) prison, died in the
woods after four days of exposure.
The Santo Domingo government has
ordered an action against the heirs of the
late President Heureaux because of the
latter's alleged misuse of public funds.
Monday. Oct. 10.
Fire destroyed seven buildings belong
ing to st. Mary's Industrial school in
Fechanville, near Chicago.
The Dismal Swamp canal, in Virginia,
surveyed by Washington and abandoned
for 100 years, has just been rcopened.
In Waterloo, Ia, the building occupied
by Fowler Il Co., wholesale grocers, was
destroyed by fire. The loss on building
and contents approximates 100000.
a Philadelphia lady named Caldwell,
residing in Berlin, was attacked in her
residence by a robber, who felled her
with his fist. then took her money and
valuables and made his escape.
Saturday, Oct. II.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt
at Santa Rosa, Cal.
In Syracuse eight persons were injured
in trolley accident.
Senior Mariscal vice president of MeXi.
co, and party arrived in New York.
Forty persons were drowned by the
sinking of Il craft at st. Louis, Senegal.
Baron Pauncefote. British ambassador,
will resume his duties at Washington
Nov. l.
The committee that will build perma.
nent Dewey arch in New York city or.
gained
The Madrid merchants threatened tc
close their shops as a protest against ex.
cessive taxation.
Explosion Of hot lead press caused
fire, with 100000 damage, in the Has.
tings Gable works at Hastings. y. Y.
Friday, Oct. 13.
The highest prices since 1892 have been
quoted for Texas cotton seed products
New York capitalists have formed the
80 brickmaking concerns in Pittsburg in.
to a trust.
The blacksmiths and boiler makers on
the Canadian Pacific railroad, western
division. struck in sympathy with tn
machnists.
In Providence George S. Phillips, a
clerk, was set upon by three men and
robbed of 5000. The deed was committed
about noon.
The Turkish government has issued III
trade abolishing all measures that pre-
vented the free movements of American
and granting them other relief.
An aged couple in Great Darlington
Mass, were found suffocated from the
effects of coal gas which had escaped
from an open damper in the stove.
Thursday, Oct. II.
The peace party was reported to be
gaining ground in Venezuela.
1t has been decided to make the Chi.
cago fall festival an annual fixture.
An American fisherman has been ar.
rested at Skibbereen. Ireland, for fishing
inside the limit.
The state commerce convention at Uti
ca heard arguments to increase New
York's terminal facilities.
a company to develop Cuban mines
was incorporated at Charleston, w. Va.
The California state board of health
has decided not to quarantine against
consumptives from other states.
Jamaica has become much excited by
Mr.. Chamberlain's latest order. and a
constitutional struggle is expected.
The government has planned Il notable
exhibition of colonial products for the
Pan-American exposition ut Buffalo
Wednesday, Oct. IL.
The cruiser Olympia arrived at Bos.
ton.
Rear Admiral Howison reached the
age limit for retirement.
General and Mrs. Harrison dined with
Emperor William at Berlin.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
directed the closing of the session of the
reichsrath.
1t was reported that Dr. Kolb, the Ger,
man explorer, had been killed in Africa
by rhinoceros.
Partial order has been restored among
the insubordinate women inmates of the
reformatory at Hudson, \. Y.
German exports to the United States
for the three months ended Sept. 80
reached a total of SD .372,355.
1t was reported in Yokohama that the
Chinese emperor had appealed to Japan
ruler to rescue him from assassins.
The citizens of West Virginia presented
sword to Captain +. +. Chadwick OF
the cruiser New York at Morgantown.
The right of 60 state Office holders to
their places under the new civil service
law has been declared doubtful at Al
bany.
The New York court of appeals hand
ed down decision granting "A new trial
to Howard G. Benham, the Batavia
banker, convicted for the murder of his
wife.
Two Americans Burned ut the Stake.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Oct. 13.-Wil.
lis Mcguire, formerly an attorney at
Marquette, now of the mining district of
Sonora, old Mexico. writes that his two
mining partners, Ramsey and Miller,
who undertook to work and prospect in
the territory overrun by Yaqui Indians,
were overpowered and put to death by
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