Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-07-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

Gen. Wheeler has sailed for Manila
from San Francisco.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender.
has left Venice.
ITavana's health report for the past
two weeks was the most favorable
ever known.
y lieutenant AMI four men were kill
ed by boiler explosion aboard the
Austrian torpedo boat Adler
The bachelors of Hesse are to hold
great convention ut Mayence to pro-
test against special tax on them.
At New York twenty-five passengers
of the City of Washington, from lIa-
vana. were sent to Hoffman Island for
observation.
1t was stated in Washington that one
of Secretary Roots first duties will be
the consideration of a plan of govern
ment for Cuba.
An explosion in the coal mine of the
Redstone Coal Company, near Browns
Vile, Pa, killed two men outright and
entombed seventy others.
The entire military force of Cleye-
land has been called out to preserve
order during the street car strike.
There has been two cars wrecked with
dynamite.
The President has received invita-
tons to reception to volunteers at
Lincoln, Neb., in September. and to a
reunion of Conferedates and Federals
at Evansville, Ind, in October
The funeral of the late Czarowitch
will take place July 81.
The President has appointed Charles
NeWOold paymaster, with the rank of
major.
Ohio troops were called out to quell
street railway strike disturbances in
Cleveland.
John Markwith, eighty years old, of
Orange, n. j., is cutting his third set
of teeth.
The Kotzebue Sound miners have
sent n representative to petition the
Government for aid.
Elihu Root informed President Nc
Kinley of his acceptance of the Secre-
taryship of War.
The conference of the Joint High
Commission, called for August ., has
been declared off.
Great Britain will add a naval at
tache, an electrical expert, to her en-
bassy at Washington.
Italy has made representations at
Washington concerning the lynching
i'll Louisiana of five Italians.
Frank Embree negro charged with
assault, was lynched by a mob near
Mexico, Mo-, willie Gu the way to his
trial.
William oil Of
Francisco, has two of his finest race
horses, to which he had taken dis
like, killed and fed to dogs.
The Cramps are preparing to con-
struct a steamship 100 feet long for the
International Navigation Company. 1t
will b" the largest ever built.
William Bruce. of North Portsmouth,
Va, went swimming at midnight, and
boys. thinking him a porpoise, shot
him in the face and captured him. He
will die.
Officers OF the Australia. which has
arrived at San Francisco, said there
was reason to believe that Mauna Loa,
the great volcano on the Island of Ha-
wall, had blown its crest off.
The Grand Jury which investigated
the lynching of the five Italians at
Tallulah, La, reported that the vic
Tins had cOnspred to assassinate DR..
Hodges. The Grand Jury was unable
to identify any members of the mob.
Angus VI. Cannon paid 500 fine At
Salt Lake City for Mormon practices
The United States cruiser Newark is
at Molendo, Peru, en- route for san
| Francisco
The great crater of Mokua-Weowco,
on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, is again in
eruption.
The three-cent fare rule on the De
! trot street railways has been abro-
gated.
| The President was said to have de-
! cided 70 anpoint Elihn Root SecretArN