Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-08-18

close of the present season. The 1lneat-
isfactory showing made by the Chicago
team this year is given at the reason
Tom Lotus, manager of the Grand
Rapids team, has been considered as his
successor
Chautauqua, N. Y, Aug. 14-Re-
fore an audience Of 5000 grangers gath
cred from various points in Western
New York Congressman j. p. Deliver
delivered an address in defense of the
Presidents policy of expansion, refer
ring specifically to the Philippines. The
address was listened to with marked in
terest
Reading, Pa. Aug. 1.-THE 2-year-old
child of Charles Reitz, while running
barefoot in the grass was bitten. prob.
ably by a snake. AS dissolution neared
well defined dark streak appeared on
the child's body running from the bit
ten toe to point in the region of the
heart The streak grew rapidly darker
and at the moment of death was a LET
black. NV
Cortland, n. Y, Aug. 14.-.John Sheri.
dan, 10 years old. was drowned in a
small lake in Elysium Park. With
four companions he had been in bath.
Ing and attempted to get into boat
which overturned. sending one boy TO
the bottom twice before he was res
cued. Sheridan, in attempting to save
the other boy, was seized withcramps.
Dallas, Tex, Aug. 1.-THE habeas
corpus hearing for bail for the men
charged with the lynching of James.
John and George Humphries in Hender-
son County has been concluded before
District Judge Lipscomb at Athens.
Bail was denied to all the defendants
except Ed Cain, accused Of being an ac-
complete against his will. He was re-
leased on a $4,000 bond. Ten alleged
lynchers are now in Jail at Athens, in
Guiding the three informers, John
Greenhaw Arthur Greenhaw and Polk
Weeks.
Brooklyn, n. Y, Aug. 14-There now
seems to be no doubt that the body Of
the man found on the shore in Narra-
gansctt Pier on Friday is that of F..
II. Shaw, who was in the employ Of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
as an inspector, and lived with Rob
ert II. Thomas, his brothcrin-law, at
Second avenue and Seventy-second
street, Brooklyn. He has been idpnti
tied positively by Mr.. Thomas in Mar
ragansett but instead of the mystery
being cleared, it is deeper than ever.
L.,
masted brig was sighted aground off
jericho Landing, near Batting Hollow,
this morning. Some of the farmers
rowed out to the vessel, but the captain
refused to allow them aboard or to give
any information as to the identity Of
his vessel or how she came to run on
the rocks. 1t is said the boat has been
there for two days. Henry Talmadge
and Merritt Smith. who went out to the
vessel say the crew consisted entirely
of negroes, while the captain was a
white man.
Trenton, n. J., Aug. 14.-P. J. Fitz-
gihbon, one of the trustees of the Girls
Industrial School. who has been op-
posed to the retention of Mrs Eyler,
has forwarded his resignation to the
Governor. This makes the third resig-
nation since the trouble became public,
and leaves the board without quorum
to transact business. Governor Voor-
hees has made no appointment to sue
coed the retiring trustees. 1t is known
generally that he is waiting for the
resignation of the others before doing
so.
The Governor sees solution of the
difficulty in the appointment of an en-
tirely new board. The resignation Of
Mr.. FitZgibbon probably will take Mr..
Backes. the lawyer, out of the case. as
he all along has been acting as Fitz-
gibbons representative.
Middletown, n. Y, Aug. 15-THe Cor
oner's jury in the case of George T.
Decker supposed to have fallen from
the hotel window in Unionville, on the
night of July T. while asleep, returned a
verdict of death due to foul means"
Boston, Aug. l5-Kipling's books ave
been excluded from the library of the
Sunday-school of the North Cambridge
Universalist Church. The Rev Frank
o. Hall, the pastor, says: Il found on
inspecting one of Kipling's books that
it held up before the boys who read 1t
the most drunken. desperate sort of a
character as an ideal, hero"
Toronto, Ont, Aug. 15.-The Royal
Yacht Club has received the report Of
the judges of the trial races for Can
ada's cup defender Beaver, the Payne
sloop, was the boat recommended and
the secretary Of the club forwarded no.
tice that Beaver would defend the cup
against Genesee. The Beaver has been
dry locked
Albany, n. Y, Aug. 15.-John c. Mel
ligan, armorer OF the Forty-I..sl Sepa-
rate Company of Syracuse who Joined
the volunteer army as lieutenant dur
ing the war with Spain, was refused his
back pay by the Treasurer of Onondaga
County for the period Of his absence
from May /, 1885, TO April 8, 1899 Mel
ligan has received an opinion from the
Attorney General saying he is entitled
to back wages from the county
Rochester, Aug. 15-Patrick Horan As
years old, while laboring under a tenn
prorary alteration of mind induced by
Intense anger brought on by a trivial
family quarrel, committed suicide by
cutting his throat from ear to ear The
impulse 70 end his life came on him like
a flash, and, rushing to a closet he
seized a razor and nearly severed his
head from the body. Death resulted al
most instantly.
Vancouver, b. c., Aug. 15.-The
trouble in the Samoan Islands did not
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