Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-12-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIv Told.

Six were killed in n collision of passen.
ger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad near Salida, Colo.
a bill has been introduced in congress
for the erection of a memorial arch on
the Chcliamauga battlefield.
Fire caused by spontaneous combustion
of chemicals caused $4,000 damage in
JOHNS Hopkins university. Baltimore.
The removal of the stomach of hui
man being, the second operation of the
kind ever attempted in the United States,
has just been performed in Buffalo.
Monday, Dec. 4.
Heavy snowfall, with high wind, was
reported in Nebraska and Minnesota.
Fire destroyed the large foundry of
Schulz & Martin in Covington, Ky; loss
$4,000.
Charles Potter, noted printing press
manufacturer Of Plainfield, n. j., is
dead, aged 10.
A railway wreck in Montana which
resulted in the death of three men was
caused by steer on the tracks.
The king of Tonga. whose realm is TO-
900 miles away, is expected to arrive in
Chicago this week from Australia for
al y ray operation.
AT Hancock. n. Y, one life was lost
and nearly $4,000 worth of property
was destroyed as the result of a fire
started by an explosion of dynamite used
by burglars to blow open a safe.
Three hundred women, wives and
daughters of the coal miners who are on
a strike, marched to the DAILY copper
mines in Montana and with clubs and
guns drove the operators and a small
force of nonunon miners away.
saturday, Dec. 2.
The New York state canals have been
closed officially.
The gold production of the Cripple
Creek district in November was S2.515,-
800.
The whereabouts of William f. Miller
of the Brooklyn Franklin syndicate are
still unknown.
Eight hundred weavers went on strike
at Philadelphia, closing 20 mills and
throwing 5000 hands out of employment.
The entire business portion of Oman
cocoke. Accomac county, Va, has been
destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
-Four persons were injured in rear
end collision between a Los Angeles pas
sengcr train and a local freight train II
miles south of Albuquerque, n. NJ.
The will of the late Vice President Ho-
bart was filed at Paterson Most of the
estate, valued at S2,500,OOO, was left to
Mrs. Hobart and her son. Several be-
quests to charity were made.
Friday, Dec. 1.
driving snowstorm. the first of the
season, ragged in Nebraska
new system of wireless telegraphy
was tested at Lexington, Ky.
The buildings of Franklin college, at
Athens, o., were burned Wednesday.
The condition of Senator Hayward
who is i'll at Nebraska City, was reported
much worse
The New York Central railroad strike
at the Depew IN. " Locomotive works
has been settled in favor of the strikers.
The total coinage at the Philadelphia
mint during November was S3,O46,O7O,
which represents 19,415,240 separate
coins
President Rich of the Mormon elders
working in Ohio said he did not care
what became of Congressman Elect Rob
erts politically.
The Yaqui Indians have sent a mes
sage to the Mexican government giving
the conditions on which they will lay
down their arms.
with few exceptions the valuable cleo
trotype plates stored in vaults in the ]. b.
Lippincott company's building were not
damaged by the Philadelphia fire which
destroyed that publishing house
Thursday, Nov. 30.
Prince di Ruspoli, senator and mayor
Of Rome. is dead.
The emperor and empress Of Germany
left England to return home.
The Fall River Iron Works Cotton
mills will raise wages 10 per cent Dee. 1.
Final calculations show that the Ken
tucky'S speed on her recent trial was
1857 knots
In New York city 20 persons were in
dicted for alleged election frauds by the
extraordinary grand jury.
The navy department has set aside
Slo,ooO for temporary work at the Bos-
ton navy yard necessitated by the ire
last week
Inc revolutionary movement in Vene-
zuela against General Castro, the presi-
dent pro TEN, headed by General Her
nandez, is daily gaining ground.
A son of the late Captain Grdlcy has
been designated for appointment to
ieutenantcy in the marine corps. Presi-
dent Mckinley and Admiral Dewey will
pay his expenses while he is studying for
the position.
Wednesday, Nov. 20.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad pro-
poses to establish an automobile system
at Washington.
Tho government of New Zealand pro-
poses to stock its land with choice Amer
lean game birds.
One hundred boilers up and helpers at
Cramps shipyards, Philadelphia, have
joined the strikers.
Richard Croker, the leader of Tamma-
ny Han SAILED for England on the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse.
Forty-four cages of animals shipped
from Hamburg by Carl Hagenbach ar
rived in New York for the new Zoo.
BY fire at Tiverton, n. Y, the Jail was
burned, six horses cremated and several