Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

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The battleship Alabama started from
Philadelphia Tor her trial trip.
Cen Otis reported that robber bands
ID Negros had been dispersed.
Millions of feet of timber have been
burned in forest fires south of Denver.
Col. ''i'
Inc business and residence portions
OF the town of Reading, Mich, were
destroyed by fire.
The American Bar Association met
1T Buffalo, ex-senator Henderson de.
llVering the annual address.
Labor Commissioner McNfacl,in was
named by Gov. Roosevelt to attend the
trust conference in Chicago.
Inc burglar shot and killed by
waterman Peterson at Englew0od, n.
J.' was buried in nauper grave.
Lady Yarde. Butler has been declared
mentally incompetent by Judge Hall.
Mt Oakland, Cal, and a guardian ap-
pointed.
Valuable copper, gold and silver de-
posts have been discovered on the
Canadian Pacific extension in British
Columbia
on account of the Dewey celebration.
the managers of the Westminster Coun-
ty, n. y, Fair decided to hold the show
in the middle of September.
An engine on the Cardenas division
of the Mexican Central jumped the
track and went over precipice into
a mountain gorge 1000 feet below.
Two sweetening stills at the Stand
TnI
were destroyed by an explosion. One
workman was fatally burned. Loss,
| 100000.
Nothing particularly new has de.
veloped in the Dreyfus trial during the
past few days. Startling revelations
are looked for wien Du Patty de
CLAIMS deposition is read in court up
to this time everything is In favor of
Dreyfus.
The Catholic Summer School at Cliff
Haven, n. Y, is closed for the eighth
season.
1t is probable that the entire National
Guard of Ohio will visit New York to
welcome Dewey.
Because the lockstep marks GRIM
inal for life the system will be abolish.
ed in Indiana prisons.
Because she stayed out until 3 o'clock
in the morning at a church sociable,
Miss Edith Dunn of Franklin. Pa, is
dead, shot through the heart by
neighbor in mistake for burglar
The campaign against the seating of
Representative-elect Roberts. of Utah
mormon polygamst. has commenced
at Providence, r. l. The five city
churches have united in petitions to
Congress asking that he be not sent.
ed
William Quinn. of Winesburg, Ohio.
has found at Hanna. Ind. his sister
whom he had not seen for 81 wears.
The Quinn family was scattered many
years ago and William has been max
ing inquiries for the whereabouts of
his sister for score of years
Because he loved to play among the
tomhs in the old Rice cemetery. John
Waring, aged five, of Victor. y. Y, was
buried there. He was digging at the
base of tall monument when it fell
crushing him fatally. He lay under
the stone some time before he was
found
President Bishop. of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
is on the track of four new cases of
cruelty at the State Industrial School
for girls ut Trenton. n. !. He an.
nOunces that the fight against Mrs.
Eyler, the matron. will be pushed to a
finish. He is receiving about 100 ler-
tiers day supporting him in his action.
When the big French plate mirror in
the home of Alfred Norma of Cgdens-
burg. \. y. fell to the floor and was
sheltered. the neighbors said there
would he death in the family. Nler-
mia scorned the old superstition and
threw the splinters out of doors. His
seven-year-old son fell on the pile Of
glass and splinter of the mirror
pierced his lung, killing him.
The transport Ohio, which left San
Francisco on July &c, has reached Ma
Mia.
Barton Fitzsimmons died at Fishkill
Landing, \. Y, of hiccoughs. which be-
gan Sunday.
Gov. Roosevelt wrote to explain why
certain officers did not receive positions
In the volunteer service.
The Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso-
citation of New York had hearing at
Albany before Superintendent Payn.
Two new cases of yellow fever at
Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, have been re-
ported to the Marine Hospital Service.
Sias A. Brown and Matthew Craig
were hanged at Muscogee, |. T. \
daughter of Craig's victim saw the
hanging
The body Of an elderly man. supposed
to have fallen from n steamboat. was
washed ashore at Sea Gate, Coney
Island.
The question of organizing n colored
regiment for service in the Philippines
is under consideration at the War De-
partment.
The nude boy of red-hared boy of
fourteen was caught in fishing net
at One Hundred and Seventy-second
street. New York.
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