Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-06-30

| EApcltS uecldTe lndt the new Cup
defender, Columbia. is fifteen minutes
faster than the Defender in a thirty
eight mile course.
The steamer Nippon Maru has ar
rived at Honolulu with the body of n
man who died Of the plague Willie en-
route from Japan.
Rev. Dr.. Samuel Harris. Dwight
Professor Emeritus of Systematic
Theology at Yale, died at Pittsburg.
Mass, aged eighty-fve.
Sherman C. Van Tassel. indicted for
robbing the New York Postoffice while
a money order clerk has been SEN
fenced to eight years in Sing Sing.
All the tin plate plants in the conn
try will shut down Friday night as
the result of the failure of the workers
committee to agree with the manufac-
! tuners on the wage scale
The United States cruiser Newark
mas arrived at Valparaiso, Chile.
The yacht Columbia went aground
III the hHy ut Bristol X. l., but was not
damaged.
The Thompson Line steamer Planet
Mercury Went'ashoIe in Portland NIeD
| UarhOr.
twenty miners are reported to have
| persisted from thirst in the deserts of
| Southern California.
Oklahoma City and Colorado Springs
nave entered the contest for the next
reunion of Rough Riders.
Gen. Otis reported the death at Ma
Mia of Major Brennan. of the First
Montana. of Bright's disease.
Al the celebration of the accession
OF Queen Victoria to the British throne
many Americans Were guests.
Madison. Wis. man died after an
operation. which showed his stomach
was full of nails, knife blades and
twisted wire.
The Russian Minister of Marine has
assigned the sum of II 100000 roubles
for dredging and construction at Port
Arthur
Comptroller Dawes declared in an in
tervieW at Chicago that business CON
ditlonS throughout the West are very
favorable.
y statue TO the memory of Thomas
hughes. author of Tom Browns
school Days" was unveiled at Rugby,
England.
Secretary Alger said in an interview
at Chicago that he would recommend
To the President the sending OF more
troops to the Philippines.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago has de-
clared in letter that unless Bryan Sc
cures the electoral vote of Illinois in
1900 he will be defeated.
Berlin officials express doubts about
the reports that the Samoan Commits
sion had sustained the decision of
Chief Justice Chambers ON the king
ship.
Six Cuban officials have been arrest
ed for making false identifications of
soldiers whose names are not Oh the
pay roll, but who were getting $40
each of Uncle Sans money.
Several delegates to the Peace Con-
ference are talking of fighting duels.
The conference on Southern educa-
ton Mt Capon Springs, W. Va, has
closed.
The Cleveland street railway strike
Is ended and the men have returned to
work.
Major Nair, of New Zealand. has
been appointed acting British Consul
at Samoa.
Father Ieldman, of Chicago, will
run for Congress unless Archbishop
Feehan objects.
The Acting Secretary of War says
the Department has decided to retain
the canteen system.
Two smacks capsized off Brest
France, and twelve persons lost their
lives by drowning.
The Chicago Health Department has
taken steps TO provide sterllized milk
for the children of the poor.
General Wray, of Columbus, Ind,
one hundred and three years old has
secured divorce from his f fifth wife.
The Cleveland City authorities have
decided on strict measures to prevent
further riotng in connection with the
street railroad strike.
\ dispatch from Cape Town SAYS
that the tension over the trouble with
the Transvaal is extreme and that
business is at standstill
Irving Taylor, Brooklyns sixteen
year-old firebug, was sentenced to the
Elmira ReforlAntOry. The boy con-
fessed to firing three houses.
Mrs. Santiago Porcelli, of Crawford,
n. j., a Christian Scientist, died of
at Crescent Beach, Conn.,,
having for long time refused any
medical aid.
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan. has CIV |
en- out statement saying tat he had
made an alliance with Secretary Alger |
to elect the latter United States Sen |
ator.