Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-08-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
1elegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.


EnliStments for Philippine regiments
have reached 1867.
Secretary Long has left Washington
! Tor rest in New England
The Alaska steamer Al-Ki brought
, 100000 in gold to Seattle.
Remarkably heavy traffic is reported
on the New York State canals for this
season.
The tax rate for Jersey City was
hXed at $3.50 on the thousand for the
year 1899.
Lewis Pullerson and Michael Nc
/ Donald. nurderers, were executed at
Sing Sing.
The lava stream from Mauna Loa,
/ Hawaii. changed its course on July IS,
saving the city of Hilo.
Cadet Kimball, of the United States
ship Enterprise, was drowned while
/ bathing near Orient Beach, L. I.
! Details of the fire at Upper Lake,
in the Adirondacks. showed the nearly
! complete destruction of the village.
: Gen. Otis reports the vain attempt
OF the f1lipinos to retake Calamba; al
so victory over bandits in Negros.
! Representative Hull, en- route from
/ AlasKt. said the United States must
keep all the land bought from Russia.
y blower was burned in the Federal
Steel mills at Joliet, ILL.,. which will
cause n shutdown of the mills for sew
eral weeks.
! pile Of baggage left too near the
railway track at Paw Paw. Mich. was
Knocked by train among the waiting
passengers iniurinr several
The disease at the Soldiers Home.
Hampton. Va. has been pronounced
yellow fever. There have been forty
cases and six deaths. Vigorous meas.
ures were begun to fight the fever.
! General GuZnan Blanco, eX-Presi-
dent of Venezuela, is dead.
! storm at St Michaels, Alaska, July
/ II, tore many steamers from their
mornings.
/ Eight passengers were on the Cleve-
land street car that was blown up, but
all escaped.
The yacht Conquerer, with the VAN
derbilt party aboard, has reached
Venice.
lowa's tornado did an estimated
damage of S1,000,000 to the wheat and
other crops.
\ Chicago woman. after treatment
by divine healer" died of blood
poisoning.
General Nelson Cole. Civil War
veteran and prominent citizen of st.
Louis, is dying.
NJ. Nicholas Nantho and his wife
crossed the Alps in an eight horse
power automobile.
/ The Alaska steamer st. Paul brought
100000 to San Francisco. Two pas
sengcrs died en- route.
James F. Murdoch, a Boston shoe
maker, hanged himself in his cellar.
His wife found him dead.
! a special train of Mexican artillery
was rushed through southern Texas,
en- route for an Indian fight in Sonora,
Mexico.
Former Lieutenant Colonel du Patty
de Clam has been suddenly taken i'll
and will not testify at the Rennes court
martial.
Frederick A. Belts has been appoint
ed receiver of the property in New
York State of the National Life Asso-
citation of Hartford.
+ Building operations in Chicago are
seriously hampered by the brick max
ers strike. The supply of bricks is
nearly exhausted.
The mystery of the sending of n
basket of poisoned fruit to Miss Camp
bell of san Francisco, has been solved.
She sent the fruit herself
The Standard Oil Company has nur-
chased the business of the Mexican
Petroleum Company. thus obtaining a
monopoly in the Republic.
The American Commission to the
Paris Exposition has planned to estab-
fish a corn Kitchen next year to in
troduce Indian corn to Europeans.
! y fund has been started in Dublin
for Parnell monument.
Gen. Wood, at Santiago, reports the
yellow fever epidemic over.
/ \ rich Western merchant lost $1,000
iii panel game" in Chicago.
Mrs Foraker, mother of Senator !.
b. Foraker, died at IIillshoro. Ohio.
] Major Esterhazy says he will not go
to Rennes to testify against Dreyfus.
Lightning twice struck the grand
stand at Princeton completely wreck
ing ii.
y scheme to sell forged bonds is be-
lieVed to have been discovered in De-
troit.
The Turkish Minister to Washington
has left for Europe, and may not re-
turn.
I The training ship Annapolis, bound
for Europe has reached Funchal, Ma
delia.
The deaths in New York State in
June We're 9,433, 400 in excess of the
| average.
a Chicago lawyer says Eeutgert