Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-02-03
E[EGRAPH|C NEWS NOTES.
Short Items From All Parts of the
Civilized World.

Special cable dispatches from Manila
| report fearful cruelties of the natives
of the Philippines.
! Gen. Woodford says this country did
not have two rounds OF ammunition per
gun when the Maine was blown up.
The Duke of Devonshire in speech
at Birmingham, said that the Anglo
American ties are stronger than ever.
Captain J. L. Brewer, a famous wing
shot, says he has discovered the secret
OF firing dynamite from gun in safety.
President Mckinley has appointed a
colonial commission to deal with all
questions of governing our new posses.
sions.
Authority of the Spanish Bank in
Havana to collect taxes in Cuba has
been revoked after a Cabinet discus
sion.
The Norwich line steamboat Rhode
Island ran aground in the fog opposite
133d street, New York, on her way to
to the Sound.
A special cable from Manila says
that ENJOYS from Iloilo are coming
to consult Aguinaldo, and the outlook
is more peaceful
The New York Assembly has passed
unanimously a resolution against the
admission to Congress of B. H. Roberts,
the Utah polygamist
A bill has been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature to wipe out pro.
hibition. A majority of both parties is
said to have agreed to support it.
Seventy-five American women met
in the city of Havana to arrange for a
memorial of the anniversary of the de-
struction of the Maine, on Feb. To-
1t is believed now that Richard
Croker will go to England in the
spring. His friends say he will enter
his horses in the big English events.
Rear-Admiral Schley has assured the
President that, so far as possible, he
would request his friends to stop the
opposition in the Senate to Sampson.
\ special cable despatch from Pana.
ma says that President Alfaro of
Ecuador, has defeated the rebels in a
( fierce battle, during which 100 were
killed.
Orders have been given for the
| Twenty-secOnd Infantry, at Fort Crook,
| Neb.. to leave there for San Francisco.
to embark on the transport Ohio for
Manila.
y resolution thanking Miss Annie
| Wheeler tor her heroic services in
Cuba, has been adopted by Il rising
vote in both Houses of the Alabama
Legislature.
Since the arrival of the Philadelphia
at San Diego, Cal, nearly or quite
thirty members of the crew have de-
serted, and of these eighteen have been
recaptured.
American sympathizers are making
! another attempt to secure the release
+ of Mrs Florence Maybrick imprisoned
for life in England for the murder of
her husband by poison.
Louis j. Snure. who pleaded guilty
to forging and stealing $40. 600 from his
employers, Mandel, Pursch & Vince
| of New York, was sentenced to seven
years in State prison.
Emperor William received the birth
day congratulations of his family and
household, and after special service
in the chapel of the castle he held re-
ception in the White Hall.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford, who has been visiting China in
the interests of the British Associated
Chambers of Commerce, has sailed
from Yokohama for San Francisco.
The Berlin North German Gazette
publishes an account of acts of courtesy
and constant interchanges of visits and
Invitations by the German and Ameri.
can naval officers in the Philippines.
Representative Hull has agreed to
compromise on the Army Reorganiza-
ton bill, fixing minimum of fifty
thousand, with the President empow-
cred to make it one hundred thousand.
The articles of incorporation of the
National Tinplate and Enamel Ware
Company, with II capital of 5000, 600,
One-haf preferred and One-half com
mon, have been filed ut Trenton, n. j.
Upon the report of the referee. Will
Der Mcbride, Judgment for S27, G27.
was entered in the New York County
Clerks Office in the action brought by
| Edward ;. Stokes against the Holman
House Company.
Governor Roosevelt of New York has
designated Austen G.. Fox and Wallace
Macfarlane, OF New York city, as spe
cial counsel to represent him in the
canal prosecution. Both men have ac-
cepted the positions.
\ summary of the report which will
be submitted by the War Investigating
Commission shows that practically
everyone connected with the manage
ment of the campaign, except Generals
Miles and breckenridge, will be exon
Grated.
The revelations by trusted confiden-
tial agents of the big beef combine that
imported beef was supplied to the
Amer can troops, has caused one of the
most stirring sensations that has fol-
lowed the 'embalmed beef" charges
by Major General Miles.
Jean Molas a civil engineer, claims
to have invented Il compressed air
motor, which. he says, will drive all
horses from the streets of London in
the near future. The inventor also
claims that it will be preferred to steam
and electricity engines.
The newspaper America, published
at Manila, has been suppressed by Gen.
Otis, upon the complaint of the German
Consul, for publishing an article alleg-
ING that the German residents of Ma
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