Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.


1he transport Se'-1tor, with 10 Of
Ulcers and 600 mel, mas arrived at Ma
Mia.
The Mayor Of linus has disappeared,
and is supposed to have Joined the
Eilipinos.
Advices from Venezuela, received at
Havana, confirm the reports that there
is Il revolution in progress.
-Four Guatemala banks have ar
ranged to lend the government $500.
900 in monthly installmcnis.
Senior Luis f. Corea, the new Mica
raguan Minister, was presented to
President Mckinley Monday.
The Mississippi state board of health
has declared a quarantine against New
Orleans because of yellow fever.
Citizens of Skaguay, Alaska, have
decided to move Dyea to that city by
bringing the houses across the bay on
scows.
The captain Of the transport Morgan
/ City, wrecked on the Japenese coast,
says there is good prospects of saving
the vessel.
Rumors of possible alliance
South American nptions against the
United States were received with some
concern by Washington officials.
Senior Quesada. ut Washington, has
been Informed that nine more Cuban
prisoners have been released from the
Spanish military prison at Cadiz.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
issued call for n statement of the
condition of the National banks at the
close of business on September I.
Col. Partridge, in an interview at
Albany, explained when he had con-
sidered the eight-hour law not ap-
plicable to lock tenders on the canals.
Capt. Dyer. of the cruiser Baltimore.
arrived in Baltimore for the ceremonies
attendant on the presenting to him of
the sword voted by the city Common
Council
Mexican newspapers demanded an
export duty on cattle on account of the
scarcity of beef.
Military men in Australia showed
great eagerness to fight in the event of
war in South Africa.
a second will of the late Wilson A
Waddingham was filed in Kansas City.
1t revokes the will of 1892.
Decentralization in rates for packing
house products between Missouri and
Ohio River points has increased.
Illinois will not pay the expense of
sending her National Guard to New
York for the Dewey celebration.
The Government ordered 100 barrels
of alcohol of Terre Haute for the
manufacture of smokeless powder for
the Philippines.
Justice Chester decided in Albany
that New York should assume 81. 800 &.
346.6S and Nassau County $685., 65332
of bonded Indebtedness of Queens
County.
Half of the 100000 bonds alleged to
have been stolen from the Nebraska
National Bank, of Omaha, was found
among the effects of n. ii. Copeland, a
teller.
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was found
guilty of treason by the court-martial
at Rennes and sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment. The vote stood 3 to 9
against him.
y rumor that Andrew Carnegie had
the ambition to become a member Of
Parliament has given rise 10 the state
ment that neither he nor his father
was naturalized in this country.
The G. A. r. festivities at Philadel.
phia ended with n naval parade.
Peru's new President. Edwarda Ro.
mana, will offer amnesty TO all political
offenders.
An Arabian, i'll with what is thought
to he leprosy. has been detained at
Wilkcsbarre, Pa.
Several passengers We're severely in.
jured by the telescoping of two Give.
land trolley cars.
The Weather Bureau at Washington
has issued a hurricane bulletin from
st. kits, West Indies.
Putnam Taylor, wanted il Chicago
on charge of killing a man on August
30, was arrested at Homestead. Pa.
The Omaha police are looking for
Nate Copeland, teller of the Nebraska
Bank. 1t is said $4,000 is also miss
ing.
Ii was rumored at Atlantic City. y
j.. that the yacht j. w. Morgan had
been lost and several persons We're
drowned.
1t was again denied at the War De
partment in Washington that Gen. otis
would be superseded in tie Philip
pines.
Thomas Batten was instantly killed
in an iron mill ut Newca site, Del. by
electricity which ran up an iron rod
lie was holding.
The schooner America, which has
sailed the lakes for more than half
century founderrd thirty-five miles
northeast of Chicago.
Tim Kcefe, a labOrer. died at Kansas
City from wounds inflicted Icy George
l.. Chrehoe. who struck l\eefe on the
head with an iron bar.
y steam pipe ON an Ohio River YES
sci burst Secretary O'ShauSneSsy, eX-
President Cook and Treasurer Rowe of
the Cincinnati WaterwOrks Commits