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

guar liver anu llaTDOr ApprOprlaIO
| bill.
Sir John Struthers, Vice President
of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ed
inbcrgh, is dead. He was born in
1873.
The transport Xcalandia, with 800
wounded and convalcsccnt soldiers
| from Manila, has arrived at San Fran
| cisco.
The Navy Department has asked
Congress to appropriate Sl125,0OO to
repair the damage by the recent
Brooklyn Navy Yard fire.
Paul julius de Reuter- Baron of the
Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and
director of Reuters Telegram Comp
any died at Nice in his eighty third
year
The National steel Company in
corporatcd in New Jersey has in
creased its capital to %lo.OoO0O0 with
which to buy in several Ohio corpora
tons.
Friends of the Nicaragua Canal may
force an extra session of Congress by
obstrucdng the passage of appropri-
alton bills in order to get the Canal bill
| passed.
Tom Allen. once champion puGlist,
shot and instantly killed Tim Confoy,
n stage hand in II theatre, ut st. Louis.
Allen also shot his bartender through
the hand.
DR.. Lyman Abbott preached his
farewell sermon as pastor of Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, and said he
believed Christ to be very God of
very God"
The Board of health reports that
| ,f
grip in the City of Mexico. The dis
ease is proving fatal to many of the
poorer people.
Three attempts have been made at
Kewancc. ILL.,. in the past two weeks
to wreck No 6. the Burlington roads
east-bound overland flyer Two boys
have been arrested.
Gen. Correa. SPANS Minister of
War. has cablcd to Gen. Rios. who
commands the Spanish troops in the
Philippines, instructing him 20 acCel-
crate the repatriation of those troops
The Mexican Government has Just
sent teachers to the YaQua Indian
country, in the State of Sonora. where
they will open and conduct schools
for the instruction of Indian children.
The MINNEAPOLIS Tribune building
was destroyed Ivy fire. There were
about fifty people employed in the
building. All escaped without injury.
The loss on the Tribune plant is $780,
600
-Commissary- General Eagan told
the court ofinqury upon the beef ques-
ton that he never held any conSulta-
tons with the commanders of thcUni-
ted States troops sent to Cuba and
Porto Rico.
An avalanche on the Lasal Noun
tains, near Park City, Utah, has UNI
covered ten foot copper vein rSay-
ING 20 per cent. copper and containing
eiglt-inch streak of glace assaying 20
per cent. metallic copper.
In his annual report to the Lcgsla-
ture, George w. Aldridgc, former
Superintendent of Public Works of
New York. asks for suspension of
judgment on the canal scandal until
the Attorney General has acted.
Ii Hung Chang is returning to pck-
in from an inspection of the Yellow
River flooded districts. He reports
that last years overflow was the
worst in recent years. Thousands of
natives are dying of starvation
Robert Breckenridge Halligan, of
Chicago. has wired J. w. McGarvey,
Jr.. of Lexington. Ky. stating that
should his name be perpctuated by
Kentucky University. he will make the
institution an endowment of 100000.
The management of the Swedish
State railways intends to buy twenty
locomotives in the United States be-
cause the European factories cannot
deliver engines with sufficient celebrity
Ia ,anr1irnnnntS of tho limos
The Dowager Empress of China is
greatly incensed at the action of the
Russians at Talien- Wan. on the Lao
Tung Peninsula, near Port Arthur, in
killing 800 Chinese during a conflict
which originated over a question of
taxes.
The Bessemer Furnace Association
of Sharon, Pa, of which all blast fur
naces in ShenangO and Mahoning Val
leysare members, has advanced wages
of all employees 10 per cent, to begin
on March /. About 1000 men are af-
fected.
At Berlin, Ont, judgment was given
IN the case ofAdele vonWebenau, who
Is an Austrian countess, and Herman
Balderhausen, her nephew, both
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the Merchants Fire Insurance Com
pany of Toronto. The accus"i Wee
sentenced to two months in Jail,
The Secretary of State has transmit
ted to Congress IL memorial from the
American Chamber of Commerce in
Paris, asking for IA more liberal appro-
priation for the Paris Exposition of
1900. The efforts of Commissioner
Peck to secure additional space are
highly commended.
The supply steamer Roanoke has
sailed for Manila from San Francisco.
Besides general cargo of supplies
for the troops in the Philippines the
Roanoke carried II recruits for the
Fourteenth Infantry. IL men for the
Twentieth Infantry and two men and
! 81 recruits for the Third Infantry.
! Army officers who claim to have
knowledge of the subject say that the
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