Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-08

n twenty-five-round contest
San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 3.-Capt
G. +. Goodrich. of the cruiser Newark
las been detached from that command.
and assumed command of the BATTLE.
ship Iowa. relieving Capt. Terry. who
is ordered home on waiting orders.
Chicago. Sept Brig. Cen Thomas
NJ. Anderson has sent to the War De-
partment at Washington his official re-
port of the operations in the Depart-
ment of the Lakes for the year ended
July go. 1899. More than S11 100000
of Government funds were disbursed
by the officers in charge of this depart.
ment during the year.
Topeka, Kan, Sept 3.-Charles II.
Hudson. who resigned as assistant
general freight agent of the Santa Fe,
will. on October /, become general
freight and passenger agent of the
Mexican Central Railroad. Mr. Hud-
son will succeed Adam Hoffman. who
was compelled to give up work on ac-
count of i'll health.
Brazil Ind, Sept 3.-The 300 miners
in the Diamond mine of the Keller
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say that the company would not allow
them to use powder purchased of any
store other than that of the company.
The miners contended that they save
20 cents on each key of powder by buy
ing it elsewhere.
Toledo, Sept. 3.-The Shore Line and
Manufacturers railroads has scored on
Mayor Jones, who has been opposing
the giving Of a franchise to them, by
laying their tracks into the city and
running an engine over them. With
one hundred men, the road was laid
over the disputed four blocks and an
engine was run over it, thus preventing
any injunction proceedings.
TONER'S Station, Tenn, Sept. IA
special train bearing Cooper's circus
was wrecked here by the bursting of
an airbrake hose. Twelve persons
were injured and circus property and
animals were scattered in all direc.
tons. No doctors were obtainable and
it is impossible to tell the extent of the
injuries. No one is known to be fatal
ly hurt.
Terre Haute. Ind. Sept. 3.-After
passing through two railroad wrecks
that killed his companions, Harry r.
kellogg lies dead, the victim of
wreck. 1t occurred in the yards here.
An engine ran into the freight caboose
in which he was sitting. Engineer Til
ton and Brakeman Hollis are also dead
as the result of the wreck.
Kansas City. Sept 3.-An order for
5OO,0O0,000 feet of Southern yellow
pine, the largest single order in the
history of the lumber trade. for use in
the construction of Cecil Rhodes pro-
posed Cape to Cairo road in Africa. is
said to have been consummated. Twen-
ty mills along several Texas and Louis
lana railroads are under contract to
/ fill the order.
! Circleville, Ohio. Sept. 3.-The dis
covery of oil in large quantities at
Adelphi has caused very little surprise
here. 1t has been rumOred for num-
Der of years that oil existed there in
paying quantities and that the fact
was we'll known. but was suppressed
by one of the large oil companies. who
had bought a well there and plugged
it, The Logan Oil Company has Sc
| cured n lease on all oil lands in that
vicinity and will at once develop it.
Detroit. Mich. Sept Seen. r. A.
lger. ex-Secretary of War. responding
to an inquiry as to whether he would
be willing TO accept the Republican
nomination for Mayor of Detroit this
fall, said: 1T would unquestionably
be a great honor for any one to be
Mayor of Detroit. However, | posi-
lively could not think of it. | would
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Mayor any more than l could think
of taking n nomination for Governor"
AS TO other political matters, includ-
ing his own candidacy for Senator,
the General declined to talk.
Newport. II. l., Sept. Ain n good
sailing breeze the Columbia beat the
Defender by six minutes and forty-nine
seconds over a course of thirty miles
in the first of the official trial races Of
the two great flyers. The new yacht
gained five minutes and ten seconds in
going fifteen miles to windward and
one minute and thirty nine seconds in
running home.
Vineland. y. J.. Sept 4.-During n
shooting tournament of the Newfeld
Gun Club. at Newfield. Samuel Will
Jams. n blacksmith. was accidentally
shot in both legs by DIR. r. f. Buck
Williams was hurrying from the traps
when DR.. Buck took quick aim at a
low flying bird and fired Almost the
entire load of shot entered Williams
legs. inflicting serious wounds
Terre Haute, Ind, Sept. 4.-Physi-
clans assert that William Mckenzie a
lineman who was thrown twenty-five
feet TO the ground from an electric
light pole, owes his life to the fall
Mckenzie was repairing a wire, when
he came in contact with 1900 volts
of electricity. After striking the earth
he revived, to the amazement of the
doctors. The theory is that he was a
dead man. so to speak, while falling,
and that the shock when he struck the
ground revived the action of the heart.
He is in hospital, but soon will be
about.
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