Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15

form yellow fever.
! Lima, Peru, Sept IA new Cab
met has been formed, with Senior Gal
vez as Premier and Minister of Foreign
Affairs. and Senior Belaunde as Min
lister of Finance and Commerce.
Crescent. n. Y. Sept 11.-Fourteen
ice houses owned by Shaughnessy &
Bolton of Lansingburg. and one owned
by man named Kinney of Cohoes
were burned to the ground. The houses
were valued at $4,000.
Springfield, H., Sept. 11.-Attorney
General Akin has rendered an opinion
that the Medical Practice act of 1899
does not prohibit the treatment of dis
ease by mental or spiritual methods by
Christian Scientists or others where no
medicine is used, and that where
person dies during such treatment it is
! not an offense under the Criminal Code
of Illinois.
I Brigus, n. F., Sept. 1.-THE Peary-
Harmsworth steamer Windward, Cap
! tain John Bartlett. from Etah North
Greenland, August 2G, has arrived here
reporting all well on board. She will
be followed in week by the Peary
Arctic Clubs steamer Diana, Captain
Samuel w. Bartlett. aslo from Etah.
The Windward reports that all on
board the Diana were well at the time
the vessels separated.
Haverhll, Mass, Sept 1.-THE fea-
ture of the bicycle races Mt the local
track was the twenty five-mile race be-
tween Harry Gibson and e. A. Nc
Duffee, which the former rider won.
Although McDuffee's pacing machine
broke down in the fifth mile, McDuffee
kept on and attempted to catch Glib
sons pace, but failed. Gibson. in the
last mile, established new mile track
record of I'm. 45 lbs.
Caracas, Venezuela, Sept 12.-The
revolution. under the leadership of
Gen. Castro, is gaining ground. The
insurgents now occupy \irgua, three
days mareh from Valencia.
Plymouth. England. Sept. .2-At the
closing session of the Trades Union
Congress. which has been in conven-
ton here, resolution was passed urg-
ing the Government to use every pos
sible effort to peacefully settle the
Transvaal difficulty.
Berlin. Sept 1.-THE Government
has resolved not to send a special rep
resentative to the Philadelphia Com
mercial Congress. but has delegated
the German Consul at Philadelphia and
the German Agricultural Attached at
Washington to make report. Prussia
will not be represented.
Milwaukee, Sept 12.-Captain Rich
ard Freeman and Nelson Alguire. the
sole survivors of the Canadian barge
Lsgar. which went down in Lake HUI
ron on September 3. have arrived in
this city aboard the steamer Case. The
two survivors We're picked up by the
Case twenty miles southeast of Thun-
der Bay Island Light.
Key West, Fla, Sept. l2.-The total
number of yellow fever cases here to
date is 154. Twenty eight cases have
been reported in the past twenty-four
hours. Fred Mcdonald. Superintend-
ent of the Union Bridge Company.
which is erecting the Government coal
sheds and pier has died, making the
total number Of deaths to date ten.
Peoria, ILL.,, Sept. 12.-Great haste is
being made in the construction of the
automobile gun carriage which is now
building in this city for Mai or David
son of the Highland Park Military
Academy. The cause of this activity
Is to be found in the Majors wish to
arrive in New York City after his trip
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time for the Dewey celebration.
Atlantic City, n j., Sept. 12.-Rising
800 feet above the ocean, triple
waterSpout swept past this city, lash
ing the surf into fury, imperling a fleet
of fishing boats within three miles of
the shore. and Just avoiding an I'M
known coasting steamer and n tug and
barges. SO rapid was the speed of the
waterspout. travelling to the south. that
in forty-fve minutes after first sighting
it had disappeared.
Manila, Sept. ,, via Hong Kong.
Sept. 12.-The censor has refused to al.
low the following dispatch, the ac-
curacy of which is unquestioned, to be
telegraphed:
"The Surgeons report in regard to
the condition Of Gen. MacArthur's di.
vision show that SO per cent. of the
officers and 25lA per cent. of the enlist
ed men are sick. This includes the
sick In quarters and those sent home.
Eleven per cent. of the enlisted men
sick in quarters are suffering from
dysentery and malaral fevers.
Kansas City, Mo-, Sept 12-The wo
men of the Hebrew Relief Association.
in which the leading Jewish families
of Kansas City are represented. at a
meeting adopted the following reso-
luton: I'VE do hereby pledge our.
selves not to visit the territory of the
French Republic, buy or handle any
merchandise or other thing manufac-
tured or grown in any territory or pos
session of said republic until the truth
of the innocence of Capt. Alfred Drey-
fus shall be sworn to the world by a
fair and impartial trial."