Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-22
THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL
A Summary of Happenings at
Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
A Review of What Has Transpired
of Public Interest

Chicago, Sept 1S-In his address on
"Monopolies" before the Trust Confer
ence Mr.. w. ]. Bryan made no specific
attempt to reply to Mr.. Cochran, but it
was considered a mastery treatment
of the subject by the immense crowd
that heard it.
San Jose, Cal. Sept. 1S.-President
David Starr Jordan, of Standard Uni.
versity, is back from an automobile
trip up Mount Hamilton. The electric
carriage reached an altitude of 1920
feet, the greatest height ever reached
by vehicle of the kind.
New York, Sept. 1S.-There has been
further advance of one-quarter of a
cent over the top-notch price of ten
cents pound in the price of beef. BY
this additional raise the Beef Trust
will pocket an extra profit of $4,000
during the current week in Greater
New York and Jersey City.
London, Sept. 1S.-Andrew Car
negie's yacht Sea Breeze. with himself
and several titled Commoners and
their wives on board broke down off
the coast of Scotland. Distress sig
UulS were llluuc anu Tic party event
ually was taken off and landed by
fishing smack and had to spend the
night at the little town Of Cromarty.
Philadelphia. Sept. 1S.-NIembers of
the First Second and Third Regi-
ments, National Guard of Pennsyl-
Vana, which have headquarters in
this city. will probably go to New
York to take part in the Dewey recep-
ton parade. Meetings of the lnen
have been held and efforts are to be
made to secure the necessary funds
with which to pay expenses.
Topeka, Kan, Sept. 1S.-The Salt
Trust has purchased the Kansas Salt
Companys business at Hutchinson.
Thomas s. Krutz is President and
George Gould is vice-president of the
new company. The Kansas Salt Com
pany employed 400 men. 1t refused to
sell to the trust six months ago, but
the trust bought another plant. and by
competition brought the Kansas COM
pany to yield.
Albany, n. Y, Sept. 19.-After an ILL
ness which had been continuous since
january last, Rufus Wheeler Peck
Rufus w. Peckham, of the United
States Supreme Court died at the
country residence of the family, at
Altamont. Mr.. Peckham. who was
thirty years old. was considered one
of the most promising of the young
members Of the bar of this state.
New York. Sept 1S-Wayne Mac
Neagh, counsel for Captain Oberlin NJ
Carter, who has been convicted by a
cOurt-martal of frauds in the en-
cheering department of the army. re-
turned from abroad on the ST. Louis.
Il cannot talk about the Carter case"
said lie. Il promised the Attorney
General that | would say nothing
about it until had made an oral argu-
ment before him."
New York. Sept. 1S.-The American
liner st. Louis has arrived with n ship
load of distinguished passengers. Sen
ator Mark \. Hanna. Seth Low. Prrsi-
dent of Columbia College. and one time
candidate for Mayor; former Mayor
Thomas +. Gilroy, Wayne MacNeagh
counsel for Captain Carter: former Sen
ator Pavey and Frank s. Monnett, AT
torney General of Ohio We're among
the passengers.
Topeka, Kan, Sept. 1S.-Wiliam T..
Hahn has made much money by adver
Using as a widow looking for loving
husband Many farmers answered and
TO each applicant he wrote and pro-
posed to visit him and act as house
keeper for few weeks on trial if the
man would send n sum sufficient to
nj ,pit tin,
say Hahn gathered in hundreds of
dollars in this way. He is now under
arrest.
Berlin. Sept 1S.-The Cologne Volks-
Xetung prints "A despatch from Shan
Tung which reports ii serious condition
of affairs in the IIinterland. The Chin
csc government has endeavored to keep
the German minister NJ Pekin in ignor
ance of the condition of affairs and has
intercepted teie-r,ns t: him. The
German mission al Shsn-Tung. it is re-
ported. has been annihilatcd and rail
road communication is only possible
with a strong military escort
Pittsburg. Sept. 19-JameS \. Cham-
berS. president of the American Glass
Company. is authority for the state
ment that window glass combine
has been effected. The new company
will take in fifty of the largest con
Germs in the country their aggregate
capacity being about 1000 pots. This
is said to leave only about 600 pots
outside of the combine, The new
company will bear the old name of
american Glass Company" and will
be capitalized at S11.OO0,0OO
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Rochester, Sept ia fire, which
started in the boiler room of the Ira
:. Deshro box factory, No. Aqueduct
street, totally destroyed that siX-story
structure. together with the j. II.