Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-01-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
News Notes From Every Part of
the Civilized World.

be some changes in the Sagasta Cab
met.
Citizens of Paterson, N. j., have
framed stringent bill against trusts,
and expect it to become a law.
Official advices received in Washing
ton show that Mataafa has been elected
King of Samoa.
Rudyard Kiplng, with his wife and
family, will start from London for
America on January %.
Richard Croker gave out statement
favoring expansion and say ing that the
'l6 to |" was a dead issue.
Judges of the New York Supreme,
General Sessions and Special Sessions
courts now wear long black gowns for
the first time.
a despatch from St. Michaels, Azores,
says that the American steamer Catania,
from Glasgow for New York, has put
into that port.
a bill to prohibit six-day bicycle
races will be Introduced in the New
York Assembly. 1t has the endorse
ment of the L. y. ".
Protests have been made by the
Chamber of Commerce against tall
buildings and the restriction of Ameri-
can interests in China.
According to Chinese reports secret
treaty exists between Great Britain
and the United States to prevent any
further alienation of Chinese territory.
Chief Joseph Ripley has instructed
the Chicago police to 'shoot to kill"
when it becomes necessary in dealing
with highwaymen and notorious thugs.
Two packages of registered mail adj
dressed to West Virginia and sent
from the New York Post Office have
disappeared and are thought to have
| been stolen.
Mrs. Florence Ritchie, member of
Frank Daniels company. now playing
at the Broadway. Denver. tainted while
taking a bath at the Albert Hotel and
was drowned.
Larney Laurence Dennis, a cOlored
boy "evangeli-t. drew turbulent
crowd to Mount Olivet Baptist Church.
in New York City, and a panic was
narrowly averted.
y plan i, working to bring Jim"
COrbett and Peter Maher together in IL
siX-round contest. Corbett is willing
and Maher says he is, provided that the
guaranteed money is sufficient
Pope Leo favors the occupation and
control of the Philippines by the
! United States, and the influence of the
Vatican will be invoked to expedite the
ratification Of the peace treaty.
Counsel for the Standard Oil Com
pany has deted the Supreme Court of
Ohio, saying. no more of his client )
books would be produced than have al
ready been placed in evidence.
Gen. Ludlow has caused several pri-
vate houses in Havana to be searched
for arms. Twenty-siX rifles We're seized.
The searches were made in the middle
of the night and were submitted to
quietly.
Gen. Leonard Wood Military Cover
nor of the province of Santiago. will
leave for Washington on board the
transport Mississippi having tele-
graphed to Washington for leave of alb
sence.
Baron Bantfy. Prime Minister of
Hungary, and NJ. Horensky, member
of the Hungarian Diet, fought a duel
with pistols at Budapest. Two shots
were fired by each but neither was
hit.
The Paris Figaro says it is informed
that the recall of Sir Edward Monson,
the British Ambassador, has practically
been decided upon. The Foreign Office
authorities refuse to confirm or deny
the report.
The London St. James Gazette says
that the firm of kynochs, of Birming-
ham, has begun making cartridges I'M
der an American contract to supply
10000, 900 at the rate of 1000, 900 Il
week.
The new fast mail train from the
East arrived at Portland, Ore. over
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company line. making the run from
New York in ninety-tive hours and fifty
five minutes.
Well informed quarters in Paris re-
gard it as probable that France and
Great Britain will reach an agreement
on the Newfoundland shore question
which will be satisfactory to Great
Britain.
The Letter syndicate has secured
control of the Rhode Island Locomotive
Works and Will operate 1t As one of the
plants of the International Air Power
Company. Letter and the Rothschilds
are in control
The late Colonel Warnings report on
Havana declares that unless the most
thorough sanitary reforms were i'm
mediately instituted in the Cuban CAPT
tai there would be an epidemic of vel
low fever in this country.
BY a decision of the United State,
Circuit Court of Appeals, the residuary
estate of Daniel b. Fayerweather
amounting to nearly 50, 600, 0O0 was re-
leased for distribution among twenty
five educational institution and hos
pitfalls.
Edward Thimme, Secretary of the
Druggists League for Shorter Hours
declared that upward of one hundred
New Workers die every year from fata
substitutions in prescriptions, and thai
dealers "hush UP" many cases by pay
, ! mo cash damages