Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

Refugees from johannesburg con-
tinue to arrive at Cape Town.
The report that Nice-Presidcnt IIo-
bart's health is failing is declared by
his family to be false.
Gen. Brooke reported artillerymen
and others ready to sail home from
Havana when a transport should ar
rive.
Two hundred Roman Catholics of
Waterville. Me-, began a pilgrimage to
the shrine of st. Anne de Beaupre,
Quebec.
Permission has been granted by the
War Department to take the yacht
Columbia into the Brooklyn Navyyard
drydock.
The Swift packing house interests in
Chicago have purchased valuable cat
tie ranches in Oklahoma and the Pan
handle of Texas.
1t is said in Milwaukee that Presi-
dent Mckinley will probably spend the
night of Octohr 1 there, in the course
of his Western trip.
The demand of the Cincinnati street
railroad employees for the reins ate
ment of certain discharged employees
threatens to result in a strike.
The new battlcslip Kearsarge had
her trial trip off Cape Ann. From the
shore her estimated sp, ed on the first
leg was 1G.44 knots and on the second
1903 knots.
The United States gunEoat Urdaneta
was found hcachcd in the Oran River,
stripped of her guns and her crew
missing. The latter were taken pris-
soncrs by the Filipnos.
The State Department has asked the
Japanese Government fer the provi-
sional detention of Alba VI. Rent. .Ir.,
supposed to be in Yokohama. and who
is wanted in jamestown y. Y, Oh IL
charge of forgery.
The Episcopal Church wedding ccre-
mony of Miss Julia Dent Grant and
Prince Cantacuzcne. Of Russia. was
celebrated at All Saints Chapel. New
port. After reception mt the Potter
Palmer residence, the bride and groom
left for New York on the steam yacht
| Narada.
a blockade of freight for the Klon-
dixie has occurred at Skagway.
\ train carrying 800 troops to Hall
fax was ditchcd and several men were
severely injured.
Captain \. II. Mccormick and \. S.
4 Barker have qualified for promotion to
the grade of Rear Admiral.
Nassar College has 800 applicants for
admission and some must be excluded
for lact of odation.
Canadian capitalists are said to Lave
offered Dreyfus $1,000 day to lecture
il Europe and America for year.
Daniel Talon, Lord Mayor of Dublin,
has accepted an invitation to address
tie Parnell Memorial Committee in
New York.
1t is said in Vancouver. Wash, that
the President will act in the case of
Corporal Damhoffer, condemned to
death at Manila.
William X. Hay. of Springfield. ILL.,,
Il nephew of Secretary of State Hay.
has enlisted as private in the Eighth
United States Cavalry.
The Federal Steel Company and the
American Steel and Wire Company
have purchased coal lands near Nor
eantown, w. Va, for coke oven pur-
poses.
ID. \. Ray, an investigator of the
Hawaiian Commission. said in Chicago
that no deception had been practicod
in admitting Japanese laborcrs pend
inc the new law code.
y Broadway cable car in New Yorl;
city knocked Frank Rose. messenger
boy. off his bicycle at Bond street. tic
was rolled under the fender. hut c,tn4
TO the brake chain and was unhurt.
President Mckinley. President DiaZ
the Earl of Mimic, Admiral Dewey,
Secretary Long, Sir Wilfrid Lauror
Lord Chief Justice Russell and others
have promised to speak at the Chicago
celebration. October 9.
Edward Atkinson has announced his
purpose of sending anti-imperiaiiStiC
literature to the Philippines, and has
detied the PoStmaStor-Gcner to stop
him. He has also decided to send Ger
man documents to Congressman Shat
tues constituents.
During n debate in the Cape Colony
Assembly, Cecil Rhodes. who hitherto
has deprecated the possibility of hostil-
tiles, acknowledged that the Transs Il.
and England, were on 1.-THE verge of
war" He accused ertain members OF
the Assembly of treason.
Russian explorers are at work in all O
the lesser known parts of Siberia.