Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-01-27

rdue vi ulScOunJ from 4 10 81 per cent
Marcio Garcia, a son of the late Gen.
eral Calixto Garcia, has entered Union
College, Schenectady, n. Y.
The laying of the keel of the new
battleship Maine has been completed
at Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia.
Raphael MOTTO, eleven years old, wit
messed bank robbery scene in Mount
Vernon, N. Y. theatre and len robbed
a local bank.
The bank of Arthur, H., was robbed
of 81, 600 by six men who overpowered
the night Waterman, bound and gagged
him, and tied him III back room.
y bid of S34, 600 has been made for a
seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
This is only 800 under the record
price of $34, 800 in 1881.
Sir Henry Irving announces that he
will appear with Miss Terry in Sarlou's
"Robespierre' at the Lyceum Theatre:
London, early in April.
Scientists found hidden tubes for com
pressed air in the walls and floors of
keeley's laboratory and expressed opin-
ions that his alleged motor was Il hum
4 bug.
As result of free fght in and near
the Ann Arbor Opera House. fonr stu
dents of the University Of Michigan are
in jail Oh charge OF disorderly con
duet.
EX-Maior EsterhazY. who received a
safe conduct to return to France to
testify in the Dreyfuo revision proceed
ing before the Court of Cessation, has
arrived at Paris
The public works and property of
the island of Cuba have been trans.
ferred to the various departments of
the Cabinet announced by Governors
General Brooke.
Officers and crew of the steamer
Glendower, who were rescued at sea in
a gale by the Menominee, were brought
into the port of New York by that
steamer.
DR.. Lapponi, the Pope's physician
says that the constitution of his Holt
ness is the strongest he has ever known
and predicts that the Pope will live to
see the twentieth century.
The Panama Railway laborers are on
strike to enforce their demand for COM
pensation at the rate of 81 day in gold
In consequence shipping is at stand
still and business is suspended.
1t is reported that New York finan-
ciers have secured options on all street
car systems of st. Louis except the
Suburban.. Brown Brothers, bankers,
are said to have organized the deal.
Bank notes to the amount of $50. $40
vanished from PARIS Bank, London.
The loss of the money was apparently
due to an extremely clever theft. the
notes having been taken from a drawer.
John DAILY, the Irish political prison
err, who was released from Portland
Prison in 1896, has been elected Mayor
of Limerick by unanimous vote under
the new Irish Local Government Act.
Details of the combination of copper
interests show that nearly all the min
ing companies of the country have
joined under the financial management
of the men who control the Standard
Oil Company.
Jose Rodriguez, Spanish soldier.
who was sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment by Spanish court-martial
for killing an officer who was beating
him, has been pardoned by Governor
General Brooke.
1t is said that China will send COM
mercial commission to Europe and
America in March. If the commission
reports favorably commercial agencies
will be established in the important
foreign cities in 1900.
A bill was introduced in the Maine
Legislature authorizing the incorpor-
alton of the American lee Company,
with capital stock of 500. 900. coo. half
of which is preferred and the other
common stO X.
Captain ca tebury, of the British
steamship TT H. Head, which arrived
at Galveston, rex, from Port Limon
without Il consular bill of health, has
paid the Collector Of Customs there the
maximum fine of 5000.
Gov. +. c. Smith has appointed John
Henry Watson, of Bradford. Sixth As.
sociate Judge of the Vermont Supreme
Court to fill the vacancy on the bench
arising from the appointment of Chief
Justice Ross as United States Senator.
The British tirst-class battleship Col
lingwoOd came into collision with the
British third-class cruiser Curacao in
Plymouth Sound. The Curacao was
seriously damaged in her starboard
side, and had to call tugs to her assist
ance.
A pipe in one of the large stills of
the standard OH w OrkS in Clean,
n. y. exploded, setting fire to the gas
that is always plentiful on top of the
stills and scattering the oil over the
adjacent works. The loss is about
800, 900.
The newspaper America, published
at Manila, has been suppressed by Cen
Otis, upon the complaint of the German
Consul for publishing an article alleg-
ing that the German residents of Ma
Mia were giving pecuniary assistance
to the Filipino cause.
The President has asked Congress to
vote thanks and gold medals to Lieu
tenant ID. II. Jarvis and +. L. Bartholf
and DR.. Samuel J. Cobb, of the revenue
cutter Bear, who took reindeers over
land to the imperiled whalers in the
Arctic last year.
At the regular meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Manhattan Railway
of New York William J. Fransioli
h.. 11l IN, Il IL,