Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-10-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

Prince Ferdinand the designations of the
Bulgarian cabinet.
Nine columns of the great hall of the
temple of El-Karnak, Egypt, have fallen.
Six persons were killed and many in.
jured by q train being blown from a
bridge near Utsunomiya, Japan.
Prince Ranjitsinhji's English cricket
team made g runs in one inning against
the Philadelphia team.
The first of the registration lists of
New York soldiers in the United States
army was received at Albany.
The New York Shipbuilding company,
with $3,O00,000 capital, was incorporated
at Trenton.
Governor Pingrce Of Michigan, in an
interview at Detroit, said he would sup
port Admiral Dewey for president if the
latter would consent to be a candidate.
DR.. w. Seward Webb and Governor
Smith of Vermont arrived in Washington
in DR.. Webb's private car to carry Admi-
raj Dewey back to Vermont.
Monday, Oct. o.
AS the result of Saturdays games the
Brooklyn baseball team is sure Of the
pennant for 1899.
At Key West there were "a new cases
of yellow fever reported in the last "a
hours and three deaths.
Burglars entered the Pennsylvania rail-
road station at Princeton, n. j., and RI
fled a number of trunks.
Admiral Dewey has accepted an invi-
tation to attend the sword presentation
to Lieutenant Brumby in Atlanta.
Mrs. Seliger of Jersey City confessed
that her testimony, through which Louis
Henner was imprisoned, was false.
Saturday, Oct. Z.
The mayor of Havana has forbidden
the display of the Spanish flag anywhere
except at the Spanish consulate.
New York, Boston and Chicago capital
lists have formed a company to build the
first railway in the island of Hawaii.
William Nelson, a baker in Brooklyn,
and his assistant caught two burglars at
work and turned them over to the police.
Tod" Sloane, the American jockey,
was injured yesterday at Kempton Park,
England, by being thrown from his
horse.
The Croker Estate company has given
to Southern Pacific railway employees
the old Crocker homestead in Sacrament
to to be used as a hospital.
The navy department has offered the
Resolute to the war department to carry
supplies to the storm sufferers of Porto
Rico. The offer has been accepted.
Friday, Oct. @.
The north Atlantic squadron has sail
ed from New York for Hampton Roads.
The first sale of hops from the section
about Malone, y. Y, brought 1412 cents.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
has voted to recommend the charging of
the Erie canal.
Negotiations for a telephone system
from Paris to Rome and Paris to Milan
have been started.
A battle between British troops and
the forces of q newly proclaimed mahdi
near Berbera, on the gulf of Alden, has
been reported.
The French parliament will be conven-
ed Nov. 3. Rumors are prevalent in
Paris of more arrests in connection with
the alleged royalist plot.
A New Jersey company has bought 80
copper claims in Arizona for $1,000, 900,
the purchase being understood to be in
the interest of the Standard Oil COM
pany.
Thursday, Oct. ..
Tons of grapes in Seneca county, n.
Y, were ruined by the heavy frost.
Four new cases of bubonic plague and
one death were reported at Oporto, Por-
tugal.
General Greedy made an ascent in a
military kite balloon at Potsdam, Ger
many.
An engine ran into a train of coal cars
at Dunellen, y. j., and one man was
injured.
a story was published in Washington
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about to marry.
The Mexican government will max an
extra effort to end the Yaqui Indian war
before the next rainy season.
More yellow fever cases and deaths
were reported from New Orleans, Jack
son, Miss, and Tampico, Mexico.
A gavel made of wood saved from f1iei
given to prisoners at Andersonville in
the civil war was presented to Colonel
ID. b. Henderson of Iowa.
Wednesday, Oct. 4.
Nine hundred men went on strike at
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia.
The Atlanta city council has decided
to invite Admiral Dewey to Atlanta.
The Portland Rolling mills at Ligonia,
Me-, were burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, S51 900.
An official statement, issued at Mont
real, showcd that ten were lost and four
missing in the Scotsman disaster.
Samuel Champaign, Il wealthy lumber
man of Galeton. Pa, was Instantly Killed
while experimenting the unloading of a
car of logs.
Colonel \. l.. Halves, a leading lawyer
and politician of Bainbridgc. Ga, was
assaulted and shot by W. ii. Hammond,
another lawyer.
One thousand New York city jewelers.
went ON strike for an eight hour enforce
mcnt. 20 per cent increase on overtime
and double pay for Sunday work.
The court of appeals decided the suit of
Emil Grceff against the Equitable Life
Insurance company in regard to the com
pany's surplus in favor of the company.
Cleveland boycott Ended.
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