Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-07-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Geographic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

eued in Guatemala have been con-
frmed. wi"
IMAM "A. Ossifer, n decorator. was
burned to death in his slepping room
In Nv Orleans fire.
The Metropolitan Tunnel Company
has been Incorporated at ALBANY with
a capital of $4,000.
sixty cadets from the training shin
Annapolis visited Lewis Nixons shin.
yards at Elizabeth, n. !.
Gen. Otis cables that two veteran
REGIMENTS were assured. and that he
hau enlisted about 1000 men for them.
l'r. Mary c. Edmonds, of San Fran
CISCO. died of fright caused by the ac-
cld"htal setting off of burglar alarm.
Richard Metcalf United States
railway mail clerk. fatally shot him
gov y" ~" car at the new Union Sta
ton. Boston.
IN" nnnHgers of the State School
for the Phn1 at Batavia. n. Y. have
iSSred = { t" ent Ccneirg Comptro Ter
Moroan's charges.
Rlcfar' Williams. who was lynched
at Alma, Kan. is alive and recovering.
his body having been cut down after
the mob Thought him dead.
George ana Louis Grimm. brothers.
aged twelve M y Years. resnec.
lively wpln '"pr-,"' ,,-rli'. bothirg in
Rock River ro"r " 'ei-. Wis
Or. Edwa~7 Nt.C..o e. flo pi,.o,
crest r. Sonitor' 80, r-',o shot and
killed Gift n Wit" f,"',i'f -'r, Choir
rt". is seriously i'll in Queen County
Jail
y Vienna d,>r"tr', .ai1 Pint the
/ United States i1' G.., vol ,ret,ia's
proposal to sri iritr / i,n- fo,' in,lem
nifty for deaths Of .ir>tltln subjects
during the Hazolton. Pa. riots.
Gov Roosevelt gave out statomcnt
commenting the efforts of the New
York City Republican organization to
reach an understanding with the indie
pendentS for union against Tamm1nv.
The steamship Portia was wrecked
on Films Island near Halifax in
dense fog. All Of the passengers and
crew were landed safely. The pasSrn-
gers We're nearly all summer tourists.
The Christian Endeavor Society
closed its eighteenth annual conven-
ton in Detroit after having been in
session for one week. The convention
as whole is reported to have been
the society.
The commission which has been in
NeStgatlng the charges of the tobac-
60 importers against the appraisers
department at New York has reportod
to the Secretary of the Treasury. Tie
report showed that the men alleged TO
he incompetent were no longer in the
service.
Mgr. Peralta, Bishop of Panama. Is
dead.
The cruiser Newark has left Valpar.
also for Manila.
Mark Twain has gone to Sweden to
take the Swedish cure.
The commercial treaty between Por-
tugal anG the United States has gone
into effect.
EX-President Cleveland is said to be
willing to accept chair in Princeton
University.
Admiral Cervera's conduct at Santi-
ago will not be made the subject Of
official inquiry.
Nicholas Pacala, arrested in New
York for murder in Yonkers July 3,
has been taken to that city.
The aSSasSins of General Luna. the
Filipino leader. have been acquitted on
the ground of self-defenSe
The British Colonial Office has been
informed of serious outbreak of the
buhonic plague at Maurtus.
Minnesota entomologiSts fear a de
structive invasion of graSShoppers
from their North Dakota hatcherleS.
DR.. Alfons Mumm Won Schwarzen-
WILL - L.,
during DIR. Won Hollenben's summer
leave.
The body of Owen Mccain. who was
drowned July 1, has been picked up ut
the foot of Twentyfourth street. South
Brooklyn, y. Y.
The arm of Eli Forbes, of East
Rrookheld. Mass. paralyZed for thr-
teen years. has been cured by stroke
of lightning.
The Berlin police have confiscated
three Zola novels.
EN-State Senator William c. DAILY,
of Chatham, y. Y. is dead
Superintendent Edwin Mills and two
miners were killed in mine explosion
at Port Gram y. ].
William Keaton. the wife murderer,
hrn@ed himself with his suspenders in
Il Philadelphia prison.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall has been
elected president of the Women's In
ternatonal Congress.
The steamer Robert Kerr has left
Dawson for st. MichaerS. with $1,000
600 IN gold dust on board.
Two trains passed over the body
OF Mrs. Emma Kepple on the Lac,.a-
wanna Railroad, near Oswego.
The body of Levent Hartwick. killed
by baseball blow July 1. has been
found Hear Sioux Falls. $. u.
y passenger train on the burlington
road was wrecked near Waldron. Mo-,
several persons being severely injured.
The report of deadlock in the ne
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