Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-06-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK THE WIDE
WORLD OVER.


Some Kansas Sheep And Dog Statistics
A German star Onicer for Gen. Otis-An
Electric Light Column for Boston's New
Station-tAher Items OF Interest
The secretary of the Kansas State ag-
ricultural society has issued a report on
the sheep and dog raising industries in
that commonwealth. He contrasts the
facts that on the sc. 100000 acres of land
in the state there is but ore sheep to
each 250 acres, while the number of dogs
in the state is 10000. Two years ago
the sheep outnumbered the dogs by 30
per cent, while last year this percentage
was reduced to Il. In one county there
were 900 dogs to each sheep, and in
twelve selected counties there were 209
dogs to each sheep.
A remarkable electric light column is
being erected In front of the new South
station, in Boston. 1t is of polished
granite, and when finished will be 40
feet in height. The stone at the base
weighs fourteen tons, Is o feet in
diameter and rests upon stone found
alton 10 feet deep, under which are
twelve piles. Ornamental work will be
carved upon the column, and half way
up there are to be four bronze lamps,
with powerful lights. At the top one
light will be placed.
Brig. Gen. Theodore Schwan, who
has gone to Manila to serve as an aid on
Mai. Gen. Otis's staff, is not only of
German descent, but was born in Ger
many forty-eight years ago. During
the civil war he won high honors for his
gallantry in the campaigns of the army
of the Potomac. In the recent Spanish
American conflict he went to Porto
Rico in command of a brigade, and
took possession of several important
towns before the proclamation of the
peace protocol.
The japanese town of Jeukchan was
recently discovered to be in an unsan-
tary condition. Frequent epidemics oc-
cured. The japanese officials selected a
spot in the neighborhood that could be
well drained. Streets and public places
were laid out upon it. Buildings were
erected, and the entire inhabitants of the
city of Jeukchan, numbering 10000,
were removed to the new site. As the
buildings were slight wooden structures,
the scheme was practicable.
Paul Vandervoort of Omaha has re-
ceived letter from President Mckinley
acknowledging receipt of his letter offer
ing to take 70 Cuba great colony of old
soldiers of both the blue and the gray,
whose presence should be a guarantee
against the outlawry practiced by some
of the Cuban bandits. Nandervoort
40 In hn fnl
whether the movement has the sanction
of the government or not. merely as a
private affair.
A hole in his right heel enabled a
negro workman in the diamond fields of
South Africa to secret and steal gems
to the value of S273 900. These he ex-
pressed in small parcels of fruits to a
cousin in King Williams Town, in the
extreme south of Africa, from which
place both recently departed for Eng
land.
The trials of some 300 prisoners who
are charged with completely in the riots
at Wardner, Idaho, on April 20. when
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill was
blown up with dynamite by a mob of
1000 miners and two men shot and
killed, have begun at Wallace, Idaho.
a family comprising seven persons left
Scranton the other day, the whole party
travelling on one full fare railroad ticket.
There were the mother and her three
pairs of twins, none of the children being
up TO the half-fare age of 8 years.
Sixty-seven cows were slaughtered at
the Chicago stock yards to ascertain the
nxyfa fn iah hnu of bod
tuberculosis. Only twenty-three passed
inspection. The caTce sses of the others
were destroyed.
In anticipation of a profitable season
for farmers, Western jobbers look for a
largely increased business in hardware
and farm implements, notwithstanding
the large advances in prices by manu-
facturers.
The war department has arranged with
Gen. Otis for the enlistment of three
skeleton regiments from the volunteers
already at Manila, these regiments to be
filled up by recruits from the United
States.
The federal recruiting officers at Chat
tanooga, Tenn. have received orders
from the war department to enlist
negroes for service in the Philippines.
The recuits will be sent to San Fran
CISCO.
Joe Juneau, founder of Juneau, Alaska,
died very suddenly at Dawson. May ID,
of pneumonia. He made four great for
tunes in Alaska mines and squandered
all.
Since the great fire at Dawson, in the
klondike, every unemployed man in the
vicinity has been given employment in
rebuilding residences and stores.
A Missouri man has gone into the busI-
ness of raising tame quail. The birds,
he claims, are more easily raised than
chickens and far more profitable.
For denying the inspiration of the