Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-04-13
MlDDLEBURY REGISTER, APRIL 10, 1900
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

The New York presbytcry accepted the
resignation of Rev. DIR. \. G. McGiffcri
from the ministry
The British North America and West
, Indies squadron will be strengthened by
several more warships.
Admiral Dewey met the Chicago reccp.
ton committee in Washington to arrange
for his visit to the Illinois city.
In appealing TO Chicago Hebrews to
raise $500, 900 for the Hebrew Union col
lege of Cincinnati DIR. Hrsch limited that
it may become affiliated with the UDiver-
sty of Chicago.
Captain Louis Ostheim. First United
| States artillery, was found dead in his
room in Chicago hotel with bullet
wound in his right temple. He was to
have married Mrs Eva Bruce Wood.
Monday. April ..
The dreaded San Jose scale has APP
! peared in the orchards of Orleans county,
n. Y.
Two women connected with prominent
| families fought duel with pistols in the
City of Mexico.
The building trades strikers of Chicago
are said to he living on the cooperative
plan and able to hold out Il year.
Eastern capitalists have purchased
10000 acres of land in northern Fayette
county, Pa, for coal mining purposes.
At Newburg, y. Y, Isaiah Williams,
aged 30 ran away with Gertrude Ridg-
way. aged -, but after several unsafe
cessful attempts to find an official who
would marry them returned.
saturday. April :.
stephen Crane, the writer, was report
ed seriously i'll in London.
Half the striking miners in the Pitts
burg district have returned to work.
Serious tribal fighting was reported
from the British Gold Coast. Africa.
Nearly 400 new laws were passed by
the New York Legislature this session.
The steamer Mexican of the Union line
was sunk in collision near Cape Town.
An accomplish of the would be assas-
sin of the Prince of Wales was reported
found at Brussels.
A general uprising. it was predicted.
will follow the announcement in China OF
the emperors death.
The physical laboratory. one of the
largest and finest buildings of Lehigh
university, at Bethlehem. Pa, was burn
ed. The loss probably will exceed $500
600.
Friday, April O.
Osman Pasha, the famous Turkish gen
eral, died at Constantinoplc.
The business portion of Ravenna
Mich, burned with loss of 5000 600.
Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio
voted to issue ST, 400 900 of common stock
for bettprments.
Six or seven lives were reported lost il
a wreck on the Fort Worth and Denver
City railroad near Claiming, Tex.
The military court at Sevastopol con
victed 20 officers and civil servants OF
criminally defrauding the government.
1t was stated in London that at the re
quest of Queen Victoria the Duke OF
Hork's son would be christened Patrick.
Negotiations between the United State,
, and Denmark for the sale of the Danisl
West Indies will not be concluded bcfor,
the close of the rigsdags session
"Sapho" was officially declared prop
er play by the New York jury befor,
which Miss Olga Ncthcreole and her as
sociateS were tried for maintaining ii pub
lie nuisance.
Thursday. April >.
The Newark NJ. T.. Conference met a
Paterson, y. j.
Nv lli'' anu IlINfNS VI w dlfS WI
London for Copenhagen.
ambassador to Russia Tower will visi
: the United States in May.
: Bishop Fowler of the Methodist churcl
was taken seriously i'll in Buffalo.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant left 81. Pc
tersburg on her way To the Unite,
States.
:. Sidney Schmey, Il member of tn
7 American colony in ST. Petersburg, die
J suddenly at Frankfort
b. Many establishments in vicinity O
4 Pittsburg were III straits for coal be-
a cause of the miners strike.
@ Wednesday, April I.
q There have been 20 cases of plague IA
. Melbourne
The plague situation at Honolulu wa
= reported much improved.
Owing To the small ice crop \orwa
may he drawn on for ice this season.
\ telegraph office has been opened b
the Chinese administration in Picking.
An interoccanir canal company wit
d SlOO.O00.OOO capital was incorporated a
: Trenton.
i The Mexican army will he reurganizc
- by leaving out the criminals sentenced I
military service as punishment.
n The Carnegie company will cxpcnd h,
a tween S1.5O0.OOO and S2UoO,0OO in in
= proving Conneaut tOhiol harbor
The second chamber of the states gel
" eral of Holland approved the information
J. al arbitration convention of the peac
: conference.
The Potomac Memorial bridge.
:, WASIIlNGTON, April 10 The >ccr'