Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
N>sabIe Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

The survey of route for a Pacific
cable has been finished by the steamer
Nero.
The fifteenth annual state convention
of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs
opened at Cincinnati.
The baseball magnates at Chicago de-
cided to start the American association
season whether with six or eight clubs.
In New York city William Steinitz the
chess champion for 80 years, was remov-
ed to the Manhattan State Hospital For
the Insane.
Imports into Porto Rico from the date
of American occupation to Dec 81, 1899
were So, 191, 800 and exports in the same
time 81 ,696,S07
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan of the
Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago
was taken ill with pneumonia at his resi-
dence in that city.
Further race riots were reported from
Fort de France, Martinique. \ mob
marched through the streets shouting,
Down with the whites' and Long live
the negroes!"
Monday, Feb. IL.
Floods were reported along the Chatta-
hoochee river in Georgia.
Emperor William of Germany shot 260
pheasants in Wild park Saturday.
Nearly 100000 worth of property was
destroyed by a fire at the Brooklyn navy
yard.
The postoffice in Athens, Ga, was bur
glarized. Every letter in the office was
opened.
President William III. Green of Prince
ton Theological seminary is dead, aged
so years.
In New York city the faster Rathbun
now has 90 days abstinence to his credit.
He is still happy.
Heavy snowfalls throughout Germany
have greatly interfered with railway and
telegraph communication.
Fire in the Quincy (Mass.) shipyards
destroyed four government torpedo boat
tenders and other property.
The body of Elijah Cone. aged - years,
one of the oldest newspaper men in the
state, was found frozen in the river at
Fond du Lac, Wis.
Saturday, Feb. 10.
Debate on the German navy bill was
resumed in the reichstag.
Coal for the railways will be admitted
to Russia free of duty until Sept /.
The British steamer IIoniton was re-
ported ashore on the North Carolina
coast.
The Russian steam dredgcr Dcvolant
has been given up as lost. She had IL
persons on board
Ex-Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts
has declined appointment on the Philip
pine commission.
Nine persons we're killed in wreck on
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad
near Escanaba, Mich
a mob of miners in Martinique has been
preventing the harvesting of sugar cane.
Troops fired on the rioters, killing nine.
Andrew Reasoner. former supcrintcnd-
cnt of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad died in East Orange.
The Nicaraguan judiciary has decided
to return the funds eXtorted from Amer
lean merchants at Blueticlds last summer
"A Cairo dispatch says the mutiny of
Soudanese troops mt Khartum has as
sumcd serious proportions and is causing
great anxiety.
Friday, Feb. %.
Pirates were reported both numerous
and bold in China.
Prince Henry of Prussia was held up
and robbed by SiameSe bandits.
Denis Bel Larghon of Solvay died neal
Syracuse, aged 1o2 years and months.
The transport Mcclellan met a school
of - whales on her voyage from San
tiago to New York.
The University of Pennsylvania will
confer the degree of LII. u. on President
Diaz of Mexico Feb. 22.
1.
Indiana and eastern Illinois. Houses
We're destroyed at Collinsville, Ills.
Captain a. S. Mckinley. cousin OF
President Mckinley, married Mrs. Regi
ma Quiglcy of Montgomery. Ind. at Den
yer.
Thursday, Feb. y.
Two Republican state tickets have
been nominated in Louisiana.
There were 40S deaths in Bombay Feb
{, an unprecedented mortality
The directors of the st. Louis Mer
chants Exchange have prohibited trad
ing on the curb.
The dowagcr empress of China has
temporarily abandoned her purpose to de
pose the emperor.
The large clothing firm of Miner Bea
& Co. of Boston assigned. with liabilitie,
placed at $4J0,000.
During January there was an output OF
SO, 100 yearling trout in the New Iorl
state fish hatcheries.
The Liberal plebiscite in Mexico re
suited in 1,lJG.4S2 votes for Prcsiden
Diaz ont of total of 1,543,654.
Mother Elizabeth Strange, founder OF
the order of Sisters of Mercy in thi;
country and the last survivor Of the sew
en- Sisters brought to this country in 1913
died at st. Navier's convent, near La
trobe, Pa.
81 suffered for months from sor'
throat. Electric Oil cured me in twenty