Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-12-28
CONDENSER DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week BrieH
and TcrseIy ToId.

ana Tcrsely SOld.
Fire partially Quilted The Chronicle
newspaper building in Halifax, causing
q loss of $4,000.
a movement is on foot for a great ma
tional religious revival at the opening OF
the new century.
The electric trolley system is rapidly
dsplacing the storage battery system OIL
the busiest streets of Berlin.
The Rev. David Whitney Thurston
one of the oldest Methodist preachers in
New York, died in Syracuse.
a strike of electric railway men was
ordered at Scranton, Pa, and the whole
Wyoming valley was completely lied UP.
saturday, Dec. -.
The gunboat Annapolis grounded neal
Norfolk.
DR.. Richard A. Wise. NJ. c.. died at
Norfolk.
immigration for the calendar year will
reach about 100000
Mrs W. =. Frye wife of the Maine
senator, died in Washington.
Philip ID. Armour. head of Armour &
Co., was reported seriously i'll in Chi.
cago.
The proposed national home for aged
Elks will probably be located at Colorado
I Springs.
Some 100000 French Canadians are OK
pected to leave New England for their
native land.
\ motion to propose arbitration for the
Beers was defeated by one vote in the
Hesse-Casscl chamber
We're Foster, who for 80 years had as
sisted in the emigration of women from
Ireland, died at Belfast.
Friday, Dec. 81.
The Kentucky arrived mt Port Said
More antforcign outbreaks were pre-.
dictcd in China
Heavy storms were reported from all
over Great Britain.
Clyde shipbuildcrs have ordered 100.
600 tons of steel plates from the United
States.
1t was said in Duluth that Archbishop
Ireland will visit Cuba at the request OF
{ the president.
An unsuccessful attempt was made t.
rob the Nebraska state treasury in the
capitol at Lincoln.
The closing argument in the Porto Rico
Philippine ca>c> was made before the
United States supreme court.
Councillor of Commerce Sander ha.
been arrested at PotSdam in connection
with the Prussian Hypothekcn Aktiei
banks troubles.
Thursday. Dec. 20.
Ex-Presidcnt Kruger visited Amstcr
dam.
The strike of dock laborers at Callao
the port of Lima. has ended.
The French chamber of deputies pass
ed the amnesty bill 10y a vote of los to :
Diplomatic relations between Turko
and the United States have been re
stored.
The funeral services of John Addison
Porter, former secretary to the pres dent
were held in New Haven.
The French government has offered III
cross of the Legion of Honor to Lieuten
ant w. :. Sims. former United State
naval attachc ut Paris.
None of the justices of the suprem
court or railroad officials of Michigan at
tended a banquet to which they were in
vited by Governor Pingree.
Wednesday. Dee. 10.
Deputy Attorney General Edward
Coyne has resigned.
The president nominated John c. \
Leishman for minister To Turkey.
Impressive funeral services for the lat
Oswald Ottcndorfer were held in NeN
York.
The river and harbor bill. as provision
ally agreed upon. calls for more tina
SI5,OOO.OOO.
The Canadian steamer Alpha wa
wrecked on Vancouver island. and eigl
lives Were lost.
a man supposed to be one Of the gan
which held up the Chicago limited wa
found dead in the suburbs of New Oh
leans.
Reports to the New York state fores
fish and game commission show that hun
tiers killed more than 200 deer in tn
+ Adrondacks during the season jus
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