Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-08-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
SotnbIe Events of the Week Briefly
and TcrscIy Told.


ed his barn and fled.
The president has decided to give out
his letter of acceptance from Canton
about a month hence.
Cuban customs receipts for the first
half of 1900 were over SS,0OO,0OO, far
more than in 1899 for the same period.
Three masked burglars entered the
house of r. l.. Fosburg at Pittsfcld.
Mass, killing the lattcr's daughter and
wounding his son.
The Canadian authorities have agreed
to act in harmony with the United States
in keeping out undcsrabt immigrants
destined for this country.
Monday, Aug. 20.
The surrender of the mnin body of the
Colombian revolutionary army was an
nounccd.
The official count of the twelfth cen
sus makes the population of Greater
New York 3.473,20
South Wat.r street merchants report
that moro than G2,Oo0 frogs were sold
Saturday in Chicago.
The American tennis championship was
retained in this country by the defeat
of Gore. the English champion, at New.
port L. l.
Kentucky, was found guilty OF compiled
ty in the murder of William Gocbel and
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Heat and typhoid fever are making
ravages ia Baltimore. The fever cpl
demic i largely due to bad drinking wa
ter. uich in turn is the result Of the
dry, lot weather.
saturday, Aug. Is.
nil Hmm. yvnaL %vos cplebrotpd in Con.
cord, y. II.
One man was killed and three injured
in Chicago fire.
Inccndiarics tried to burn and loot the
village of Smithfeld Ills.
Forest fires were reported raging in
several parts OF Colorado.
Seven cases of smallpox have developed
in Erie, Pa, all of light nature.
Japan has placed heavy orders in San
Francisco for salmon to feed its army.
Three men were drowned from the
Yacht st. Francois in the 81. Lawrence
river near Tadousac.
Poison was found ia the stomach Of
Edward L. Uerrci, the aged Chicago
merchant who died sud,>uly last week.
\ Chicago wallpaper man committed
suicide in order that his wife and chill
dreu might receive his $4,000 insurance
Two prisoners. who had been chained
together. jumped throN-A % car window
from % moving train near Otis, Ind. and
escaped.
Friday. Aug. ~.
Fire att the Berwud collicry. Dubois,
Pa. caused damage of $2nO.OuO.
Russell Sage gave his annual picnic to
Loco poor children Of Pouehkccp.ie,
Ny.
Six hundred prospectors returned from
Cape Nome with stories If restitution
and illness there
Sir William NJ. Conway. the British
explorer, has reached Lima. Peru, en-
route to the Andes.
Two * 4tucky train robbers were son
fenced. one to four. the other L. ten
years .mprisonmcnt
IL .ry Ioutscy, indicted in the Gochol
cas-, ha been taken i'll at GEORGETOWN.
Ky on the eve Of his trial.
I are, l4i>ons were killed by al cHplo-
siol Of natural Eas in Chicago house,
and three are reported mi~>.l-.
, NJ. hac prumm Of Oswcro. y. y, wa
reported dcad Later Lc Appeared AMI
Threatened To- sue the newspapers.
IT,, French government j, reported 70
III l'i'.h il+ A'l i~ll-llSi4 Nlt4A'H i'' 10 il+ :
1,OCCDo1 tons of coal from Norfolk IA
) French port.
Thursday, Aux. 10.
Floods in japan have drowned POO
g people
The president and Mrs Mckinley left
: Canton for Washington.
Tho Panama revolution was reported
to have ended by July -
The West India fruit steamer Bermu
da sank AT her dock i'll Philadelphia
Seven persons were killed and many
injured in a train collision at Pierson
Mich.
Two 9-year-old boys have been arrest
7 ed at Victor. Colo, charged with wreck
ing trains.
g Ex-senator ingalls,, reported dying at
Las Vegas, n. NJ, has expressed a wisl
{ 10 return to Atchison.
% \ design has been accepted for &
q monument in Spencer county. Ind, over
e the grave Of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
i Sand island, one of the Midway group
c has been recommended as landing sta
f ton for the proposed Pacific cable t.
( the Philippines.
Wednesday, AUG. 10.
The Paris exposition jury has made
a.. 100 awards to exhibitors.
= Two railway men were killed in
r. freight collision near Baltimore.
@ The French have peaceably occupied
a the Touat oasis in North Africa
e An Alaskan steamer reached Seattle
+ with 100000 worth of gold dust
h The government leader at Panama sai(
y the rebel casualties in recent battles hat
@ been 600.
e Miss Helen Zimmerman Of Cincinnati
: denied that she was engaged To the Duke
= of Manchester.
u Bids for the new San Diego (Call Ii
{ brary, for which Andrew Carnegie gave
$4,000. exceeded that amount.
The hancee of Il. II. Ferrcil, the con
fessed murderer of Express Messenger
d Lane near Columbus. O., visited him II
u prison with her father