Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrsc1y Told.


A severe gale did damage to shipping
on the New England coast.
The Chicago board of trade has abol-
ishcd trading in puts and calls.
NJ. Clement Armand Fallicrs, Repub.
iican, was reelected president of the
French senate.
The state has rested its case in the
prosecution of Roland B. Molneux for
murder In New York city.
| William Henry Glider, the explorer, a
brother of Richard Watson Glider, died
at his home in Morristown, n. j.
! Mormon converts to the number Of 80
arrived from Switzerland, Belgium and
Holland on the steamship Anchoria.
A washout on the Hudson River rail-
road near Hastings dcraied a freight
train, blocking traffic on all tracks. No
one was killed or injured.
Russian newspapers urged that advan-
tage be taken of Britain's war in South
Africa to secure ports on the Mediterra-
mean and the Indian ocean.
The liner Anchoria arrived seven days
late The return sailings of several ships
were postponed. Ice drift hindered navi-
cation in New York harbor
Five masked robbers bound the watch
/ a
Staten Island. blew open the safe, wreck
ing the interior of the building, and es-
capped with 500.
Monday, Feb. o.
There were 1874 fatal cases of sunstroke
at Buenos Ayres.
| The Spanish war was reported to have
cost the United States S355,0O0,000.
The South Congregational church Of
! Il,
service.
John Nilsson of Minneapolis broke the
worlds skating record for three miles at
Montreal
| A snowstorm brought the first really
I good slcighng of the season in northern
New York.
Fire completely destroyed st. Louis
| Roman Catholic church in West Spring
field. Mass.
Rev Booker Fox one of the most not
ed negro evangelists in the west, is dead,
aged lO4 years
Former Consul c. +. Macrum. on his
way from South Africa to Washington,
arrived in New York
| An explosion of 1900 pounds of nitro
| glyccrin near Welsvillc. y. y. created a
small earthquake. No lives were lost.
Edward Morton and his wife, Minnie,
Of Hartford were terribly burned as the
result of the upsotting of can of oil on
! their cook stove.
Saturday, Feb. 3.
Churches of Chicago organized
branch Of the Actors Church alliance in
that city.
Fire ut Youngstown, O.. did damage
amounting to between 100000 and
| $500 600.
Nineteen families were made homeless
by fire in Brownsville y. Y. The loss
was $4,000.
The foreign commerce of the United
States increased to Il remarkable degree
during the past year.
Fire Chief Swenie of Chicago was over
come by smoke at fire and narrowly
escaped with his life.
-Four children of George Winas of Ben
| tonville, \. V, left alone in their home.
were burned to death with the house.
\ contagious disease, apparently influ-
enza, is epidemic among the horses in
Berlin and its suburbs. few have died.
DIR. Madison c. Peters has resigned the
pastorate of the Bloomingdale Reformed
church, New York city, because he does
not believe ii right to baptize infants.
Friday, Feb. z.
| Two deaths were caused by the cold in
Chicago.
New York city experienced the coolest
Feb | that has been felt for 10 years.
\ dispatch from Picking said the report
of the death of the Chinese emperor was
not confirmed.
Great Britain is cndcavoring to induce
the United States to join her in parcels
post establishment.
The price of iron was advanced in
South Staffordshire, England. los. per
ton ON account of the DEAFNESS of coal.
The United Mine Workers of the west
have issued an ultimatum 10 the opera
tors. and II strike is seriously threatened
Paintings worth S2O.0O0 were destroy
cd in fire at 106 East Twcntythird
street, New York. where artists have
heir studios.
Thursday. Feb. L.
Richard Croker is gaining and hopes to
be able to use his broken leg in two
weeks.
Heavy SHOWS in eastern Germany have
greatly damaged telephones and tele-
graphs
Both the state of Nebraska aud Ethio-
pia, long overdue, arrived at the port of
New York.
NJ. lola was acquitted in Paris in the
libel suit brought against him by the
Petit Journal.
Ex-Minister Phelps, suffering from
pneumonia at his home in New Haven,
was reported much weaker.
Three negroes were whipped Sunday
near Triton. Ga, because they would not