Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week BrieH
and fersely Told.


The president made many army and
navy appointments.
Italy observed the first anniversary Of
| King Humberts death.
Heavy transforms are reported in CEN
, trail and southern Arizona.
General Chaffee order,e Manila troops
to wear coats always buttoned.
Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, made an
other successful ascent in Paris.
The Paris Lyons Mediterranean rail-
way has bought ten American locomo-
tives.
Money stolen from the army safe at
Santa Cruz, Philippine Islands, has not
been recovered.
Important business and financial men
are said to have joined to settle all labor
troubles in this country.
| The Mark Lane Express reported that
Germany and France will need to import
wheat. Russias crop outlook is good.
| Monday, July 20.
Insurgents were reported to be opcrat-
ing in large numbers about the city of
| Panama.
Anticlerical meetings in Spain resulted
in disorders in Madrid, Saragossa and
| Barcelona.
The Peruvian congress was opened at
Lima 10y President Romano, who was en-
Enthusiastically cheered.
At Cambridge, o., one man was killed
two proably fatally shot and fourth mad
the back of his head crushed i'll as the
| result of a free for all fight ut Kings
mines.
Baron Mount-Stephen announced gift
of 100000 to the Presbyterian church of
Scotland, the income to go to ministers
in his native district of Aberdeenshire and
Banffshire.
Saturday, July ~.
The Kearsargcs 10 inch gun was slight
" damaged by a bursting shell.
The Duke of Cornwall sailed from Ere
mantle Australia, for Maurtius.
Fires caused loss of 100000 in Ma
shua. y. H., and S150,000 in Cincinnati.
Philadelphia is shipping quantities of
fruit and vegetables to drought stricken
western states
Lloyd TeviS Breckinridge, grandson of
n former vice president. killed himself in
San Francisco.
Friday. July 20.
An epidemic of strikes exists in San
Francisco.
\ phenomenal thunderstorm did much
damage in London and vicinity.
Massachusetts schoolship Enterprise
left st. Petersburg for Antwerp.
General Arthur Henry Paget has re-
ccived a command in South Africa.
Turkey refused Greek squadron per-
mission to visit Smyrna and other ports.
Fifty prominent Kansas City Republic
ans have organized 1904 Theodore
Roosevelt club.
The Philadelphia and Reading striking
machnists ut Port Richmond rejected an
offer of per cent more wages.
At Batoom, Russia, an explosion of
petroleum in the most thickly populated
quarter wrecked the whole center of the
town.
In New York Dr. II. Johnson Held just
completed q manuscript of 600 pages,
and sparks from his pipe destroyed it as
he slept
Thursday, July %.
1talys former premier, Crispi has
ben declared better by his physicians.
Spain has decided to undertake impor-
tant military and naval improvements.
Hailstones weighing three pounds are
said to have fallen in Schlatzsk, Russia.
Three American travellers were slightly
hurt in a railway accident near Moscow
Six passengers were slightly injured in
a collision or the Rock Island railroad
near Titiln, Ia.
"Cash" Sloan. the American jockey
was rescued from a mob at Moscow by
soldiers and police.
Over 131 900 people have applied for
the 1900 free farms in the reservations
. to be opened in Oklahoma.
Firemen on the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad and section men on roads
entering Columbus, O., have received a
raise in wages.
Wednesday, July "a.
Hon. Eric Lascelles, a supposed Lon
don pauper, left f3T 900.
Sixteen lives were lost on a burning oil
ship at Stockholm. Sweden.
The horses of William c. Whitney and
Richard Croker won English races.
The Congregational church at North
vile, \. Y, was destroyed by lightning.
New York city's blind pensioners, to
the number of 672, were each paid
S49.47
Secretary Wilson has decided to urge
Congress to establish Appalachian forest
reserves.
The New York appellate division holds
that the antiticket scalping law passed
by the last Legislature is unconstitu-
I tional.