Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and PerseIy Told.

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and PerseIy Told.
Cuba, it is said, will ask next month
for annexation.
Turkey paid another instalment of
money due the Cramps for building a
cruiser.
Steamers from Cape Nome, Alaska,
brought 1900 passengers, and 1000
more are waiting TO come.
The Spanish budget statement show
ed an estimated increase in eXpendi-
lures of 25,000,0O0 pcsctas.
The King Alfred, the largest cruiser
in the world, was successfully launch
ed at Barrow In-Furness, England.
Monday, Oct. %.
A heavy black fog envelopcd central
md western London, causing great dis
comfort.
The report that King Edward is suf-
fering from cancer of the throat was
again revived.
-Four miners eFere entombel several
hours in the highland Boy mine in
Utah by cavein.
Six of the day nurses at Muhlenberg
hospital Plainfield, n. j., were poison
ed and but for prompt attendance
would have died.
Delmar, a town of about 1000 inhab
itants, situated in the extreme southern
end of Delaware, has been almost
wiped out by fire. Nearly go people
are homeless.
Saturday, Oct. 26.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
for public library in San Juan, Porto
Rico.
The United States has taken first
place from Great Britain as an ex-
porting nation.
Nearly 100000 persons are reported
on the verge of starvation in China's
famine stricken district.
An explosion in the Carnegie steel
furnace at Rankin, Pa, caused 100000
damage and injured four men.
The cost to J. Pierpont Morgan Of
, furnishing st. Paul's cathedral, Lon
don. with electric lights will be $4,000.
In Chicago David Bernstine, aged
thirteen, stabbed seventeen ear-old
j Harry Himmclfarb to death with q
, basting needle.
Friday, Oct. 20.
A heavy fall of snow was reported in
the Adirondacks.
!, The production of anthracite coal for
= 1901 is said to be the greatest on rec
: ord.
Gold estimated at three tons weight
reached Puget sound from the Klon-
dixie.
William C. Whtncy's Volodyovski
won the Sandown Foal Stakes in Eng
land.
Mrs. Witwer, charged at Dayton, o..
: with the murder of her sister was held
without bail.
The Illinois supreme court ordered
capital stock, including franchises, of
Chicago corporations to be assessed for
taxation.
Census Director Merriam estimates
the total population of the United
States and new possessions in 1910 al
100, 100000.
Thursday, Oct. "a.
Lord Salisbury returned to London
= in improved health.
:, The Duke and Duchess of York were
= enthusiastically welcomed at st. Johns
2 y. +.
A fire caused loss of $3.50, 900 in tn,
leather factory of Robert ii. Foerderel
b. in Frankford, a suburb of Philadelphia
h DR.. Won Siemens, founder and former
director of the Deutsche bank and {
Al. e lnn rni, hssta Il 10.
a in Berlin.
c \ gang of six safe blowers blew tn,
postofiice safe at Canterbury, o.. ant
!. secured 5000 in money and 500 in post
r age stamps.
/, The annual state convention of th'
e Council of School Supcrintendents ant
: the Association of School Boards me
in joint session at Auburn. \. y.
e wednesday,, Oct. 23.
h a sharp earthquake shock was felt a
! st. Thomas, West Indies.
:, The French chamber rejected IA mo
S ton to fiX minimum wage for miners
}. NJ. c. ID. Borden again increased thu
wages of his cotton operatives at Fal
5 River, Mass.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago suggest
ed a law forbidding private wineroom
! in city saloons.
Miss Eastwick of Philadelphia plead
. ed guilty in London of forging a rail
y road certificate
!, The Northern Pacific railroad tool
;, out at Duluth, Mimi, a S2O,OOO,O0O fir
insurance policy covering its who'll
- system.
II A Universal Strike.
n BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. Eth
l. anarchist propaganda in favor of
IS general strike is proving fruitful Il