Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-02-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week BrieH,
and TcrscIy Told.

Inc estate OF Ihlllp ID. Armour is val
ucd at $1J.O00O00.
Widespread damage by snow and wind
was reported in England.
Supreme court sustained Missouri
against Illinois in drainage canal case.
Services commemorative of General
Armstrong were held ut Hampton insti.
tute, in Virginia.
Professor Brushear of Allegheny has
completed instrumental equipment for OBJ
servation of solar eclipse.
Chinese pirates attacked a European
houseboat, killing the boatmen and
wounding two occupants.
The steamer Holland was lost at the
entrance to the river Mas. Eighteen per.
sons are believed to be drowned.
Henry c. Nierlan was fined $50 by
Judge jerome in the New York court of
special sessions for splitting in an clevat.
ed railway car.
Monday, Jan. 2S.
The pope issued an cncyclcal on social
ism
- Andrew Carnegie offered to give $50.
| 900 for free library ut Lewiston, Me-
y fire in Il big crockcry store in Chica.
go caused Il loss of between $500. 600 and
| 100000.
Fifty thousand I'ilpinos in Iloilo prov.
ince have taken the oath of allegiance to
the United States.
The Beers have CAPTURED most q,
Dublin fusieers. train with supplies
and damaged railway in the Transvaal
A student at Williams college was kid
mapped, bound and gagged and carried
several miles by masked men as a practi-
cal joke.
Secretary Long signed contracts with
| the Newport News Shipbuilding company
/ for two armored cruisers to cost upward
of S7.500000.
The office of the United States internal
revenue collector in Peoria, Ills, was en-
tered by burglars. who broke open the
safe and stole war revenue stamps be-
leved to amount to 100000 in value.
Saturday, Jan. 26.
The Delaware senatorial deadlock was
unbrokcn.
Heavy snow closed the mines in the
| Shamokin region
Verdi suffered relapse. His early
death is expected.
Julian Arnold was sentenced in Lon
don to ten years imprisonment
Six New Bedford fishermen were lost
by being caught in a school of whales.
Chief Justice Depue of the New Jer-
sey supreme court has announced his re-
tiremcnt.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, temperance cru
sader, refused to eat at hotel in Hope,
Kan, fearing poison.
\ formal deed declaring their desire to
be married was signed by Queen Will
helmina and Duke Henry.
Friday, jim. 20.
A successful operation was performed
on Mr.. Kruger's eyes.
7 British steamer Starcross went ashore
on the Maryland coast.
Thermometer at Forty Mile, Alaska
| registered 1S degrees below zero
Benjamin f. Siliman, % years of age
the Oldest member of the New York bar
A died in Brooklyn.
new White Star line ship is to be
built. 1t will be 5000 tons bigger than
the Oceanic, but not as fast.
Thursday, Jan. Fl.
First issue of William j. Bryan's paper
at Lincoln, Neb.
The Panama railroad decided to meet
the Pacific Mails cut in rates.
The new well at Beaumont, Tex, is
|
Many vessels overdue at Pacific coast
ports practically have been given up as
lost.
The Morgan syndicate bought 10000
acres of coal lands in western Pennsyl-
vana.
Rochester and New York capitalists
have combined to control Genesee water
power.
Reports showed large increase in
metal produced on this continent last
year. Montana is now the leading ore
producing state.
wednesday,. Jan. 23.
The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned.
Ex-President Kruger has gone to
Utrecht.
Rutgers students egged New Brans
wick editor.
Maurice Thompson, the author is re-
ported very low.
Senator Sewell was reelected by the
New Jersey legislature.
One thousand t'ilpinos swore allie
glance at Nigan and 400 at Malabon.
Thieves attempted to wreck the Union
Pacific overland express near Kearney
Neb
More outrages by insurrectionary
Greeks are reported from the Indian Ter
ritory.
The torrential rains continue to dc
great damage to the banana fields in ia
maica.
Senator Knute Nelson was reelected
at St. Paul. Moses Il. Clapp was chosen
for the short term.
Hotel Fire In Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Fire brolss
out about half past > o'clock Sunday
morning in a small room on the first hool
of the old portion of the building occu
pied by Wizards hotel and which ad
inins the now sirncimre now in cOmrse nt