Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-05-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

and TerseIy Told.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York reached Sydney
Secretary Root decided to give a hear.
Ing to the dismissed West Point cadets.
Major" Taylor, American colored cy.
clist, defeated Jacquelin, French cham
pion.
Lieutenant Governor Allen of Vermont
was arrested on the charge of bank
wrecking.
The Pittsburg "ripper BILL" Quay's
measure, was sustained by the Pennsyl.
vania supreme court.
Rev. S. B. Dexter of Chicago, who de.
tended the army canteen, was forced to
resign from the Baptist Ministers asso.
citation.
Monday, May 81.
Conroy, the property of Messrs. ]. r.
and +. p. Keene, won the Brooklyn han.
dicap.
Mr.. Thomas w. Lawson will charter
the yacht Independence to a member OF
the New York Yacht club
Perry S. Heath, secretary of the Re.
publican national committee, arrived with
Mrs. Heath on the st. Paul after an alb.
sence of two months abroad.
The Cunard liner Lucania came into
New York harbor Is minutes ahead of the
American line steamship st. Paul after
an exciting race of 1914 hours.
Saturday, May 20.
A small fire occurred in the capitol at
Albany.
The excursion steamer Empire State
was beached near Brockville, Ont.
The mast of the yacht Independence
was successfully stepped at Boston.
Victorias birthday was celebrated in
London by the trooping of the colors.
A cabinet crisis was reported in Spain.
Disturbances are feared in Catalonia.
Turkish diplomats have threatened to
leave Paris unless their salaries are paid
Italy has demanded reparation from
Turkey for the arrest Of an Italian agent
at Preveza.
Eighty eight thousand children took
part in the May walk of Brooklyn Sun
day schools.
Friday. May "a.
The volcano of Keloet, Java, is again
active.
American jockeys won many races at
Doncaster.
The Swedish second chamber voted
big increase in the army budget.
The making of a new mast and gaff fol
Tic tonuhIOCh II W as DeSuu at IluSROW.
Secretary Root ordered the organization
of five additional infantry regiments au.
thorized by law.
The reichsrath approved the appropria
ton of 4S7 100000 kronen for new rail.
roads in Austria.
Marthnus Vessels Pretorious, first
president of the Dutch African Republic.
died at Potchelefstroom, Transvaal
Thursday, May 23.
Five lives were lost in floods in eastern
Tennessee.
Floods are feared on the Frazer river
in British Columbia.
Fortysix golfers began play at Rye, n.
Y, for the metropolitan championship.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy mar
rowly escaped being crushed in an ele-
vator.
Washington postal authorities decided
to allow 80 new clerks to the New York
city office.
Wednesday, May %.
A large steel concern was incorporated
at Trenton.
Russian spies are said to have mapped
the harbor of Nagasak, Japan.
Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming threat.
en- outbreak, and troops are asked for.
EN-oohgIeSslnan bloNer OF 81. LOUIS
was reported killed in a Colorado food
Nine hundred emigrants left Porto
Rico for Hawaii, with 400 more to fol.
low.
Rev. DIR. Ernest NJ. Stires of Chicago
accepted a call to st. Thomas church,
New York city.
The Cambridgeport National bank,
Cambridge, Mass, was dynamited, prob
ably for robbery.
New York Central stockholders met at
Albany. Acquisition of coal carrying
branches was reported.