Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
sotabIe Events of the Week briefly
and TerseIy Told,

| The steel strike has been declared prac-
.ieally settled.
Fire destroyed 10 buildings at Cole
brooke, n. H.; loss. $150,000.
Three hundred lives have been lost in
landslides in Lung-keng. China.
a slight fire at the Glasgow exposition
at one time threatened much damage.
Minister of Finance Jackman of New.
foundland is reported to have resigned
Klondike miners who left Dawson
| June 20 brought 100000 in gold to Seat
: tie.
Three Paterson On. j. boys tried to
wreck an Erie express by putting rocks
on the track.
Thomas G. Barker, convicted for shoot
ing Rev. John Keller has begun his five
years sentence in Trenton prison.
Monday, July =.
Prince Won Hohenlohe former imperial
chancellor Of Germany, died mt Ragatz.
aged 50.
Police in several towns of Massachu-
setts and Connecticut have suppressed an
Irish publication Ar reprinting a cartoon
of the American flag.
In the bicycle competitions for the
worlds championships at Berlin the 100
! kilometer amateur championship race
was won by Robl of Munich in 9S 10
minutes.
The United States cruiser Newark.
Captain B. II. McCalla commanding. has
completed what is declared to be rec
ord trip for man-of-war from Hong
kong to New York. The time was 46la
days.
1t was announced at The Hague that
| Il ha Il. G,it al. l.
American visit ON account of travelling
fatlgues as well as the clearly expressed
attitude of strict neutrality of the Unit
ed States.
saturday, July q.
The St. Louis mills mt Carlinville. Ills,
were burned; loss. 100000.
Shamrock | beat Shamrock II in
three mile turn to windward.
Salvadors minister at Washington has
started for home for his health.
The Ontario authorities have decided
to stop Sunday excursions by water.
Three Italians stabbed two people to
death near Wheeling and injured four
others.
1t is announced that Queen Wilhel-
mina's ACCOMPLISHMENT is expected about
Christmas
An eastern syndicate ha- '',gun the
acquisition of San Francisco light and
power plants
An Englishman named Howard was
found in command of the Filipino insur-
gents in Mindoro.
The Argentina congress has declared
Buenos Ayres in state of siege, and
messages thereto are censored.
President and Mrs Mckinley arrived
ut their former home at Canton. O., where
they will spend the heated term.
Friday, July :.
General Baden-Powell is indisposcd ant.
will return to England
NJ. Laferricrc, ex-governor of Algeria
was found dead in bed
The trial of Lord Russell on a charge Of
bisamy has been postponed until Aug. 6.
The 14-year-od daughter of Philip Ford
of North Germantown. " Y, was burned
to death by using kerosene to start
kitchen fire.
The torrential rainstorm at Simferopol.
a town in the Crimea 81 miles northeast
of Sevastopol, washed away all the
bridges on the Salghir river.
Through the efforts of the Atchison
railroad nearly 100000 acres of arid land
in the Arkansas valley. Colorado, have
been reclaimed and will be devoted to
sugar beet culture.
Thursday, July 4.
There is no truth in the report that
Nictorien Sardou is i'll.
The Boer invaders looted the Winter
berg hotel at Blinkwater.
NJ. II. l.. Wilson. United States minis
ter to Chile. has arrived at Valparaiso.
General Wood, who has been suffering
at Havana from malarial fever, is recov-
ering.
Count Won Bulow is now at Berlin to
facilitate the Russo German commercial
treaty.
At the official trial of the torpedo boat
Biddle she averaged 2S.G knots in a two
hours run.
All European countries are about TO es-
tablish plague quarantine against Con
stantinople.
Several were wounded in riots at Bu-
enOs Ayres because of the bill for the
debt unifcation.
Frederick Kellar, farmer, and his
horse were killed on the Watertown and
Ogdensburg railroad near Utica.
Albanian and Turkish troops are again
pillaging and outraging in the Servian
Wednesday, July 3.
Fred Greiner was appointed postmaster
of Buffalo.
The Niagara bank of Buffalo, a state
institution, closed.
w. G. Whitney's Faisan dor won the
Trial Plate at Newmarket.
The Kurds are plundering villages and
killing Armenians in Kurdistan.
Scotch iron men decided to come to
America to study trade conditions.
The government crop report gave IA
vorable news of winter and spring wheat.
Excessive heat and many deaths from
sun.troke have been reported throughout
Europe.
Oberln college has received $4,000
from an unnamed donor toward meeting
conditions of the Rockefeller gift.
New York Markets.