Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
and TerseIy Told

Thirty new school buildings we're re-
ported under way in Porto Rico
The sailing of the Shamrock II for
America was postponed until July p.
The mayor of Santa Paula, Cal, was
shot by man he had ordered arrested.
The Russian wheat crop was estimated
by Mark Lane Express at .5S,000,000
quarters.
a prehistoric city has been discovered
on the Navajoe Indian reservation, west
ern Colorado.
English railway unions have been en-
joined from interfering with nonunion
men during strikes
"A Slavic family was burned in Pitts
burg by an explosion of oil. The mother
and three children are dead
Daniel Frohman has engaged Kubelik.
the Hungarian violinist, to play in Amer
lea next winter for not less than 500,
600.
Monday, July -.
Count Tolstoi is reported to be out of
danger.
One little girl was killed and another
manned by Brooklyn trolley cars.
Encouraging reports regarding the
mines in South Africa have been re-
ceivod
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Ter
ry have closed their season at the Ly-
ceum theater. london.
The missionaries of the American
board will return to north China to re-
sumo work in the early fall.
Moonshincrs attacked party of reve
nue. officers from ambush in Tennessee,
killing one and woundins two.
Dispatches from Siberia say that the
crops. owing to the two months drought
are almost total loss. Measures have
been taken to avert famine.
\ Tarrytown n. y bank, with $4O,-
GOO in its vaults, was unable to unlock
the door and was forced to borrow mon
ey with which to conduct its business.
saturday, July 20.
The army transport Rawlins was sold
for $2OO,O0O
Two syndicatcs acquired mines and will
build iron mills in kentucky.
The United States training ship Enter
prise has reached st. Petersburg.
y report came from Paris of a plot to
make Louis Napoleon emperor of France.
Mr.. Rockhill has postponed his de-
in negotiations.
The shortage of $4,000 at the San
Francisco mint was found not to he the
result of a miscount.
Lord Rosebery's Epson Lad won the
Eclipse stakes Of 10000 sovereigns at
Sandown park, England.
Friday, July 10.
Count Tolstoi was reported much bet
ter.
England is suffering from heat and
drought.
The presence of a VOLCANO under Ha-
waiian waters is suspected.
The case of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin went
TO the United States supreme court.
The battlcship Maine will be launched
at Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia, on
July ~.
1t was suggested in Washington that
Dewey take IA squadron to England for
the coronation.
Kitchener reported that Captain Botha,
son of Philip Botha, has been killed in
Orange River Colony.
Thursday. July Is.
Heavy rains have caused fatal floods in
Japan.
Lightning did much damage at Middle
town. y. Y.
The town of Marshall, Mo-, was visited
by "A $4,000 fire.
The United States training ship Hart
ford reached Stockholm.
Four persons We're killed in an eXplo-
sion of Swedish powder works.
Rain fell in parts of Nebraska and
Kansas, but Iowa is still drought strick-
en-.
Sumatra eclipse expeditions were pro-
nounccd comparatively futile by Profess
or Barnard.
L. ID. Fulford of Utica. " Y. outshot a
field of IS at Interstate park, New York,
breaking % targets out of 100.
\ veteran railway engineer ran his
train into Rochester notwithstanding an
accident in which he broke his hip.
Wednesday, July II.
Ten New England college men left for
Manila to teach Flipinos.
Thousands of Epworrh league excur-
sionists reached San Francisco.
Reeves Bros boiler works at Alliance,
o.. were burned; loss, 100000.
Fifteen negroes were killed in a fight
with Mexicans near Liberty, y. NJ.
Tho Gardner Motor works, New Or
leans. were destroyed by fire; loss, about
$4,000.
Good rains in Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri and Iowa may save part of the
corn crop.
Ida and Edith Yeoland, English actress
es out of employment, committed suicide
in London.
General Corbin reached Manila in 81
days, record time, from San Francisco, on
the transport Hancock.
y train on the Vera Cruz and Pacific
railroad was attacked at TERRA Blanca,
Mexico, and seven men on it killed.
Horse Swallowed $3.50.
SOUTHAMPTON, n. Y, July 90
Elwyn Philips, employed by o. c. Gard
ner, baker in this village, lost $3.50 a