Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and PerseIy Told

Marquis Ito called on the president
and Secretary Hay.
The Duke of Teck was robbed of
watch and money on the Ophir.
Bubonic plague is reported to be raw
aging Fuchau and vicinity, China.
The Pennsylvania supreme court de-
cided that the Philadelphia ripper"
law is unconstitutional.
Henry VI. Fedley of New York city,
Yale freshman, was arrested on the
charge of causing the death of Edward
Corrigan, a fellow student.
Monday, oct. ~.
Rear Admiral Francis NJ. Bunce died
at his home in Hartford, Conn.
The steamship Siberia, 1900 tons,
was launched at Newport News, Va.
Hall Caine has consented to become
a candidate for the Manx parliament.
1t is estimated that the Florida
orange crop will amount to 100000
boxes.
AT Niagara Falls, n. Y, the Interna-
tional theater was badly damaged by
fire; loss, $4,000.
The Republicans of Ohio have form
ally opened their state campaign at a
great demonstration in Delaware
A destructive fire swept Sydney. c.
b., causing heavy property damage
and rendering many people homeless.
Five firemen were injured and ST.
fire on West Fourteenth street, Chi
cago.
The captain and ten sailors of n
French fishing vessel from Newfound-
land were drowned in the wreck Of
their vessel off the coast Of Finistere.
France.
Saturday, Oct. I'D.
Former Governor John S. Pillsbury
died at Minneapolis.
Congressman Hull, who is i'll at Des
Moines, Ia, is reported better.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
have left st. John, N. b., for Halifax.
The National bank of Boyertown,
Pa. was closed ON account of CASH
ier's defalcation.
Gold and silver bars have been wash
ed out of an old wreck on the island
of Grand Cayman, near Jamaica.
General James A. Walker, ex-con-
gresham from the Ninth Virginia dis
] trict. is reported critically ill at his
home in Wytheville.
The new battleship Retvizan, built
| in Philadelphia for Russia. averaged
/ ISIS knots for twelve hours. breaking
| the batteship record.
Friday, oct. Is.
Naples was officially declared free
from plague.
Earl Russell was released from iail
/ in London. having served his sentence
for bigamy.
\ large gold shipment and 300 passen-
gers from Cape Nome, Alaska, reached
Puget sound.
An anarchist editor was sent to pris-
on in Berlin for approving McKinley's
assassination.
Thursday. Oct. II.
Empress Augusta Victoria is still con-
fined to her sickroom.
Secretary Hay has resumed his du-
ties at the state department.
The battleship Indiana started from
New York for the West Indies.
congressman who have been visiting
the Philippines sailed for home.
King Edward was assailed by ritu-
alistic organs for attending a Presbyte-
rian church at Craithie.
Kingston. n. Y, celebrated the one
hundred and twenty-fourth anniversa-
ry of its burning by the British.
Clinton, q mining town located on the
Northern Pacific sixteen miles east of
Missoula, Mon, was wiped out by fire.
Wednesday,, Oct. 10.
The safe of bank at Rudd, Ia, was
robbed by burglars.
The battleship Wisconsin sailed from
Seattle for Samoa under sealed orders.
The convention of the American
Bankers association began in Milwau-
kee.
The Duke of Westminster, two
year-old colt, sold in England for $780,
600.
A rumor of the capture of General
Botha was current on the London Stock
Exchange
The Farmers and Citizens bank of
Tiro o., was robbed by six men, who
kept people at bay with rifles.
Twenty-seven works in the Pan
American art show at Buffalo have
been sold, catalogue prices aggregating
$14,935.
Fatal Tunnel Accident.
nat
ing a mass of rock some fifty feet long
and weighing many tons broke from
the roof of the Rapid Transit tunnel
in the excavation at Eleventh avenue
and One Hundred and SiXty-second
street yesterday. In the tunnel at the
time directly beneath where the mass
Of rock had rested before it became
lOOSpned were twenty WOrEmen Five