Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

Former President Grover Cleveland
has accepted an invitation to address
and preside at public meeting to be
held at Philadelphia December IL in the
interests of the Berean Manual Training
and Industrial School for Coored People.
Among other speakers will be former
Postmaster-General Charles Emory
Smith, Col. A. X. Mcclure and Booker
Il. Washington.
Methodists In New York city succeeded
Sunday in raising about $4,000 for the
relief of superanunuated preachers and
their widows and orphans.
Rev. Elias Saade. Syrian, who had
become a Christian clergyman, died
suddenly of heart failure Brooklyn a
few days since. He was born in Tri-
poll and became a Christian convert at
an early age.
Septimus Winner. composer of "The
Mocking Bird" "What is Home With.
out a Mother" and hundreds of other
home in Philadelphia on the 25th inst.
James +. A. Gibbs, inventor of the
Wilcox Gibbs sewing machine, died at
Rapine, Rockbridge county, Va. on the
25th inst. He was born in 1929 near
Cyrus Hail Mccormick, of reaper fame.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rage of Miss Mary Edna Cushman,
daughter of Earl 5. Cushman, to Alfred
l.. Sherman, city grand juror, both of
Burlington. The ceremony will take
place on Wednesday evening, December
10, at Z 80 o'clock.
If | can stop one heart from breaking
shall not live in vain;
If | can ease one life the aching
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
shall not live in vain.
Verestchagln's picture of San Juan
Hill, "Come on Boys" showing Colonel
Roosevelt charging at the head of his
men, brought $4,000 at public auction
in New York few evenings since.
Chicago, Nov. &c All records between
Chicago and Elkhart have been broken
and a new record established for con-
tinuous run of l0l miles by the Lake
Shore "Twentieth Century Limited"
The run was made in 100 minutes.
During several portions of the trip
speed of nearly 80 miles an hour was
attained.
The apple crop of Orleans county \.
V, is estimated at one million barrels,
with value to the growers of 81 $50, 600.
More than 200 900 barrels are in store in
Albion.
w. II. Hearst, proprietor of the New
York American and journal. makes oath
it cost him $l2,423 for election to Con-
gress in a district that could not haye
been carried against him. Hearst be-
lievts in paying well for good adyertis
ing.
Butter is rising in price in various
parts of the country. Creamery sold at
at Utica, n. y. Monday for % to -
cents and at Elgin, Ohio, for p cents.
Cheese at Utica, large, III; small, If.
The game wardens in various parts of
Maine have reported lob cases where
moose were illegally killed during the
past year. This number represents
nearly 33 per cent. of all the moose
killed in Maine during that time.
Secretary Young, of the Maine state
board of health, reports that there have
been no new cases of small poX for seve-
raj DAYS, and that those who are i'll are
conValescent.
John Coburn. 81, who lived alone,
WAS found dead in his home at Sea-
brooke, n. II. He had upset a lamp,
setting fire TO the house, and was suflo-
Gated.
A loss of $4,000 was caused by a fire
in the wood cOnveyer in the sulphite
digester room of the Oxford paper mills
at Rumford Falls, Me, which have the
contract for making postal card paper
for the United States government.
Newton Taylor, weaver, was run
into by an electric car at New Bedford,
Mass, and almost instantly killed. A
wrecking car had to be used to lift the
car from the body.
Pawtucket, r. J., has another vista
ton of small pox, the victim being Mrs.
Malinda Eocles, widow of William
Eocles, who died IN Boston two weeks
ago of small poX.