Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,
Notable Evepts of the Week Briefly
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n state department learns officially
that Colombia will not receive the new
United States minister.
One thousand Tammany braves will
go from New York to the st. Louis
convention. Six trains will be run.
Macmillan Mueller of New York
laughs as he tells of robbing business
men by posing as a heart specialist
and is held for the grand jury.
The New York striking freight han
1lers threaten to call out all affiliated
men on the New Haven road and en-
ployed by coastwisc shipping lines.
Conservatives and Hearst radicals
both claim Mayor Tom Johnson's sup
port for the Democratic state conven-
ton at Columbus, o.. Hot fight on.
Chancellor Magic has appointed
Lindsey VI. Garrison of Jersey City,
n. j., to fill the second of the two vice
characteristics authorized by the last
New Jersey legislature.
Secretaries Hay and Taft and other
prominent leaders are to make ad-
dresses at the meeting in jackson.
Mich. to celebrate the fiftieth anniver-
sary Of the birth Of the Republican
party.
Tuesday. May "a.
Moros have slaughtered ffty-three
loyal Fflipinos in a night raid in Min
danaO.
Joseph W. Folk said he would take
the nomination for governor of Mis-
souri,, but not for president.
The merchant marine commission
has begun an inquiry into the deca-
dence of American shipping.
William j. Bryan said in Chicago
that the Democratic convention will re
affirm the Kansas City platform.
Rear Admiral Evans has arrived at
Washington from Manila. He received
a warm welcome at the navy depart
ment.
1t is said that the Hearst men in
Ohio, not being able to control the
Democratic state convention. will try
to prevent instructions for any other
candidate.
Peter O. Elliott, arrested some
months ago in Washington for suppos-
ed intention to kill President Roose-
welt, has committed suicide in Mime
apolis, MINI.
Six hundred head of cattle have been
transferred from the wrecked steamer
Hibernian, not an animal being lost.
1t is expected that the Hibernian.
ashore neal Cape Ray, Will be success
fully relocated.
Louis Keller, sixty years of age, has
pleaded guilty to the burglary of stores
near Middletown. n. Y, and has been
sentenced to Sing Sing prison for nine
years. He was born in Jail in Ger
many and has served three terms in
American prisons.
Three women of Des Moines. Denver
and New Orleans, each claiming to be
the legally welded wife of Contractor
Dubois, who died last week in Des
MoineS, Ia, met in a restaurant to
attend the funeral, talked the situation
over and mutually agreed upon a divi-
sion of the estate.
Twenty-seven places suspected of be
ing poolrooms were visited. fourteen
persons We're taken into custody and
ninety-four telephones and two tele-
graph instruments were confiscated in
police raids in New York city. FIT
teen of the raids were made in the
Tenderloin precinct.
Investigation into the death of Al
fred Morgan, who was burned to death
in his home near Vinaland, y. j.. was
without result. The county physician
decided that the body was too badly
charred to permit of an autopsy TO
definitely ascertain the cause of death.
1t had been limited that Morgan was
the victim of foul play.
Monday, May ~.
1t is said that the Turkish authori-
ties contemplate destroying all Arme-
man villages in the SaSsun district OF
Asia Minor in order TO prevent the
concentration of insurgents in the
mountains.
James Z. Oondron, fifty-tvb years
old, a mason tender, was shot and kill
ed by his 6fteen-year-old son, James
a Condron, at Westfeld, Mass. The
elder CondFon returned home intoXi-
Gated and was abusing his wife when
the son shot him.
Henry D. Babcock, Jr., who was ia
tally injured in a polo game in Van
Cortlandt park, New York, and who
died in New York. was O freshman in
Yale college. He was about twenty
two years of age, a shillful polo player
and general athlete.
George L. Albanesius OF Jersey City
heights, paymaster at the Alsens Port
land Cement works, is dead at Catskill,
n. Y, from blood poisoning caused by
the dyestuff from colored hose getting
into an abrasion which Il new loose
fitting oxford hoe had produced on
his heel.
At the request of Governor Peabody,
Adjutant General Sherman Bell Of the
state guard at Denver has resigned
md will retire from offca on June /.