Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-04-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
CbroricIed.

Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans has
sailed from Hongkong on his way
home.
The bubonic plague caused 4O,527
deaths in India in the week ending
March 10.
The Vatican authorities ridicule the
report of a threat against the life Of
Pope Plus X.
A trolley car was burned up in
New York suburb before the liremen
could reach it.
1t is reported in Alexandria, Egypt,
that the khedive may visit the st.
Louis exposition.
The Peoples Savings bank of Pawca-
tuck Conn, has suspended payment
and will go into liquidation.
The soldiers on Governors island
New York, may appeal to Secretary of
War Taft because of severe discipline.
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy
met Emperor William at sea off Gaeta
and had lunch with him on his yacht,
che Hohenzollern.
The United States district court at
st. Louis did not pass sentence upon
Senator Burton of Kansas, convicted
of having made improper use of his in
fluence as senator. Motion for arrest
of judgment filed.
Tuesday, March 20.
The amcer of Afghanistan, reported
poisoned, is alive and well at Kabul.
-Four workmen were killed in a tun-
mel near Browns Vile, Pa, by dyna
mite explosion.
The Smoot case will reopen April II
at Washington, with Mormon church
officials as witnesses.
The Passion play was given in Chi
cago for the first time by members of
the Roman Catholic church.
The Macedonian situation is better,
and the sultan is believed to he about
| to accept Austro-Russian reforms.
! Governor Murphy has signed the
child labor bill, which passed both
houses of the New Jersey legislature.
Charles NJ. Schwab ut New York
swore off an assessment of 100000 on
his personally, but agreed to pay on
$1,000
Parker Dexter, aged eleven, mysteri-
ously shot at his home. Randolph,
Mass, died without regaining con-
seriousness.
The Jones & Laughlin Steel company
has been enjoined from so operating
its Pittsburg plant as to injure sur
rounding property by ore dust.
Sta 4 oh hoc ~
rived at Marshtield, Ore, reports pick
ing up large boat belonging to the
British ship La Norma of Greenock,
which is supposed to have foundered
during recent storm.
Bankers and business men of Balti-
more control a company incorporated
in Massachusetts for the unique pur.
pose of furnishing classic and ragtime
music to New England homes just as
gas and water are supplied. The mu
sic will be sent over wires by the tele-
phone method.
The manuscript of Millions Para
disc Lost" which was offered for sale
at public auction in London but which
was withdrawn because the reserve
now been sold to an American collect
or whose name and the amount paiC
are not disclosed.
The president has granted a full
pardon to Servillano Aquino, the brig
adler general in the Philippine insur
gent army who was sentenced by {
military commission to a long term Of
Imprisonment for having ordered The
summary execution of five American
prisoners during the insurrection IL
the Philippines.
Monday, March IS.
A cyclone in the island of Mauritiu
: has killed ninety people and done grea
damage to property.
Dan DAILY the well known comedian
r died suddenly in his apartment at tn
: VendOme hotel. New York.
A purely Irish theatrical compan,
has taken a London theater and IN
tends performing none but Irish plays
D., j. G. Underhill's second wife has OF
I tanned a decree of divorce at New
5 York, having alleged that he still love
l his first wife.
4 A formal protest has been made b
the French ambassador at the Vattca
against Pope Plus KS recent critioisr
of the French policy.
Returns from a majority Of the couL
ties show that GOVarDOr Jaffaraon Dp