Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
Cbronicled.

Lne Ddl7S treaty
The war department has ordered the
old Spanish ordnance in Porto Rico to
Returned over to Spain.
Charles Cunningham, millionaire
stockman, and six homesteaders have
been indicted at Portland, Ore, for
land frauds.
The Duke of Cambridge has been
buried in London with greater honors
than any soldier since Wellington.
The Cleveland Electric Railway COM
pany has abandoned its experiment of
cheap fares and of giving a transfer
on a transfer.
An anarchist internal machine was
placed in window of the house of a
police commissioner at Liege, Belgium,
but discovered in time to prevent dam
age.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne has testified that he prepared
the list of congressman involved in the
postal report at the instance of Mr..
Overstreet.
Tuesday, March ~.
The freedom of the city of Edin-
burgh, Scotland, has been conferred
on Ambassador Choate.
The New Jersey legislature will ad-
journ this week without acting upon
several important measures.
Two men were killed in Niagara
| Falls, n. Y, by an Erie train while
walking on the railroad track.
Colonel Bingham, late of Washing
! fnu tvbn wac b1Irt IL, Jluffo1o will cava
his leg, but must walk with a limp.
Expelled union miners are preparing
to return to Telluride, Colo, under an
armed escort, and a fight is expected.
President Eliot of Harvard has We
toed the plan to put the union label on
o pamphlet containing his labor speech.
Some French residents of Canada
who are subject to military duty have
been summoned home for garrison
duty.
BY legal enactment it is proposed to
change the name 'osteopathy" to EOS
teotheraphy' and legalize its practice
in New York state.
Fifty buildings were partly wrecked,
one man was MORALLY wounded and
6cNcIul OllltIS were llull III I1lESlllS-
vile, Mo. The town is in darkness
and the streets are strewn with debris
as the result of a tornado and hail
storm.
The steamer Clan Grant of the Clan
line was in collision with the American
line steamship Merton, bound from
Liverpool for Philadelphia, off the
| 10 bo1 q
large hole stove in her and had to be
beached.
A son has ben born to the Prince and
Princess David Kawananakoa at Homo
lulu. The boy is the first male heir Of
the Kalagaua line to be born for many
years, and if the monarchy were still
in existence he would be heir apparent
to the Hawaiian throne.
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor has
just returned from an extensive tour of
Porto Rico, having held conferences
with leaders and fruitlessly used his
best endeavors to unite the warning
factions under the banner of the Amer
lean Federation.
Monday, March Fl.
r. W. Jones of Schenectady, n. Y,
has committed suicide at the Vendome
hotel by cutting the arteries in both
wrists. He was Respondent because
of having been out of work.
One man has been killed, two men
more or less seriously injured and one
white woman wounded in a fight be-
tween negroes and deputy sheriffs
about two miles west of Besssmer,
Ala.
Two young men. Charles Wilson and
Roy Brackley, became involved in a
dispute at West Mills. Me, with the
result that Brackley lies dead from two
bullet wounds, and Wilson is lock ed
up in the county jail
Colonel Leutwein, governor Of Ger
, man Southwest Africa, reports severe
, fighting there. The Germans were
2 forced to retreat with the loss of seven
: officers and nineteen mon killed and
three officers and two privates wound
cd.
William Collins of Albion, a veteran
of the civil war, is dead at willard
asylum at Ovid, n. Y. 1t is claimed
that Mr.. Collins was one of the cap
tors of John Wilkes Booth and 70
ceived part OF a reward offered by the
government.
The plant of the Bayway Refining
company at ElizsPothport, Y. J., nas
been destroyed by fire. The flames
spread to the plant Of the Pennsyiva
Z mia and Delaware Oh company, and
t the warehouse and part of the dock
were burned.
1t is probable that the government OF
the United States VIII soon make de-
termined effort to end the intolerable
condition of anarchy In Santo Domin
go by according full recognition tc
General Morales, who claims the presi
dency of the republic.
Boatmen report seeing a number OF
collins floating in Long Island sound