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Bellows Falls Times WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1899. VERMONT NEWS. Vermont stockholders, who lost several hundred thousand dollars in the collapse of the Northwestern Guaranty Loan company of Minneapolis a few years ago, have received notice from the receiver to pay a 100 per cent assessment, in accordance with the laws of Minnesota. The legality of the assessment has not been tested in the Vermont courts, and the astern stockholders will probably not pay immediately. The largest stockholder lives in St. Johnsbury, and much of the stock is held there and in other Caledonia county towns. There was fierce elemental war above Montpelier Friday night. Heaven's heaviest guns and rapid fire batteries reproduced the din of Manila bay and the Santiago coast. To an observer above the city the electrical display at about 4 o'clock was one of great magnificence. "Chain lightning" was fiercely p aying upon the country, incessantly and from all quarters of the heavens. The celestial marksmanship, however, was only a little better than that of the Spaniards, and the number of casualties, considering the nearness and severity of the bombardment, was small. Frank Langley. editor of the Barre Daily Times, was assaulted by Angelo Scampani, an Italian merchant. The affair took place in front of the building in which Mr. Langley's office is located. Langley was knocked down, and hurled down some stone steps. Chief of Police Howland was an eye witness and immediately arrested Scampani. The assault and arrest caused a great sensation, owing to the prominence of both parties and grows out of a story printed in the Times through which Scampani is accused of having gone to Boston and engaged Italians to work on the Barre water works and receiving of a commission therefor. A general civil suit is expected to grow out of the affair. Four burglars committed a daring robbery at the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington railroad company's passenger depot at Wilmington last week. Previous to entering the depot they seized the night watchman, Frank E. Ray, and bound him to a chair in the engine house located near by. While one of the gang guarded the watchman and covered him with a revolver, the other three blew the door completely off the big safe in the depot and went through the contents. They escaped with only $19 35 in currency, leaving about $50 behind in their haste to get away. All four of the men carried big revolvers and were closely masked. This is believed to be the same gang which operated at Griswoldville a few weeks ago. Mrs. Mary Howe-Lavin's farewell appearance at the Royal Opera in Wiesbaden, Germany, where she has been engaged during the past two seasons, took place on the 26th of June. Although the regular subscription season had closed, and in spite of the warm summer weather, the popularity of the singer was so great that the theatre was filled to overflowing and the enthusiasm surpassed anything seen during the season. On her araival at the theatre the artiste found her dressing-room transformed into a veritable bower of roses. The decorations were the work of the assistants and stage bands, who took this pleasant way of showing their admiration and affection for the singer, who,by her kindness and cordiality, had endeared herself to the theatre employes as well as to the general public.