Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-11-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


SUMMARY OF NEWS.
essos 81 Interest irso Hsos asa AbrsaA.
three men, while preparing some rsndrock
for blasting. at st. Johnsbury, VT, put It un
der . stove TO dry, In consequence Of which an
explosion took place, tearing the building to
s'ivers and throwing tho men into the air,
killing ono instantly and injuring the others,
ono fatally. 80. Inspiration won the mile run.
ming race In 1;is at Baitimoro's second days
meeting. In the mile heats for three year
olds Red Goat won tho frat heat In i'47s, Am
bush the second In l'a7sl; the third was
dead hoat In l;bl and Ambush took tho fourth
and race In I;53. Burgoo won the handicap
sweepstakes for all ages mile and three-quar-
tiers, in 3.l7la, beating Shylook and Kappa
hsnnock..,... lily the explosion of boiler In
flour mill At Marcellus, Ohio, three mon
were killed, two fatally injured and number
70 screly scaded.. The schooner Annapolis,
from Annspoiis to Boston, was blown out OF
her course and thrown on her beamends. All
hands persisted. .... Gen. Terry seized the
arms and ponies OF tho Indians At the Standing
Rock agency, and informed the sborigipes that
the property would DO sold aud the proceeds
invested In cattle and other articles needful to
them. The Indians evidently secreted a large
number Of guns, ~ but few could DO found to
be seized :. There were 100000 admissions
to the Centennial on Ohio day. ..., Tho Con-
tinental Insurance Co., OF New York city, has
failed. go. While crowd Of people wore stand
ing on a balcony in Reading, Pa, watching
a parade, the railing broke and precipitated a
large number Of persons to the ground, fifteen
feet below, and severely injuring twelve Of
| them.
The Sioux commission was successful in
It's endeavors to get the deterrent chiefs to
Sign tho trs~sy-snsy readily Going so after
tho clause relating 10 removal to Indian Ter
ritory had besn removed. !. Tho English
naval vessels Alert and Discovery, which
have been gone for some time on al exploring
to expedition the Arctic regions, have return
ed. They made extensive and valuable seien-
tiic discoveries, but were unable to find land
above latitude eighty-three degrees, twenty
minutes (four hundred miles from the pole),
to which point sledge party was sent-three
men beng lost in the endeavor. The cold WAS
intense, the thermometer indicating ifty-rine
degrees below zero for fortnight, and once
falling to 104 degrees below freezing point.
.... The cyclone which did so much damage
in the West Indies also visited the Central
American states. Msnagus, in Nicaragua
down-many OF the inhabitants, who had |
sought shelter OH the tops of their houses |
from the flood, being killed in the falling |
The damage is put at s2O00, 900. More than |
three hundred of the houses were destroyed |
in Blewfeld. Much suffering prevails, and |
the government is extending aid The coffee |
crop Of the country is damaged 90, 600, 000...
John Hills and John Fullen were hanged at |
Mays Landing. N. j., for the murder Of an old |
farmer in August last, for the purpose OF rob-
bling his house. The murderers were tracked
for weeks through swamps by the entire male
population Of the county, assisted by dogs, and
were eventually captured in Pennsylvania. :. E.
A train ON the New jersey Midland railroad
broke through bridge at Hawthorne, killing
two persons and wounding two others. .....
At Rome, N Y, fire completely destroyed the
kn tins mills.
The Pope having desired to divide the arch
bishopric Of Lyons into two diooeses without
the assent Of the French government, the lat
ter has issued decree forbidding such d.
vision. -. Three Methodist ministers, circuit
riders, were shot in Arkansas by illicit distil-
lers who, it il thought, supposed them to be
revenue officers going to make arrests. .....
During the recent gale at Sable leland, an
American vessel supposed to belong in East
port, Me-, WAS driven ashore and went to
pieces. Her crew was drowned five of the
bodies being recovered. The vessel was laden
OF Brooklyn, N. Y, was suffccated, while
drunk by rolling over in bed aud jamming his
face in a pillow, from which position no was
unable to extricate himself ...... Two colored
women Of Louisville, KY, having quarrel,
decided to fight duel with knives, aud &C
cordingly met at night without witnesses in
front Of a Baptist church, where they fought
which time they were srrested, one Of them
being terribly gashed and her right eye cut
out.
passenger train on the Delaware, Lacka- {
wanna aud Western railway was run into near
iouldaboro, Pa. and badly wrecked. Five {
persons were killed and thirteen wounded. -.
After a hard days fighting the Turks drove
,he Servians from Dejunis, and occupied the {
heights on Sunday night, having thus cut the
formidable army of the Servians directly in d.
he center. On account of the Trivations the
Servians have suffered, and their discomfort .
With the general commanding, the Russian :
officers had the utmost difficulty in getting -,
hem to fight as well a. they did. 1t was Z
inally necessary to send for Prince Milan to
prevent tho entire Amy from becoming disor-
,anized after the defeat. .... Allen G. Laros,
Who administered poison to his family in May
asst near Easton, Pa, from the effects of !
which his father and two or three others died,
las been sentenced to death IA deficiency !,
If 100000 has been discovered in the city .
reaaury of Philadelphia ..... While Thomas :
Stevens WAS quarreling with his wife, at q
aagerstown Nd, the wife's father, William 8
Hawthorne. aged seventy-two years, inter- y
cred, wbereupon Stevens killed him. . g
Burglars secured an entrance by false keys to
he jewclry store OF Stein Bros, New York
ity, during Sunday night, and; forcing the a
afe took off 1926, 900 worth Of jewelry, leaving 4
nothing in the store but plated ware. The c
anne night the fancy store Of Besthoff, on a
Broadway, was robbed of nearly $4,000 worth 9
4 stock. e. Buffalo's census shows populs- L
ion OF 149, 594 a.. .Cuba's sugar crop will be
realty reduced By the late hurricane.
The will of the late James Lick, which de-
ise' large amount Of money to San Fran
i4co charities has been ecrta.taa ny th~ -~., r
ohn h. Lick .....T The accident to the Gen. a
ennisl train on the Delaware, Lackawanna Z
nd Western railroad was emo Of the most I
erious of the kind that has taken place for b
ong time. The train was an immense Que, t
laving fully 1900 persons on board. 1t was n
wo hours behind time when it reached Lehigh v
:ation, about twenty miles from Scranton, j
nd at this point heavy coal train ran into q
he passenger train, telescoping two Of the l,