Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
usms Of Is,srsss tren ns.s asd Abroad.
Tho four mile swimming match In the surf

for $500 side, resulted In Victory for Trantg
by two feet ..... In tho international regatts
at Philadelphia bssiih and Killorn, Of the
Northwestern Grew, wun tho final heat OF the
pair-osr race over the Atalanta representatives
time, 1904 Tho Il VI heat for double scullr
was won by Yates an Courtney, OF tho Union
Springs, over tho ATLANTA crew time, o. SGT
Tho Cambridge (English) University. Column
bia and Yale crews contested the interool
iegiate race, which was won by Yale In 0. 1914
tho Cambridge crew breaking down. The
strong wind prevented better time. -. If. The
Turkish ministry will rema n tho same under
tho now sultan. q. :. Hillary Page, a colored
man, known NJ tho fire Hend," was hanged
In Chesterfield county, Va, for arson So.
Congressional nominations; Virginia seventh
district, j. T.. Harris, Conservative; Kansas,
first district, ". A. Phillips, Rep; Missouri,
nth, II. =. Bland, Dom, ,....A band OF re-
ligious fanatics calling themselves Oobbites,
camped near Gum Springs, Ark, murdered
II man who went TO interview them. On n
posse OF mon going to arrest them, they found
the Oobbites dancing about tho bloody head
OF tho murdered man, which WAS impaled on .
pole. The posse was obliged to shoot two Of
thom before the other four mon, four women
ana two children could DO captured. :. Just
previous to the marriage OF George Sleeper
and his betrothed in Buckley, H., the groom
WAS called to tho door and shot dead by =
rival, named Burt Fleming. .,., The public
debt was reduced 80, 1l9, 3G9. 20 during August.
...., by tho breaking Of locomotive axle on
the Lehigh Valley road, train was thrown
down an embankment near Allentown, Pa.
Eleven passengers wero injured; but none
fatally. by a collision on the Fitchburg
road, near Wachusett, Mass, passenger car
was telescoped, killing ono lady and injuring
two other persons -. Five freight cars broke
through bridge near Waterloo, H., and fall
ing thirty feet were completely wrecked.
by the explosion OF boiler OF a steam
thrssher, at work on farm in Chatheld,
Mimi, three men were instantly killed and
their bodies thrown to a distance. One other
man WAS injured. 80. A coal train on tho
Baltimore and Ohio railway was wrecked near
Weverton, Md, by broken axle. few
minutes later second coal train ran into the
| first and was also wrecked. Before a fagman
could be sent out mail train on tho other
track came along, and, crushing into the piled
up cars was thrown down an embankment
| into the canal. Great excitement ensued
among the passengers, but exceptthe engineer
| of the last train, no one was killed, and only
| few we're wounded. -. The Turkish forces
| made a furious and determined assault upon
| the town OF Alexinatz, and after day Of OBJ
| stnate fighting, succeeded in forcing tho
| Servians from their position and capturing
the place. The Turks committed the most
| horrible butcheries on the fleeing Servians.
This was tho most disastrous battle of the war.
.... Another convention has been called for
tho Democrats OF New York, as Horatio Sey
mour firmly declined to accept the nomination
for governor. ... Six hundred houses and
eighty stores, with all the principal buildings
in st. Hyacinthe, near Montreal, Canada,
were destroyed by fire. A high wind pre-
vented the quenching Of the flames. Hundreds
OF families lost their entire possessions, and
! considerable distress is felt. The aggregate
losses foot up so, 900, 900. -. Brigham Young,
not paying the alimony to his divorced wife,
Ann Eliza, the court ordered the reizure Of
$4,000 worth Of property to satisfy the claim.
Goss and Allen who are in training in Gin
cinnati for prize fight, have been arrested
and forced to give bonds not to fight in Ohio.
... Arkansas elected its Democratic State
ticket by an overwhelming majority .Servia's
defeat Mt Alexnatz is confirmed. The slaughte
on both sides was very great-the contestants
| fighting with the utmost valor. The thirteen
| rectifiers and distiilers who were indicted in
Chicago year ago, but who subsequently
turned States evidence, have been discharged
from custody. .... Large meetings are being
held in England in depreciation Of the Turkish
atrocities John Bright declares that but for
the support Of Great Britain the Turks would
never have dared to commit the horrible out
RACES of which we daily read. 49,. All the
buildings on both sides Of Main street. Sea-
forth, Canada, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
S75,OOO partially insured. A land slide
of five tons Of clay buried John and Matthew
Brennan in Brooklyn, N. Y, and when they
we're dug out John was found dead, literally
crushed flat, while Matthew was alive but
fatally injured. -. Owing to a collision off
Holyhead, England, between the American
ship Sonora and the Spanish steamer vivar,
both vessels we're lost with their valuable car
goes. One life only was lost. -. The London
crew defeated the American crew in the first
heat of the international forr-osred race for
professionals. Distance, three miles TIM,
1921. The second heat was won by Halifax
(Nova Scotia) crew over the world-famous
Paris crew from st. Johns; New Brunswick.
Time, II. 81.
Horatio Seymour, Of New York, gives the
following reasons for declining the nomination
rendered him by the Democratic State conven-
ton The Democratic convention, acting un-
der misapprehensions put me in nomination
for the Office Of governor of New York. This
its members would not have done If they had
known the facts regarding my health. For
many reasons l ought not to be their candi-
date. Duty demands that should decline the
pfoffered honor. While am grateful for the
friendly sentiments which prompted their
action, my declination is compelled by obsta
cles which I cannot overcome. For some
months my he It'll has been infrm, and re-
cent illness has untitled mo for mental or ply
slCsl exertlOn. MY OWL Opluion, cOunrueu ny
the judgment Of my physicians, convinced
me that WAS unable at this time to perform
the duties devolviug upon the governor of
New York. I could cheerfully sacrifice my
own purposes and feelings to meet the wishes
of my friends 1 would not hesitate to peril
my health to uphold those prime pies in which
believe, or to promote the public welfare;
but feel that l should sacrifice the interests
Of the party which placed me in nomination if
accept its action. Even the superior strength
IF the party with which act could not elect
ticket with the known fact that its nominee for
governor was unequal to the performance Of
the labors of that Office. l could not consci-
entiously enter upon them. l cannot do my
friends the wrong Of placing them in falre
positions by trying to do so. I therefore fee
constrained to decline the nomination.
Owing to an outbreak in the western part Of
Africa, three British gunboats assembled the
Niger and punished the natives by burning
several villages. The inhabitants resisted and