Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


hss uooh iupeAcuou ny tho HOUSE OF hiBh
crimes and misdemeanoru. President Grant
has announced that Gen. Bsbcook will no
longer act ~ the Presidential private secretary,
that while convinced Of Dabcock's innocence
in connection with the whisky frauds, he oon-
siders him to have been indscrest. ..., The
Delaware, LaokAwanna and Western railway
company arc TO 70 iuoe their gauge, and work
will DO commenced forthwith. go. Mr.. Lam
sing, cashier Of tho Kern Valley bank, Cali
fornia, who claimed TO have been overpowered
and ohloroformei by masked men while work
Ing at his books In the evening, after which
tho robbers secured large amount Of funds
from the open vaults. has been arrested and
confessed TO robbing the bank. He disclosed
whore tho stolen funds we're deposited. and
all were recovered. ....A woman and three
small children were burned 10 death In tone
ment house In La Mails, Iowa. On learning Of
the fact the husband became . rAving maniac.
.....A great battle took place in Herzegovina,
In which tho Turks were badly beaten. The
Louisiana House has appointed \ committee
to investigate tho charges against Gov. Kel-
logg, with the intention Of impesohing him.
The United States Senate passed tho
bill authorizing the issue Of $500, 100000 in
four and one-half per cent. bonds, to run
thirty years.
The steamer Mary Belle, the largest Of the
Mississippi fleet, WAS burned ct her wharf in
vicksburg, with her cargo Of cotton. Three
lives wore lost. The vessel and cargo was
valued At $500, 900 ...... A four-oared English
crew will come to the Centennial, under the
stroke Of Robert Watson Boyd. =. General
Crooks command will punish the Sioux who
arc on tho war path in Wyoming Territory. &. &. :.
Six masked men robbed three schOoners lying
in New York hsrbor, securing considerable
booty. In each case they forced their way
aboard Ut the muzzle Of reviewers, and cruelty
beat the crew. ... The managers of the
eastern bound trains from Chicago have re-
duced the freight rates slightly. i. .Ex-Tax
Commissioner Hand was sentenced In Pster-
son, N. j., to serve eighteen months at hard
labo-. The secretary of the treasury an
nounoes that there is the sum of go, 9S7, O2S.-
II in the treasury at the present time. -. &. .
Austria has ordered from the country all
Herzegovinian refugees. :. =. An outbreak o.
CURED in the Jail ut Maulmain, India, during
which eleven prisoners were killed and several
wounded ..... Mrs. Emma K. Wimple, on
trial for the murder Of her husband ct Little
Valley, N. Y, has been convicted Of murder in
the second degree and sentenced to State
prison for life. ..... 1t is believed at Khodjent
that after tho recent battle at Asske all the
Russian prisoners in the hands OF the insur-
gents we're massacred at Marghillsn.
A mob Of masked men broke into the Jail at
Lebanon, Tenn, and took therefrom Porter
Williamson, . colored murderer, whom they
hung aud then shot. williamson, who had
previously confessed his crime, had been
granted three trials, which tardy Justice was
probably the cause Of the lynching. go. The
famous Chorpenning claim has been decided
adversely. An appeal will be taken. go. In
consequence Of the destruction of the work.
shops connected with the California State
prison at San Quentin, and fear lest the
one Thousand prisoners should revolt, it was
necessary to call out the militia. Tue damage
of the fire was estimated at 800, 900. 1t was
officially announced in Madrid that the Carlist
war was at an end, and that Don Carlos has
entered France and asked French hospitality.
... The French minister of the interior has
issued q circular stating that it Is unnecessary
to begin prosecutions for violation Of the press
law during the elections, which were not
then proceeded with ....A tornado swept
over several Of the Western States, doing con-
siderable damage at several points where it
seems to have concentrated its full force. At
St. Charles, Mo-, although it lasted but five
inmates, over twenty houses and other build
ings were demolished. A father and son were
killed and others wounded. At Princeton,
Ind, fifty houses were totally destroyed and
fifty more badly damaged. Eight persons were
seriously injured, four Of whoee wounds will
prove fatal. The damage in the surrounding
country viii prove very heavy, as great num-
bers Of fruit trees, outbuildipgs and fences
were Frustrated.
Russia has incorporated Khokand among
her possessions. General Scobeleff has been
appointed governor of the new province, to
which the name Of Ferghan is given. The ex-
Khan Of Khokand remains in Tashkend until
further orders.... Charles ]. Brent, book
keeper for the Tobacco bank at Falls City, KY.
committed forgery for SIS, 0O0 and decsmped.
..... The accounts of the devastation from
the foundations in Hungary are heartrending.
hundred manufactures and fifty other build
ms at New Pesth have been undermined and
fallen. 1t is feared that when the waters re-
tire a vast number of houses in Buda and
other places along the river will fall. Twelve
Thousand out Of the eighteen Thousand inhabi-
tants of Althofen are homeless. Don Carlos
is reported to DO on his way to England.
There was general rejoicing throughout Spain
that the civil war was over, and efforts will be
Immediately made to bring the country up to
the proper standard. ..... The Connecticut
Republicans nominated II. @. Robinson for
governor, and candidates for other Offices, on
q strong hard money, reform, free school
and no third term platform; Marshal Jewell
was proposed for President, but no action
taken .... The Redpath sugar refinery, OF
Montreal. Can, has been closed on account OF
financial difficulties, and three hundred hands
discharged.
The entry Of the Afonsist troops into Madrid
is to be celebrated by three days bull fights
and other festivities. 80. Spain is about to
send thirty thousand men to Cuba. 80. The
direct cable has been again repaired, and
is now in good working order. The officers
claim that the ends of the broken cable showed
conclusively that it had been cut from malice.
..... Col. Gordon the Egyptian explorer, has
returned to Cairo, after unsuccessfuliy en-
deavoring to survey equatorial Africa. ....
A Vienna dispatch reports that fifty-fv Hun
garian villages near the Austrian border are
entirely submerged the water over some OF
them being ninetesn feet deep. :. General
Sherman wants two moro military posts in the
Black Hills country, and thinks he can build
them for $21O,O00 :. Minister Schenck pub
lished a card in the London papers declaring
the statements about him in regard to the
Emma mine as q tissue Of infamous false.
hoe DIS, and stated that he had leave of absence
and would leave Immediately for the United
States to confront his calumniators. Eight
ladies' graduated from the Boston medical
school this year -. .Portugals contribution