Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-08-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


lssas si Interest treu Hsos asd AsrsaA.
Mrs. Mary, wife Of Theodore Ball, aged
thirty. five years, Of wsrwiok, N. y, after hav.
Ing . tooth drawn aud suffering . nervous
spasm, wont TO sleep In the dentists chair and
died without waking Messrs. !. h O..
Harris, Australian merchants, who made an
arrangement with their creditors last year,
agreeing to pay In full, nov announce their
uspen sion, Their liabilities arc given at ell
800, 900; their assets are estimated at o., OO0,-
900. SO. Tho Ssrvians lost two thousand killed
at the battle Of Ixvor, They retired across
tho river Timok, but have since rocrossed
The Turkish loss was about the same. i. :. "A re-
port from Bismarck says tho statement that
sitting Bull was killed In tho fight with Custer
Ia confirmed from Indian sources. Grassy
Horse aud Black Moon were also killed. The
statement that Sitting Bulls band Of Uncpspas
lost lG0 killed and that tho total loss OF tho In.
dams will reach nearly four hundred 10 re-
newed. .Advices received from Fort Lara.
mic state that = party Of four miners, from
the Black Hills, on their way to Cheyenne
have been killed, scalped and stripped by In.
dams.
Gen. Sherman chsracterizes Wendell Phil
lips lettor 10 him al fabrication and impu-
don't production. .....A terrific gallo passed
over portions Of Vermont, doing much damage
to outbuildings, crops and trees. The steamer
Lady Of the Lake, ON Lake Memphremagog,
had narrow escape from laundering with
lao persons on board. .... The wife and
hve-year.old child Of George Dock, Of Niska-
yuma, N. Y, were badly burned by the ex-
plosion Of can OF kerosene. The child sub
sequently died $3.50. The two cooks were not
lost by the Mohawk disaster, but Mr.. Frost
Thorn, Of Chicago, and = cabin boy were
drowned in addition to Mr.. and Mrs. Garner
and Miss Hunter ...... Halt million dollars
worth of blankets were sold at auction in Now
York at prices about thirty per cent. below
thoee Of last year. The French town Of
Gavray, near Cherbourg, was partially do
stroyed by fire, and four hundred persons rem
dercd homeless ...... A small steam yacht be-.
longing at Troy, N. Y, was stesming on the
Hudson, whcro it was swamped by the swells
OF a passing steamer, and Of its nine occu-
pants, five wero drowned, namely: George
Fox, Thos. Edgley, Jr., George Bloomfield,
Jonas Faulkner and Harry Maniche.
The principal business portion Of Shelburne
Falls village, Mass, was destroyed by fire, in
GLIDING the Methodist church. The loss is
$4,000; on which there is An insurance Of
al, 700. go. Patrick Ford killed his wife In
Boston, using an Ak, with which he inflicted
terrible wounds. Afterward, in attempting to
cscape, he jumped from the top of the house.
and received injuries from which he died in
half an hour. Jealousy was the cause Of the
deed. ... The Turks defeated the Servians
near Beljina. The Newfoundland cod fishery
promises an average catch. go. Eugene and
Ulysses L. Stoddard, twenty-five and twenty
years Of age, were killed at Ledyard, Conn.,,
by caving well. .Scotland's rife team won
the international match at Wimbledon, over
the English, Australian and Canadian teams
...... Seventy times the amount required has
been offered for the loan Of the city of Paris.
..... Gen. Sheridan is to take the field in
person against the Indians, and proposes to
give the Sioux such q thrashing that they will
ever remember it ..... The sailing master Of
the yacht Mohawk, under arrest for criminal
carelessnsss, was exonerated by the corener's
jury ..... While two young men, three young
ladies and q child wore sailing on the river
near Davenport, Iowa, the boat was capsized
and only the two men were rescued.
A waterspout two hundred feet in height
struck on the Diamond Range mountains, near
Eureka, Cal. ,acd killed thirteen Chinese wood
choppers outright. The camp of large num-
Der Of Italian choppers was also demolished,
and as no trace OF the men can be found, it is
feared they all persisted. Miller and Bauer's
contest at wrestling, for the championship and
$1,000, took place at Baltimore, and resulted in
victory for Miller. ...... The Indian agencies
have been turned over to the military authori-
tics. ;. "A Cincinnati regiment marched from
that city to the Centennial, being twenty-nine
days on the way. Lightning has destroyed
256,944 barrels Of oil in Pennsylvania since
April 18th.
The government forces of Mexico defeated
1900 insurgents under Hernandez, at Forth.
Hernandez and six hundred of his men were
made prisoners. All the artillery and ammu.
milton was also captured. .... The town Of
Albeuve, Switzerland, has been totally de-
stroyed by fire. E. i. The government Of Colum-
bia has made 0 contract to have route sur
veyed for canal across tho isthmus Of Darien,
and, If practicable, will build it......B By the
explosion of q can of kerosene oil with which
they were starting a fire, two daughters Of
Mr.. Pritchard, near Logansport, Ind, were
terribly burned, from the effects OF which they
died. Six miners were killed and FIVE Others
seriously injured by an explosion in the Black
Diamond coal mine, at Mount Diablo, Cal. 80.
The government wants recruits for the regular
army, but will not accept any volunteers for
the Indian war.
Gen. Crook, with 14OO mon Of his COM
mand will force the IndianL into the mountains
and press them closely, without waiting for
further re-eniorcemonts 80. .Four inches Of
snow fell on Mount Washington, White noun
tains, N. H., on July Goth. by fire in
James Nolen's mill in Philadelphia, the exit Of
some hands employed on an upper floor was
cut off, and Ellen Heaven and Ann Patterson
we're killed by jumping from the windows go.
Senator Csperton, of West Virginia, is dead.
......Jay Cooke & Co. are discharged from
bankruptcy. 80. =. The largest commercial block
in the town of Cornwall Cana Is, containing
the Masonic hall, Freebooter Office, and several
large stores, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50 600 49,. The town of Evorton, Ind, was
almost totally destroyed by a coniagration,
which is believed to have beon started by an
incendiary. The exasporatod people secured
tho country about in search Of him.