Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


} Tho report comes from London Of tho resig
nation Of Minister Schenck. -. Tho steamer
Strath- Clyde, Of Glasgow, was sunk Oh Dover
England, by coming In collision with thu
steamer Franconia, from forty to afty person,
being drowned. ..,..It ia reported that the
Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapahoes are prepar,
ing for war. Three Of tho actual muir
derers Of Mr.. Burch, the English resident d
Perak. India, have been captured. One OF
them has confessed, and says that nine mon
perpetrated tho murder. .... Tho New Jersey
Legislature passed . resolution calling on its
representatives in Congress to oppose railroad
subsidies. :. Lieut.. Governor Davis (colored),
Of Mississippi, has boon impeaohed. .... Nova
Scotia will be well represented In the boat
races 1t Philadelphia during the Centennial.
The owners Of the Harvest Queen, which was
sunk by the White Star steamer Adriatic, have
fled libel against the steamship for @225, 900.
80. Rev. Horace Bushnell, Of Hartford, Conn.,,
well known in Congregational circles, is dead
The German government has resolved TO
indiot Count Won Arnim for treason and the
prosecuting officer has applied for the seques-
tration of the accused's estates. . The Maine
Senate has passed an act substituting life i'm
prisonment for hanging Is the penalty for
murder King Alfonso has assumed COM
mand Of the Spanish army in the north .....
While the cashier Of the Kern Valley bank,
California was working ct the books in the
evening, he was overpowered and chloroform-
cd by burglars, who succeeded in getting away
with o., ....A battle occurred between
tho Sonora revolutionists and the State troops
near Alamos, Mexico, in which the revolution
lists were successful. .... The boiler Of port
able sawmill in birmingham. Mass, exploded.
killing three Of the four men employed about
it. Charlotte Cushman, the famous actress,
died in Boston Of pneumonia, aged sixty years.
...... Three Italians, who killed one Of their
fellow oountrymen TWO years ago in st. Louis,
have paid the penalty on the soanold.
The German ecclesiastical court has def
nitely summoned the bishop of Munster to
appear for trial on charges which involve the
penalty Of deposition from his see. .... Keith,
tho man convicted Of poisoning the we'll Of
. neghbor in Leeds, Me-, was sentenced to
ten years in State prison. 49,. r. d. Rufin,
. oolored member Of the Virginia House of
delegates from Dinwiddie county, WAS ex.
PEELED for improper conduct in abstracting
money from the paybook Of the sergeant-at-
arms. =. Charlotte Cushman leaves an es-
tate of 100000. .... .Servia has ordered all
men between the ages of twenty and fifty
years under arms By . fire in Athens,
N. Y, eight icehouses of the Knickerbocker
company were Destroy d, with implements and
forty Thousand tons Of ice already stored. The
loss amounted to 1926, 900, which was covered
by insurance .... The Red river steamboat
Mary Loury was burned to the waters edge
while on her way to New Orleans. Her cargo
of thirteen hundred bales of cotton was almost
total loss. BY the precipitation Of an
engine down an embankment on the Short |
Line road at Lagrange, KY, Engineer Finne-
gan was caught under the machinery and held !
fast while streams Of boiling water from the |
broken boiler ran over his face and body. He |
died in the greatest agony, with dozen men
ooklng on, unable to extricate him.
cable has been laid between Sydney and |
New Zealand ...... The Indiana Republican !
State convention. which nominated Godlove
s. Orth (present minister to Austria) for gov
ernor, presented the claims of Oliver P. Nor
ton for President 90. The Carlist cause is
deemed lost by those in Paris who are well
posted ...... June twenty-seventh was ap-
pointed for the national Democratic conven-
ton, and st. Louis was fixed as the place. zee.
Richard B. Irwin WAS arrested on charges by
Rufus Hatch that he had enbezzled the
Pacific mail subsidy fund. go. An invalid lady
of eighty-six years. while sitting before fire
in New York city, was burned to death by her
clothes catching fire. she being too feeble to
extinguish the flames. .... Disastrous floods
occurred in the provinces Of Upper Austria
and Moravis, by which 100 houses we're washed
away 1t is Low probable that the threatened
war between the States of Central America
will be averted. 800. The four-mie running
race for $50, 900 at San Francisco which has
excited so much attention from the sporting
world during the past three months, was
finally run on Washington's birthday, in the
presence OF $4,000 people. Foster won the
race in two heats in 1885 and 1853; Ruther-
ford taking second place. Hook Hooking,
Katie Pesse, Revenue, Jr., Golden Gate and
George Cameron shot Fred Schneider
through the head, in a Chicago saloon, and
blew his own brains out As there
was no occasion for the crime, it is supposed
,he double death was prearranged between the
deceased men.
The condition Of affairs in Hayti il reported
20 be alarming. The president has ordered
Cuban refugees to leave the island, and a
panic is imminent. small
party Of citizens Of Montana were attacked
md besieged by Sioux Indians on the north
,ranch of the Yellowstone ...... Governor
Charles R. Ingersoll and the entire Democratic
state ticket was renominated by the State
held in New Haven, Conn .... The
Switzerland, from NV York for
Antwerp, ran down the brigantine Hero in the
English channel, and drowned four of her
rev 80. By destructive fire in Tarrytown, .
\. Y, an entire block of stores was burned
md dozen families rendered homeless. LOSS
$3.50, 900 Tho governor of Maine has
igned the act to abolish capital punishment.
go. The American House, one Of the leading
lotels Of Boston, WAS sold under a mortgage
for $210,0OO
Gen. Babcock, private secretary to Gen.
4rant, who was tried at St. Louis for COM
'licity in the whisky frauds, was found not
utility by the jury on the first ballot The
rial lasted seventeen days. 40. E. Il A.
Dixon, the noted merchants Of Liverpool,
England, have failed for three and one-half
million dollars. -. "A thaw throughout Ger
many caused the rivers to rise suddenly and ,
'verfiow their banks, washing away bridges,
houses and farms, and causing some loss of
ife. .... No irregular revolutionary combination
ppears to have been formed in Mexico, al |
hough many individuals have declared against
he COVE rnment in different parts Of the coun-
~. The Protestant church at Jalapa was re- '
opened under police protection. A slight
earthquake was felt in the City Of Mexico ON
he seventh of February -. The Plymouth
,hurch advisory council was dissolved, after
Plymouth church in its discipline,