Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-05-06
sUMnARY OF NEWS,



In four days In Bagdad there were las now
cases Of the plague and sevsnty.Ave deaths.
The disease has now appeared ON the left bank
Of tho Tigris. .... Tho Ballou Manufacturing
Co., Of Woonsocket, II. l., extensive mill
owners, have made an assignment lia-
bilities amounting 10 over ", 000, 900. go. Two
robbers rushed into tho Baxter Springs bank,
at Fort Scott, Kansas, during business hours,
presented plstols, stole $4,000. and escaped. ).
Fifteen pilgrims we're drowned while crossing
the river vienne, near Parsao, France. .....
900 In currency wore exchanged for
silver 1t the New York sub-treasury the first
day Of the resumption. >. The total expense
Of the Philadelphia exposition d put at ss,-
900, 900. .....A party Of whites were attacked
by the Indians fifty miles from Custer City, In
tho Black Hills. Two men and woman were
killed., three men seriously wounded, and =
eolorsd woman carried on. Three broken
wagons found In Buffalo Gap indicate that
another party h.s been overtaken and cap
tured by the savsges. Nebraska Democrats
appointed, to the national convention arc sup
porters Of Mr.. Tilden. John Dolan was exc
cuted In New York city for the murder of
James q. Noe. The murder was committed
last August, and the murdered man Was In de-
tense of his premises at the time. He begged
hard for his life, but the burglar said he
could not trust him, and brutally beat the I'M
fortunate man to death. Strong efforts were
made to have Dolan's sentence committed to
imprisonment for life, but Gov. 1ilden refused
to interfere Dolan died easily.
Mollie Dean refused to marry VIM. Cooper,
who had been attentive for some time, In st.
Louis whereupon he shot her twice and then
blew out his own brains. The young woman
died from the wounds. =. .Ofenbach, the
opera composer, has left Paris for this coun-
try. Colorado sends her Republican dele
gates to the national convention uninstructed.
...... Five murderers were hanged together at
Fort Smith, Ark. Three Of them were Choctaw
Indians, one colored, and the other white
man. There were seven thousand spectators
present ... The Spanish government an
nounoes that they will not make any distinc-
tons between Catholics and Protostants in re-
gard to chapels and cemeteries, as has here
tofore been done. .... .Californias grain crop
promises to be unusually good. Fruit also
looks we'll in most districts.
Accounts arrive daily of fresh Indian out
RACES and atrocities. A family Of immigrants
named Baker, from Pennsylvania, consisting
Of father, mother and two children, were
Drained and soalped within hundred miles Of
Custer City,. As five persons were de-
scending coal shaft in bucket at Browns
Station, Mo, the ropo broke, letting them fall
distance of one hundred feet-instantly kill
ing two men anda boy and fatally injuring two
more men..... Two carriage factories two
saloons, and three barns were destroyed by
fire at New Canaan, Conn.,. The foot race Of
1875 yards in San Francisco between Crandalf,
Of Providence, and Horton, of New Jersey, for
tho sum Of $4,000, resulted in Crandalls win
ming byA foot in twelve seconds .... By the
burning Of Somerville's paper mills at Britton,
England $3.50, 900 were lost and five hundred
men thrown out Of employment. The
revolutionary President Medina's troops in
Honduras, Central America, we're totally de-
feated by the regulars. Medina died few
days subsequently ..... While large number
of men were working on new railway tunnel
near Meath, South Wales, an explosion of gun
power caused the roof to fall, burying large
number Of the laborers. Thirteen bodies and
. number Of wounded had been recovered at
last accounts. .. /. One hundred and fifty cot
tages, many Of them completely furnished, on
the grounds Of the Methodist camp meeting
at Tsrentum, Pa, we're destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The bids for the five per cent. coupon bonds
Of 1881 were opened at the treasury at WASH
ington, and the whole amount Of @5,sss, 600
was awarded to Drexel, Morgan Il 90 for
one hundred and three cents seventy-eight and
hundredths. 80. The Egyptian
troops have begun their homeward movement |
from Abyssinia .... Riots have occurred |
throughout the island Of Barbados, and On
immense amount Of property has been de-
stroyed. The troops are actively engaged in
the rioters wherever they appear,
and already more than forty Of the latter have
been shot Much dissatisfaction Is ex-
pressed in England over the bill creating
Queen Victoria empress Of India. 800. "A land
slide 200 by ninety feet occurred in Rondout
IN. W brickyard, and workman was caught
and instantly killed .... A twelve-year-old
son Of John B. Schermerhorn was killed at
N. Y, by the breaking Of buzz
saw with which he WAS saving wood. Elisha
Sampson, OF Danbury, Mass, sixty-seven
years old, was murdered by an insane son who
was in the hands Of the sheriff. ..... The re-
ports from the seal fisheries in the north Of
Newfoundland are favorable. From forty
thousand to fifty Thousand have been hauled
sshore ON that coast.
Barney Williams, the noted actor, who had
oeen sick for few weeks, was stricken with
paralysis and died in New York city at the age
If ifty-three. -. Don Amceto Esquirol has
,een elected to succeed Gen. Garcia as presi-
lent Of the republic Of Costa Rics. "A night
rain on the Canada Southern line dashed into