Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-08
sUAnARY OF NEWS.

sUnARY OF NEWS.
lss1s % Interest irso Hsos and Abroad.
Seven prisoners In the Salt Lake City psni-
tsntiary overpowsred the guard, and securing
arms aud ammunition made their escape. Tho
prison cook was fatally shot while endeavoring
10 prevent the escape. =. The college regattas
will take place at Saratoga July 18th and 10th +;
the other Athletic sports TO follow on succeed
Ing days. August II, the foreign unworthy
crews will contest the winning crew OF the
college regatta. .. The conference OF Massa-
chusetts Congregatlonalists adopted, unani-
mously, . resolution favoring tho use OF un-
fermented wine at the commuAion ...... VIM.
Adm, who killed bis wife, step-dsughter and
Mrs. Benton In December last, was hanged
10 Cleveland, Ohio. He maintained to the
last that tho decd Was unprecedented. .....
Tho schooner Dreadnaught won the Arst-class
yacht race OF Sandy Hook, and tho Peerless
was successful In the second GLASS -. Mr..
Blaine has suffered relapse In consequence
OF overexerting himself at Hayes ratification
meeting In Washington.
VIM. Henry johnson, who murdered his
step.son, Jacob Redman, in December last,
was hung at Paris, ILL.,. . %. james COPYRIGHT,
ex.county treasurer, ut Wilkesbarre, Pa, has
pleaded guilty to the charge Of embesxling
$4,000 Of funds belonging to the State. .....
Gen. Crooks command had four hours en-.
gsgement with largo body Of Sioux Indians
near the Rosebud river, In Montana The
Indians, who were strongly armed and mount
cd, began the attack, but were dispersed by
the soldiers leaving eighty three Of them dead
on the field. The troops had ten killed and
nineteen wounded. The London Daily
Ne,os' Constantinople correspondent writes
that the irregular Turkish troops have COM
mitted terrible atrocities In Bulgaria, and
enumerated thirty-seven villages which they
have destroyed killing men, women and chill
dren, besides carrying OF many young girls.
Among the refugees who escaped there 10 not
girl Of over ten years Of age. The number
of lives sacrificed is variously estimated 1t
from IL, 900 to SO, 000.... "A masked mob took
. oolored murderer from the Jail at Burlington,
Ky, and were preparing to hang him when he
ran and epdeavored to escape. He was in
stantly shot and wounded, whereupon the
crowd hung him to tree and ridlled his body
with bullets ....A tornado at Paris, Ky, dc.
stroyed ten or twelve houses and did other
damage.
Two of the northern spans Of the railroad
bridge across the Mississippi river at Kansas
I, knns% vcou su ukoA
At 100000. It will probably take two weeks
to repair the bridge ...... At Robinson, ILL.,,
desperate murderer who attacked and nearly
killed the sheriff when locking up the prisoners
for the night, was taken out Of Jail by crowd
and hung ..... Mr.. Ssyler, Of Ohio has been
elected Speaker pro tenn. Of the House-Mr.
Cox having left his duties to attend to politics.
.... "A mail train ran of the track near Cervia,
Spain, and seventeen passengers were killed
and thirty-seven wounded. -. Mrs. Larry
McCsrty and her daughter were burned to
death by the explosion Of . kerosene lamp in
Ogdensburgh, N. w.. Samuel Nenemacher
attempted to go down . foul we'll in Philadel
phia, when he was overpowered by the gases
and fell into the water. John Solomon went
men expired before aid could be extended.
Venezuela has declared the church and |
State separate. Allthe converts have been |
suppressed and their endowments given to |
various charitable institutions. The noted |
Bishop Cummins died in Baltimore county, |
Honduras, Central America, is still undecided. |
Tho aid expected from Guatemala by the |
revolutionary chief, Medina, has not been re-
ceived. :. =. "A base ball game between the Yale
and Harvard mines was won by the formef....
Trouble is brewing between China and Eng
land. .. The schooner B. P. Chase lost her |
foremast by lightning and one Of the crew was
killed by the same agency go. By an ex-
plosion in the oolllery pit at Sheffield, Eng
six men were killed. ..... The English are
the fortress at Gibraltar by all
the means that can be devised.
Sadler, the English champion sculler, was
defeated on the Thames in q contest with
Trickett, the champion Of Australia. The race
was for the championship and 81 900 side
..... Mr.. Blaine's health has improved suff-
GENTLY to enable him to leave the capital for
Maine -. "A hailstorm in the vicinity of
Quebec did great damage to the crops. ....
Vim. Kinsley shot and seriously injured his
wife and then committed suicide, In Provi-
dence, r. I. They had been quarreling for
years. =. The Republicans of Vermont have
nominated Horace Fairbanks for governor
and Redfeld Proctor for ieutenant-governor.
The Democratic National convention, which
met at ct. Louis, was called to order by
Augustus Schell who said it was the purpose
TO nominate candidates whose election shall
,hange the government and overthrow oorrup-
lion. May We not hope after sixteen years Of
he said. that the Democratic
party may resume its supremacy in the govern.
ment The rules that govern the convention
will insure good nominations, and he exhorted
to wisdom in making the platform. In con-
,lusion he nominated Mr.. Henry Watterson, Of
for temporary chairman. Mr.. Wat
serson addressed the convention on the issues
If the day. The chair announced a. score
aries, Frederick o. Prince, of Massachusetts,
F. o. Walker, Of Iowa, and 8. K. Donovan, of
Ohio; also, Dan Able, Of Missouri, a.
Mr.. Abbott, Of Massa-
,husetts, poved resolution adopting the
.ules of the last National convention until
otherwise ordered, which was adopted.
This included the two-thirds rule Mrs.
Jouzens, from the Womans Rights ma
.ionAl convention, addressed the convention, ,
lskng that female suffrage plank be adopted,
md concluded by presenting the address and
resolutions Of the Woman's Suffrage associa-
ion, which on motion Of Mr.. Clernand were
afarrAd to the committee ON resolutions for I