Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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The Mortified bank robbers have at last
been hunted down and captured by the citi-
zens Of Dakota, after . desperate fight, in
which ono WAS killed aud the other three seri-
ously wounded. ...,At Estontown, N. j., q
jealous Pole murdered his faithless wife aud
then committed suicide by shooting himself.
..... New York city IL flooded with visitors.
..... Tho American and Irish teams competed
Ut their return match, 1t Croedmoor, near
New York city, which resulted in victory for
tho former by eleven points, tho scores stand
ing 1,l65 for tho Americans to l,l64 for tho
Irish. At tho end Of the match Ut eight hun
dred yards the Americans had lead Of fifteen
points, which was increased to thirty-two at
tho close Of the shooting at nine hundred
yards distance. Col. Farwell, however, "wont
to pieces at one thousand yards, making six
misses in his score and q bull's-oye on tho
wrong target, and closed with only total of
1906 points. The remaining five men made an
average of two hundred points per man, and
thus enabled the team to hold its own. Con.
Dakin made 2O8, followed by Mr.. Rathbone with
204, while Millner led tho Irish team. with 2O6.
The scores at tho close Of the range at eight
hundred yards stood: Americans, 400 Irish,
394; at nine hundred yards, Americans, 1856 +,
Irish, $780, and at the ono thousand yards
range, Irish, SOL; Americans, $40. The
Americans have won all three of the matches
two at Creedmoor and one in England.
Philip Riley, Of Watertown, Conn.,, boat his
wife recently and she went to her fathers
house. lilo went there, and, being ordered
away, stabbed William Foster in the abdomen,
aud his wife's father Robert Woods, in the
head and arm ....... Near Ralston, Forest
county, Pa, newly opened numbering ham
let, two cabins, occupied by George Parks and
Daniel Cooper, wood choppers, employed by
the Pennsylvania lumber company, were
washed down the mountain side into the
stream below at ali early hour in the morning,
and before tho families were aroused from
their slumbers. The Parks family consisted
Of seven persons the father, mother and five
children. There were nine members Of the
Cooper family-Cooper, his wife, six children
and Mrs. Adams, the mother Of Mrs. Cooper.
The sixteen persons were all drowned, and
their bodies carried away and jammed between
a "boom OF logs in Forest creek. Tho houses
were completely wrecked. The country is very
sparsely settled but it is feared that other
lives were lost during the great storm. "A
frightful accident occurred at an early hour in
the morning. at Black Lick Station, on the
Columbus, Ohio. The train was running at
the rate Of perhaps forty miles per hour and
from some cause four cars of the train jumped
the track and rolled down an embankment,
which is some twenty-five or thirty feet high
at that place, -Four persons were killed and q
delphia Exhibition is not to be extended be-
yond November 10Th, the time originally set
for closing it. The managers expect that the
chilly weather of October will make the un-
warmed buildings uncomfortable for visitors,
and, consequently, that the present large at
will end with September.
The city Of Zacatecas, Mexico, was captured
by the insurgents under Gen. Cadena on the
twenty-fourth Of August, who turned it over
to the foreign consuls the same night. The
government troops reoccupied it on the twen-
ty-eighth, having defeated the insurgent
troops few hours previously. The insur-
gent cause is said to be on the increase. Gen.
Portirio Diaz is at Oaxaca with a we'll armed
army and is constantly gaining recruits .....
The explosion of the mine containing fifty
Two thousand pounds of dynamite, at Halletts
point, He'll Gate, was successfully accom-
plished at the time appointed. Two hundred
thousand people covered all points of ohaer-
Walton in hopes of a grand yet terrible dis
play, but they were disappointed ana the
promises Of Gen. Newton fully sustained, as
there was no shock beyond slight osciating
of the earth and a lumbling poise,
by all upheaval OF water, mud
and stones. 1t is thought the blast effectually
did the work intended, but it cannot be fully
ascertained until tho dredging machine has
been at work ...... The result Of the fisheries
Of Newfoundland this year is far below that
Of last year, but the increased price makes up
Tor the small catch. 80. As George Winthrop
was making an ascension from Paxton, Ill.,,
he balloon burst when at n height of five
hundred feet, and the unfortunate aeronaut
Jumping clear from tho wreck struck the
sarth feet first being driven into the earth
Up to his knees and receiving internal injuries
rom which he died.
The captured Mortified bank robbers have
oeen identified as the notorious Cole and Bob |
Younger and al. Carter, a Texas desperate. |
..... Louisville, X las exp. r.cAS,d slight
earthquake shock. 80. Souudings on the reef
lnder which the He'll Gate explosion was
ired shows more and clearer water than the
engineers dared hope for. .... Benjamin Rig
zen fatally shot James Ford, at Crsfeld, Nd,
,ecaueo he lattor refused to let Riggen WOO
lis daughter ...... The British ship Lammor-
muir, bound from CALCUTTA to Dem erara, is
posted a. Lloyd's as missing. 1t is believed
he has fcundered, with all hands and three
hundred coolie immigrants ...... The Darde-
long, from Melbourne for Sidney, foundered