Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-03
NEWS ITEMS.
What h Doing In tho Old World aud tho
New.

lhe AWkiHn grand council, after bplfltc
debate, rejected tho last proposition Of tn
cries OF "Dcaih before dishonor.". $50, III
Nebraska Legislature after many ballots clecto
ex-doy. Saunders United States senator. -.
Daniel Price, q c"ioied man, was hinged a
WaTenton, Mo-, for the murder of colorc
man III July last. The doomed man died pro
In the Canadian town of Dc Iisle, a free fgh
occurred between tho French and Englisl
ronghs in which tho town hall was completed
sacked As All outgoing train stopped at
crossing In Chicagos city limits, three maske,
men entered the express car and overpowcrin!
the messenger and bnggageman broke open tn
safe, which contained $25, 900 worth of val,,a
blcs In their haste, however, they secure,
but !li3 in cash and some drafts, with which
they escaped. 49,, The report Of New Yorl
city's superintendent Of buildings shows that il
1916 plans were submitted for 1879 new build
ings, being twenty-nine less than in 1875. tn,
amount expended for new buildings and altora
tons aggregated sl9,533,7ls, against t2l, ii9,
323 the previous year. .,. During 1876 thcr,
arrived at Castle Garden, New York. 1901
immigrants, against "a, 505 IN 1875, 1904 ii
1874, and over 100000 each YER back to 1866
....n Detectives have arrested Horace H.
Brown, tho adroit 70 ger who passed the $G4,
600 check In New York city Geo. Wells,
one of Annapolis (Md.) most respected citi-
I
sum Of 100000 from the bank Of VIII oh he was
president
While seven boys were coastng ON one sled
III Preston, Conn, an accident occurred by
which one of them had both legs broken, an
other one log broken, II third badly cut in the
groan aud the other -four more or less injured.
Hon. George i. Hoar was elected United
States senator by the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture, on the fifth joint ballot .... The rinder-
pest is spreading to such an extent in some
parts Of Europe that England has prohibited
the importation of cattle, sheep and goats from
Germany, France and Belgium 49,. While
Mrs. Connors, market women of Memphis,
was wheeling her truck from the market to her
residence at seven o'clock in the evening an
assassin cropt behind her and cut her throat,
severing the jugular vein and causing death.
,,.., A fire in Prescott, Ark, destroyed a row
of wooden buildings occupied by business
houses, causing loss of $4,000 ..,. The
German Protestant orphan asylum near st.
l.ouis was totally destroyed by fire. The chill
dren were safely conducted from the building
with the exception of one little boy, who was
burned to death ..,. Nineteen unidentified
bodies taken from the wreck of the Ashtabula
bridge We're buried with impressive services .
James i. Bailey has been elected by the Ten
nessec Legislature to serve as senator for the
short term. The smallpox has abated some
among the Indians in still large. ....T The inter-
nal revenue commissioner has been obliged to
call for help from the army to put down the
numerous illicit stills in the mountainous dis
tricts of the Southern States. lie estimated
the government is annually defrauded ont of
$4,000 600 by these people. 49,. A riot occurred
in Webb City. NO.. on account of the incarcera-
ton of notorious character, whereupon his
followers opened fire upon the citizens with guns
and pistols, which was promptly met by the
same. Seven citizens were badly injured The
citizens were finally victorious, capturing ten
Of the rutiians. -. Five hundred Sioux Indians
who have recently been fighting the govern
they have migrated.
Since the arrest of Miles Ogle at Pittsburgh
for counterfeting. the secret service officers
have unearthed and seized ITO different plates
for counterfeit printing belonging to the pris-
oncr, who had grown wealthy in the business
American bonds are in demand in Europe
...... David Cranston and Frederick Bord,
while crossing railroad track in wagon at
tive. Recent advices from China state that
travel on the railway between Shanghai and
Woosung had been stopped by native mobs,
who obstructed the track and assaulted the
workmen. The Chinese dislike to all improve
ments was the cause of the disturbance Great
provinces of China. A great famine prevailed
in Corea, and the government had appealed to
Japan for assistance. Eight young men re-
siding i'll Rock Mills, n j., took a married wo-
man from her bed at night, and after taTing
and feathering her, left her in the snow, where
she was discovered by some neighbors and res
cued in dangerous condition. Seven of the
mans morals were so bad they wished TO drive
her from the neighborhood. The womans
friends deny the truth of these allegations. ....
Chief Engineer Collins, of the Lake Shore road,
committed suicide by shooting Anxiety re-
gardlng the Ashtabula disaster deranSed his
NINA ana led nm TO imagine himself the cause
OF the broken bridge. The revolution in
Ecuador, South America, is reported to have
been put down by the authorities. 80. The
boathonse of Dartmouth College navy, Han
gethef with us boats, shells and souls. The
loss Is estiniated from S2,0oo to S3o0O. IA
nre at baeder' Adamson 20: = glue works at
caused a loss OF about s2o,0oO,
which Is partially covered by insurance.
Three of the Astoria 0ong Isand) burglars
we're brought to trial and one of them was SEN
enced to thirty-tive years on different indict-
ncnts, the second to twenty years and the
bird to eighteen years. .....Stil another
'aluable cargo of warmaterial has been shipped
" tile lllhlSu ny lLlc NlIlCleSttI
Arms Co.. of New Haven, Conn. The cargo
consisted of 10000 Martin-Henry rifles with
)ayonets 1000 Winchester guns, 10000 90
15,000,000 Martini shells, 100000
outlets and $4,000, 000gun wads, the entire value
Icing 81, 1885, 600 An entirely new vein is re-
ported tohave been discovered in the Newbury-
,ort Mass. silver mine j. N. Farrar, cashier
If the Abingdon National bank Of Boston, had |
5000 belonging to the bank stolen from him
While in an eating saloon 80 The annual report |
" the treasurer of the New York Christian as
ISOLATION shows the receipts of the past year to
rave been 426 .63 and the expenditures
s256.3i5.32 the governor of Iowa has issued .
call for the organization of the State militia
nto a national guard. Three men were instant
y killed and number of others injured by
,oiler explosion in single factory near Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Jhna is at standstil in consequence of
china mistrrlsting the object of a Russian en-
,lorng expedition which has been inspecting
he Chinese borders Magliore Blanchette,
he st. Hyacinthe (Canada) incendiary has
,een sentenced to Imprisonment for seven wears
II the penitentiary ..... boiler explosion oc-
,urred i'll the lager beer brewery of David
Iass at Buffalo, killing Gustavus Hass, and it !
$ feared fatally scaltling Hermann Hass, both
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