Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS.



In glove fight at Boston between P. J. Nc
Dermott and d. Davidson, the latter received
fatal injuries and died in the hall. Several
Duel has resigned his position to enter law
firm in New York 49,. Indian Commissioner
Smith, i'll his recommendations for the future
of his charges, rtates that the want of
q settled policy has been the greatest drawback
of the Indian question, and advises that the
Indians be gathered ON n large reservation,
judicial authority substituted for the rulings by
Chiefs and white men excluded from the
grounds. 80. The ship Harvey Mills, cotton
laden, was destroyed by fire in the harbor of
Port Royal, S. G. Loss half million dollars
49,. David N[ilgan (colored) was shot and
killed by his cousin William at Canton, Md,
after both had been drinking ... Fredericks &
ONeill, Photographic artists on Broadway New
York, suffered loss of $S0,000 by fire. go.
D. Atwater & Newcomb's boot and shoe factory
at Elmira, N. Y, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; insured $4,000 ..,.. The German
steamer Goethe has been wrecked on Lobos
island, Uruguay. No lives were lost. -. The
accounts of the disastrous failure of the herring
fishery on the western coast of Newfoundland
are confirmed by the latest advices. Many of
the inhabitants of the western coast of New
foundland are already in absolute destitution.
...... According to the report of Adj.-Gen.
Townsend New Yorks State militia number
fantry..... Gov. Hayes personally denies the
rulnor of his intention to resign the governor
ship of Ohio
At Augusta, Ky, seven unknown young men
from Utopia Ohio, who were on the ice of the
Ohio river, were drowned by the breaking of
the gorge. IA terrible disaster occurred
quarter Of mile from Ashtabula, Ohio, by
which at least sixty persons We're killed or
injured. The western express, consisting Of six
passenger and drawinS-room and five baggage
and express cars broke through an iron bridge
and fell a distance of seventy-five feet to the
ice below, which gave way and portions of the
cars went into the water, many persons being
drowned !; others were killed by being crushed
in the falling cars, while still others persisted
in the flames which speedily consumed the por-
tons of the cars left above the water. A
binding snowstorm prevailed at the time. or
IT'S people on board the train, it is thought
100 lost their lives or were seriously injured.
Capt. James Parce, of Mount Forest, Canada,
who lived apart from his wife, attempted to kill
his stepson and daughter, and being unsuccess-
full committed suicide. The stepchildren were
seriously injured. H.. The Alabama claims court
has adjourned sine die. By the burning of
tive-story building on the Bowery, New York,
$4,000 loss was entailed. The losers were
tobacco dealers and matters .Bremaker, Moore
& Co. large paper mill at Laurel, Indiana, was
burned. Loss about !150000 insurance, $45,-
600. . Two masked burglars were caught in
the act in East Schadack, Rensselaer, county,
N. Y. .Messrs Sayler, Abbott and Lawrence,
the sub-Congressional committee report, from
the returns as submitted that South Carolina
voted for Hayes and Wheeler by about seven
hundred majority, but that Hampton and the
entire Democratic ticket have been elected by
much larger majority.
Thirty-six bodies were removed from the
scene of the Ashtabula disaster. The balance
of the unfortunate victims are SO completely
destroyed by fire that they cannot be separated
or removed. OF the thirty-six recovered nine
teen are recognized and identified. A few of
the bodies which were under water show very
little mutilation. Others burned away SO
that all that is left of man or a woman can be
put in IL cigar box. Some without heads,
others without hands or arms others still are
burned away except the large bones of the
trunk the bones either calcined to snowy white
ness or covered with black charred flesh. In
some the bowels alone resisted the = The
faces of such as are best preserr ,vwater
wear a look of fearful horror e eyes are
open and staring, tongues protru ing, and hands
are clinched in hair or clothing, or held as if to
ward of blow from above.
7 he governor of Minnesota has issued an APP
peal to the pastors of the several religious de-
nominations to the officers of the various
charitable associations. and to the humane and
phihnthropic, individually and collectively,
throughout the State of Minnesota, asking for
aid for the benefit of the geasshopper sufferers
from the grasshopper plague. He says that
many localities have sustained an almost total
loss of crops for four years in succession, and
the people who have suffered these constant
ravages have been compelled to mortgage not
only their farms, but their entire stock and
household goods to procure means to avert
starvation from their families. Z. A Wood
ward, one of the old Tweed ring of New York,
has been released after paying some S125,00O to
the city authorities 1t is now believed that all
of the fugitives will settle with the city and
thus secure their release from law snits The
Mexican authorities on the Rio Grande endeavor-
ed to capture an American steamer on the river,
but were unsuccessful. =. The savings banks of
Massachusetts have 5243, $40, 1896 on deposit.
Two white men were killed and two wound
ed in an attack by a friendly band of Indians
within sixteen miles of Red Cloud. The same
party of Indians committed other depredations
and it is feared killed other miners Kreischer
& Son, friedrich manufacturers on Staten
Island, suffered a loss of $4,000 by the burn
ng of their works. No insurance The