Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Ja,srss,ins Items frsm Hsms and Asres

span OF horsos ran away III inc Nura' Como
tory ut Albany, n. y, and one OF tho occupants
OF the carriage-Miss Lizzie Calhoui--wa,
almost instantly killed in jumping out $500, II
Is reported that Mukhtar Pasha has been dis
missed from tho command OF the Turkish army
in Asia A body Of Bashi-Bazonks crossed the
Danube, captured fourteen lonmanian militia
man and cut of the calves Of their legs. Ad'
vices received from vt. Petersburg represent
that the Turks recqptured Arabian after II had
been reduced to ruins by the Russians, FIFTY
additional removals, including four chiefs OF
divisions, have been made from tho bureau OF
engraving and printing OF the Treasury depart
ment at Washington ia Catholic church
IN Wicschen, Grand Duchy Of Posen,, was struck
by lightning during q Sunday service, and ny
persons We're killed and about seventy injured
more or less severely. NJ. Alvcrgnat, pro-
fessor of French in school In Hartford, Conn,
died four weeks after having been bitten by
small dog In Lowell, Mass, Lucy A.
Mink was found guilty OF manslanghtcr for
having shot her lover Charles W. Kicker 49,.
Coolidge and others, for Islander, was begun in
Boston. All the principals in the suit are well
known in Boston. 49,. The Hon. Elisha Watson,
of South Kingston, II, l., drowned himself....
Two attempts-ono with bullet and the other
with knife-woro made to assassinate j. b,
Stillson, the correspondent Of the Now York
Wrdh, at Salt Lake City, but each time the
would-be murderer was foiled THE eighteenth
annual commencement exercises of tho Cooper
Union School Of Science and Art took place in
New York, Peter Cooper distributing tho prizes.
....A little girls veil caught fire IN Catholic
church in Now York and panic attended with
serious results was only prevented by the pres
encc of mind Of the officiating priest and
ushers.
Four passenger coaches belonging to IN eX-
pross train which ran OF the track near Wyalus-
ing, Pa, were crushed to splinters, and two of
the passengers married ladies-were instantly
killed, and seventeen We're injured, five of them
MORALLY. 80. The working hours of the en-
ployees of the New York custom house have
been increased, as recommended by the recent
investigating committee ... The strong forti-
were engaged, vigorously pushing them to
completion, have been finished and mounted
with Krupp guns of the heaviest caliber. A
dispatch from Erzeroum reports that Karadagh
had been bombardcd by the Russians, the
Turks returning the fire with much vigor.
A coal oil refinery in Baltimore was destroyed
by fire for tho fourth time, and u number of
tenement houses were badly damaged by the
burning oil, which ran through the streets and
cutters. 49,. In u rolling mill in Lafayette,
n. j., @ bar of red hot steel coied about the
legs of John l.angdon, workman, terribly burn
ing him. 80. In May the public debt of the
United States was reduced 1891 200, the total
900, 900 ...... General Grant and the Prince of
Wales appeared together at the Epson races in
England. John Logan declined the Chicago
collectorshp of customs. Forest fires raging
in Upper Michigan caused the destruction Of
the village of Orota on Lake Superior. Every
building except the church and schoolhouse
was burned, and seven hundred persons were
rendered homeless. A tugboat, laden with
clothing and provisions. left Marquette to re-
lievc the suffering people,. The village of
New Centreville, in Pennsylvania, was destroyed
by tI@. 49,. In Boston the suit OF Mrs. Rice
against Coolidge and others, for defamation of
character, was taken from the jury after one
days trial. and given to three eminent lawyers
for adjudication. This step was taken by
many Of the most prominent people of Boston
would have been unpleasantly dragged into
public notice.
A night Waterman discovered an unknown
person in the act of saving through one of the
main braces of a railroad bridge near Canton,
ILL.,, for the evident purpose of wrecking train.
He was fired upon, but escaped. .Glenwood,
a small village i'll Michigan, was destroyed by
fire from burning forest the inhabitants
being compelled to flee for their lives. .....
Rev. John NJ Friday, pastor of the Lutheran
church at Harper's Ferry, Va, was drowned in
the canal near Frederick, Md ... George II.
Wolff Il Co., Of New York and Cincinnati, dry
goods iobbers, have failed, owing $3.50, 900. go.
y. III. Taylor, proprietor of one OF the largest
distilleries in Kentucky, failed with liabilities
exceeding !50O,000, his assets being one-half
that sum ...... A body of Circassians at Bekli
Ahmed. near Kars, was routed by the Russians,
and the place was burned. A dispatch says the
Turks lack good commanders 80. A party of
roughs assaulted Officer Train in Manchester,
H., overpowering and brutally beating him.
At last he drew revolver and shot into his as
lilo, ,f,
A large oil tank near NIillerstown, Pa, was
struck by lightning, and the flames commune
eating to other tanks. 80. 900 barrels of oil were
destroyed, together with several derricks. in
yolving loss of $685. 900. -Four persons were
drowned near Albany, N. Y, while bathing....
There arc several hundred applications for
vacant consulships on file in Washington. $500.
There was a serious drought in Alabama, no
rain having fallen in several weeks. Edward
Harrington. q New York saloon keeper, was
struck on the head with n cart rung in the
hands of Edward Otto, and soon died from
-he effects of the blow ...... Anthony Gardner
las been elected president of LIBERIA Africa.
Sophia Fredericka Matilda, queen of Hol
and, died June 3, aged ffty-nine years .....A
to examine the Philadelphia custom
louse has been appointed. -. The jury in the
Ellentown conspiracy cases in South Carolina
acquitted one prisoner, and disagreed as to the
other ten. go. The Civil Service Reform Asso-
,iation was organized in New York go. While
. tramp was stoning train near Amsterdam,
n. Y, he was struck by locomotive going in
IN opposite direction and was instantly killed.
-. Mrs Winslow and her daughter of sixteen
we're waylaid by. three rufians near Portage
Jity, Wis, taken from the team which they
we're driving and were brutally outraged and
'eaten seemingly beyond recovery. ..... Francis
Murphy, the temperance reformer addressed
300 liquor dealers and their families in Phila-
IpInhIa Spynutnap nj hprfp 1,co fipp
we're held in Philadelphia on the same day, and
t is estimated that over 100000 people have
igned the pledge since the Murphy movement
vas inaugurated.
Much excitement was caused among the
working classes Of Paris by the arrest of M.
Ouverdier, president Of the municipal council,
'harged with insulting Marshal Mcmahon
md melting civil war and assassination. go.
IN attempt was made to wreck an express train
N the Atlantic and San Francisco railroad, 1854
niles from st. Louis. Rails were moved from
he track and the engine and baggage car
plunged down an embankment forty feet, caus-
ng the death of the engineer, fireman and
mother: The conductor was also fired upon in
he darkness by the persons who had per-
oetrated the fiendish act, and whose evident
lesign was to run the whole train down the
'ank and plumber the passengers 800. "A terri
Die tornado swept across southern Illinois, de- |
troyirg about twenty lives. and injuring from
thirty to fifty persons. Buildings in the track
If the storm were unroofed and overturned.
vt Mount Carmel the bulldogs destroyed were /
wo Churches two schoolhouses, the court |
louse and n number Of stores and residences.
II Mattoon one building was thrown into the |
trcet and turned upside down. -. The Ameri- |
an whaling schooner Ellen Rizpah was boarded |
~ Spanish cruiser while taking oil on the |
Keys, south of Cuba, and the captains papers
icing deemed insufficient he was detained four
n close Hnpmpnt Dnr n E,,h