Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-10
NEWS ITEMS.
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. What Ii Doing In the Ola World mud ,h
New.
i. Islogias the fugitive would-bo president o
Mexico, has arrived IN San Francisco with hi
, suite, 80, The Illinois Legislature has final
elected Hon. David Davis nv United States sona
tor IN tho interests of the Democracy. Mr.
, Davis IL at present one Of the justices Of tn
United States supreme court, and IN 1872 was
prominent candidate before the convention
which nominated Horace Greeley ..,... II vii
. be recollected that short time since Sheriff
Manning, of Mississippi, killed Capt. Harvey
of Louisville, for intimacy with Mrs. Manning
from whom Mr.. Manning subsequently scpnr
ated. The sequel now appears IN the murder
of Sheriff Manning by John Frctwell, relatv,
leased from prison through the efforts Of Man
ming $50. The anniversary OF the birthday Of
Burns was generally celebrated by Scotchmei
throughout the country 49,. -Four prominent
citizens of Austin, Kan., left that town with
wagons of produce for Kiowa In another county
since which time they have not been heard
from. 1t is now supposed they were massacred
by Sioux Indians 49,. A diabolical plot to OK.
plode the boiler of the hoisting apparatus Of
one of the shafts Of the Consolidated Virginia
mine, Nevada, was discovered just in time ia
avert a terrible loss OF life. The next night an
attempt was made to fire the hosting machinery
of another shaft Of the same mine. The at-
tenpts are supposed to have been made in the
interests of stock brokers in San Francisco.
While suffering from an alteration Of mind,
Harrison Twiner killed Anderson Richmond
and then committed suicide at Center, Ohio.
Property to the value Of $50, 900 was destroy
ed in Medina, N. Y, by fire which originated
in McCormick's furniture store. Benz. Hill
forml rly representative of Georgia in the House,
has been elected senator by the legislature Of
that State The West Virginia Legislature re-
elected Senator II. q. Davis for the long term,
and chose Representative Frank Hereford for
the short term W. Kay Neil was hanged at
Albany, Oregon, for murder. He confessed the
crime few days previous to the execution, but
when on the scaftold asserted his innocence
....M Mrs. Crouch, living near Sackctt's Harbor,
N. Y, who was deserted by her husband. and
suffered from great restitution in consequence,
gave birth to child, and few hours afterward,
while out of her mind put the, infant in the
stove and completely incinerated it. AN ava
lanche of snow was started down the mountain
side by blast in Centennial mine, Wyoming
Territory, and one man was killed and two
others injured. .. The Hudson river schooner
Marie Louise was cut down and sunk near New
York. One of the crew was drowned in en-
deavoring to escape on the ice b. & L. Jenny's
kerosene oil works in Boston We're destroyed by
fire communicated from an explosion. Several
men were injured. The loss amounts to S7O.-
600. w. w. Christian and William Howell
were both instantly killed by the bursting of an
agitator at the Standard Oil Co.'S refinery in
Cleveland. Ohio The Metropolitan ms. Co.
of New York city has been put in the hands of
a receiver owing to the depreciation of assets.
The only losers will be the stockholders.
The academy of music at Indianapolis, Ind,
was destroyed bya confagration which Tapped
up several contiguous stores. Total loss, $780,
000 partially insured. 80. Merriman's block
in Hartford, Conn. was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire. Loss. 1920, OsO ; insured s144,-
$50 ...... James May and John Cunningham
were fatally injured at the zinc mines at Frank
n N j., by quantity of frozen earth cayng
in upon them. BY the burning of p Dube's
house in st. Favie, Canada, his three children
were suffocated to death ...... The New Jersey
Mutual ms. Co. of Newark has reinsured its
policies in the National Capital Life of Wash
ington, and has passed out of existence.
Charles V. Hand was robbed of $4,000 in
jewels belonging to lady friend, while nego-
tating for their sale in New York. .....J. B.
Ford e. Co., 'ir Beecher's old publishers, are
again in bankruptcy $50. In consequenceo of the
withdrawal of railroad facilities by the n. Y.
Midland road, four of the immense tanneries at
Ellenville have been stopped by the owners. -.
A peddler called at the residence of $. S. Chal-
FAINT, near Thomvie, Ohio, and obtained per-
mission to lodge over night During the night
he applied chloroform to the entire family and
searched the house, carrying off 5000 in money
and $3h Ono i'll drafts.
The defacation on the Fishkill en- Y ma
tional bank is larger than at first announced.
49,. A dastardly attempt was made to wreck
an Ere express train near Waverly n. Y, by
claiming heavy timbers across the tracks. A
night Waterman discovered the distractions
only just in time to signal the fast-running pas
senser train. But for his alertness an appal-
ling disaster must have occurred ...... Ex-
Chief Justice Igeias still hopes to be presi-
dent of Mexico. I he state of Sonora has de-
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strictly prohibiting the importation of cattle
from the rinderpest districts of Germany. 80.
The New York Midland road is now running as
heretofore, the trouble having been settled sat
isfactoriy 49,. The one hundred and fortieth
birthday of Tom Paine was celebrated by free
church at Fairhaven, Vt, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000 ...... -Four
men were washed over the falls at Louisville,
KY, by the upsetting of their skift, and two of
them were drowned.
The Electoral commission is now full and
complete, and consists of the following gem
tcmen: Judges Clifford, DEM; Field, Rep;
Miller, Rep; Strong, Rep; and Bradley, Rep;
Senators Bayard, DEM; Edmunds, Rep; FIRE.
linghuysen, Rep Norton Rep; Thurman,
DEM: and Representatives Abbott, DEM. Gar
field, Rep; Hoar, Rep; Hunton, DEM; Payne,
Dem. All of the above are lawyers except Mr..
Payne, who, though trained to the bar, is prop
erly a capitalist
President Grant, in message to Congress,
urges the passage of an appropriation of $40,-
900 to carry on experiments testing the strength
of iron and steel, and points out the defective
Ashtabula bridge as showing our ignorance on
was struck by lightning while at sea and COM
pletely destroyed The crew were rescued by
passing vessel. ..... The troops concentrated at
Washington some time since have been dis
persed go. Lieut.. John H. Weeden, of the
United States army. committed suicide in San
Francisco. .... Prof Samuel c. Bartlett, of
Chicago, has been chosen for the presidency of
Dartmouth College . Samuel +. Bailey, of
Rome, N. Y, has been locked up for placing
the distractions on the Erie railway, Whereby
SO many people narrowly escaped with their
lives. He is thought to be out of his right
mind -. John Mcdonald, confined in the
Missouri penitentary for completely in the
great whisky frauds, has received an uncon-
ditional pardon from President Grant. .....
large meeting was held in New York to ex-
press sympathy with the Christians in Bulgaria
VIII are suffering prosecutions at the hands OF
the infdel Turks. Two men Beloir and
Flcautrault were killed while at work on the
Lachine canal, Canada, by earth caving in upon
them.
The coroner's jury, in the case of the victims
of the Brooklyn Thcater fire, has just returned
their verdict, which censures the police officials
for not distributing the force in such a manner
as to assist the audience in the various parts of
the theater to escape ..... The will of the late
Arlnah Huntington, of Banford, province of
Quebec leaves 5000, 900 as n fund for the bene-
fit of the common schools of Vermont of which
State he was a nativ,. -. Col. Plumb, printer
by trade has been elected to represent Kansas
in the United States Senate ..... The Rerub-
lican national committee have engaged as lead
ing counsel before the Electoral compromise
commission, William NJ. Evarts and i. W.
Stoughton, of New York, and Stanley Matthews
and s. S. Shellabarger, of Ohio. The-Ilemo-
Gratis have counsel, Lyman Tr,mbull, of
Illinois Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin Jere-
miah Black, of Pennsylvania, and Ashbel Green,
of New York. :. Gen. Diaz has paid the first in-
'stalment of 100000 due this government under
the findings of the late commission ... The
inhabitants of Greensboro, KY, were greatly
excited over the outrsgng of white child by
colored man named Morgan. The culprit was
lodged in jail-barely ESCAPING being lynched.
. The rinderpest has made its appearance
in suburb in London, and no animals are to
he permitted to pass into the country - =. An
in .1r,,,tionnry movement in the town of Cali.