The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-01-15
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

A heavy snowfall Is reported In Rome,
very unusual occurrence.
The shoe factory of G.. W. Bailey & Co.,
Scituate, Mass, has resumed operations.
Paddy Ryan's mother died Sunday morn
ing at her residence in West Troy, N. Y.
The Inauguration Of Judge Foraker as
governor of Ohio took place Monday even.
ing at Columbus.
Members of the Connecticut legislature
have introduced several measures to benefit
the laboring classes
The Spanish government has stoutly re-
fused to grant England coaling station on
one Of the Caroline islands.
Sir Edward Thornton has arrived at Con-
stantinople and will Immediately assume his
duties as British ambassador
Sir Charles Dixie denies the published
story that he did not intend to prosecute his
accusers in the scandal case.
Free passes to members of the Connecti-
cut legislature have been refused by the
Hartford & Western railroad.
Advices from Colon say that twenty-one
vessels were wrecked and sixty-five lives
lost during the recent storm there.
Henry /. Wilkins of Omaha, became
violently insane at the Parker house, Boston,
and was removed to police station.
A type-setting tournament is going on in
dime museum of Chicago, under the lead
ership of McCann, the champion compositor
The captain and ten men of the steamer
Hylton Castle, which was wrecked off Calf
island, have arrived at Hunters point L. I.
Prince Bismarck is the first Protestant
that has ever received the decoration of the
Order of Christ. The badge is worth 96OO.
An adjourned hearing in the case of the
dixie explosion was held in Marshfield, Mass.
The testimony will not be made public at
present.
The corn canning factory of White g.
Clark, at Delta, near Troy, N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire, and $4,000 worth Of corn
burned.
Bennett Smith, one of the largest ship
owners of Nova Scotia, is dead, at Windsor.
He was a member of the legislature for
many years
Mrs K. Joyce, of Scituate, found in her
yard recently on Brook street a Massachu-
sets pine-tree shilling, dated 1882, in good
state of preservation.
Miss Annie L. Ihmsen, prominent lady
of Pittsburg, and heiress to $50, 900, has been
adjudged lunatic by commission ap-
pointed by the courts.
The convicts who volunteered to go to the
rescue of the sailors off Deer island, Boston
harbor, Saturday last, have been pardoned
by the Boston commissioners.
= Properly ownt-i 4 BY tlhs New York s. New
Haven Railroad company at New Haven,
valued at $4,000, was destroyed Sunday
morning by an mcendiary fire.
Inhabitants of the Philippine islands
have subscribed 100000 to buy torpedo
boats with which to prevent the occupation
of those islands by foreign power
E. E. Childs, of the old Greenville Man
company IT Northampton, has
sold ITO looms and other old machinery to
the value of $4,000, to go to Indiana.
Hon. Benjamin Conley died at his homo
in Atlanta, Ca, Sunday morning He
Bullock left the state, and afterward served
as postmaster.
The 110 striking weavers in the Thames
cotton mill at Norwich, Conn, have gone to
work on a promise of the firm to grant the
demanded increase of 10 per cent. in wages
as soon as business will warrant it.
Horace c. Wilcox, of Meriden, Conn,
president of the Meriden & Cromwell rail
road and Meriden Brittania company, and
director of several banks and corporations,
is suffering from third paralytic shock
The mills of the Arnott Steam-Power COM
pany, in Philadelphia were destroyed by
fire. With the loss of adjoining buildings,
The losses will aggregate $l,000,0oo. Nine
hundred people were thrown out of work.
The managers of the Washington mills at
Lawrence, Mass, intend remodelling both
mills. The worsted department will be in
'ull operation March l, and it is expected
hat 1000 hands will be employed before
Sept. L.
The lasters of Ashland, Mass, have sub
nitted their list Of prices to the assistant
of Houghton, Coolidge &
Co.'s factory, but he declined to take action
IN the matter till he had consulted with
members of the firm.
At a meeting of third and fourth class
of the Second congressional dis
rict, held at Concord, N. H., Frank H.
)aniel, of Franklin Falls, was chosen dele
ate to attend the postmasters' convention
o be held at Chicago, Feb. Is.