Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-11-17
THE TINES DIARYa
THE DAYS DolNGS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.

| ABROAD.
The Comet-Sale of Gun and Tool Works
New Steel Works to be Opened-World's
Fair to Open on Sunday's-wages of Mill
Hands to be Raised-The Case of Lizzie
! Borden--Notes.
The comet discovered by Mr.. Holmes
November was observed for position by
Psof Burhard on the night of November
s. 1t is about two degrees south of the
nebulm of Andromeda. Its spectrum
was observed both visually and photo
graphically by Prof. Campbell. Both
! the nucleus and coma give strong and
i continuous spectrum, showing only
trace of the usual green band. This
spectrum is thoroughly unique among
the cometary spectrum. 1t is easily Wis
ible to the naked eye, and is travelling
very slowly southwest, and in about two
weeks will be larger than full moon.
A party of Englishmen have bought
The Pratt & Whitney Tool and Gun Man
ufacturing Works, Hartford Conn, and
in short time the plant will be in the
hands of the syndicate. The only thing
to be settled now relates to the retention
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they shall be continued as salaried offic-
ials or not. The terms of the purchase
was 81, 500, 900. The business to be car
ried on will be the manufacture of ma
chine guns-the Hotchkiss and Gardner
and the making of machinery for the
manufacture of armament and of gener-
al tools of large capacity.
Wages in the mills at Fall River are
to be advanced per cent December L.
At Lowell, Lawrence and some other
mill centers an increase of 10 per cent is
demanded. A Is per cent. increase has
been demanded by the 400 mule spinners
of the Blackstone valley and the Coates
Thre&d Company, and they have given
the manufacturers until Dee. to decide.
Two dollars day is paid at Coates for
running 1850 spindles, in Fall River Sc.
This is the reason why there may be
big strike in December. Later advices
state that an advance, as asked for, will
be given December l.
The Worlds Fair directors have adopt
ed a resolution favorng the opening of
the Fair on Sunday, provided the ma
chinery does not run. The directors de-
have been invited to attend the fair, it
wouh be discourteous and inhosptable 10
inform them that they cannot do on Sun
day what they would do were they at
home. 1.-THE closing of the gates on
; Sunday" says the resolution, "means
J that thousands of artisans and mechanics,
to whom the exhibition will be of inesti-
mable advantage will not be able to
attend it,
The case of Lizzie Borden was taken
up by the grand jury at Taunton, Mass,
Monday. 1t is given on the best of au-
thority that it will be an utter impossi-
bility for the case to be reached by a
jury much before January if such hear
ing is found necessary. There is strong
feeling that the grand jury will indict
and an equally strong feeling that unless
the evidence is of the most convincing
nature with none of the circumstantial
attachments there will be no conviction
possible in the county.
The Financial News says that the long
expected boom in American railway se-
curities may come now at any hour. The
American spectators have not grasped
the potential source of traffic expansion
that will be afforded by the Chicago
Columbian Exhibition. About $3.50, ,O0O,-
900 of foreign money will be left in
America as the harve t of the exhibition.
Americans will be literally burdened
with money seeking investment.
An English syndicate has purchased
through Mr.. knudd Sands 30 600 acres
of mineral lands in West Virginia, where
the syndicate intends to establish steel
and iron works such as those owned by
Andrew Carnegie. Mr.. Sands has Sc
cured the services of skilled workers in
iron and steel from Homestead, Penn,
who were lately employed in the CarnL-
gle works.
The Beaver Falls Mills of the Carnegie
were started up in earnest last Monday
Many skilled workmen were assigned to
positions in the rod mill, which was put
in operation first. When enough stock
has accumulated the wire mill will start,
then the nail mill. So far no indication
of trouble has appeared. The locked out
men are juliet and peaceful but firm.
The widow of the late Samuel j. Ran
dali, the famous statesman of Philadel-
phia, when told to appear in court and
make an accounting OF the StateSman'S
estate, said that he died so poor that
there was nothing to account for. There
was not enough to pay the costs of an
accounting, so Mrs. Randall was prompt
ly excused by the court.
The strike in New Orleans has ended
in the surrender of the strikers, and 25,-
600 men in fifty different trades went
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were getting $50 month before, went
back at $40 month, they striking out of
sympathy, having no grievance of their
| own.
The scaffold upon which John Brown
was executed December =, 1859, at Hsr-
per's Ferry, has been shipped to the
Worlds Fair exposition. The timbers
are in a good state of preservation