Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-12-29
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United States Court Decision on a Strike
To Abolish Capital Punishment - Belief
that the Souvenir Coins will be Counter
feited-World's Fair Buildings will not
be Finished May 1-Notes.
Judge Spear of the United States Court
in Georgia, has rendered decision in the
case of the striking telegraphers on the
Central Railroad against the receiver.
He said the fact that man belonged to
a labor organization was no reason for
his discharge, and decided In their favor,
so far as to order the receiver to replace
all the men except where their positions
had been already filed. In one sense
this is victory for labor organizations.
A determined effort will be made in the
New York legislature to abolish capital
and substitute life imprison-
ment. Some of its strongest advocates
are returned to the Assembly this year,
and it is said Governor Flower favors it.
The bill will also take from the chief ex-
ecutive the power of pardon, and in it's
place allow pardons to be granted by the
court alone upon the presentation of new
evidence of an extenuating nature.
Thomas B. Carter, Chief of the Secret
Service Bureau, predicts one of the most
gigantic and successful counterfeiting
schemes in the history of the country at
Chicago next year. He believes the SOU
venir coins will be counterfeited and COM
mand ready sale. The metal from which
the genuine are made can be easily secur-
ed and moulded att cost of 40 cents each,
and they would be Sou q. l each, r
fording profit of 60 cents to the make
Gen. Martin II. Mcmahon is to be grand
marshal of the Cleveland inaugural pa
rade. He was grand marshal of the Co
lumbar parade in New York last Octo-
Der. During the war he served on Cen
eral Sedgwick's staff, was United States
Marshal, represented his district in the
Assembly two years ago, and year later
defeated Lispenard Stewart, the million
aire, for the Senate by good majority.
The Worlds Fair will be formally
opened on May l, because the law re-
quires that it shall, but it is probable
that the first visitors will see an incom-
plete show. Not an exhibit is yet in
stalled and the buildings are yet very far
from completion. 1t is becoming appar-
ent that it will be thirty days or more
after the opening before the show will be
in good running order.
A convict in the State prison has re-
vealed the key which may solve the mys-
terry of the murder of Mrs. Bell in Boston
ten years ago. A sailor took her for
woman who had robbed him while drunk,
and killed her in her own doorway, and
the police believe they are on the sailors
track after such long delay.
Last week Michael Smith died at Long
Island City, N. Y, from black smallpox,
He was employed to watch house in
which the disease was quarantined and
caught it through intercourse with the
families. The disease is spre ading to an
alarming extent in the most thickIy pop-
ulated sections of the city.
PRESIDENT Whitney, of the West End
Street Railway Company, Boston, has
notified the families of the four employees
who lost their lives while trying to save
company's property in the fire at Everett,
that besides paying the funeral expenses
the company will give each family $1,000.
William Robinson, arrested at
Williamstown, VT, Sunday, for the at
tempted murder of several citizens while
he was intoxicated, was taken to the
Orange county Jail at Chelsea. The
prisoner is desperate character, and
has been cowboy in Texas.
The corner stone of what is to be a
magnificent cathedral of the Episcopal
church was laid in New York Tuesday.
1t is expected to prove marvel of archi-
lecture; and if SO, the metropolis will
have notable addition tc its not-too-long
list of notable edifices.
DR.. johnson reports Mr.. Blaine as
still making satisfactory progress, al
though the excitement in connection
with the celebration of Christmas had
its effects and somewhat of reaction is
noticed.
1t is reported that President Harrison
will tender the chief justiceship of
| Samoa to eX-Gov. Ormsbee of Vermont,
who is now the American commissioner
of arbitration at that place.
Secretary Foster will resign his port
folio before leaving for France, where he
goes as agent for the United States in the
Behring Sea arbitrators, who meet in
Paris February %.
All the Hudson county New Jersey,
ballot-box suffers serving terms in the
State prison were liberated last Friday,
the Court of Pardons having paroled 81
and pardoned one.
| Sarah Benbridge has sued Augustus
ParoOner in the New Haven. Conn, su-
perior court for Sl404 and cos s, as wages
at the rate of SO week for niue years
services as housekeeper.
John Thomas Jones, to whom much
credit for the present state of perfection
of the sewing machine is due, died at
Utica, n. Y, last week, aged so years.
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