Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ex-President Harrison celebrated bis
6lst birthday Monday.
A petition against the Traveller Pub
fishing company of Boston was flee
in the insolvency court Tuesday.
| Dispatches from Port-au-Prince say
that President Hippolyte is mortally
sick, and revolution is inevitable.
Governor Brown of Maryland is rid
ding the state of Coxey's commonweal-
ers by sending them west on special
trains.
Mrs. Fanny Bradford of Munson and
Mrs. Mary Morey of Plymouth, Mass.
both celebrated their Tooth birthday
Monday.
1t is announced that negotiations are
in progress for a revision of the Samoan
treaty between Great Britain, Germany
and the United Stated.
Nearly 1000 miners who have been
on strike in the Birmingham coal dis
trict i'm East Tennessee and Alabama
returned to, work last Saturday.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill as sent to the president, and which
became law without his approval, car
ries an appropriation of $l1 ,473, ,130.
A fire at Memphis, Tenn, Tuesday
morning caused a loss of 100000.
Three storehouses were destroyed, all
in one large building five stories high.
Many tinplate works in South Wales,
which have been closed for some time,
are preparing to resume work in view
of the passage of the Sorman tariff bill
in Washington. y,
The killing of the famous border BAN
dit Luna and his wife by soldiers has
caused great rejoicing i'm Mexico They
had committed hundreds of robbefies
and six murders.
The repair shop of the Boston and
Maine road at Salem, Mass, was total
ly destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss
will be in the vicinity of S35, 600. Dur
ing the fire Assistant Foreman Spinney
was badly burned.
The steamer Campania, from Liver
pool, arrived at New York last Satur-
day at p. m. The Campania sailed
from Queenstown at 12:45 o. M, Au-
gust II (S:10 a. M, New York time) the
time of her trip beating all previous
westward records by 3h. 25m.
At a conference at Chicago Sunday
by representatives of the railroad
brotherhoods an agreement was
reached to endeavor to secure the rein
statement of hundreds of members of
the order who joined the A. r.. u, and
having repented of their course, are APP
plying for membership in their old
lodges.
Two trains left New York Monday
for Vancouver, B. c., on one number
of high rank Japs and in the other sew
eral hundred Cinnamon. They are
homeward bound to take part in the
fight between China and Japan. 1t
had been supposed that both parties
would be on the same train, arrange
ments, however, resulted in starting
the Japs first.
AS a result of their connection with
the great strike a large number of rail-
road men in ST. Paul are making ar
toleave the country, claim
ing that they have been placed on the
black list of all the railroads and that
they can secure no places. Forty of
these have made arrangements to go to
South America and others are talking
of going to Brazil.
A trout % inches long and weighing
nine pounds one ounce was taken out
was taken out of the waters of the New
York fish commission at Cold Spring
Harbor few days ago. 1t has been
sent by Superintendent Mather to the
National Museum at Washington,
where cast will be made of it. 1t was
a male, six years old, and had been
raised by Maj. Mather from the egg.
This is said to be the largest brown
trout ever raised in America.
Andrew Highton, under arrest at
Boston for forgery, has been positively
identified as r. Bowman, the motor
ious forger, who has operated all over
the country and who in 1871, with Ned
Lyman, committed forgeries on the
First National bank of Brandon, Ver-
mont, the Vermont National bank, the
Rutland County National bank of Rut-
land, Vermont, and the Farmers and
Traders National bank of Burlington,
aggregating $4,000.
Boston had the heaviest shower in its
history Monday afternoon Streets and
cellars all over the city were flooded
and the damage is estimated at over
100000. The rainfall was i.65 inches
in 81 minutes, the most in the shortest
time ever recorded at the weather
bureau. At one brief period the rain
fell at the rate of one inch in ten min
utes. The nearest approach to this oc-
Cured July l9, 1882, when 1.27 inches
sell in 40 minutes. The next heaviest
on August 6, 1898, when 1.07
inches fell in 81 minutes. In May,
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