Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ball grounds was burned Tuesday.
Quebec have been destroyed by mob.
F. III. Underwood u. S. consul at
Edinburgh, died Tuesday of blood pois-
oning.
Five schooners and 100 lives have
been lost this season while hunting for
seals in Bering sea.
4 1t is estimated 1000 anarchists arrest
ed during the past two months will be
deported by the Italian government.
General Caceral of Peru, who was
elected to the presidency on May 10,
has taken his seat as chief magistrate
of the nation.
The labor commission appointed to
investigate the recent strike in the west
will begin their investigation at Chica-
go August Is.
Edward Pardridge, the millionaire
speculator, has been suspended by the
Chicago board of trade for so days, for
\ disorderly conduct.
James Mulligan, of "Mulligan let
ters" fame, who figured prominently in
Blaine's political career, died last week,
aged nearly so years.
Col Van Hanneken. who was aboard
the Chinese transport Kow Shing, has
confirmed the Chinese version of the
sinking of the vessel.
i Santo Caserio, who assassinated Pres
ident Carnot on the evening of Friday,
June "a, was found guilty and sentenced
to death by the guillotine.
The price of corn has advanced to go
cents bushel. There was rise of
tcsN loxy n Tn do nd
Speculation was at fever heat.
The state of South Carolina has
caused the arrest of II prominent citi-
zens of Darlington for participation in
the whisky riot there last spring.
The Fall River Cotton Manufactures
association has voted to reduce all
wages 10 per cent from present rates,
the reduction to go into effect August
: 20.
A relay bicycle race from Washing
' ton to Denver was started Monday at
noon. The riders were hour and SO
minutes ahead of scheduled time at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, yesterday.
The business center of La Monre, N.
D., was destroyed by fire last week.
The Leland hotel and drug store are
the only business buildings now stand
ing. The total loss is $500, 600.
The great suit filed only weeks ago
! by District Attorney George J. Dennis
/. and Special United States Attorney
James III. Call against the Southern
Pacific railway has been dismissed.
John McGough, Shea's companion
} in violence at the election March 6, in
Troy, N. Y, was convicted of assault
in the first degree, second offense, and
: sentenced to 19 years and months
! imprisonment at hard labor in the state
prison.
The great strike has been declared off
upon all lines in Chicago with the ex-
ception of the Chicago and Eastern Illi-
nois and Santa Fe roads. This deter
minatiOn was taken at a mass meeting
of railroad men, the question being de-
cided by ballot.
Detectives of the treasury department
have succeeded in unearthing the head
quarters of gang of counterfeiters in
, Connecticut and made one of the most
valuable and i'm portant finds of counter
feiters' tools, plates and paper ever
known in years.
The Alabama state election occurred
Monday. A modified form of the Aus
. . tralian ballot system was used. The
vote was generally lighter then in 1892.
Oates (Dem.) is elected by from 10000
!; to Is, 600 majority, and the legislature
will have Democratic majority of TO-
A fire which swept through 60 acres
of the Chicago lumber district between
Blue Island avenue and the river Aug
ust destroyed over 9O,000,000 feet of
lumber and several buildings. The loss
! is estimated at $2,559, 500 Three lives
were lost and seven men were badly in
!. jured.
, Three men and woman have been
arrested in Paris charged with compile
! ity in the robbery on July 81 of cask
, containing American gold from con-
' signment of so casks sent from New
, York to Lazard Freres ct Cie of Paris
, after it had left Havre en- route for
! Paris.
A claim of 1886 GOO has been made by
: the Worlds fair managers against the
city of Chicago for damages to property
, in Jacksonville park by the mobs on
July 5. An immense number of ship
pers have filed claims against the city
: for damages occasioned by the strike,
the gross amount being well up in the
, millions.
During game at the Chicago ball
, grounds Sunday fire was discovered
under the seats in the north stand. In
side of three minutes the entire stand,
together with the bleacners and a por-
. lion of the elegant grand stand was a
|, sea of flame, which was not controlled
until two-thirds of the grand stand had
F been destroyed. In the wild scramble,
, several arms were broken and score of
people were slightly burned and cut by
barb-wiIe fencing. The fire is supposed
to have been started by boy lighting
cigarette.
The Vigilant has won two more races
the past week. The first was on Sat
| urday, August 4, being match race for
: $500 cup, against the Britannia Wig
liant came in nearly seven minutes
, ahead end won by minutes, seconds
| correct time. On Monday the Vigilant
2 met the Satanita and Britannia on the
: same course, and handily beat them
: both. 1t was estimated when the Brit
: annia finished that the Satanita was
: nearly half an hour astern of the victor
ious American. Time at the finish /:
/ Vigilant, 5:0i:35; Britannia, 5:l2:IS
Satanita, not in. As on Saturday, The
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