Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-12-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Buffalo had $5OO,OOO fire Tuesday.
| The Ontario iron works We're burned
yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
Massachusetts general hospital is to
receive 100000 under the will of Thom-
as e. Proctor.
The Challenge Machinery company's
factory at Chicago burned Saturday
morning. Loss, $250,000.
A. Whipple, cashier of the Crawford
county bank Of Nebraska has abscond-
ed, and the bank is closed.
Sir John S. d. Thompson, premier of
the Dominion of Canada, died suddenly
at Windsor, England, yesterday.
Charles B. Rohan, military editor of
the Boston Globe, died Wednesday
morning of apoplexy, aged 40 years.
Barnes Greeley, the last surviving
brother of the great Horace Greeley,
died Wednesday. He was 80 years of
age.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps died
last Friday at the age of IS, after an
illness of many months, which had
partly dethroned his reason.
The official vote of Tennessee shows
Evans, Republican, was elected gov
ernor by a plurality of 841. Turney,
Democrat, was elected in 1892 by 26,356
plurality.
Prof. Louis Pasteur, the eminent
French chemist and physiologist and
the discOverer of the famous Pasteur
treatment of hydrophobia, is seriously
ill. His age is Y years.
The Southern hotel at Chattanooga
Tenn, was burned Monday, caused by
the bursting of gas meter. There
were rs guests in the house, all of whom
escaped. The building cost S75, 900, and
is partly insured.
The marriage of Prince Adolphus of
Teck, brother of the Duchess of York,
to Lady Margaret Grosvenor, daughter
of the Duke of Westminster, the richest
peer in the United Kingdom, took
place in Chester yesterday.
The long-delayed Chinese treaty ar
rived in Washington last week and
Secretary Gresham and Yang Yu, Chi
nese minister, exchanged the final rati-r
ications. Nothing now remains to be
done but to promulgate the treaty.
The bill which passed the South Car
olina house making drunkenness and
dIu lIC USE Vi ODSCenc OF
profane language misdemeanor was
reported favOrably in the senate and it
| is possible now that it will become law.
Dispatches from Constantinople in
dicate that the Armenian question is
likely to lead to the resignation of the
Turkish ministry. The sultan is be-
lieved to be greatly exercised over the
movement of the powers in the matter.
A delegation of prominent Chippewa
Indians from the White Earth reserva-
ton is OH its way to Washington to
| lay before the government claim
amounting to 81, 900, 900, arising from
breach of the terms of a treaty made in
1854.
The U. S. supreme court has affirmed
! the validity and constituti6nality Of the
law passed by Massachusetts prohibit
| ing the manufacture or sale in its terri
| tory of oleomargarine, colored SO as to
| resemble butter made Of pure cream or
milk.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
says: "It is difficult to detect any
change in current business. Prospects
| for business after January are quite
generally considered more hopeful. In
some branches there are larger orders,
chandise are little larger"
The Sioux City, Iowa, grand jury has
found So indictments against various of
| 20 officials and members and eX-mem-
| bers of the board Of supervisors. 1t is
alleged that the defendants during a
period of four years conspired together
so successfully that the county has
been robbed of nearly 100000.
| A
Admiral Walkers report on Hawaii,
called for by the Lodge resolution, is
ready for transmission to the senate.
The report shows plainly that England,
through her representatives, labored for
the dissolution of the Hawaiian repub-
| lie and the restoration of the mon
archy.
The st. Johns, N. F., Commercial
| known. A run is now being made on
the Union bank. A financial crisis
prevails. Several commercial firms
have failed. The immediate cause is
| the suspension of Prowse, Hall & Nor
ris of London, financial agents, and
other firms.
| The suit against H. H. Holmes, the
insurance swindler, brought in Indian
apolis, Ind, by the Fidelity insurance
company, has been dismissed. The
reason for the dismissal is that Mrs.
Holmes sent check to the companys
attorneys for 5000, which she had de-
posted in an Indianapolis bank and
which was all the company expected
to get.
| A circular by Privy Councillor Dur
novO, Russian minister of the interior
forbids Stundist prayer meetings, and
declares this religious sect to be most
dangerous to church and state. The
Stundists are a Protestant sect resem-
bling somewhat both the German
Methodists and Baptists of America,
and number about 250, 600 persons. The
enforcement of this decree is not in
line with the liberal policy which it
has been predicted Nicholas II would
follow.
Lord Dunraven's letter and challenge
for Americas cup was posted at the
New York Yacht club Saturday night.
The challenge is virtually the same as