Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

sumed ON the Panama canal.
Ex-Premier Gladstone's eyesight is
said to be completely restored.
The Jewish people celebrated the
new Jewish year last Sunday.
A dispatch from San Domingo states
that cyclone destroyed half of the
buildings in that town.
The. Gloucester fisheries this year
have been very yunprofitable, and scarce
ly firm has paid the expense Of its
outfits.
Three inches of snow are reported at
Motley, Mimi, with fall also at
Brainerd and along the Northern Pa
cific railroad. s....
The baseball race is over and the
Baltimores are under the wire first,
with the New Yorks in second place
and the Bostons third.
There are premonitions of trouble be-
tween Mexico and Guatemala, growing
out of dispute over the boundary be-
tween the two countries.
A new era has begun in the history
of Princeton. The entire undergradu-
ate body, in mass meeting voted to
abolish the custom of haZing.
The judges in the Impeachment trial
of Mayor Bemis of Omaha have handed
down decision eXonerating the de-
fendant on every charge made.
The United States court of appeals at
Chicago has handed down decision
reversing in part Judge Jenkins fa-
NOUS decision in the Northern Pacific
injunction.
The terrific storm which ragged
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early in the evening of September %
until the following night destroyed AZ
houses in Santa Cruz del Sur.
General A. M. West, candidate for
vice president of the United States in
1884 on the Greenback-Labor ticket
with General Benjamin Butler, died at
Holly Springs, Miss, Sunday.
Two men were burned to death, two
other men and little girl were badly
injured and 100000 worth of property
destroyed by fire that started in the
Royal hotel, Nanaimo, B. c., last Fri
day.
The Cunard line steamer Lucania has
again broken the westward record,
making the passage in 49 minutes less
time than her record breaking trip of 5
days s hours and 38 minutes made last
month.
Walter Wellman and three compan-
ions who constituted a part of his Are
tic expedition to Norway, which left
New York last March, arrived home
Thursday. Mr.. Wellman was in excel
lent health.
Every tin plant in the United States,
with possibly one exception, closed
down fast Saturday rendering several
thousand men idle. A notice was
posted notifying the men that the shut
down is due to reduction in the tariff.
After fight of IA weeks and the ex-
penditure of SOC, 900, the strike of jour
neying tailors in New York has been
given up and the strikers are individu-
ally applying for reinstatement. The
men struck against 10 per cent re-
duction in wages.
News has been received from Rivera,
Brazil, that fighting has broken out
again in the province of Rio Grande do
Sui and that the insurgents are getting
the better of it. They have arms and
ammunition and declare they will now
fight to the. bitter end.
The Farmers National congress,
composed of delegates from every state
in the union, appointed by the COVER
nors, is in session this week at Parkers-
burg, Va. Six hundred delegates will
be in attendance. The congress is nom
partisan in its character.
Communication with south Florida
is being restored, and dispatches rela-
tive to the damage done by the West
Indian cyclone Tuesday and Wednes-
day of last week all tell the same story
of houses wrecked and crops destroyed,
but no loss of life is reported.
A colony to be operated on the single
tax theories of Henry George is to be
established near Daphne, Ala. 1t will
be composed of 100 families, mostly
from Iowa. The colony will engage in
truck farming, fruit culture, canning
and pail and tub manufacturing.
During the late storm the high tides
did considerable damage in and about
Coney Island. Forty square feet of the
lawn in front of the Manhattan Beach
hotel was washed away. About as
much more was eaten away from in
front of the Brighton Beach hotel.
A monument to Shelley, the Eng
lish poet, created by Italian admirers,
was unveiled last Sunday at Niareggio.
off which town Shelley was drowned
July s, 1922. The monument is Is feet
high. The bust represents the poet at
the age OF 20 years, in meditative at
titude.
A court-martial sitting at Kieff has
condemned M. Kwiattowski, an ex-
staff officer, to lifelong hard labor in ST.
bsria, and 81 9th Is to long periods of
exile in Siberia, for treason Their of
fense consisted in disclosing to Austria
in 1892 plans of the Kieff mobilization
and the NNareaw fortifications.
At Chiilicothe, O., October l, Flying
.Jib, the celebrated gelding, hitched to
running mate, paced mile in the phe-
nonIenal time of l.59I lowering the
record of 2.0l4 made by Wesrmont in
Chicago in 1884, at this style. of racing,
py y seconds. The Performance does
no5 constitute a record, as this method
of pac>-niaAing is n,t recognized as le-
eai, and has no bearing on Robert J.'s
valid record OF 2.01I.
Jersey City police and a squad of de-
tee.sives, swGoped down un The office of
the Hamilton Printing and Engraving
company and arreste,! j. W. Hamilton,
the proprietor. aid the snlire force of
empioyes. Several presses were in full
blast turlfing out lottery tickets and cir