Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor
Carter Harrison, was hanged at 11.4G
O'Clock on the morning of Friday the
18th.
In observance of the anniversary OF
the taking of the Bastile President CAST
mir-Perier signed 1914 pardons and
combinations.
| BY the explosion of caisson attached
to a Hotchkiss gun at Chicago Monday
afternoon three men were killed and II
others We're injured.
| The joint resolution providing for the
resumption of work in the construction
| departments of the various navy yards
has been approved of by the president.
The damage by the recent earth
quakes at Constantinople is estimated
at S25, 900, 900 and the loss of life at 200.
! People are still in state of terror and
business is virtually stagnant.
| Bartholomew Shea, who murdered
Robert Ross in the election day quarrel
at Troy, N. Y, has been sentenced to
be electrocuted at Dannemora during
the week commencing August q.
Josiah Quincy and Victor Belanger
have given up the unicycle after exper-
iments of several years. A man in the
west is trying the same scheme with
about the same promise of success.
The sentence of Mrs. Halliday, to be
electrocuted, has been commuted by
| Governor Flower to life imprisonment,
she having been found insane by COM
mission appointed by the governor.
The work of laying the new Anglo
American cable, which is the largest
ever made, has been commenced. This
is the eighth cable laid by the Anglo
American company, the first having
been laid in 1858.
Labor Leader Phelan, representing
Debs, has been found guilty of con-
tempt in interfering with the operation
of the Southern railroad, now in the
hands of a receiver, and sentenced to
six months in Jail.
The Spanish cortes having closed
without voting treaty of commerce
with Germany, the German govern
ment has notified Spain that CONNER
cial relations between the two countries
must be regarded as severed.
The senate passed the bill to admit
Utah as state without debate and
without division, but there was an i'm
portant amendment 1t is that the
senators from that state shall not be adj
mitted to their seats until January 1896.
The famous Ferris wheel is being
taken apart for shipment to New York.
1t will take 10 weeks to take the wheel
to pieces and the material will be taken
4 in five trains of 80 cars each to New
York city. The expense will be $780,
600.
On July 12, Judge Barrett granted q
certificate of reasonable doubt in the
case of Erastlls Wiman and he was re-
leased. Bail was fixed at $4,000 and
was furnished by Charles B. Rouss, the
eccentric millionaire merchant of New
York city.
Minister Taylor at Madrid sends
word that the Spanish government has
paid over the indemnity of $17, 500 for
the destruction of the property of the
American missionaries who were eX-
PEELED from Ponape, Caroline Islands
about four years ago.
The colored men have some advan-
tages in the every day tussle for exist
ence. By vote of 112 to 100 the Amer
lean Railway Union refused to admit
them to membership of that organiza-
ton, and now they are taking the
places of union sWitchmen in many
localities.
w. r. Laidlaw, who receny won
suit against Russell Sage, the million-
aire, for injuries received from a bomb
shell against which Mr.. Sage used him
as shield, is about to bring another
suit for slander, on the ground that Mr..
Sage has, since the verdict been speak
ing of him as a blackmailer.
| The Yale-Oxford athletic contest
took place in England Monday. Yale
won the broad jump, throwing the
hammer and putting the shot, tied the
high jump. and lost the 100-yards run,
the 120-yard hurdles, the mile run, the
44O-yards run and the half-mile run.
Oxford having five events out of nine
won the match.
A horrible accident occurred at No.
Stockton mine, Hazleton, Penn, Tues
day. Two hundred sticks of dynamite
exploded among a crowd of men who
were preparing to go to their days
work. All of these unfortunates were
shattered and torn to fragments. The
exact number killed is not yet positive
ly known, but it is placed at between
and IL.
The new cruiser Minneapolis made
her trial trip Saturday over the govern
ment course, from off Cape Ann, Mass,
to off Cape Porpoise, Me-, and covered
the round distance of 1894 miles in
hours and 49 minutes, and at the rate
of 23.07 knots an hour. She broke all
records and earned for the Cramp ship
building company a premium of $414,
800 for excess above the specified speed
of q knots an hour.
In the last of the Clyde regattas was
sailed over the guadrangular course of
the Royal Northern Yacht club. the
Vigilant was worsted. There was only
minute 40 seconds between victor and
vanquished. An addition of three min
utes for time allowance makes Britain
mia win by 4minutes 40 seconds. News
papers reports agree in declaring that
the race was without f1uke, was the
most decisive of the series and that the
Vigilont was beaten fairly and squarely.
A dispatch has been received from
the arctic vOyager, Walter Wellman.
dated at Danes Island on the north.
west coast of Spitzbergen, May 10, i'm
which he says: "We arrived in six
days from PrOmsoe, thus making a rec
ord, as the passage of the 18th parallel
was never reached previously so early
in the year. We met little ice. All