The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Dec. 2S.

relief fund for the unemployed now
amounts to more than $l7, 000-Captain
Wilson's force is said to have been cut off
and massacred by Matabeles-The reor-
ganized Cordage company has begun
business with q capital of 1874, 900, 000-
There is an unusually large amount of
counterfeit money in Boston-Governor
Stone of Missouri would like the Demo
cratic presidential nomination in 1866
Bookkeeper Miller of Hotel Reynolds,
Boston, is charged with embezzlement-
August Martin Prawda was arrested by
order of Coroner Perry, as the result of
the coroners jury in the Meyer case at
Yarmouth, Me -- Elk High Sheriff
Major Henry A. Longley of North
nmpton, Mass, is dead-Hon. Il.
G. Platt was appointed receiver of the
New York and New England railroad
Thomas l. Shuttleworth, inventor of
the carpet loom, died at Warren, Mass
He was 80 years old-Dr. Robert Nc
Even, prominent physician and surgeon,
died at Saratoga, aged 80 years - A
London dispatch announces the death of
w. w. Lloyd, a noted Shakspearian es-
sayist - Botanist Richard Bentley is
dead.
Friday, Dec. 20.
Spanish police are unravelling the an
archist conspiracy Andrew Carnegie
has offered $500, 900 to the unemployed of
Pittsburg-Two locked-in colored chill
dren were burned to death at Paducah,
KY. - Governor PennOyer's letter to
President Cleveland is denounced as
grossly false-There was another death
from smallpox at Boston-Vaccinati
is going on at the rate of 1000 patients a
day--It is not thought probable that
congress will appropriate 100000 for
fighting the gypsy moth in Massachusetts,
The new pension law, requiring the
giving of 80 days notice before suspension
can be made, is now in operatiOn-In a
dispute about rents at Cornerville, Ark,
William Thompson shot to death a man
named Thomas Stout - At White
head, N Y, Alfred McDougall at
tempted to kill his sweetheart, Ida
Sutherland, who he thought had Tilted
him. He then shot and killed himself
PeiXoto reports successes over the insur-
gents-The British steamer CornhiIl was
sunk off Gibraltar-Wine growers in
the south of France are over-glutted with
their produce-The Duke of Edinburgh
is unable to renounce his marriage grant
THE Sicilian revolutionary movement
is spreading to the mainland-Myron
critic, died at Rochester, aged ga years.
He was nominated for the Belgian mission
by President Cleveland during his first
term-Dr Charles M. Cresson, the dis
tinguished chemist, died in Philadelphia,
aged 65. He published number of pam
phlets upon scientific ubjects-Rev. DIR.
George Henry Brandau, one of the
oldest Lutheran ministers in the country,
died in Baltimore, aged SO years
Mrs. Margaret Martin of Columbia, S.
c., one of the most eminent women in the
Methodist Episcopal church in the south,
and author of many books on Methodism,
is dead. She was born in Scotland in 1907.
Saturday, Dec. 80.
There was $4,000 fire in the Sycamore
hotel property at Lynn, Mass-The Ger
man Insurance company of Quincy, Ills,
has sold out--The Cunarder Catalonia
arrived at Boston after rather tempest
uous voyage-The fund for relief of the
unemployed of Boston now amounts to
So, 1887. 5S-A restaurant where scent
meals are sold has been opened by num-
Der of Boston business men-Native
runners confirm the report of the annihila-
tion of Captain Wilson's force by the
Matabeles-It is said that Chicago has
been robbed of hundreds of thousands of
dollars by means of stuffed payrolls-
Admiral Cana says that the insurgents
aim to overthrow the military despotism
now existing in Brazil-An Ohio manu-
facturer suggests, as way to revive bust
ness, that the senate pass a resolution
declaring that no tariff legislation will
be enacted by the Fifty-third congress-
Messrs. Platt, Hart and Perry were ap-
pointed receivers for New England road in
this state and Rhode Island-The police
place the number of Bostons unemployed
at 5063-Seven tramps drank poisoned
alcohol at Attleboro, Mass. Four are
dead, two sick beyond recovery and the
other missing - Charles r. Kirby,
charged with being fugitive from justice
and wanted in New Jersey, was discharged |
by the court at Worcester w. A.
Bennett of the Globe National bank, |
Providence, stole $4,000 and gets away
THE entire Carnegie plant in Home |
stead is to resume operations Monday |
morning -Prendergast. the murderer of |
Mayor Carter Harrison was found guilty |
and his punishment fixed at death-The |
authority of DR.. McGlynn to occupy the |
pulpit as Catholic priest was fatty dis |
puted by Bishop Wigger of the Newark |
diocese-The Brazilian government is
SLOWLY uepTlNlHS Iue insurgents OIL Unelf
sources of supplies - Fifteen persons
were drowned during dense fog at
Amsterdam Jellinck of vi
emma, the senior Austrian rabbin, is dead.
He was born at, Drolowitz, Moravia in 1920 |
George w. Savage, United States con-
sui at Dundee, is dead-Dr. Harper,
primate of New Zealand, died at Yelling
ton.
Sunday, Dec. 81.
The Home Market club of Boston has
petitioned congress to defeat the Wilson
tariff bill-The steamer Norseman go
Rground in the Narrows, Boston harbor
Several manufacturing companies in
Southington, Conn, have notified their
employees of reduction in wages-Demo-
Gratis differ on the kind of notes to issue
TO relieve the treasury-Fully 5000 men
will be given employment at Pittsburg
this week-The California State grange
protests against the passage of the Wilson
bill - Eleven indictments were found
against John Y. McKane in connection
with the Gravesend election frauds
Populists in the senate will oppose the
Wilson bill - Twelve racehorses were
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