Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


did $500, 600 damage.
The house last Thursday passed the
bill admitting New Mexico to state
hood.
A new company has been formed
with a capital of 60,000,000 francs to
continue work ON the Panama canal.
Sir Charles Russell has been appoint
ed Lord Chief Justice of England, to
succeed Lord Coleridge who died June
IA.
Over 200 persons We're drowned
Wednesday in the river Thesis, near
Buda Pesth, Hungary, by the capsizing
of ferry boat.
Richard Croker is expected back in
New York this week, and will probab-
ly be summoned by the senate investi-
eating committee.
China is preparing for active opera
tons against Japan. The general opln-
ion is that war between the two coun-
tries cannot be averted.
Giuseppe Bandi, editor of the Gazette
Livornese at Rome, was stabbed and
killed by an anarchist Sunday for his
utterances against anarchism.
Extra precautions are being taken to
some anarchist may feel inspired to fol-
low the example set by the italian,
Santo.
Rt. Rev. Thomas M. A. Burke was
consecrated the fourth bishop of Al
bany, n. Y, last Sunday morning in
the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ceptiOn.
i 1t is thought that the British scheme
for cable across the Pacific ocean will
fall through, as the government does
not appear to be anxious to subsidize
the company.
The coal sales agents have advanced
the prices on all sizes of anthracite Is
cents per ton to the east and west for
July delivery. The output for July
was placed at 3, 500, 900 tons.
Mrs. Sally Chapman Gordon Law,
better known as the "Mother of the
Confederacy," died at Memphis, Tenn,
, Thursday, aged SO years. During the
war Mrs. Law organized the southern
hospital corps.
A gigantic telegraph strike is on the
tapis, which is to include all the rail
road and commercial operators in the
country. 1t is thought the government
will assume control of the lines if the
strike is called.
Carl Browne, Coxey's lieutenant, APP.
peared as the Goddess of Liberty in q
parade of the CoXeyites at Washington
on the Fourth of July. He started tc
make an anarchistic speech, but was
stopped by the police.
Perley Smith, 16 years old, son Of
Daniel Smith of Ripton, had his head
blown off by the bursting of a cannon
there Tuesday night. He was standing
20 feet away with crowd, but the
, others escaped injury.
The body of the late President Sadi
Carnot was deposited in the Pantheon
Sunday by the side of his grandfather
Lazare Carnot, the "organizer of vic.
tory" The funeral was one of the
most remarkable civic and military dis
: plays Paris ever saw.
!, The tariff bill passed the senate Tues
day by vote of 80 to "a. Senator Hill o.
. New York fought to the last and voted
' against the bill. Had the Populist sen
: ators not aided the Democrats the bill
> would have been defeated. There is
! little probability that the bill in its
present form can pass the house, anC
!, it's ultimate defeat is looked for The
I vote on the bill was one of the mos
8 dramatic and impressive scenes evel
: witnessed in the senate.
v Half of the second battalion of United
r States troops from Fort Sheridan AT
:. rived at the Union Stock Yards, Chica
# go, on Wednesday morning at O'CLOCK
e and are now encamped in Dexter park
: just inside the yards. They insisted il
s getting out a train of beef for the east
e The soldiers were followed back to CAM
n by about 800 men and boys, who cursed
j. and yelled at the men until a charge
It with bayonets scattered the crowd
e President Debs of the American Rail
/. way union said: 1.-THE first shot free
:. by the regular soldiers at the mobs her
:. will be the signal for civil war. l be
d lieve this as firmly as l believe in tn,
# ultimate success of our cOurse.o
l. The report of the American Sunda,
7. School Union for the fiscal year ending
r March l, 1894, has just been issued. Il
a spite of the financial stress of the time
If the society has had year of remarka
n BILE success. The amount received fo
d missionary work was $780, agains
lie S109, 23S for the previous year and 17S
al new Sunday schools have been organ
lied, with S,273 teachers and scholars
lie In addition 439 schools have been re
Ell organized or 1924 schools in ALL de
lie cided increase over the 1854 new school
organized the year before. Last yea
TT 1913 hopeful conversions were reported
Of this year 1853. The missionaries hav
made 1928 visits to families and dis
tributed IA, 2l3 Bibles and Testament.
3, The organization of churches has 70
. lowed in los cases.