Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Governor hSlcn was renOmlnateu by
the Republicans of Michigan at their
state convention Tuesday.
The Manchester, N. H., mills, which
have been running on fun time, will be-
gin on two-thirds time next Monday.
The dynamite cruiser Nesuvius is to
be changed into a torpedo cruiser. She
is not considered q success in her pres
ent form.
Mayor Hopkins of Chicago refused
the American Railway Union permis-
sion to parade as reception to Presi-
dent Debs.
A forest fire destroyed the town of
Phillips, Wis, Saturday. Out of 500
buildings only 81 remain and nearly 80
lives We're lost.
Word has been received ofthe safe ar-
rival at Archangel ofthe steamer Wing
ward, with the Jackson polar eXpedi-
ton on board.
The present prospects are hopeful
for the adoption of a 25 years treaty of
arbitration between the United States
and Great Britain.
The U. S. S. cruiser Bennington, hay
ing on board President Ezata of Saliva
dor and three other refugees, is en- route
to San Francisco.
A Chinese laundry trust has made it's
appearance in the mercantile world un-
der the incorporate name of Dop Song
Kong Saw, with a capital stock of
S5000.>
An order has been placed with Cali
fornia canning company for 1000 tons
of canned beef to go to China. Several
ship loads of flour have been sent to the
same market.
Immense quantities of raw sugar are
being rushed into the American ports
in order to avoid the prospective tax
which it is expected that the new tar
iff act will impose.
In the superior court at Pittsfield,
Mass, July % Sherlock, the gentle
man burglar" was sentenced to Is
| years in states prison, with one day of
solitary confinement.
Cantwell and Quinn, the London
anarchists who made speeches tending
to incite people to murder members of
the royal family, were yesterday sem
| fenced to six months imprisonment
each.
Los Angeles, CAL, was shaken by an
earthquake Sunday night at OIL
O'Clock. 1t was a sharp shock, not do
ing much damage. At Acton there
were three severe shocks, but no dam
age is reported.
| The supreme court has handed down
a decision sustaining the conviction
and sentence Of John Y. McKane, the
Gravesend "boss." 1t is not likely that
any further efforts will be made in his
behalf at present.
The third disastrous fire in the his
tory of Minneapolis broke out in the
lumber yards of the Shevlin-C Carpenter
Company, on the bank of the Miss
issipi River Monday. 1t destroyed
property valued at nearly $500,000.
The tariff reform Democrats of Fred
erick county, Maryland, held an en-
thusiastic meeting Monday night. Re
solutions were adopted endorsing Pres
ident Cleveland and the house of repre-
sentatives, and demanding that Sena-
tor German resign his seat in the sem
ate.
On account of the burning of railroad
bridges and stations, United States
Marshal Israel is preparing to send out
more deputies to guard property of
railroads in the hands of receivers, and
soldiers will not probably be withdrawn
from the strike centers for many weeks
yet.
! Theodore j. G. Meunier, the anarch-
| ist, was placed ON trial at Paris Friday,
charged with completely in the explo-
sions at Lebau barracks and at the Cafe
| Very, by which several persons lost
their lives. The jury found him guilty,
and sentence of penal servitude for
life was imposed.
| As Archduke William of Austria was
! 81. d.
| his horse was frightened by an electric
car and the archduke was thrown, his
| foot caught in the stirrup and he was
dragged more than a hundred wards.
He was insensible when the horse was
stopped and he died at go o'clock. The
arohduke was born in 1927.
A number of Lehigh Valley Coal
! c0mpany officials went on a tour of in
spec,ion of the Exeter mine, one of the
comIany's collieIiss at West Pittston,
| Pa, and while going up the old air
shaft the bottom of the carriage gave
way and precipitatsd the men to the
bottom. Superintendent Mason was
! killed, Inside Foreman Wilson was
| tataily injured and Mr.. Mercur was
| badly, and Professor Burrell slightly
! Injured.
! The Central Copper C1mrany's Mine
/ in Michigan has been abandoned. This
closes a 40-year term of continuous
operation of this mine, during which it
! hasfsirrned To its stockholders s27, ,G00,-
600 in dividends on an investment of
800, 600. The vein had been worked
by s9me prehistoric race, and it was
the traces they left OF their work that
led to the discovery of the mine i'll 1854.
The shutdown is due to the utter eN-
haustion of the vein. -Four hundred
men wholly dependant upon the mine
are out of employment.
Ths series uf thunder storms which
visitSd d New England Sunday was the
! worst of the season. Dispatches put
| lished Monday accounted for m0re than
"a buildings burned by ligh. ming, more
than niue destroyed by wind, aud a
&c re struck by the electric fit.iu ard
damaged. The wind damage " ~ pr;l,-
tical'y all in the vicinity OF Mancbes-
/ ter, n. III. lightning s.rucK sl;.nrhss-
ter buildings i've times in ihs Inst
storm. Oue woman WAS killed by the
Manchester wind storm, two drowned
! Icy i squall in the vicinity, and : man
Killed ny lightning near Pitts isid,