Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-01-10
NEWS OF.lTHE WEEK.

i 1t is reported there are nearly 400
cases of measles in indianapolis. 7l,.l
The Bluefields question has been
settled by Great Brita'n's surrender of
all claims.
The remains Of eight victims of the
Delavan House fire have been found in
the ruins at Albany. It
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
i that the cholera epidemic in Rio Jan
eiro is on the increase. n,
| Two hundred fisherman are estimated
to have perished during the recent gale
off the coast of England.
The Royal Yacht Squadron decided
to accept the custody of the Americas
cup, and race is said to be assured.
By vote of 81 to SO, the Democratic
house caucus voted to endorse the Car
/ Isle substitute currency bill now before
the house. @ sN
A Central news Correspondent at
| Seoul telegraphs that the King of Corea
yesterday formally declared the indie
/ pendence of Corea.
Justice Gaynor refused to grant a stay
in the case of eN-Police Captain Steph-
enson of New York, under sentence for
receiving a bribe of six baskets of
peaches.
| The City National bank of Birming-
ham, Ala, with capital of 100000,
has arranged to go out of business. The
bank has a surplus.
Lord Randolph Churchill, who has
beer very i'll ast Ldndon, is somewhat
better. He hats become stronger and
eats and sleeps well.
7 The miners of the Massillon, Ohio,
district, numbering 5000, decided to re-
turn to work at the 6O-cent rate made
by the arbitration board
| There is no foundation whatever for
the report that Sir William Harcourt
has resigned, OF that a dissolution of
parliament is imminent.
Rev. DIR. King, famous in the slavery
days for assisting slaves to escape from
the United States to Canada, died Sum
day at Chatham, Ont, aged 80. o.,a
A dispatch from Peru, says that all
the leading officers of the rebel staff
have been taken prisoners. The revo-
lutionists cause has about collapsed. 4
The court house at Decatur, Texas,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Several
business houses were also destroyed.
The total loss will reach over 100000.
| Representative Philip Sydney Post
of the 10th Illinois district died Sunday
at his apartments at the Hotel Hamil-
ton in Washington after a short illness.
I Fire losses last year. according to the
i New York Journal Of Commerce, ag-
gregated SI27, 400, 900 against S156, 445,-
875 the year before and 1892, 704, 700 in
1892.
Edward r.. Carter, the defaulting
clerk Of the National Bank of Com
merce of New York pleaded guilty and
was held for the action of the grand
Jury. 1#
/ A mob of several hundred of the low
est elements of the city paraded the
streets at st. Johns, N. f., carrying
flag bearing an inscription Work or
Bread.o
! The American Line Steamship COM
pany has retired all the quartermasters
of foreign birth on the steamship New
York and filled their places with ma
tive Americans jE
Turkey has requested France, Ger
many, Italy and Austria to use their
good offices with view to moderrte the
demands of Great Britain and Russia
in regard to Armenian affairs. vsl
Leading physicians of the New York
board of health admit that an epidemic
of grip is raging in the city. They say
it is of a deadly kind and disastrous re-
suits may follow Between now and
spring. s4YE3t b.
Judge Woods issued an order COM
mitting Debs and his associates to the
Woodstock Jail and prisoners left for
| Woodstock Tuesday their attorneys
having requested that they be sent out
of the city.
| IL Co. :. , 4
Ferris, one of the most extensive sugar
planters and refiners in Louisiana and
secretary for the party of sugar planters
who went over to the Republicans last
fall. Other failures are feared.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce authorized favorable report
on the bill to permit the issuance of
joint interchangeable 5000-mile tickets,
with special privileges as to the amount
of free baggage that may be carried.
The formal degradation of Captain
Albert Dreyfus, sentenced to depriva-
ton of his military rank and cOnfine-
ment in fortress for life, for betraying
government secrets, took place Satur-
day morning at Paris in the. presence
of 5000 troops. fs.'r.-9 -, s'.'''s>
| A Bulgarian judge has ordered the
arrest of eX-Premier Stambuloff as a
result of the charges made by Unionist
ministers, claiming that he is the real
murderer of M. Beltcheff, the minister
of finance, who was assassinated in 1891
in the streets of Sofia.
A special from st. Louis, Mo-, says:
AS a result of a row in the Carondolet
Baptist church DIR. Caleb S. Purkitt.
one of the trustees, has challenged Rev.
w. w. Boyd of the Second Baptist
church to fight duel with pistols. DIR.
Purkitt is ~ years old. 10
| Requisition papers have been for
warded to Governor Pattison of Penn
sylvania for III. M. Pratt, or H. HI.
Holmes, the insurance swindler. who is
wanted in Fort Worth on charge of
swindling the Farmers and Mechanics,
bank by means of an alleged failure.
As result of the civic 'sboodleu in
vestigation, at Toronto ex-Aldermen
Verrail and Maloney were arrested.
ex-Aldermen Hall, Hewitt and Cole
man are fugitives from Justice and
| warrant has been isSupd for tbo ,,,r,.,.