Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The initial reunion of the Worlds
Congress auxiliary was held at Chica-
go Tuesday
Judge McComas over-ruled the de-
murrers to the indictments against
Capt. Howgate.
Gladstone celebrated his S5th birth
day Saturday in remarkably good
health and spirits.
John E. Bielby, cashier of Rome
| IN. " bank, is defaulter in $4,000.
| Speculation did it.
William l.. Strong was inducted into
| office as mayor of New York city Tues
day to serve three years.
Judge e. r. Hoar is again very low
at his home in Concord, Mass, and his
death is liable to occur at any moment.
The general treasury balance at the
close of the calendar year 1894 is stated
ct S153, ,022, ,S02.1l, of which SS6,37O, ,145
is in gold.
1t is estimated that the excess Of gov
ernment expenditures over the receipts
teen millions dollars.
AT meeting of the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle congregation it was decided to re-
mage was not present.
A charter has been granted the Okla
homa Central Railroad company, with
a capital stock of S500,000. The pro-
posed road will run distance Of 95
miles.
The presidents of the colleges in In
diana have decided to prohibit intercol-
legiate football games henceforth Only
exhibition sports of any kind will be
allowed.
At Fort Worth, Tex, resolution has
been framed requesting Senator Roger
@. Mills to resign his seat i'm the senate
on the ground that he does not repre-
sent the state.
At Albany January ], Levi P. Nor
ton was inaugurated governor of New
York for the ensuing two years. He is
the first Republican governor of the
state since 1879.
The famous Delavan House at Alba
ny, N. Y, was destroyed by fire Sum
day night, and 16 missing servant girls
are supposed to have been burned to
death in the building.
Colonel Sol Palmer, one of the Oldest
telegraphers in the country, is dead.
He had been for about 26 years super
intendent of construction of the West
ern Union Telegraph company.
A horrible accident occurred at Kla-
math Falls, Ore, on Christmas eve. A
lamp was overturned at social gather
ing, setting the building in flames and
fatally burning As persons and serious
| ly injuring several others.
Francis IL, the last King of Naples,
or the two SiciIies, died at Arco Thurs
day, aged So years. Francis /, eX-King
of Naples, was born January 1886, and
succeeded his father, Ferdinand III,
better known by his sobriquet of Bonn
ba,' in 1858.
John w. Foster, Ex-secretary of the
state, has been requested by the Chinese
government to go to Japan and meet
the pleni-potentiaries of the former
government, to aid them in their nego-
the invitation.
| Mayor Pingree of Detroit, Mich, has
! filed charges of incompetency against
DR.. Webber, DR.. jerks and DR.. Shuttle,
members of the board of health He
claims that the spread of the small pox
epidemic was due to the blundering
and incompetency of these doctors in
handling it.
|
''the Sage of Chicopee,n died at his resi-
dence in Brookline, Mass, Monday
morning of congestion of the lungs.
He was the life of many political
mpaign, otherwise dull-a Democrat
of Democrats. Mr.. Stearns was born
April IS, 1881, in Stoughton.
Ex-senator James G. Fair of Califor-
MIA died Friday night. He had been
unconscious most of the time since
Monday. His death was due to Bright's
disease. He leaves fortune estimated
at 40 million dollars, which, it is said,
will be divided equally among his three
children, Mrs. Harman Oelrichs of New
York, Miss Virginia Fair and Charles
l.. Fair.
The cold of Friday night has un-
doubtedly caused loss of fully $6,000,-
600 to the fruit and vegetable growers
of Florida. The winter crops of vege-
tables are killed outright, and the
strawberry vines and pineapple plants
must be very seriously damaged. The
lowest fall of the mercury was in jack
sonville, IA degrees about zero. The
temperature is the lowest since 1885.
Mrs. Amelia j. Bloomer died at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday, aged H. She
was a native of New York state and
was one Oh tne earliest advocates OF Ita-
tional dress for women, her public use
of the new costume causing it to be
called the Bloomer costume. She issued
"The Lily" a woman's suffrage paper,
from 1S49 to 1858 and had attained
national reputation as a lecturer and ad-
vocate of woman suffrage and temper
ance.
The Biddeford, Me-, city building,
one of the finest structures in the city
Sunday morning, the total loss being
over 100000. The fire was caused by
a lighted cigar stub thrown in a water
closet. Prisoners in the police station
were nearly suffocated, one being un-
conscious when rescued. Many busi-
ness firms, the post office, police sta
ton, municipal court, opera house and
many city offices in the structure, as
well as valuable city records, which
can never be replaced, were destroyed.