Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-12-23
THE NEWS DAY BY DAY.
THE. NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK Condensed FOR
BUSY READERS.
wednesday, December 1e.


Recruiting for Cuba is brisk in some
of the Western States.
County Clerk Purroy has not official
ly notified ov. Morton of the death c'
District-Attorney Fellows.
Gen. Marin, Governor of Pinar del
Rio, is mentioned in Madrid as .aptain
General Weyler's probable successor.
Mrs. Lynch and her two babies were
found by policeman almost frozen
and perishing for lack of food in a
Brooklyn street.
~ The French steamer Marie-Fanny,
from Bayonne for Rouen, has been lost
off the Island Of Attorney. The captain
was saved, but Ia members of the crew
were drowned.
The schooner Grace K. Green was in
collision with the steamship Yorktown,
and was eventually abandoned at sea,
all through accidentally hosting tug
signal upside down.
The French steamer Comentry, which
| left Bayonne on December for Card ii,
| has not been seen since, and it is sup
| posed that she has foundered with
| twenty hands on board.
| M. Alphonse Daudet, M. Emile lola,
| M. Aurelien Scholl, M. Francois Coppee
| and other notable personages have
signed an appeal to the government to
take action toward saving the Arme-
nian race
The Senate passed Senator Morgan's
resolutions calling on the President for
| papers in relation to the Cuban war.
In supporting his resolution Senator
Morgan denounced Spain and criticised
| Cleveland for delay.
Thursday. December II.
John Hail. an electrician, of New
| York city. was killed by live wire
while trying to put out a fire caused by
an electric light.
| Mrs. Catharine McNeilly, aged near
| ly 1O1 years, died at Lambertville. N. j.,
and Mrs. Catharine Perry, aged nearly
104, at Lebanon, Conn.,
The capitalists in the Niagara cleo
trio com bine have secured the right to
utilize the great water-power of the
! Chicago drainage canal.
Major CirujeGa congratulated Gen
Weyler ON the success of the Spanish
commanders combinations which
resulted in Maceo's death.
The Worlds exclusive news from
Gen. Castillo confirming the report OF
| Maceo's death was calbled to Madrid
and accepted as conclusive evidence.
i Moody and Sankey conducted SER
vices in the chapel in Sing Sing Pris-
on{H Thirty-one convicts raised their
hands as a sign that they had been con-
verified s 4-s
Maired Hatfield "a relative of the no
toriolls Hatfields of Kentucky and West
| Virginia, was hanged at Sneedville,
Tenn, for the murder of Jonas Trail
dealer in Illicit whiskey.
The naval budget was passed by the
Chamber of Deputies. Admiral Bes-
nard, minister of marine, said it was
the intent.-.n of the government to sub
NIT plans for the defence of BreSt and
Cherbourg.
II An old lady a clergyman, young
woman and a young man went into
a Flushing hotel. The old lady guard
ed the door while the minister read the
marriage service. The young man bolt
ed, the old lady caught him and held
him till he and her daughter were
made man and wife.
Friday, December 49,
Several overdue steamers came into
!, port and reported that the storm at
sea was very severe.
An army of men and 5000 carts were
employed removing the snow from the
streets in New York city.
: Secretary Olney will go before the
Senate Committee ON Foreign Relations
to give information regarding the sit
uation in Cuba.
The Worlds special commission in
Havana visited the Competitor pri SON.
e1ls in Cabanas fortress by special dis
pensation of Gen. Weyler.
Searchers looked in vain for any
trace of Miss Emma Hall, of New Ha-
ven. an invalid, who left her home
Tuesday night only partly clad and who
probably persisted in the storm.
THE Senate committee on education
! and labor reported favorably a bill APP
propliating 100000 fer the establish
ment i'm the city of Washington of G
\ national home for aged and infirm col
e ored people.
{ The State Shell-Fish Commissioner
| of Connecticut announced the discov'
cry of parasite that bites off the legs
h OF starfish. He suggested that they BIZ
e cultivated and spread among the star,
fish so as to do away with the great
pest of the oyster beds.
: The Senate passed the Lodge bill tt
t exclude from admission all immigrants
over sixteen years old who cannot reat
and write their native language OF
some other language. The exclusion
t does not apply to Cubans during the
e present disorders in their country.
: Saturday. December 10.
The Reading Railroad Company in
creased it's stock from S40,000.000 tc
S140,000,000.
Spanish guerillas burned a Cubar
hospital near Santiago and murdered
lis patients and garrison.
The captain of the French frigatt
Servonnet has been killed in due
with a Tunisan official named Mezze.
Two hundred drivers employed by
\ the New York Cab Company went OF
\ strike to enforce the recognition o
their union.
A fire badly damaged the car hous
of the Nassau Electric Railroad Com
pany in Brooklyn and partly burned
Is electric cars. Loss 1913 900.
An application was filed at Alban.
for the removal of the officers and di
rectors of the Manhattan Eleva,et
road on the ground of fraud. The ap
plication may have been meant to in
fluenee the stock market.
n The State of Connecticut Doesn't owl
a chair big enough for Henry c. Mes
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