Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-10-17
THE NEWS DAY BY DAY.
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Friday, October 8.

ed to death by a piece of corned beef
while at dinner at his home in New
York yesterday.
Josephine Thomas, of Mount Airy,
N. j., bitten on the toe by spider.
saved her life by cutting the toe off
with a carvingknife.
/ Count De Susini, once worth $4,000
900 and known as the King of Cigar
cite Makers" is penniless and i'll in the
French hospital in New York city.
Georgia Populists accuse Democrats
of fraud in the State elections. The
majority of Atkinson Dem.) for Gov
ernor, is probably between $4,000 and
10000.
Mrs. John Clauer left her two chill
dren alone in her fiat in New York for
a few minutes and returned to find her
baby enveloped in flames in its cradle.
1t died of its burns.
Candidate Bryan travelled from Chi
cago to Marshalltown, Ia, yesterday,
making twelve speeches in nine towns
He will stump Illinois from October 20
to October 80, inclusive.
The cold wave has developed wintry
weather in the Adirondacks. The
mountains are covered, and at Blue
Mountain Lake and other points in that
region two inches of snow fell yester-
day.
Saturday, October 10.
bishop Keane's removal as rector of
the Catholic Univers ty is said to mark
the downfall of the American party at
the Vatican.
The Gar, after reviewing 10000
French troops at Chalons yesterday,
said at banquet that Russia and
France are united by unalterable
friendship"
Sair. one of the Sherburne (Minn.)
bank-raiders, broke the pedal of his BIZ
cycle when pursued in the rain and
shot himself to death.
Lord Rosebery said at a great Lib
eral meeting in Edinburgh last night
that he resigned the party leadership
because he couldn't sacrifice national
interests to personal ambition.
The New York milkman who sup
piled Anna Held, the French singer.
with milk for her bath brings suit for
his money. She claims the milk sup
piled was not good bathing milk.
Mayor Patrick ]. Gleason, of Long
Island City. was served with sum-
mons yesterday secured by the Attor
ney-General requiring him to show
cause next Friday why, having been
elected when not a citizen, he should
not vaeate his office.
The Paris, of the American line,
broke her starboard tube-shaft on
Thursday about 800 miles east of Sandy
Hook on her way to Southampton. he
Fuerst Bismarck sighted her four hours
later and drew alongside. The Paris
said she would steam to Europe with
her port propeller.
Monday, october IT.
Huret, the b;cyclist, has beaten the
record for twenty-four hours, riding in
that time 54541 miles.
Hugh w. McClelland died at Chat
ham, N. Y, yesterday afternoon of
heart disease, aged seventy-six years.
He was 4 candidate Tor Congress on tho
Democratic ticket from the nineteenth
district.
Harry st. John, son of Ex-Governor
st. John, of Kansas, died at Oklahoma
City, o. t., Saturday of la grippe. At
the time of his death young st. John
was under indictment for the murder
of his wife.
A dispatch from Rome says it is re-
ported that the Right Rev. John l..
Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, will sue
coed Bishop Kt.ne as rector of the
Catholic University of America in
Washington.
A dispatch from Havana says a
meagre report has been received of an
other important engagement, October
8, between the Spaniards, under Gen.
Echague, and Antonio Maceo, in which
it is claimed the insurgents sustained
very heavy losses, and the losses of the
Spaniards were admittedly severe. De-
tails are very hard to obtain, being
carefully guarded by the authorities.
A dispatch from Lewes, Del, says:
The American schooner Luther A.
Roby, from Schiverie, N. s., for Phil
adelphia, with cargo of plaster, struck
near the point of Henlopen yesterday
during a terrible northeast
gale and pounded to pieces before the
life-saving men could get line to her.
All of the crew, except Harry Mildly,
Thomas Shines and an unknown Nor
wegian sailor were rescued.
Tuesday, October IS.
Maceo has had still another fierce
fight with Echague.
Mr.. Bryan made four speeches in
last night.
Cardinal Satolli is the guest of Arch
bishop Corrigan. He will remain in
New York for several days.
Major Mckinley made but one speech
yesterday, to a delegation of coal min
erS.
Famine is threatened in the Amur
Province of Asiatic Russia, the crops
having been destroyed by flood.
The Sultan has signed an trade the |
Berlin Frankfurter Zeitung says, prom
Using state reforms for the whole of
Turkey.
The body of Miss Grace Dickson,
of Brooklyn, who disappeared from her |
home on September %, was found in a |
dreary swamp at Canarsie yesterday |
afternoon. How she came there, where |
she had been in the intervening twenty |
days, and how she met her death are |
questions that cannot be answered.
Taylor Roekrof and Fred ]. Babcock, |
of Thiells, a small settlement about |
five miles from Spring Valley, N. Y, |
while out hunting for chestnuts in the |
woods Sunday, found the dead BODY of |
Babcoch's brother Allison, who was
to be at home in bed. !, re-
volver YVES found by his side. No cause
is known for the rash act.
Wednesday, October II.
The instruction in Madagascar has
become general.
Chicago's first registration day broke
all records, 250,00O voters going to the
POLLS