Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-09-19
THE NEWS DAY BY DAY.
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Friday, September IL.


Turkey is confirmed.
Actor James Lewis, for twenty years
the leading comedian of Augustin
Days company, suddenly died.
The Bank of England increased the
rate of discount " per cent. and adj
vanced the price of American eagles
one-half penny per ounce.
The second Pennsylvania Democrat
ic State Convention unseated sound
money electors chosen at Allentown
Populists.
Mrs. Agnes Devere. while riding her
bicycle in Eighth avenue, New York,
erickson. She fell heavily and died in
Roosevelt Hospital.
The State Department decided that
Huang, Chinese maid who ran away
from Foochow with Miss Sites, an
American missionary, to avoid Chi
nese marriage, must be sent back to
her father.
Senator Hill refused to go to the
Buffalo Convention as a delegate from
the Third district of Albany with any
instructions that would prevent him
from acting as he might think best for
MS partyS interest.
Terence v. Powderly spoke at Nc
Kinley League meeting at Cooper I'm
ion, New York city. Bryanites and
workingmen opposed to the former
Master Workman packed the hall and
booted and Kissed the speaker.
Saturday, September IL.
Several of the Paris newspapers es-
%Lo hn. Of in in rod
during the tornado Thursday at $50, of
whom forty are seriously hurt.
A wheel mill of the Ohio Powder
Company, near Youngstown, o., ex-
ploded yesterday, instantly killing Rees
and John Lynch, employees, the bod
les being terribly mutilated.
It is said that the Catholic Legation
at Washington will be formed into a
court of last resort where American
church questions will be settled with
out reference to the Propaganda at
Rome.
Silas Huffman, of Far Hills, N. j.,
died on Tuesday after spending fifteen
years in bed. When his brother fore
closed mortgage on his place he
swore he would stay in bed until he
died, and he kept his word.
James H. Blue, who was making
money in Jersey City by buying trade
dollars for so cents and exchanging
them at their face value, was held for
the grand jury on the charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses.
Monday, September ii.
"A wild man was found in cave in
Hoboken, N, j., where he had been liv-
ing for months.
A Williamsburg, NJ Y, saloon-keeper
was poisoned by oxalic acid purchased
by his child in mixtake for Carlsbad
salts,
Miss Clara Barton, leader of the Ar
menian Red Cross Society, returned
from Turkey Saturday. Her aides dis
tributed $4,000 among suffering Ar
menians.
A scaffold on the fifth floor OF No. 81
West Third street, New York, broke
Saturday and threw three men to the
street. Two were killed and one posi-
bly, MORALLY injured.
A great legal battle is imminent be-
tween the Bell Telephone Company
and the Western Union Telegraph
Company. The latter corporation in
sists that its privileges are being en-
coached upon.
Tuesday, September 15.
Senators Teller and Dubois will take
the stump for silver.
/ Major Mckinley yesterday addressed
delegation of Ohio wool-growers on
protection.
Henry B. Somehow, the son of
New York millionaire, whose death
was announced as having occurred in
Colorado last July, is alive.
Isidro Arquelles, once prosperous
Spanish cigar manufacturer, whose
business had been ruined by the Cuban
revolution, shot himself in New York.
DR.. Charles F. Gray, a New York
dentist, seventy years old, who had
among his patrons many distinguished
persons, killed himself by means of gas
and chloroform.
Capt Louis Genera, Mate Rapella
Giovanni and sailor on board the
Italian bark Monte Tabor, wrecked off
Provincetown, Mass, either committed
suicide or were murdered by mutineers.
The survivors were held.
! The London Standard to-day pub
fishes a dispatch from Constantinople
saying that threats are being made to
blow up the new public debt offices and
the British embassy. The unrest
among the low class Turks is increas-
ing. It is not now question of Turk
against Armenian, but of the lives and
property of all foreign citizens in the
city. The patrols have been doubled
everywhere, but if the Government
should order the soldiers to fire upon
a mob it is likely that the order would
be disobeyed and that the troops would
fraternize with the rioters.
Wednesday. September 16.
The United States cruiser Bancroft
sailed for Turkish waters yesterday.
: Later returns from Maine indicate
that the plurality of Powers, Republic
can candidate for Governor, is 6,13S.
+, Irish leaders in New York ridicule
the idea that lyman was intrusted with
the execution of dynamite plot to
blow up the Gear of Russia and the
Queen OF England.
/ A crisis has been reached in the con-
duct of Mr.. Bryan's campaign. Sem
ator German is likely to take a larger
part in the management, which has
been unsatisfactory thus far.
The eighty-fourth eonclave of the
Supreme Council, Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite Masons, of the thirty