Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-07-31

bought by the promoters, among
whom, 1t is said, are Messrs. Armour
and N. Morris, of Chicago.
Andras Meliniak crept into the room
of Mrs. Annie Kmetz, where she was
sleeping with her husband and three
children, at Newark, and shot and
killed her. They had been intimate,
but she had discarded him.
Saturday July "a.
Several persons were killed by an
explosion on steamboat at Bridge
port, Conn.
A Tacoma woman, who until lately
took in washing, struck a claim worth
$250,000 in the Klondike.
Federal marshals arrested twenty
tive tramps who insisted upon riding
free on trains in Nebraska.
A New York biscuit factory, owned
by the Cracker Trust, was damaged
to the extent of $4,000 by fire.
The resignation of President An
drews provoked bitter structures on
the Brown University trustees.
Mrs. Jacob Black, 100 years old,
risked her own life and rescued her
husband, also a centenarian, from their
burning rooms in Clinton street, New
York city.
Secretary Sherman, on his way to
Amagansett, L. l., for rest, said the
Canadian Government was not likely
to apply its alien labor law to Ameri-
cans working the Klondike mines.
Henry Vandewater of Middletown,
N. Y, stung Or the head by yellow
jacket last monday, was yet uncon-
cious and there were symptoms OF
lcckjaw, though no external evidence
OF any injury.
A storm almost cyclonic in inten-
| sity swept over New York city. The
display of lightning was magnificent.
The towers of the Manhattan Trust
Companys and the New York Life In
surance Company's buildings wee
struck. Shipping was temporarily de-
moraliZed. The storm extended from
Connecticut to Southern New Jersey.
| Monday, July rs.
Patrick Sullivan and his bride were
asphyXiated by gas in a Westchester
hotel
Peter McNally, of Boston, SWAN the
English Channel, thirty-five miles, in
fifteen hours.
| There is plague OF mosquitoes in
and around New York city that can be
compared only to the plague of flies
in Egypt.
| Prof. Libbey, of Princeton, and MS
party scaled the Enchanted Mesa, in
New Mexico. No evidences of inhabi-
tants were found.
The Spring House at RichfeII
| Springs was burned, and the guests
among whom were Mayor Strong, had
tc fee for their lives.
Miss Alice Barrett, who was report
ed to have been killed by thunderbolt
in Boston, was killed by pistol-shot
supposed to have been fired by herself
Many Harlem women regret the dis
appearance of Nine. Alicia Kerr, other
wise known as Miss Alice Kerrigan
who, they say, duped them into lend.
ing her money.
An autopsy proved that the infant
daughter Of Long Island City man
died of starvation and neglect The
father who had turned his family in {
the street, was arrested with money 4
his pocket, of which he refused to give
his little son ten cents to buy bread.
in the Central Labor Union say tina
times are harder to-day than a veal
lago. Labors condition in other cite.
is said to be equally bad But presi
dents of boards of trade in the princi
pal cities see signs of approaching
prosperity.
Tuesday July FL.
The Radical attack on Cecil Rhode
and otheg5 in the British House o
: Commons was in vain.
, Former Queen Liliuokalani called OIL
, President Mckinley and prote5te,
against the annexation of Hawaii.
Minnie Deland, domestic mysteri
cusly disappeared from the home 0
her employer at Stony Brook, l.. l.
Two thousand three hundred gar
ment workers went on strike in New
York. One hundred and twenty-flv
shops are affected.
American Horse, an Indian DOCTOR
eloped with seventeen-year-old Eliza
beth Anderson at Tullytown, Pa. Tren
ION police captured the girl and re
turned her to her father.
Steamship captains plying between
San Francisco and the Yukon repor
chat the wholesale desertion of crew
Cor the gold fields makes it difficult t
man their vessels for the trip south
The body of young Jarel, the DARN.
Alpine climber, who started on tn
eighteenth to make the ascent o
Mount Taillefer, has been found at tn
bottom of deep crevasse with hi
neck broken. He was only 10 years o
age.
Miss Marie Simone. a young singer
who came to New York from
Nebraska seeking an operate
engagement, notified friends tina
chance acquaintance had luret
ner from her boarding house