The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-12-17
THE WEEKS NEWS
THURSDAY, DEC. 9.

Houghton, Miffiin & Co. at Cambridge.
Mass, caused loss of 5000 mostly
10 finiShed books-Peter Van Setback.
one ffChicagos leading residents, is be-
ing sued for $685. 900 by his daughter-in-
d. Jaw for alternating her husbands af-
fectiorrs and libel--Marquis Villamaior.
a member OF the Spanish senate, has
written to Premier Sagasta Offering
10000 to start national subscription
for the Increase of the fleet-Basket
maker at Sioux City, S. D., was found
cut to pieces in a shanty, and the father
of a girl he was accused of seducing
has been arrested-Ladder truck tipped
over in Northampton, Mass, in respond
ing to an alarm of fire, but the men
escaped with slight bruises Goddard
& Manning's piano factory at Athol,
Mass, was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire--Schools at Minneapolis,
Mimi, are to be closed March 1, 1898, for
lack of funds-H. B. Williams, Plain
field, N. j., bound to Maine on a hunting
trip, fell overheard from a Portland
steamer and was drowned-O'Neil
trial at Greenfield, Mass, cost Franklin
county 1000, which amount exceeded
estimate by $SOOO-Frank Brady, Pow
of robbing Mrs. Hewitt at Williamstown,
Mass-John Tyer, blind convict, who
was given a conditional pardon by the
Connecticut board of pardons, made a
murderous attack ON the Jail officials
Monday during an insane attack, a
proceeding that led to the revocation
of the order of release-By the will of
Mary Smith, Exeter, N. H., Rev. G. E.
NJ ,;.I1
gets $40, O00--Dwelling and barn of
Gideon Liberty, st. Johnsbury, VT, were
burned--Harry West, 10 years old,
was drowned while skating at Bucks
port Me.
FRIDAY, DEC. 10.
Thomas Pickles, photographer at
Amesbury, Mass, was arrested on a
charge of burglary--Owing to the fog,
there were collisions on the elevated rail-
road in New York Thursday in which
six persons were injured-A H. Smith,
who defrauded his partners Of over $780,
900 and ruined them, has been released
from a New York prison after eight
years of sentence of 17-Otillia Kun
der, 81 years old, has been arrested at
Rochester, N. Y, on the charge of ad-
ministering poison to her brother, who
has an insurance on his life in the young
womans favor-E. Deslaumier of
Manchester, N. H., was killed by cavein
Granville Loud, senior member of a
firm of ship chambers of Baltimore,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head--Thomas Carney, an
inmate of the soldiers home at Togus,
Me-, committed suicide in the river at
Randolph Me-, after a spree-Alfred
Lepine was injured fatally by an iron
roller in mill at Woonsocket-WilI- |
lam Leavitt, one of the Competitors
crew, whom his family thought to be
dead has been reunited to his brothers |
and sisters through the efforts of his
resident of Boston
factory of Boynton & Co.
1t Woburn, Mass, was burned-Two
sons of Frederick Jollimore, Halifax,
Y. S., were drowned while skating
John Manson, aged 55, fell distance of
% feet at Lynn, Mass, and was fatally
and four children of
Brown Smith, planter in Mississippi,
we're killed by a negro, who the sheriff
pursued with loodhounds-Large
,art, if not all, of the apparent short
lge in the accounts of Congressional
Librarian Spofford, amounting to $780,
100, will be accounted for by great batch
If old orders which the absent minded
librarian forgot to cash.
SATURDAY, DEC. II.
Under the will of Julia H. James, six
charitable institutions in Boston receive
5000 each-San Francisco grocer has
had his wife arrested for marrying a
friend of her husband after clipping with
1im-E. II. Phelps, Springfield, Mass,
publisher, Is dead-It is announced
hat New York and Boston capitalists,
ogether with George Van Dyke of Ian
,aster, N. H., have purchased all the
stock of the Connecticut River Lumber
and will form a syndicate
Coat and hat of a Salem, Mass, youth
FAMED Taylor were found on a bridge,
md the impression exists that he
drowned himself-Attempt at train
obbery in Arizona was frustrated by
he killing of the leader of a gang of five
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES necktie factory
It Danvers, Mass, was burned, the blaze
starting from the explosion of lamp
William Frost, timekeeper for the Cen
raj Electric company at Schenectady,
Y. Y, is accused of robbing the concern
f several thousand dollars by carrying
,ersons on the payroll after they had
eft the employ-Lyman Dart aged
6. has been sentenced at Truro, NJ s.,
o be hanged for murder-Congressm
Oingley predicts that the receipts of the
reasury department will begin to exceed
he expenditures the next fiscal year
Iifeless body of James Rooney, two
weeks married, was found in an unoc-
upied cottage of his employer in Nor
Walk, Conn-Parts of a child's body
we're found in a field at LymansVille, r.
SUNDAY, DEC. IL.
Man who was injured while being in ;
tiated into the order of Knights of
at Kansas City. Mo-, has
cen awarded $4,000 by a jury-Shoe
utters at Haverhill, Mass, who hold the
ey to the situation in the shoe trade,
ave formed union-New York saloon I
eeper received $500 as security from a
Jew York man whom he engaged as
although knowing that the
lace was to be shut up-John Little
ED, "a years old, hung himself in a
table at Foxcroft, Me-Rioters at
'rague, Bohemia, have been sentenced
D from three weeks to year at hard
lbor-Philias Baker, aged rs, was
illed by cars at Newport, Vt-William
.eavitt, who was held for the murder
f Alice Brown by strangling her in a