Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-04-24
Can't. Jagueneau reported that tho

At the Lowell observatory, again To-
Gated at Flagstaff, Ariz, more than
100000 double and triple stars have
been measured since January l.
A robber entered the Great Falls Ma
tional Bank at Somersworth, N. H.. at
noon, murdered the cashier, Joseph
Stickney, and escaped with $4,100 of
the banks funds.
M. Hanotaux, Foreign Minister for
France, in an interview, made diplo-
matte attack on the Dingley bill. He
criticised our Consuls for misrepre-
senting French products and our State |
Department for it's "argumentative |
spirit
An invasion of Chalcis was organized |
to divert Turkish attention from Mace
donia. The Turks recaptured Krania.
The Ethnike Hetairia was said to have |
ordered the irregular to withdraw from
Macedonia because the Greek Army
did not support them. The Italian Le-
gion disbanded. :
Monday, April 10.
Congressman Seth L. Milliken, Of
Maine, died in Washington.
A phonograph took the place of Pas
tor Shammis for the Easter services in
the Baptist Church of South River, N.
Josef Graschina, of New York city,
who lost fortunes and invented a puz-
zle that drove him crazy, took poison
and died.
Mr.. Jordan is to be retained as AS
sistant United States Treasurer at New
York. T. G. Platt's candidate for the
place, Ellis Roberts, is to be appointed
Treasurer at Washington.
A mad cat invaded the apartment of
Mrs. Peterson, in New York city, at
| tackled her, smashed many ornaments
and leaped from window to the yard,
forty feet, and disappeared.
In New York Fred Schellhaus fought
| a wouldbe burglar down a fire escape
from the fourth floor. In Yonkers two
women were attacked and one of them
robbed. The thief was caught while
| lying in wait for third victim
Fifty thousand men, counting both
| sides, fought desperately thirty hours,
| without food or sleep, on the Greek
frontier, and each side claimed to have
secured an advantage. The report
from headquarters at Larissa was that
the Greeks had occupied the Turkish
positions from Nezeros to Koutra,
distance Of fifty miles. The Turks sank
a Greek steamer in the Gulf of Aria,
whereupon a Greek squadron silenced
the shore batteries and captured the
citadel of Prevesa.
Tuesday, April 20.
An Italian expedition was annihilat-
ed in Abyssinia.
| The Senate agreed to take vote on
| the ratification of the Anglo-American
| peace treaty on May 5.
The theatre hat" bill introduced by
Mr.. Roster, of Lyon Falls, Lewis coun-
ty, New York, has passed the Assembly.
| Nicholas Price, of Batavia, N. Y,
committed suicide by hanging himself
with piece of clothes line. Despond-
ency caused by ill-health caused his
suicide.
Two columns in the rear of the sum-
mer home of Oliver G. Jennings, at
Fairfield, Conn.,, were blown up, pre-
sumably by dynamite. A discharged
employe was suspected.
Workmen dug hole for an electric
pole in front of the house of Mrs. Gill
bert at Sheepshead Bay. She promptly
dropped in the hole, and the workmen
We're compelled to dig another.
Greek Consul Vlasto made arrange
ment sfor reduced fares to Athens for
turn to their home to join the army
Half of the Greek colony in New York
will return if transportation is pro-
vided.
The Greeks gained advantage at Ra
ganni, Arta and Prevesa, and seemed to
hold their own at other points. Des-
perate fighting continued at Milouna
Pass. Crown Prince Constantine went
to the frontier at Tyrnovas. Prince
Nicholas, the Greek Kings third son.
was sent to the field.
Wednesday, April Fl.
The Democrats carried New Ro-
chelle. N. Y.
Several lives have been lost by snow
!, slides in the canons of the Rocky
mountains.
J Pennsylvania Pardon Board COM
muted the death sentence of Actor Cen
try, who murdered Madge Yorke, an
actress, to life Imprisonment.
All the principal buildings of the
Nashville exposition, except the gov
eminent and hygiene buildings are
complete, and exhibits are being placed
in position.
!, Joseph E. Kelley, of Amesbury,
Mass, arrested in Montreal, confessed
to having murdered Cashier Stickney,
of the Great Falls National Bank, at
) Somersworth, N. H., and made way
, with 81, 100 of the banks funds.
President Mckinley appointed Cor
nelius Van Colt Postmaster of New
York city, F. r. Moore Internal Rev
enue Collector for the Brooklyn dis
trict and William A. Jones, of Wiscon-
sin, Indian Commissioner.
The Turks, having won a complete
victory in Milouna Pass, prepared to
advance by forced marches upon Lar
issa, the Greek army headquarters. Ev-
, cry man in Greece able to bear arms
, was summoned to the defense of his
country. Mitylene and Scio, islands of
Asia Minor, were occupied by Greeks
after fierce fighting. Col. Manos a
the head of Greek army was march
ing northward in Epirus.
Thursday, April 22.
!. Gov. Blacks civil service bill was
J made a caucus measure by Republican
Senators.
Speaker Reed told a Federation Of
Labor delegation that the factory sys
: tenn has compelled wage-earners to or.
ganize.
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