Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-08-14

Friday, August 6.
Senator German in an interview
practically admitted his intention to
retire from politics.
A despatch to the Daily Mail, from
Vienna, reports that the Bulgarian
poet, Constan:inoff, has been assassi-
mated.
Mckinley will give Spain not longer
than six months, it is limited at the
State Department, in which to end the
war in Cuba.
Three firemen were killed and score
of others more or less injured in a fire
which caused the complete destruction
OF the mammoth st. Paul elevator, in
Chicago.
The necessary funds having been as
sured, the steamship Belgica, which is
being fitted out at Antwerp will sail
on August Is on an expedition to the
South Pole.
bishop Potter arrived home from his
great interest in the Greater New York
experiment and declared himself in ia
vor of a conservative man like Seth
Low for Mayor.
A Hoboken boy of fifteen claimed
~ hoFO DCOh vi o9SCh hCuily W AIUdhy
by steamboat to which he clung af-
river while bathing. He made his way
back to Hoboken naked
Secretary of State Sherman announc-
ed that he would leave Amagansett,
l.. l., where he has been spending his
vacation. He will go direct to Wasn-
ington and expects to resume the rou-
tine duties of his office Immediately.
Saturday August Z.
The British Parliament was proro-
gued until Oct. %.
A Georgia mob secretly lynched Il
negro and then reported that the vic
tim had escaped.
Mexicans are so amazed by the tum-
Bile of silver they are talking of adopt
ing the gold basis.
The British Government deferred re-
plying to the silver propositions of the
United States and France until Oclo-
ber
President Mckinley was the guest Of
honor at picnic and dinner given by
the Vermont Fish and Game League at
Isle La Motto.
Joseph Ladue the owner of Dawson,
tells of actual finds in the Klondike
diggings and shows the great natural
wealth of Alaska.
John w. Foster returned from Eu-
rope, where he had been on diplo-
matte mission in relation to the Beh-
ring Sea question.
Herman Mack Indignantly denied the
charges of cruelty and unfaithfulness
made by his wife, and said she aloue
was to blame for their unhappiness
and separation.
An autopsy showed that Mamie Nc
Carthy, the seventeen -year-old girl
who died after being given shelter by
Brooklyn friends Wednesday, had
starved to death.
1t was announced that the Whitney
syndicate's cash offer for the Manhat-
tan 81" road, New York city, had been
agreed to by Russell Sage and condi-
tonally by Miss Helen Gould. George
Gould is on his way from Europe to
complete the negotiations.
Monday, August 8.
John L. Sullivan acted as umpire in
q baseball game at Weehawken.
Car Nicholas banqueted Emperor
William, and each pledged himself to
maintain the peace.
Senior Canovas del Castillo, Prime
Minister of Spain, was assassinated by
an Italian Anarchist ct Santa Agueda
baths.
The Rev. George w. Mead proposed
the establishment of non-sectarian
religious palace to cost $1,000,000, in
order to reach the wage-earners.
Passengers who arrived in New York
on the steamship La Normandie were
delayed for hours. The customs in
spectors realized less than 500.
Starvation threatens poor residents
of Mount kisco who have been unable
to obtain awards for property demol-
shed four year ago for the enlargement
Of the Croton watershed.
The rear car of Coney Island train
on the Brooklyn Elevated was derailed
at switch at Van Siclen station. 1t
smashed signal-tower and injured
four persons before the train was stop
ped. -
The steamer Paul Koch started with
| a party of fishermen, 700 in number
for the Cholera Banks. One OF her
paddlewheels nearly fell off. The an
chor was dropped in the channel off
Liberty Island
Tuesday; august 10.
The Anglo-Egyptian expedition cap
tured Abou Hamid after severe tight
ing.
Armenians invaded Turkey from
Persia and tortured and killed 200 per-
sons.
Five boy prisoners escaped from the
RandalPs Island House of Refuge by
climbing a high wall.
Washington e. Connor, President OF
oGe of the soft-coal roads, SAID the
striking miners ought to succeed.
Emperor William, of Germany, greet
ing and manoeuvred in the Russian
anguage the Cars troops at st. Pc
tersburg.
Eugene A. Robinson, respondent
contractor of Schenectady, killed HIM
self by locking himself in a room and
turning on the gas.
Albert Bray. a bicyclist. was run
down and probably fatally injured by
.wo society women of Derby, Conn,
who were out driving.
Frank Harper, aged seventeen, was
found by the police in Houston street,
New York city, in a pitiable condition
from lack of food. He may die. Five
sther persons were rescued from starv-
ng only by timely discovery.
President Mckinley consulted White
law Reid on State Department affairs.
and rumors that the editor will succeed
Secretary Sherman were renewed.
Sealing Coy7nn,iscionar Foster called on