Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Friday, September 10.

y. IL. willard d Co., SpeculatlnS DfoK-
ers, with offices in twenty cities, fall
ed for about $1,000,000
MIS-. Mary Crowley was attacked by
burglar in her home near Tarrytown
and beaten into insenSibility.
Rich gold-bearing quartz has been
found on Judge Henry Hilton's Sara
toga estate, Woodlawn Park.
Three ruillans oVerpowe.ad Mrs. Lam
gold in her home in Perth Amboy and
left her unconscious. They were ar
rested.
The Birmingham Trades Union Con-
gress denounced the British system of
child labor as a crime against the hui
man race.
The dry goods store of Kuns &c
Swartz at No, 1884 and 1886 Fulton
street, Brooklyn, was damaged to the
extent of $4,000 by fire.
James Fl. Lambert declined the place
of Secretary of the Commonwealth Of
fered him by Gov. Hastings, of Penn
sylvania. David Martin may be APP
pointed.
Benjamin Zoeckler, OF Phoenix, Ariz.,
one of the most extensive cattle deal
ers in the Southwest, killed himself by
a pistol shot back OF the ear. He had
lost money recently.
Saturday, September II.
Two men were killed by the fall of
an elevator in the American Tract So
ciety building New York city.
Seventeen persons were killed in a
railroad wreck in Colorado caused by
conductor reading the wrong column
in timetable.
A writer in the London Times says
the directors of the Bank of England
nave consented to hold one fifth of the
banks reserve in silver.
John P. Elkin, friend of Senator
Quay, resigned his office as Deputy
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Pennsylvania at
the request of Gov. Hastings.
A score of miners were killed in a
riot near Hazelton, Pa, in the anthra-
cite-coal district. An appeal for troops
has been made, as more trouble is eX-
pected.
Several thousand of laborers employ
ed by T. E. Crimmins & Co., New York
city, struck because of non-payment of
wages. The demands were promptly
met and the strike declared off.
New York sweltered under a tenn
perature of 90 degrees, record that
has been exceeded but once in ten
years. There were many prostratiOns
In Elizabeth the parochial schools were
closed.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who has
opposed Hawaiian annexation, receiv-
ed letter from former Minister Thurs
ton asking him to visit Hawaii and
stating that the Hawaiian Government
would pay the expenses Of the trip.
| Monday, September 10.
The health authorities OF New Or
leans reported seven cases of yellow
fever in that city.
Alexander Hewitt, "A years of age,
committed suicide at Cheviot by taking
arsenic He was a G. A. r. man anu
drew pension
A negro who had murdered another
negro was lynched by Georgia moi
not for the murder, but for an assault
| committed on white woman
Three prisoners on BiackWelPs Island
tried to escape by swimming the East
river. A ferry-boat pursued two, one
of whom was drowned oEe5 ing his com.
rade, who ordered him not to touch {
buoy under penalty of death.
The British steamer PoiyphenuS
| from Yokohama to London, has been
| damaged in a collision near Jebel-Tar,
an island of the Red Sea, according to
dispatch just received from the Island
of Perrin. Twenty-seven of the crew
were drowned.
There is reason to fear a conflict be-
tween the Hazelton strikers and The
militia, and there is an indication tina
from 1900 to 1000 more mi S will Joi1
the malcOntents. Austria may file {
claim for damages against the United
! States because of the shooting down Of
several of her subjects on Friday Evil
dence aCcumulates that the killing Of
the parading strikers was unDroyokeL
and that many of the men were shot
from behind.
The fever at Ocean Springs and Bill
oxi Miss, was officially diagnosed as
yellow fever.
| Tuesday September II.
The Mobile Board of Health reported
a case of yellow fever in that city.
Gen. Woodford was received by the
Queen Regent of Spain and presented
his credentials.
The Rev G. F. B. Howard, the no.
torious pious fraud, escaped from the
Ohio Penitentiary.
The Orakzais captured the British
post at Sarhargarti and $4,000 tribes
men were gathered to attack the Sam
ana forts.
| Twelve young women, candidates for
a Catholic order, arrived from ireland
to take a five-year course in church
schools. They will be prepared for
| teaching.
Lady Randolph Churchill, her two
sisters and other ladies of London were
induced by Capt" Cruikshank to in
vest" $4,000 in ventures which are be-
| lieved to be fraudulent.
| Women with babies in their arms
marched at the head of strikers who
| tried to compel the employees of the
| New York and Cleveland mines near
| Pittsburg to quit work. Deputies re-
sisted the march and four of the wo-
men were arrested.
| Gen. Goblin has hurried battalion of
| troops from HaZelton to the Eckley
mines to arrest 200 armed marching
strikers who are said to have forced the
miners at work there to quit. Twelve
of the victims of the conflict between
| the authorities and the strikers at Lat
| timer were buried. There was no dis
| turbance.
Wednesday, September Is.
Bertha L. Johnson drowned herself