Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-08-28
Friday. Aucust 20.

Friday. August go.
At the Crystal palace, London, Platt
Belts, the cyclist. with flying start.
covered a mile in l minute 81 3-5 Sec
onds beating McDuffie's worlds rec
ord.
Robert Moore, of Sault Ste Marie,
employed on gravel scow, was drown
ed in the Niagara river. The scow
struck a rock and believing 1t would
sink, Moore jumped overheard and was
drowned.
horrible tragedy Is reported from
Rapid City, Canada. Fire destroyed
the residence of George Hudson while
he was absent from home and Mrs.
Hudson with four children were burn
ed to death.
An unknown tramp was lynched by
a crowd of Infatuated farmers near
Mannheim, H., small village west OF
Chicago. The tramp assaulted wo-
man and then fed, but was soon cap
tured and strung to a tree.
The aldermen of Montreal have de-
cided that the outlook for serious
smallpox epidemic is very grave.
| There are now eight cases fully de-
veloped in the civil hospital. The city
has been divided into "a districts and
/ there will be house vaccination.
A burglar known as Edward Simp-
! son, now serving term at NORWOOD
Scrubs prison London, has been identi-
| fed as j. B. Ford, one of the most no
torious criminals in the United States,
and wanted in several American cities
for a great variety of crimes. An ex-
tradition warrant was issued for him
at Bow street police station yesterday,
charging him with forgery in Cincin-
natl, where he operated extensively
under the name of Charles Fisher.
Saturday August FL.
Gen, Azcarraga was definitely ap-
4 pointed Premier of Spain. - =
Otto Miller's infant child died : at
Weehawken from mosquito bite. @~
Coli or Angiolillo, the Anarchist as
sassin of SPANS Premier, was put to
death.
President Mckinley attended the
meeting of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac in Troy.
Firing of rapid-fire guns off st. Au-
| gustine last night indicated that
warship was chasing a filibuster.
Commander Booth-Tucker has re-.
turned from England, and is believed
to bring with him Gln. Booths approx
al of his colonization scheme.
United States Commissioner Smith
writes from Dyea confirming the report
that trouble with Canadian officials is
i likely to break out in Klondike.
n A call was issued by the miners Of
/ ficials for a convention of organized
e labor to be held in St. Louis Aug. 80,
: when they will be asked to join issues
with the striking coal miners.
H. G. Blake, leader of the conspiracy
to abduct little Johnny Conway, was
captured in Schenectady and taken TO
: Albany, where he was saved from a
II mob by the courage of Mayor Thacher
and the police.
is President Mckinley has adopted the
policy of Gen. Grant towards Cuba,
d Washington advinces say, warning
, Spain that unless there is speedy amel-
ioration of the islands condition the
"a United States will intervene.
IA Monday, August 30. g.. +.
y Col George Bliss is seriously ill at
~ Wakefield, r. l..
One of four burglars who were rob-
a bling Canton (Ohio) bank was fatally
ne shot by night Waterman.
Probate Judge Seaver, of Woodstock,
81 VT, was shot, though possibly not ia
Is tally, by an angry litigant. s1"
!. President Mckinley, it is said, mas
): decided to appoint Congressman F. H
~ Wilson Postmaster IF BROOKLYN.
4 A sailboat containing several persons
was swept over the falls at. Niagara
IS and the occupants were drowned.
trolley car. crashed into a tally-ho
~ at Coney Island Fourteen persons
/ were injured. One of them will die.
4 New York Anarchists have retained
; counsel to prevent the exclusion Of
their fellows coming here from Europe.
The fishing smack S. B. Miller took a
= party of ten persons off the steam
\. yacht Adele, stranded near Swinburne
Island. @
Jailer Smith, at Kingston, was
awakened by one of his prisoners, who
had come to tell him that three others
had escaped.
A white man was lynched in Ken
lucky, another in Tennessee and ne
tgro in Georgia. The white men were
guilty of assault, the negro of murder.
Albert S. Warner was said to have
been in Newark the day after the little
Conway boy was kidnapped. The AL
! bany police believe he is in Ulster
county.
Tuesday; August "a.
Five thousand klondikers are stalled
at Skagua.
Mr.. Croker returned to London in
IeACelleuI nedltn.
The first of the seasons oyster crop
reached New York.
Former Police Captain Nathaniel H.
Mills, of New York city, was killed in
, a Harlem runaway accident.
y The French President was warmly
received in Russia blythe Car and de-
liriously cheered by the populace.
A. w. Faber, the lead pencil manu-
.acturer, was fined $4,000 by the Unit
I'd States Government for undertaking
imported pencils.
Millers advanced the price of flour
and bakers declared that if the wheat
kept up they would be forced to in
crease the price of bread.
II. o. Tanner, the American negro
artist was honored by the French Gov
0rnment, which purchased one of his
paintings for the Luxembourg gallery.
Mrs. Angel, who sued the Gould
estate, claiming to be the widow of
Jay Gould, confessed in a despatch to
Eeorge Gould that her claim is false
Two women who know Albert S.
/. Warner, the alleged chief of the kid
mapping conspirators, saw him at the
Grand Central Station in New York
city.
Two British forts in Northwest India