Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-05-01


Prince de Chlmay and NJ. Clemenceau
fought a duel in which both were
slightly wounded.
Lieut.. Edward Farrow, u. S. A., re-
tired, was arrested on warrant from
Pittsburg charging him with conspiring
to defraud the Mutual Reserve Fund
Life Association, of which he was SUI
perintendent in that city.
President Spalding, of the broken
Globe Savings Bank, of Chicago, could
nave avoided going to Jail had he con-
sented to throw over Miss Erwin, the
typewriter on whom he squandered
fortunes. He Indignantly refused to
do so.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, said
Cleveland's speech at the Reform Club
dinner was a bid for the Presidential
nomination in 1900 on a sound-money
and tariff-reform platform, adding
that 1t will have no effect. Chairman
Dlngley criticised Mr.. Wilson's speech,
told why the Republicans have pressed
the new tariff bill, and said he looked
Tor increased prosperity within the
year.
| Britain proposed that the Powers in
tervene in the Graeco-Turkish war.
France, Germany and Italy have agreed
to join in such action. The Greek Gov
eminent decided to prosecute the war
with more vigor herafter. There is
great depression in Athens and much
dissatisfaction with the Crown princes
method of warfare. Osman Pasha
reached Salonica and hurried on to the
front. He has secret orders from the
Sultan.
| Tuesday, April 81.
Gov. Griggs signed the Gledhill bill
which forces railroads in New Jersey
to carry bicycles as baggage.
| The baseball season opened in New
York with a game between the Giants
and the Washingtons. The game was
a tie.
| The general store of H. H. Snyder at
Johnstown, Columbia county, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
President Mckinley nominated W. R.
Day, of Ohio, for First Assistant Sec
rotary of State, and Bellamy Storer, of
Ohio, for Minister to Belgium.
Word was received that 600 Greeks
were coming from Chicago and Boston
to join the 200 who will sail from New
York to join King Georges army this
week.
1t is understood that the govern
nents of Chilli and Brazil have entered
INTO an allegiance with view to guar
anteeing the maintenance of peace in
South America.
Col. Jos. H. Gray, of Pittsburg, died
at the Harrisburg hospital of apoplexy
He was taken i'll while en- route from
Pittsburg to New York, as a guest O
the Fourteenth Regiment, N. G. P. HI
died thirty minutes after being admit
ted to the hospital.
A London despatch repeats a rumol
attributed to Tyrnavos that Grown
Prince Constantin has fled to Volo
A Greek Cabinet crisis is expected il
, consequence of the excitement. Trik
hala was evacuated by the Greeks. TIL,
f Turks are fortifying Larissa. A pani
was reported in Janina
Wednesday, April 20.
: Justin Mccarthy is believed to b
,, dying.
+ Fire did 100000 damage to pier
: and shipping at Newport News, Va.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary was cordially received by tn
: | SZdl dI oL
A syndicate of rich yachtsmen
about to build big cutter in Irelan
| to compete for the Americas Cup.
There were popular demonstration
at Athens against the conduct of tn
throned. The Greek cause is believe
by it's best friends to be lost.
The Pennsylvania ferry-boat Wash
| t,or ba1 fho n
Cortlandt street slip New York, an
her 1000 passengers, thrown into heap
greeted the mishap with laughter an
; cheers.
In spite of the bitter north wind
million people watched and cheere
the $4,000 men who marched in tn
Grant parade. Many of those VIII
built grand stands lost money, thou
sands of seats, even at low prices, no
being occupied.
The French fishing vessel Vaillan
crashed into an iceberg on the Gran
Banks, off Newfound. and, and only fou
members of her company of seventy
four reached port. Of seven men VIII
escaped from the sinking vessel in
little dory and spent twelve days in tn
open sea without food or clothing, tw
died and were thrown overheard, an
a third died and was eaten by the fou
, survivors, who were picked up mani
acs.
Thursday, April 80.
William J. Deboe, sound money Re
publican, was elcted United States
Senator from Kentucky.
Forty-one persons were reported
killed by hail in Mexico, some of the
stones weighing over three pounds
each.
John Stahlnecker, of Seneca Falls
N. Y, was burned to death in a fire
which occurred in the fourth floor o.
the Golden block.
A freight engine on a branch o.
the Staten Island railroad ran into {
stage loaded with workmen, and l:
of the men were injured.
An early morning fire in Brooklyn
fiat cost the lives of two women ant
two children, while the men of thei
families escaped with little difficulty
w. ]. Calhoun, of Danville, ILL.,, wa!
chosen by President Mckinley as spe
cial Commissioner to Cuba to investi
gate the cases of American prisoner.
there.
The Prince of Wales, United State!
Ambassador Hay and Lady Randolph
Churchill were among the audienc
that attended the opening Of Beerbohn
Trees new theatre in London.