Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-10-02
NEWS DAY BY DAY.
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR A
WEEK CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
friday, September "a.

San Francisco received $3.50, 900
British gold from Australia for wheat
and fruit New York banks continue
to import gold.
Buffalo gas companies. bought by
New Workers for $5,000,0O0, will be re-
organized with $14OO0,O00 capital.
Mrs. o. s. Robinson was bound,
gagged, tortured with fire and then
robbed in her home near Fiddler's Ell
| bow, N. j., by three masked men.
James Kelly killed his father-in- law,
Charles Mead, in Ruenville, N. Y, af-
ter thrashing his son and clipping with
his daughter.
Drunami, the King of Benin, who has
been on trial at Benin City since Au-
gust Is last, with number Of his
leading chiefs, charged with being con-
cerned in the massacre of an unarmed
expedition under British Consul Phil
lips, has been condemned to be trans
porter to Calabar, a slave settlement
of British West Africa.
The Libertaire has been seized by the
police for publishing an article advo-
eating the assassination of President
Faure, King Humbert and the Queen
Regent OF Spain.
5atuAusyS SoptC"Ooh ~o'
Mrs. Langtry and Prince Esterhazy
will be married in California in Mo-
vember.
missing and probably dead as the re-
suit of landslide on the Dyea trail.
Alaska.
the First Presbyterian church, of Ny
ooly cd Of a1Oio Of tpe
heart In his 58th year.
A cablegram received at the State
Department in Washington from
United States Minister Stuart at Mon
tevideo, announces the proclamation OF
peace there.
More than half the village of New
por-Pagnell, Eng, has been destroyed
by fire. The flames consumed 40
matched cottages, with barns and
outbuildings, and $50 people are made
homeless.
John H. Stats, assistant manager Of
the Hotel Waldorf, New York city.
was arrested. In his many trunks and
boxes were found thousands of dollars
worth of valuables which had been
| missed from the hotel.
Prof. Lee Stevens made balloon as
censien at Niagara Falls. When about
5000 feet in the air his balloon explod-
ed. Stevens was hanging by his toes
| from a trapeze when the explosion oc>
| Cured. He quickly drew himself up,
| and while the collapsed bag was rush
ing downward, managed to detach his
| parachute and get clear from the bal
loon. He landed without scratch.
Monday, September FL.
n will ~
troll of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road by foreclosure in October
Captain-General Weyler has cabled
| request to the government to send
113 additional administrative officials
to Cuba.
The governments of Italy, Germany
and Austria are negotiating conven-
ton to refuse an asylum to fugitive
Anarchists.
Lieut.-Col, Dawson, well known il
Canadian military circles, dropped
dead while at dinner Sunday. He was
| about sixty years old.
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Der
| Crosse, from Bremen and Southampton
arrived in New York. She has broken
the westward record from Southamp.
ton to New York
It was reported in Staten Island that
the Whitney syndicate controlling the
electric road had bought the lease OF
the old Staten Island Railway from
the B. & o. Company.
The London Daily Mails laughs at the
report Of the Canadian expedition in
Hudson Bay hosting the British flag
over Bafin Land, to get ahead of the
Americans, and declares that the ter
ritory has long been a British posses
sion.
The declaration is made in Madrid
and is being generally circulated, that
the Spanish troops in Cuba have recap
tured Victoria De Las Tunas, which
was taken by the insurgents under
Calixto Garcia and Jesus Rabi, on Sep
TENDER 5.
Tuesday September 20.
Spanish official reports charge the in
surgents with all sorts of cruelty aftel
the capture of Las Tunas.
Sanford Jacob, of New York city
whose wife mourned him as dead TWEEN
ty-two years, has turned up alive.
George NJ Robson, Secretary of thu
Navy during both terms of Presiden
q Grant, died at his home in Trenton.
JOuu DOOChCI, living ACdl Val oii
}. Ia, killed his wife and five children
= and fatally wounded another child ant
= himself.
Three barns and their contents wer
burned by incendiaries near Coxsackie
Friday night. The loss on all will b
between $4,000 and $4,000.
II Minister Woodford called on tn
e Spanish Premier and said his intention
y was to promote friendly relations be
!, tween the United States and Spain.
u 1t is announced in London that Pre-
= mier Salisbury is agreeable to Beh
ring Sea conference, unless it be insist
ed that Russia and Japan be repre-
scented.
Milton Burns, son of wealthy fam
u lily of Passaic, married in Chicag
e Miss Minnie Carter, for three veal
n employed as cook by neighbor {
7 his family in Passaic.
The tugboat John A. Woods, froI
ir Troy to Brooklyn, was totally destroy
r ed by fire four miles south of Pougf
L. keepsie. The boat was valued at $25
IS 900 and was fully insured.
If Wednesday. September 80.
as Gen. Neal Dow is dying.
Bishop Potter is ill with the grip.
The Spanish Court returned to MAJ
N rid.
OF a party of 315 who migrated
Liberia last year half are dead and IL
remainder destitute.
y. Workmen began to change st. John