The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-04-29
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY, APRIL q.

and killed-Office of Lawyer Stafford IN
Mars Hill, Me-, nearly destroyed by gun
powder placed in the chimney by a ms
creant-Envelope contract for the ma
tional government given to Holyoke'
Mass company for four years
Engineer Of a California train killed
after MORALLY wounding a burglar dur
ing a holdup-Blanche Leslie ~,
Providence domestic, fractured her Skull
by falling Wnstairs-Spurgeon
tabernacle in London consumed--J +.
Peters. 26, slashed his wife horribly at
their home in Boston-Telesphor
Gagnon, proprietor of a hotel in Berlin,
N. H., died of pistol wounds caused by a
man to whom he refused to sell liquor
MARY Pierce fatally burned in Leices-
ter. Mass, in using kerosene on fire
TWENTY-FIVE armed members of a col
ored regiment forced Key West sheriff
to ltberate a sergeant who had been ar
rested after a fight with a policeman
Tinted States officially announces 1t
will not resort to priVateering-Sp
ish minister at Washington receives his
passport and leaves-Bram found
guilty in Boston without death penalty
of Herbert Fuller murders--New Bed
ford strikers abandoned the fines issue
and seeking a compromise on the reduc-
tion-Bulet supposed to be intended
for Catherine Mccarthy of Lowell
lodged in the shoulder of John McCabe
when discharged by her lover, Cornelius
O'Mahany.
FRIDAY, APRIL %.
Joseph Raggio, so years. shot himself
in the heart in Boston--Yale students
in New York studying slums and Grim
inals-Madrid paper recommends the
expulsion of all foreigners, especially the
correspondents for American papers
A. J. Holt of Lynn appointed pension
agent in Boston as successor to Colonel
LoVering-CharIes Hobbs, 35 years,
killed in West Ossipee, N. H., by
section of a bridge truss falling on him
!. H. Chance, supposed to have killed
a drug clerk in Boston, under arrest
Hay storehouse of the Taylor Good
win company of Haverhill burned at
loss of $7000-Thousand barrels of lime
on the Ella May of Rockport, Me-, afire
in ce-Postmaster General
Gary resigned on account of sickness
and succeeded by Editor Smith of the
Philadelphia Press-Senator Walthall
of Mississippi died of pneumonia in
shington-Edward Walker, 18 years
old. hurt fatally in AttleborO, Mass, by
the accidental discharge of a pistol
Ways and means committee decides not
to tax tea or coffee in raising revenue
for war Employees of the
Philadelphia Railway and Coal and Iron
company promised their places and pay
if they eniist-American fleet ordered
to Havana-W. n. Boggs, late pay
ing teller of the First National bank of
Dover, Del, when arraigned on a charge
of embezzling the funds Of the bank to
the extent of $1O7 900, pleaded guilty
ConflagratiOn in BellefOntaine, Pa,
caused a loss of 500. 0Q0---Report that
England has proposed a convention for
the creation of a new treaty with the
United States-Majority Of Republic
cans on the house committee on banking
and currency reached an agreement to
vote. for the general currency bill
New Bedford operatives strike practi-
cally thing of the past-Denver and
Rio Grande road may establish agencies
in China and Japan--New York eX-
porters favor a proposition to establish
a United States and Venezuelan trad
ing ompany--Mayor Van Wyck of
New York. by his policy of retrench-
1nent, brought about a complete cessa-
ton of public work-Boundary dispute
between Hayti and San Domingo to be
settled amicably.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20.
William Jarvis, father of American
cricket, killed in Germantown, Pa, by
a train--Four train robbers captured
at ORC Grande, Cal--Dr. John r. Hatch
of Centerville, N. H, indicted for uxori-
cide-Intense anti-Semtc feeling in
Algiers-Plebiscite on the question of
prohibition to be held in Canada-Col
onel Charles Robert Shervinton, Eng
lish soldier of fortune, committed sui
eide DISQUALIFICATION correspondent
of the New York Journal declares that
no alliance between the United States
and Great Britain is contemplated
Burning accident at Lexington, Mass,
results in death for Edward Bettison and
Injuries for his wife-Michael J. Gar
Vey Boston brakeman, instantly killed
Two residents of Chenille, Conn,
struck on a bridge in POrtchester, N.
Y. by an engine and killed--Attempt
made in Tolosa, Spain, to arrest Min
lister Woodfords private secretary, of
Spanish birth and of British natural
izatfon, but the minister's threat of
British vengeance deferred the sting
I,arty-Infernal machine sent o the
president-Mrs. Worthy Parker beaten
with a blackjack in a suburb of Lowell
by a highwayman-ShOe factory of
Knowles & Poole in Pittsfield, N. H.,
closed by local creditors and all stock re-
moved-Paris editor refers to John
Bull and Brother Jonathan as brothers
in lnfamy"-Beieved in Falmouth,
Eng, that one of the cruisers bought
abroad, the Diogenes, foundered in
collision with a bark April 19-State of
blockade of Cuba announced by Presi-
dent Mckinley.
SUNDAY, APRIL "a.
Fire in Pennington, Me, destroyed
FIVE buildings and much lumber at a loss
Of SIC, OO0-Millinery store in North At
tleboro, Mass, robbed of stock and
money aggregating $7O0-Norman
Winchester, Is years, killed in London
derry, Vt, by batted ball-Commit-
tee of the Ohio senate which investigated
the charges of bribery in connection with
the election of Senator Hanna reports
having found evidence of a conspiracy
to corrupt legislators-Ric l.. l.,
boy of ii killed by the explosion of toy
cannon while playing war-Kansas
Grand Army desires the removal o. Pen
sion Commissioner Evans and the Sc
lection of somebody who will execute
,,D,r1av7ra with the trnp