Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-08-13
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THURSDAY. AUG. 4.

the required cash, but who now deny
all knowledge of the transaction.
Letters state that prospectors between
Conner river and Cooks inlet, Alaska,
have abandoned their search for gold
and are locating coal claims. The
country is said to be one mass Of coal,
in which is claimed to be an excellent
quality Of Ignite.
one of the sureties on the $4,000 bond
of Lewis Warner to the Hampshire
Savings bank of Northampton has ma,
the statement that the bondsmen had
agreed to make fight before they would
settle with the receiver for the amount
of the bond.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5.
Samuel L. Black, mayor Of Columbus,
O.. was elected president of the League
of American Municipalities, and Mayor
Taylor of Bridgeport treasurer. Mayor
Ashley Of New Bedford is one Of the
three trustees.
President Mckinley and wife, from
nresent indications, will be the central
figures in the official reviewing stand
during the big parade of the Knights
Templar at the triennial conclave in
Pittsburg in October. About 10000 visit
ing TemplarS Will take part
The American society in London is
waging a campaign against the shop
keepers who are using the American
flag as a device to catch tourists dollars.
During this season London is overrun
with Americans. The society's COM
mittee visited the principal shops and
represented that such an exhibition Of
the national colors was distasteful.
In his argument before the Interstate
commerce commission in Chicago yes
terday, General Passenger Agent Eustis
of the Burlington road warned the Can
adam Pacific that, if 1T continued a
shotgun policy towards the American
roads, congress would intervene and
compel 1t to desist.
SATURDAY, AUG. 6.
Failures for the week have been 1876 in
the United States, against 237 last year
and q in Canada against 20 last year.
A passenger rate war that will affect
directly every fare in the west and in
directly half of the tariffs of the eastern
Monday the rate between Chicago, Min.
neapolis and st. Paul will be So. Tho
tariff is now $11.50.
'JNbA1, AOI. o.
The plans for Chicago's great peace
carnival, which is to be begun on Oct 8
and which will last two weeks, are about
completed, and will involve an expendi-
ture of at least 100000.
The Iselin- Morgan syndicate, which
successfully defended the America cur
with the Bristol-built yacht Defender
is to have another and much faster slooI
than the HerreShoffs have heretofore
| launched.
Kansas farmers feel that they owe
Spectator Letter of Chicago debt OF
| gratitude, and some of his most enthu
| siastic friends intend to express it in this
| substantial way. The people Of Kansas
| have invested more than $500 900 in gov
| eminent bonds within three months, anc
| of this the farmers In the Kansas wheat
| belt hold 100000.
MONDAY, AUG. 8.
Orange production of the Pacific coast
| this season has been the greatest in Cali.
| fornia's history.
The drought in Oklahoma was broker
| Sunday. Thunder storms and rain oc.
Cured in the lake regions, the Red rive
Of the south, middle and lower Missis
sippi and lower Missouri valleys, tn,
middle Rocky mountain slope and tn,
south Atlantic states.
memorial service, organized by tn
Berlin Bismarck committee, was heI,
Sunday. There was large attendance
The ceremony was impressive an
worthy of the occasion. Privy Coun
cillor Kahl, an old friend of the states
man, delivered an grafton in which h
referred to Prince Bismarck as 9Th
conscience O. the German people, heri
tage ever defended with our blood"
TUESDAY, AUG. 9.
An undertaken who went out fror
Halifax on the Hiawatha expresses tn
belief that some of the victims of tn
| Burguogne survived for days on piece
| of wreckage.
The weeks encampment of the Con
federate survivors of Pickett's divisio
and Union veterans Of the Philadelphia
brigade, at resort on the New Jerse
| side of the Delaware river, was formal.
opened Monday.
According to reports received by rail
way companies and business men TIL
largest wheat crop in the history of tn
United States will be harvested within
fortnight The winter wheat yield
which aggregates from $4,000, 900 t.
| 400 000 900 bushels, will be increased tt
the extent of nearly $50 900, 900 bushels
from the spring wheat region.
The official maps of the government
are declared to be incorrect. They>shoy
the Louisiana cession to extend beyont
the Rocky mountains and to include wha
are now known as Washington, Oregon
and parts of Montana, Idaho and Wyom
ing. Commissioner Hermann has rec
| commended that the new maps make TIL
Louisiana cessfon end at the Rock.
mountains, and his suggestion has beel
| adopted.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10.
Senator Kyle of South Dakota calle'
| on President Mckinley yesterday ant
| discussed plans of the new non-partisal
| Industrial commission. The presiden
| said the commission would be called to
| gether in the middle of September. Thu
| personnel of the commission is practical
| Nv determined, and will be announced
| when the call for the meeting is made.
The internal revenue receipts for thu
| first eight days of August, including on
Sunday. have been sS,03S, 499-more thai
twice what they would have been unde
tho old law. The internal revenue re
GENTS Yesterday were S1,697, $50. TIL
| customs receipts were only $542 59S, ant
have been "a, Ill, 623 during August. Elk
nenditures were S2,5900O0, of which
| $500 900 was for the war department ant
| $50 900 for the navy.
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