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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19
BUSINESS NOTICES.

TLosT-Friday, January IA, in the
Square. pair of gold frame eyeglasses.
The finder will please leave them at the
TIMES office and will be suitably rewarded.
II For SALE-Lunch room on Rocking
ham street, Bellows Falls; reasons for sell
ing. other business.
TLosT-Snnday afternoon. on road from
Walpole to Alstead via Cold River road to
Drewsville bv billroad. to the subscribers
home by Walpole Valley road, large red
cape, the hood lined with black silk. F. M
GILBERT, Walpole, N. H.
TFoR SALE-One new thorough
bred mich Jersey COW five years old. Es-
pecially adapted to family use. H. H.
DAVIS.
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A Lively OF Year.

There will be an unusually large amount
of politics to the square inch in Vermont
this year even if it is an of year. Follow
ing the local elections in March the cam
paign fer other positions will begin in ear
nest. The succeeding contests will in
volve the election of governor and COM
plete list OF state officers, two congress
men aud county officers besides members
OF both houses of the legislature. Then
will come the election of a United States
senator, inasmuch as Senator Proctor's
term will expire next year, and the dis
posal the different positions within the
gift of the new governor or legislature,
including the election of Judges OF the su-
preme court, the appointment of commits
sion' and the fling of various other i'm
portant positions. Under the circum-
stances the Vermont politician will have
little opportunity to complain of monotony
in lS98.-Free Pr, IS.
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Big Fire 10 Barre.

Never in the history of Barre has it ex.
early Tuesday morning, when property
amounting to the value of more than $780,
600 was destroyed. The opera house block
and the occupants of the block, r S Cur
rier & Co NJ L. Towne & Co., the city
clerks office, the city liquor agent, and
the postoffi e, were all burned out.
The total amount of insurance on the
buildings and the property therein was
$50 900, of which the city had Sl6 600 or
the building; X S Currirr & Co.. &c.
600 on sock and fixtures; NJ. l.. Tuwne
& Co, 5000 on stock and fixtures, and
Frank New horter 500 on personal prop
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19

Mrs. }, G. Days condition is much i'm.
proved. although she still suffers intensely
from her burns. Little Dorothy Day is
stopping in Alstead with her Grandmother
Jewett.
The following is from the Enosburg
Standard last week, paper published at
Enosburg Falls: News was received
here last Monday morning of the sudden
death on Sunday afternoon, January 8,
from heart failure Of Loan A. Fassett at
his home in St. Louis, Mo. Mr.. Fassett
was fifty years Of age last October. and
was the eldest son OF Mr.. and Mrs. George
Fassett OF this place. He left home 20
years ago, going to Bellows Falls, where
he remained four years. From there he
went to St. Louis where he secured lu-
crative position as book-keeper in large
type foundry establishment, which same
position he held at the time OF his death
Eleven years ago he married Miss Nellie
Brown of Bellows Falls, who survives lin.
Their only child died in infancy. Mr.Fas-
sett and his wife came east last November,
and made his parents pleasant two weeks
visit, remaining over Thanksgiving. He
leaves brother, d. L. Fassett, now living
in Boston. Funeral services were held in
St. Louis Wednesday afternoon" The
remains reached Enosburg Falls last Satur-
day, and the funeral there was held Sun
day afternoon.
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Some RumOrs.

The fact that the contract for lighting
the streets of Bellows Falls expires next
August l has brought to the surface a
rumor that the Westminster Electric COM
pany may be heard from. This company
was incorporated by the last legislature,
the incorporators being George O.Guild, B.
B. Wetberbee, C X. Labaree, P. ii. Hadlsy,
George III Guild, F "A. Bodies. III. w .Thomp-
son and Sidney Gage. The act of incor-
poration provides that the first meeting of
this corporation shall be holden at such
time and place as the above named may
agree uprn. ard it is reported 'ha. q meet
ing for organization will be called in the
near future. Everything at present is too
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Death of Col. 6. B. Stought0n.

Col. Charles B. Stoughton, native O.
this place, died of consumption Monday al
the Soldiers Home in Bennington where
he had been tor about month. The body
will reach here today and the funeral wi
be this afternoon with burial in the Epis
copal cemetery. Stoughton post will act
as escort.
The deceased was the son OF Henry E.
Stoughton and brother of Gen. E. H
Stoughton and was 81 years Of age. His
var record was brilliant one fer be was a
gallant soldier. He was adjutant of the
18th regiment and was promoted to be
major, lieutenant colonel and colonel
Alter the war he was associated with his
uncle, Gen E. W. Stoughton, in the prac-
tice of law IN New York city. His wife
survives him, and at least two Chi dren who
live with their mother in New Haven, CT
There is also a sister, Mrs. Bell, who
lives in Boston.
Col. Stoughton enlisted as adjutant in
the 4th regiment in September, 1861, was
made major in January, 1862, lieutenant
colonel in july, 1862. and succe eded bis
Irother as colonel OF the regiment in No
vember, 1862; it is said he was the young
est colonel in the army at that time. He
was wounded, losing ali eye, at Funks-
town, Md, July 10, 1868. just after the
battle of Gettysburg. He was discharged
from service February 2, 1864, and was
brevetted brigadier general, United States
volunteers, for meritorious services. In
the early seventies he owned tie Tucker
place now owned by Mrs. Hetty II. r.
Green, and used it as q summer residence.
At the funeral this afternoon Rev. Mr..
Hale of Claremont, Episcopal rector in
Bellows Falls at the time Mr.. Stoughton
lived here, will officiate. The bearers, all
members of the Fourth regiment. will be
George NJ Rogers of Alstrad. III W.Huich-
ias, of Ballows Falls, John w. Gravfs of
Sax,oas River and Col. II. E. Taylor OF
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PERSONALS.

Miss Mabel Goodhue of Westminster
West resumed her school duties Monday.
DR.. f. l., Osgood of Townshend called
upon friends here yesterday.
w. IL. Aldrich of Wolteboro, N. H.,
was in town yesterday.
Albert Lawrence of Grafton called on
his 'usin, Mrs. Emma Sargent, Tuesday.
Howard Parker of St, Johnsbury was in
Bellows Falls Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Welch are in
New York.
Miss Grace Brown was at her home in
Troy, N H., over Sunday.
Miss Ellie Ball OF West Concord, VT, is
stopping with her broth, +, Il. II. Ball.
Herbert Farr returned to West Burke
Monday.
George Roland and F. L. Thompson
lett Saturday Tor the Klondike via New
York.
Misses Cara and May Baldwin of Win
chester, Mass, are guests of Miss Fann.
Chapman.
Miss Josephine Kennedy and Thomas
Kelley OF Rutland passed Sunday at John
KeIl-y's.
George Dutton Of Springfield stopped
over night with w. A. Sargent on his way
to North Carolina.
w. A. Puffer and wife of South Wind.
ham made flying visit to this place, s. op.
ping at her sisters, Mrs. w. A. Sargent's
Mrs. A. F. Durkee, who has been visit
ing her son, M. A. Durkee, returned tc
her home in Sheldon Monday.
Mrs. George H. Evans suffered a'paral
ytic shock yesterday, and her condition i,
considered critical
Mark l.. Beardsley of Montpelier, gen
eral agent of the Connecticut Building ant
Loan association, is in town in the Interest,"
OF his company.
F. B. Phelps, who has been confined t.
the house the past six weeks with nervous
prostration, has been able to ride out
little Tor the first time within the past few
days.
E. H. Hildreth, special agent of tn
Springfield Fire and Marine Insuranc
company, was in town Monday, as wa
also William H.. Hellyar of Boston, specia
agent of the Fire Association of Philadel
phia.
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Great Strike In New England cotton Mills.

Monday morning great strike in the
New Eng and cotton mills was inaugurated
| 16, 475 operatives in % mills refusing to &C
to work when the whistles and bells sum.
none them to labor. These mills are 10.
Gated in New Bedford, Fall River, Bidde.
ford. Lewiston, Burlington and Fitchburg
The first day of the strike was quiet
There was no violence and no disturbance,
except in New Bedford, where an obnox,
ious superintendent and his escort of police
were pelted with clods and pebbles, and
where the glass windows of one mill were
smashed bv stones thrown by boys. A de-
cidedly ugly undertone, however. was man.
fest. The strike is the outcome of re-
duction in the wages of abont 125, 1000
operatives employed in nearly $50 cotton
mills in New England, which the manu-
facturers decided upon as temporary
remedy for the widespread depression in
the cotton goods industry of the north
This reduction went into effect Monday,
and in sevt RAJ mill centers intense dissatis-
fiction is felt BY the operatives. The cut
amounts to 10 per cent in many places, but
in several cpnt.rs it is l 19 per cent and
even higher, while in few small mi Is it is
only about 5 per cent. 1t is estimated
that the reduction means loss of $50 900
a week to the wage Gamer in The six
states, and the strikes in the various cent. rs,
if they 40 not terminate within short time,
viii largely swell this amount
The Queen City mills in Burlington are
closed on account of strike which fol-
lowed the posting of notices OF reduction
in wages
Overproduction, the keen competition OF
the south, low prices, and generally de-
moral;z d cotton goods market are said to
be leadiog causes which are assigned for
the attack on the wage schedule MANY
manufacturers claim that d crease in the
cost of prediction will greatly improve the
situation of ke' pi G the mills running dur
ing the winter months at least, the obi &c
tons to a shutdown being based on the
theory that it would have no other effect
than to increase the production in the
south
The New Bpdfud strikers will be sup
ported financially by the operatives in
other centers, aud it is said are prepared
to held out until spring The national or
ganiz itians OF the textile unions are also
supporting the New Bedford strike.
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embryonic for any one, even those most
intimately connected with the enterprise
to speak with any de6niteness. However,
there is talk to the effect that the Burlng-
ton gentlemen, who at present have all
rights OF the|Belows Falls and Saxtons,River
Railway company, arc willing to contrac,
for certain amount of power aud that il
this contract is made the Westminster COM
pany will b. in the market for electricity
for street ard house lighting, Whether
any OF these rumors materialize remains to
be seen.
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The Coming Production of "My Friend fror
India"

India
The theatre goers of Bellows Falls have
long been clamoring for a peek at the farce
that has made so emendous success not
only in the principal cities, but through bout
the country, my Fri. nd from India >
Most assure d]y Everything comes to those
who watt" for not only is this larghable
comedy billed at the oyera house, the even
irg OF Friday, January 81, but it is to be
played by almost the CT ginal Ne~ York
company headed by Walter E Perkins,
the comedian, f r whom the piece was
written. Mr.. Perkins and the author, H.
A. DuSouchet, have been fast friends for
many years and after persistent urging,
the actor finally prevailed on the play
wright to put his best thoughts on paper
and to write farce that exactly suited this
remarkably able comedian. This Du-
Souchet did and when it was prod iced in
New York it met with instant approval. 1t
used up all the time that could BE- allotted
to thu work at no less than three Metropol-
tan p'ayhouses running in all $50 nights,
when it was sent to Boston and Philad-l-
phia for extended eng ,gemens, only to
me ct with the same favorable criticisms.
Tbe,> ophv has been chosen by the author
as his theme ard poor, unpretentious bar
Der, Keene Shaver, gets woefully
mixed and circums ances and the author
combine to keep the audience in one lorg,
continuous roar, while at the same time the
production is refined to its finger tips" so
TO speak. The cast contains among others
Kenyon Bishop, Mena Ring, Lucele Mel
son, Helen Lee, Emily Wakeman, George
Pounce f,rt, Fred Mower, John Terress
Irving Williams, making in all, it is said,
one Of the strongest companies sent into
New England in many seasons.
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Amelia B. Locke Estate.

STATE or VERMONT The Probate Court
Westminster, IS. for said District, To
all per ons interested In the estate of Amelia
b. ocke. late OF Rockingham, In said dis
trict, deceased. GREETING
Whereas, Foster b. Locke has pre.
sented to this Court an Instrument pur.
porting t" be The last Will of said deceased,
for probate:-You are hereby notified that
this court will decide upon the probate of
said Instrumen at the >ession thereof to he
hell at the Probate Office in Bellows Falls,
In said District, on the 9th day II February,
A. ID 1898, when and where you may appear
and contest the same, If you SIZE ause.
ZINA ii. ALBEE, Register.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19
Local Markets.

Bellows Falls retail prices to-day
January 10, ranged as follows:
Eggs, 80 and 25 cts.
Butter, 25 and ~ cts.
Cheese, lac. Sage, 10.
New potatoes 95 cents bushel.
Flour, 1915 and So 25
Sugar, 18 lbs. for 81.
Pork, 4 l-2 cts, purchasing price.
Chicken. Is cts.
Fowl, Is cts
Corn, Al to A cts.
Corn meal. 70 to SO cts.
Mixed feed IS TO 95 cts.
Bran, 80 and IS cts.
Middlings, 80 TO 81.
Hav. $15 to S17 baled.
Oats, "a to Sc cts.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19
Notice 10 Advertisers

Copy for changes in advertisements should
reach this office on Mondays and Thursdays.
No CHI nge reaching this office later than A.
NJ. on Tuesdays and Fridays will be gnaran.
teed insertion in the Wednesdays and Sat
urdays issues respectively.
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THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY JAN. 10, 1898,
New Advertisements This Week.

Ice Tools-Norwood 4 FL Id,
s 'appy Rarg 'ins--J. II, keefe.
Slipper Sa'e-Dunham Bros.
sale of Muslin tI"derwear-Wales Cash store
slippe,s-H. Richsrdsou.
Night Gowns--New York Racket.
Bargains-J j. Fenton n Co.
Cash Sale--W. Dnoham.
Thew are Coming-The City Market.
Additional Sale-J. g, Day \ Co.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19

II the whole ocean was dried up, all the
rivers Of the world would have to pour
their waters into its basin forty thousand
years before it would again be full.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19

As there are no gold democrats in the
Ohio legislature, it is rather difficult to
understand how gold democratic fusion
is to be accomplished.
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8nr,t.

In Westminster, January 9, q son to Mr..
and Mrs. O. X. Howe.
In Gassetts, January 7, son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Hickory.
In Gassetts, January 10, daughter to Mr..
and Mrs. j. Batteese.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-19

1t must cost Mr.. Hanna a pretty sum to
pay for brass bands required to run those
Ohio indignation meetings.
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F or Instance

We certain window days ago Jacket marked s17
reduced IS We have the identical
$3.50
eence So always question of discount but the
actually
when the largest discount that you actually highest
Remember, the easily
pfrstif sod dispose
We will sell Garment stock cheaper than buy
for 81 3d. Prizes will
All Elder Down Cloaks a Just price,
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]. C. DAY & co.'s,
Additional Stock
aking Bargains ali! $. -. :, !,
Enx tho noxt 10 dc

pieces all linen Barnsey yards $780, yards
25c.
pieces all linen Barnsley Crash, IL yards for ST. co.
pieces fast color Turkey Red Damask, 39c,
All odd pieces best Bates Turkey Red Damask, always &c.,
closing a 39c
Half Beached Table special bargains 80 30 and So
Bleachd Table DamaSk, values TO-
Best Bates Ginghap,s &c.
10 best Seersucker Ginghams
Ladies' Chidrens Union
39c.
Bows heavy 29c Underwear, all Sizes
doz. Ladies' 25c Wool Hose
A few Outing Pattern Suits
outing flannel Underski, all
now
Chld's Wool Toques cheap
Fur Trimmings marked
Feather Boas, IA yd long, DOC.
All Fur Feather BoasC
Bargains N Lined
Corduroy Waists, sizes "a and &c. 81 90,
Hoods and Fascinators about half price.
Fancy Ribbons, were nov
Of So 80 Separate Dress Suits,
Figured Dress Suits, interned, S. nov 50 IS.
Brocad Satin Dress Skirts, $780,
6 90; were $780, 90.
doz Faneete Wrappers colors Indigo Blue and Black all Sizes
80 to A, ST.
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.. -.,, cure nausea indigestion,
Hoods Pills biliousness. Price 25c.
BlakeIy after the Eastern Trade.

The Port Blakely Mill Co.'S mill
the largest cargo mill in the worlds
pretty busy at present on foreign bus
iuess, and indications point to sue
cessful year, notwithstanding the
dull coastwise demand and the war
with Spain. The company is ship
ping on the average 100000 feet of
lumber per month, destined to all
parts of the world.
The company is laying out a fine
yard on the south side of the mill for
the purpose of going into the eastern
trade. The lumber is conveyed on
ball-bearing trucks to the yard and
piled according to sizes. In the alleys
are placed rails aud the lumber from
the mill is switched to the different To-
cations. The track is now being lev
eled to the gridiron and will be equip
ped with heavy standard gauge rails.
A scow has been completed, with three
tracks, and capable of holding
nine cars. At the American Lumber
and Shingle Co.'S plant, Seattle, grid
iron has been placed, and as required
the empty cars are taken from the
railroad track onto the gridlron and
thence onto the scOw, to be hauled by
tug to the big mill. When loaded
the cars Will lie returned to Seattle and
thence forwarded east. The company
will put in a big planning mill and dry
kiln for the eastern trade. The first
eastern order placed came from Wal
worth and Neville, of Bay City, Mich,
and consists of 100000 feet of tele-
graph cross arms. This is, it is under
stood, only an experimental order, as
far as the Port Blakely Mill Co. is con-
cerned WalwOrth and Neville are
said to be the largest telegraph cross
arm manufacturers in the Uuited
States, but have found, as others, that
fir cross arms are the best in the mark
ct. 1t is said that the order may
reach 100000 feet, but of course
that depends entirely upon the sue
cess of the first venture. as far as the
mill company is concerned.
The company contemplates making
broom handles out of fir, proposition
from New York firm now being un-
der consideration. This will utilize
good deal of waste material, but it is
question as yet whether freigh: rates
will be low enough to cover the article.
Pacific Lumber Trade Journal.
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Some UNLIMITED Spanish Guests.

PORTSMOUTH, N. III. July lO-The
auxiliary cruiser st. Louis, with TAG
Spanish prisoners, including fifty-four
officers, arrived in Portsmouth Harbor
at 8 80 o'clock this morning. The big
liner left Guantanamo at 6 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, July 5, and did not
make stop until she dropped anchor
in Portsmouth Harbor. Including
the prisoners there were 1.O36 people
on board the boat, and out of this
number there are ninety-one sick and
wounded Spaniards under the care of
surgeons. Admiral Cervera is confined
to his cabin, having been quite iii for
the past three days, although he was
able to be dressed this morning. Capt.
Eulate, who was commander of the
Vizcaya, and is among the prisoners,
is also quite i'll, having been wounded
in the head during the battle off San
tiagO.
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drought in that state which has ne.
cessitated the importation OF bread
stuffs from Washington, and it is prob
able that greater portion of Califor.
MAS breadstuffs will be taken from
the same source this coming year
owing to the crop failures in the south.
ern state, Washington supplies Cali.
fornia with the coal, lumber, and oats
With the addition of wheat and flour
this state will supply nearly every.
thing used in California except fruit
and climate, and these can be had in
case of further failure in the Golden
State.-Tacoma Ledger.
CASToRTA.
Bears the HThe Kind You Have Always Bought
''s, :; &ezzzzZzzM
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The KlOndikerS' Return.

SAN Francisco, July 1O.-The
schooner Hattie | Phelps, came INTO
port this morning. just after midnight,
from st. Michael, with twenty passen-
gers from st. Michael, from the Yukon
rlacers at Munook, Circle City aud
Dawson. On account of the rumOrs
of war the passengers had taken the
precaution to bring little of the
gold dust washed out during the win
ter and spring months with them on
the Phelps, preferring to carry drafts
to cover their immediate needs and
await the arrival of the fist river
steamer from the Upper Yukon.
The Hattie | Phelps sailed from
Dutch HarbOr and reached ST. Michael
June IL, just as the ice went out Of
the mouth of the Yukon. The season
opened two weeks earlier than usual
and none OF the river boats had yet
arrived from the river camps. The
schooner's passengers came down the
river in small boats, following close
after the moving ice. The list OF pas
sengers includes the names of William
Shorter and Orlin Stanhope, of Shell
ton. 1t is certain that the men on
the Phelps brought out over 5000 in
dust, while drafts surely call for much
larger amounts.
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The Oregon a Coast Product.

All the material for the construction
and armament of the Oregon came
from the western states. The iron
mines of California, Oregon, Washing
ton, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mex
leo supplied the crude metal which
was a'terward converted into steel for
the hull, great strips of arrnor and
ponderous castings for the guns. The
big battleship was built by the Union
lron Works, San Francisco. On her
trial trip an average of 1879 knots
was ma ntained and II, Ill horsepower
was developed, gill in excess of the
contract.
In SIZE the Oregon is only surpassed
by ore ship in the navy-the Iowa.
The displacement of the Pacifc-born
monster is 10,2SS tons. The excess
WEI Mt If lhe Iowa come from her
high decks, which are supposed to
make her .Aore seaworthy. When the
Oregon Was constructed she was in
tended for coast service, her designers
never thinking of a record breaking
cruise equa, 20 more than half the dis
lance around the earth's surface. The
Oregon is supplied with bunkers that
give her coal capacity of 1884 tons.
This ena1ies her to steam $500 miles
without rccosling. The Oregon's COM
plement Of men numbers 473. Her
armor is divided as follows: Belt. IS
inches; deck q inches; barbettes, II
inches; turrets, Is inches; easements.
q inches. The main battery of the Ore
gon consists of four 13-inch, eight s.
inch and four slow. fire 6-inch guns.
This outfit is not surpassed by any bat
tleship in the world. The supplement-
airy rapid-fire battery consists of twen-
ty 6-pounders, six 1-pounders, four
Gatlings, two field guns and three tor
pedo tubes.-Whatcom Blade.