The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-04-29

sued by the resident-Fletcher Manu-
featuring company of Providence offers
enlisting employees $3.50 each-Hayti to
forbid the sale of coal to Spain-Ev-
dence presented in the Mildred Brewster
case in Montpelier, VT, to show that she
knew what she did when she killed
Annie Wheeler-F. A. Pierce, aged 49,
Worcester Mass, boollkeeper, inhaled
gas with suicidal intent and died.
MONDAY, APRIL 25.
j. b. Thomas of Brookline, Mass, %
years, killed himself in New York with
gas because he could not join the army
owing to a weak heart-T. II. Smith,
insane from illness and loss of sleep, put
a bullet into his temple in Montclair N.
J-Three men asphyXiated in a Colo
RADIO mine during a fire-Martial law
proclaimed in Porto Rico, and Americans
in danger-Pilgrimage of Irsh-Ameri-
cans to Ireland abandoned on account of
the war--NeW Bedford weaVers voted
to surrender-BOston to have an
emergency corps of 1000 from the street
department to serve in home defense
Annie COnnors, IL years, badly
burned in Lawrence while using kero-
sene in starting a ffre-Fishing schoon-
err Alice of Provincetown, Mass, de-
stroyed by fire in Liberia, where she
went on an experimental voyage-Two
men burned to death near Pittsburg
while asleep in shanty-Four-s story
building in st. Louis ruined by fire at
.oss of $50 0OO-Naval brigade of Massa-
chusetts objects to enlisting in the regu-
lar navy because of the effect upon the
organization-E. G.. Allen, superinten-
dent of the Old Colony system, resigned
his successor being a New York man
Catboat capsized in Boston harbOr and
one of four men droWned-No accom-
mOdations in Brooklyn navy yard for
housing the naval brigade of Massa-
chusetts, and quarters secured on a Fall
River liner-ThOmas Murray lost his
life in a fire in a South Boston stable
and Is horses also perished-Mr. Glad
stone condition WOrse-Man who gave
his name as X. Nixon committed suicide
by taking poison in a Turkish bath par
Ior in BOstOn-John Fl. Chance, charged
with the murder of a Boston druggist
intimates that a friend Of his may have
con mitted the crime-Vessel captures
by the American fleet number seven,
five steamers and two sailing craft
TUESDAY, APRIL 26.
Patrick Margin crushed to death in
Boston by a brewery WagOn-E. l..
Morse of Hartford killed himself with
a bullet-Dispute over Alaskan bOun-
Diary likely to be left to arbitration
Boston electric cut off the legs of a girl
II years od-Manchester Manufacture
ing company to suspend operations May
l for an indefinite periOd-Torpedo
boat Somers at Falmouth Eng, wait
ing for a creW-Captain of British
steamer arrested in Havana as an
American spy, but released after SEN
tence of d ath had ben passed
Vreeland q AylesWOrth, shoe dealers IN
three cities in Rhode Island. failed with
liabilities of $4,000 and assets of $4,000
Secretary Sherman resigned, as did
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary
of the navy, who proposes to participate
in the war against Spain-NeW York
clergyman says there are 10000, 900 jim
goes in the country-Lighthou to be
made into signal statiOns-Many Bos-
ton ships and cargoes now on the high
seas-Spansh vessels already seized
will be held despite protests-Captain
Sigsbee challenged to fight a duel by a
Spanish ofIicer-F. A. SissOns, until re-
Gently cashier of national bank in
Iona, Mich, arrested on a charge of en-
bezzling large sum-Confagra in
Glasgow causes a loss of about a million
Boston aldermen want legislative
permission to borrow $500, 900 beyond the
debt limit for emergency purposes
w X BOOZE and two sons killed near
Lonoke, Ark, in a fractional fight
Spanish fleet at Cape Verde islands moth
fed by Portugal to quit-President op-
posed to guards about the White House
Sexton, billardist, dropped dead in
New York-Boston priest presented
$4,000 by his cOngregatiOn-Be Believed
that Polo, Du Bose and their tools are
Matching Spanish plots in Canada, and
that unless they leave soon the United
States will demand their expulsion from
British soil--Queen Christina makes
tic but useless personal appeal to
the royalties of Europe for a European
reciprocal alliance against America
Committee on taxation of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature submits an adverse
rep m the recommendations of the
sp mmisslon on revision OF taxa
ito Patrick HALEY of Boston
convicted of manslaughter-Cam
bridge superintendent of streets to be
dismissed by the mayor-Man found
dead under suspicious circumstances in
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 81.
J. B. Guillemaine of Lewiston, Me,
under arrest in st. Hyacinthe, Que, for
murder, escap ed-TWo brothers hanged
in Somerset, Pa, for killing a farmer
Two Of the Hamburger American com
pany's vessels bought for the govern
ment-G. w. Baker, Boston negro, ac-
eused of cutting his wife's throat through
jealousy cable reDairers drowned
near Lowell-Portuga promises neu-
trality-England officially proClaims
neutrality-W. ]. Bryan may volunteer
as a private Virginia negroes show a
loyal and patriotic spirit-Few steam
ship lines on the southern coast given
up-Prominent Canadians at ottawa
applaud a speech by the United States
cOnsul-Former premier of Italy,
Crispi, says the war means the end of
Spain-President Adams of the uni
versity of Wisconsin urges the students
to organize and drill--Spain may get
into trouble with England and Germany
if she exercises the right of search
Queen regent of Spain appeals personally
to all the sovereigns of Europe for inter
vcntion-An authority on International
law says the United States has the right
to cut cables to Cuba-W w. Martin,
salesman for a Burlington COMPANY