The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-07-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.


The yellow fever situation at Santiago,
Cuba, continues to improve.
The anniversary of the surrender of
Santa go was observed in Havana.
Six robbers held up New York Belt
line car and stole jewelry from passen-
gers.
The war department has chartered the
steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry horses
to Manila.
NJ. MalIet-Prevost entertained the
members of the Venezuela arbitration
tribunal at dinner in Paris.
Burglars blew open the safe in a hotel
office at Demarest, N. D., and carried
away 500 worth of plumber
A serious collision between trains Of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
fort railroad occurred at New Haven.
Fires at Fort Duchesne were believed
to have been caused by White river
Utes, who wish to destroy the cavalry
equipment of the soldiers.
1t was reported at Victoria, B. c., that
the steamers Roanoke and Garonne
" ould bring to Seattle and San Fran
cisco 100000 in Klondike gold.
Monday, July II.
A mob lynched a murderer at Gaines
vile, Ga.
American tin plate has advanced from
$3S7 to $4.37 per box.
A French squadron consisting of 20
ships, has arrived at Barcelona.
The salaries of 300 employees of the
New York postoffice have been raised.
Fourteen tons of spoiled fruit were or
dered destroyed in Sir Thomas Lipton's
jam factory in London.
Fifteen Austrian miners have been
seized in Iowa and will be deported for
violating the alien labor law.
The salvOrs of the steamer Paris will
get $3T5,0O0 for the job. Their expenses
are said to have been about $4,000.
A bronze tablet has been unveiled at
Tarrytown, n. Y, to commemorate the
action at that place during the Revolu-
ton.
The automobile which started on a
transcontinental trip from New York city
Thursday was laid up for repairs at
Hudson, N. Y. Saturday.
Saturday, July 10.
General John B. Clapp died in Hart
ford, Conn.
Robert Harper of Minneapolis cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday.
The annual convention of New York
State Bankers association opened at AL
exandria Bay, n. Y.
The president announced more appoint
ments of captains and first and second
lieutenants in the volunteer army.
-Four bombs were exploded in Barcelo-
ma, Spain. No serious damage was done,
but great excitement was caused.
Lockjaw claimed its twenty-ffth vic
tim as a result Of Independence day acct
dents in and about New York city.
Mrs. Mary Austin Ingerson, aged sc
years, one of the most prominent women
of Saratoga county, n. Y, died suddenly
at her Ballston Spa home.
Friday, July IA.
Lady Salisbury, who had a slight at
tack of paralysis, is better.
The internal revenue officials will rec
ommend important changes in the war
revenue act.
Strikers at Bridgeton, N. j., stormed
train and captured party OF nonunion
glass blowers.
The handsome stables of Hon. w. c.
Whitney at Roslyn, N. Y, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Davis have
started from New York city in an auto
mobile on a trip to San Francisco.
The Klondike exhibit at the Paris ex
position next year will include four tons
of virgin gold, valued at S2,000.000.
During an experiment with a field gun
at Sandy Hook N. j., two men were in
jured by the explosion of a Hotchkiss
shell.
Five-year-old karl Boermer, who ar
rived at New York on the steamer Fries |
land, was declared to be a confirmed |
drunkard.
A serious crash between two trains on |
the Central Railroad of New Jersey at |
Elizabethport was averted by the prompt |
action of the switch tender.
The Spanish cabinet has accepted the
offer of the queen regent to assist the
finances of the country by giving up an
other 100000 pesetas from the civil |
list.
Thursday, July 13.
More antitaX riots were reported in
Spain.
The Olympia, with Admiral Dewey on
board, arrived at Suez.
A heavy hailstorm damaged crops in
the vicinity of Geneva. N. Y.
The American liner Paris entered the
harbOr of Falmouth, England safely.
Bandits held up a Colorado and South
ern train five miles south of Folsom, n.
NJ, Tuesday night.
Eight women schoolteachers of Brook
Ign We're injured while wheeling down
steep hill at New Brighton, n. Y.
Lottie Levigne, well known burlesque
actress, died at Cambridge, Mass. She
was born 36 years ago in New Zealand.
At Princeton, \. j., NJ. Taylor Pyne.
and trustee of Princeton
university, was kicked several times in
the lower parts of his body by a spirited
horse.
Wednesday, July IL.
General Joseph +. Wheeler left Wash
ingtOn for Manila, via San Francisco
John Sherman is reported t. have rap
idly recovered from his recent illness at
o.
Three arrests were made in Philadel-