The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-07-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brief.
and TerseIY Told.

| ioule TO MEXICO. ~
Five artillerymen were killed by tn
explosion of a powder magazine in Ma
cato Land, South Africa.
Mr.. Nathan Straus has authorized tn
free distribution of filtered ice water il
the New York city parks.
Oscar f. Lackey, the yellow fever pa
tient at Swinburne island, was reported
to be continually improving.
The traffic of the Erie canal has largel
increased this season, despite the recen
strike of grain handlers at Buffalo.
Customs Collector Bidwell of the Dor
of New York decided that $41 900 worth
! of jewels seized from Mrs. Phyllis Il
| Dodge upon her return from abroad tive
weeks ago are dutiable and formally ap
| proved the seizure.
| Monday, July 10.
Three vessels went ashore on Lake
Erie, near Ashtabula, o., during a heavy
gale.
Benjamin Ladigue of New York city
was drowned while bathing at Branford
Conn.
| A severe and protracted drought il
southern Jamaica is causing widespread
distress and alarm.
The large steam bakery of Henry
Waukln, located in a suburb of Philadel
phia, was entirely destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of $4,000.
Governor Roosevelt returned from
Washington, where he had been summon
ed by President Mckinley Tor a confer.
ence on military matters.
AT Weehawken, n. j., one man was
killed and another fatally injured while
taking shelter under an empty freight
car by the backing down of an engine.
Plans have been drawn for an East
river tunnel running from Maiden lane
Manhattan, to Pineapple street, Brook
Ign. The tunnel will be $500 feet long.
Saturday, July 8.
Major Heatwole, chief commissary,
died at Santiago, Cuba, of yellow fever
The Portuguese house of peers adopted
the commercial convention with the Unit
ed States.
Superintendent Edwin Mills and two
miners were killed in mine explosion at
Port Dram, N. ].
General Brugere has been appointed
military governor of Paris in place of
General Zurlinden.
The steamer Robert Kerr has left
Dawson for st. Michael's with $1,000
600 in gold dust on board.
Six horses were burned to death and
$1,000 damage caused by a fire in the
stable of Lewis G. Palmer at New Ha-
ven.
The report of deadlock in the negotia-
tons over the Alaska boundary was con-
frmed by the British foreign Office in
London.
Colonel A. T. Britton, first vice presi-
dent of the American security and Trust
company, died at his country home near
Washington.
Friday, July z.
Two cases OF yenow fever were report
ed in Havana.
Ex-Governor John Z. Richardson died
at Columbia, s. G.
y A destructive tornado visited the vi
cinity of Ainsworth, Neb.
Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler was
ordered to Manila for duty in the Phil
ippines.
Six tenement houses, one of which was
occupied by u families, were burned at
Manchester, n. H., causing a loss of
$4,000.
A heavy rain and hail storm from the
north passed over North Dakota, unroof-
ing small buildings and destroying 49,
OOJ acres of grain.
A frame building in Indianapolis occu-
pied by a druggist and the Whitehead
laundry was wrecked by gas explosion.
Six people We're injured, two perhaps
fatally.
Thursday, July q.
The Christian pndeaVUr convention
opened in Detroit.
Rev. ID. =. LivermOre, husband of
Mary A. Livermore, died at Melrose,
Mass.
Fourth of July accident statistics from
81 cities showed three killed and 1,074
injured.
The business portion of Paris, Tenn,
was wiped out by fire as a result of a
Fourth of July celebration.
Sir Alexander Armstrong, former d.
rector general of the medical department
Of the British navy, died in London.
AdvicGs from Dawson stated that two
tons of gold dust arrived in the city from
FL Dorado creek on the morning of June
20.
Ex-senator PETER, in an address at
Maryville, Mo-, argued in favor of the |
dNullnlSlFdllOu pOHCy III the ullp- !
pines.
The Michigan supreme court declared |
unconstitutional the Pingree act for the |
ownership of Detroit street |
railroads.
The United Christian party, which
would carry on all government by asking |
the question, What would Jesus dor
has been organized in Iowa.
wednesday, July 8.
Ten persons were injured in a railway |
wreck near Leadville, Colo.
A cannon taken from Moro Castle was
presented to the city of Newark, n. J.
Hampstead, y. H., celebrated the one
hundred and fftieth anniversary of its
Bishop Newman, who is critically i'll at
Saratoga, was reported gradually sinking
yesterday.
At Newton, Mass Malcolm Shaw. 45
years old, was drowned in Crystal lake
while bathing.
Grace Burch was fatally injured at
Saratoga as the result of a premature
discharge of fireworks.
The American delegates to the peace
conference put a wreath on the tomb of
Grotius at Delft, Holland.
At Buffalo a frecracker ignited the