The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-05-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerReIY Told.

and TerSeIy Told.
Speaker Nixon of the New York state
assembly is better.
A negro has been lynched at Osceola,
Ark, for burning barn.
The Chilkat Indians in Alaska were
reported on the warpath.
Secretary Gage has gone to Hot
Springs, Va, for two weeks vacation.
A heavy snowstorm in Perthshire.
Scotland, killed many sheep and lambs.
Sensational election returns in Spain
showed a clear majority of 40 for the
government
The residence and outbuildings of G
E. Witherell, Burke, N. Y, were burned
by the explosion of lamp.
The formal order assigning BrigadieI
General Davis as governor general OF
Porto Rico has been issued.
Eighty acres of rich mineral land near
Aurora, Mo-, including the futile mine,
have been sold to a Boston syndicate.
The British government has failed to
agree with Cecil Rhodes on the propos-
ed guarantee to the Cape to Cairo rail-
road.
The cause of the Rochester train
wreck is ascribed to the failure of air
brakes and to the breaking of wheel
f1ange.
Monday, May 1.
The Flour trust has been capitalized
at $40 900, 900.
Speaker Nixon of the New York as
sembly is again seriously i'll.
Five men were killed by powder ex-
ploson at Carney's Point, N. ].
Nearly 1000 immigrants arrived at the
port of New York in one day last week.
Alfred Dodge has hidden farewell to
Dolgeville N. Y. He founded the town.
Traction stocks dropped in New York
because of the passage of the franchise
tax bill.
The Prince of Siam was wounded Sc
verely in a duel at Berlin, where he is
attending school.
Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset,
eighth Duke of Beaufort, England, is
dead in his seventy sixth year.
Slas L. Baker, So years old, a pros
porous farmer of Serbia, N. Y, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with a
shotgun.
Masked strikers blew up mining prop
erty valued at $25O,OOO at Wardner, Ida,
killing one man and MORALLY wounding
another.
Saturday, April 20.
The 100000 copper combination
will soon be a $40O 100000 one.
The ice has entirely left Lake George,
and the boats have commenced run
ming.
The Berlin newspapers express salts
faction with the attitude of Admiral
Kautz.
President Mckinley visited the cruis-
er Raleigh at Philadelphia and made an
address to the crew.
This month has been the driest April
in nearly two decades, and farmers are
threatened with loss.
Three thousand dollars worth of
blooded cattle were burned in fire on
the Hiram Cramer farm, near Saratoga.
1t is reported in Washington that the
postoffice department has issued orders
prohibiting Edward Atkinson from US
ing the mails to send anti-imperialist
literature TO the soldiers in the Philip
pines.
Friday, April %.
Senator Teller had a fainting attack
at Longmont, Colo.
The copy of the peace treaty signed
at Washington reached Madrid.
Sheridan Shook died at his home at
Red Hook, Duchess county, N. Y.
Rear Admiral Schley will succeed
Rear Admiral Howell as president of
the naval retiring board.
In Stamford, Conn, Willie Rich, the
2-year-old son of N. L, Rich, was
drowned in a tub of water.
Large and valuable copper lodges
were reported to have been discovered
near Mount Rainier, in Washington.
The body of a negro, believed to have
threatened a white family, was found
near Leesburg, Ca, riddled with bullets.
Judge Martin, at Little Rock, decided |
that corporations could not be punished
for violations of the penal code commit !
ted in other states.
Former United States District Attor-
ney Ingham and H. X. Newoff were ar
raigned at Philadelphia in connection |
with the counterfeiting charges.
Thursday, April 27.
General Miles called on the president |
for the first time in six weeks.
The appearance of yellow fever at
Bahia, Brazil, was announced.
Inc SZeCHueu llllIlluS COllCGSolO1 Ilolo
been confirmed by the Chinese govern
ment.
Three hundred houses were burned at
Guta, Hungary, and II bodies have been
recovered.
The canals of New York state have
been opened for navigation, the earlies
opening in IA years.
The Hamburg American line steamer
Palatia has arrived at Halifax from
Hamburg with 600 Galician immigrants.
The Wilkesbarre and Wyoming Val
ley Traction company has been sold to
New York, Philadelphia and Boston
capitalists.
Nearly 500 Atlanta negroes have sign
ed petition asking that the negro pub
lie schools be placed under the control
Of a negro board of education.
One of the alleged principals in the
Lancaster (Pa.) counterfeiting gang
said $4,000 bride money had been paid to
Messrs. Ingham and hewitt of Phila-
1elphia.
Wednesday, April &c.
The members of the Samoan commits