Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1899-04-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
TUESDAY. APRIL II.

Sixteen members of the Eighth Mas
sachusetts allowed to go on parole
Reception and banquet to Senator Frye
given by the Lewiston (Me.) board Of
trade-Riot at Pana. Ills, leads to the
killing of seven persons, one a woman,
and the wounding of nine others
New York police think that an arrest
may lead to revelation as to the mys-
FERROUS and fatal Andrews fire-Lon-
don blue book contains Secretary Hays
note saying the United States would not
reopen the bimetallic question on ratio
of % to More vessels under con-
struction for the navy department than
ever before at one time-Thial Of 10
alleged lynchers begun at Charleston
Two Rhode Island mills. closed by
strike, reopened at on increased wage
schedule-New wGge schedule in
the Surcock, N. H.. cotton mills
Prospect of a busy yea. in Maine
granite quarrl es-Ex-Unit States
Senator Tabor died ct Denver--North-
ern capitalists organized the Tennessee
Gas and Coke company - BaH.3an
Rubber company reCrganized IN the in
terest of harmony with the trust
Trial begun in philadelphia cf Senator
Quay ard his son for coasl i;acy to de-
f~ai'd-E ambletcn & Co. of Baltimore
acquired gas, electric light and street
railway properties in Nashville. -
Co-oncr's jury at Midd'etown, Conn, re-
turned a verdict of justifable homicide
in regard to the shooting of an italian
barber-Bartlett Trip of South Da-
l5ota appointed United States Samoan
tured Santa Cruz without losing a man,
while the enemy lost 6S-Prominent
diplomat at Washington says this is a
bad time for peace congress, as a great
war is likely to occur at any time
Pail Mall Gazette declares that Carlist
war is nevitable-Several requests to
religious bodies in the viii of Rev. Joseph
c. Foster filed at Dedham. Mass.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL u.
Charles Dudley Warner seriously i'll
at New Orleans with pneumonia
General Lawton captures two more
towns, Lumbar and Pagsajan-Loss
of $500, 900 by the burning of Idle Hour, at
Oakdale, L. l.: Mrs. Vanderbilt saved
her jewels: insurance $1O0,OO0 believed
to be cendiary-Former secretary of
the late Colonel Henry commits suicide
in France-"Governor Dick Leary of
Guam preparing to spend a care-free
existence in a Pacific paradise-Dr.
Nancy Guilford sentenced to state pris-
ON for 10 years by Judge Wheeler at
Bridgeport, Conn-Ratifcati of the
peace treaty with Spain exchanged at
Washington, and President Mckinley
issues his proclamation relative there
to-Four cases Of smallpox discovered
at Boston; the patients isolated and
cared for, and the premises disinfected
Grand reception given company H
of the Eighth Massachusetts at Salem
Child feloniously assaulted in Win
throp, Mass-Four men killed by a
bridge accident in New York-Rev. H.
j. Stone of Chelsea dropped from the
membership rolls by the Hampden asso-
citation of Congregational ministers
Many public requests made in the will
of Mrs. Harriet f. Wolcott, stepmother
of the governor of Massachusetts-
Mrs. John ]. Johnson of Salem, Mass,
takes powdered arsenic in mistake for
soda, and dies-Mayor Van Wyck of
new 7 n -fsfN ors a-InttnicipaEgas plant
Printing plant and labratory of the
Wellesley (Mass) chemical works de-
stroyed by two explosions and fire
Twenty-eight Boston patrolmen pass
the examination of the Massachusetts
Emergency and Hygiene association on
first duties to injured persons
Successful experiments with the CO.
phone, an instrument designed to pre-
vent collisions at sea-Second day of
Quay's trial devoted to attempt by his
counsel to show him the victim of a
said to have secured
connections and terminus in California
for a trans-continental system-Gen-
eral shafter before the beef court of
inquiry-Natives attacked MacAr-
thurs line, but were driven back with
great loss; Americans had three men
killed; Lawton pursuing the enemy from
Santa Cruz; one man wounded there has
died-Tod Sloan wins two races in
England-King and Queen of Italy
start for Sardinia.
THURSDAY, APRIL Is.
Indictment Of Molineux dismissed as
illegal, and grand jury directed to re-
consider the case; daring conspiracy to
get the chief witness, Hickman, out of
New York frustrated, and Nashville
lawyer arrested-Washing opinion
regards the Samoan problem as of the
greatest seriousness, and that only great
skill can avoid trouble; Mataafas head
hunters ambush and kill Americans
and British-Captain A. j. Higgins of