The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-09-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.


phan fund were reported to have reached
$30,676.S9
Subscriptions in New York city for the
relief of Porto Rico were reported tC
have reached $50,395.16.
Heavy sentences were melted out al
| Belgrade, Servia, to the conspirators who
had tried to kill eXKing Milan.
Two hundred Roman Catholics of Wa
terville, Me-, began a pilgrimage to the
shrine of st. Anne de Reaupre, Quebec.
The Swift packing house interests in
| Chicago have purchased valuable cattle
ranches in Oklahoma and the Panhandle
of Texas.
Monday, Sept. 25.
The bubonic plague has again appeared
in Alexandria.
Freight valued at $4,000 was de-
stroyed by fire in the Darlington Is. CO.
freighthouse.
The Austrian cabinet has resigned
owing to inability to settle parliamentary
differences.
Two Chicago factories were burned at
a loss of $1S0,000, which was fully COW
cred by insurance.
Six passengers were killed in collision
Oh the lDpUNPE anu hlD NIuIuG
near Florence, Colo.
In Joliet, Ills, Irwin Bush was said to
have been cured of insanity by the in
lection of lymph from the glands of a
goat.
Saturday. Sept. 23.
Twelve new cases of plague have been
reported from Lourenco Marques, Della
goa bay.
General Brault, who succeeded Gen
eral Renouard as chief of the French
general staff, died
The strikers at Cramps shipyards,
Philadelphia, were joined by the black
smiths and their helpers.
Vermont will welcome Admiral Dew
ey's return to the state with parade
and reception on Oct. II.
Max Regis, the Jew batting ex-mayor
of Algiers, escaped the police and was
believed to have gone to Spain.
The Mexican national assembly has
appropriated 100000 for the expenses of
President Diaz's trip to Chicago.
The $4,000 estate of Emmons Blaine
has been finally divided in Chicago be-
tween Mrs. Blaine and their son.
The Dewey home fund committee at
Washington reported $27,065 had been
subscribed and that the amount ought to
be made up to $4,000 at once.
Friday, Sept. ~.
The car and czarina arrived at Kiel on
the yacht Polar Star.
Almost 1000 more coal miners struck
at Montgomery, w. Va.
Dewey's former captains accepted invi-
tations to participate in the celebration
next week.
The New York franchise tax will be
levied on gross earnings instead of net
earnings, as reported.
The new battleship Kearsarge sailed
from New York for Boston preparatory
to making her official trial trip.
Work on the government transports at
San Francisco has been further delayed
by the strike of the boiler makers.
Mail advices from the orient stated
that Japan, France and Italy were push
ing their claims to concessions in China.
1t was said in Chicago that Prince
Alexis Karageorovitch of Servia had ask
ed Miss Mabelle Swift, daughter of Mr..
e. G. Swift of Chicago, to be his wife.
Thursday, Sept. Fl.
Another small strike occurred at the
Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia.
A shock of earthquake at Adm, Asia
Minor, killed hundreds of people.
Miss Jane G. Yatman of Brooklyn COM
pleted her 700 mile bicycle ride in thor
oughly exhausted condition.
Arthur Sewall of Maine has been sued
for $4,000 on his liability as stock
holder of a defunct Kansas corporation.
Secretary Root has requested photo
graphs of every commissioned officer in
the army to be filed at the war depart
ment.
An anchor and buoy marked "Andree
Polar Expedition" were reported found |
on King Charles rsland Sept. s. by Nor
wegan ship captain.
The Chickasaw Indian legislature at
l. T., has passed Il bill fix
ing $1,000 as the price of marriage Ii
censes to shut out white men.
Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Lieutenant Colonel John -. Miley died |
at Manila of cerebral meningitis.
Mrs. Sarah Blumbensohn, who slept |
for 100 hours died at her home in New |
Jersey.
The yacht Columbia took trial spin |
from Bristol, r. l., to Newport, showing |
good speed.
Sloane and Martin, the American jock
ays, were very successful at race meet
ngs in England.
Frank Pugh, grandson of the late John /
Stephenson, car builder, committed sui
eide at New Rochelle, n. Y.
Daniel Franklin, a former sheriff OF |
Delaware county, n. Y, died as the re-
suit of surgical operation.
Prince and Princess Hohenlohe-Lan-
genburg narrowly escaped death in a
railway collision at Perth, Scotland.
Cakes A. Ames, senior member of the
well known Massachusetts, family, died
ut North Easton, Mass, aged 40 years.
General r. A. Alger has been an
nounced as one of those who will well
come the Kansas troops returning from
Manila