The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.


burned; loss, $4,000.
Professor Samuel Harris of Yale The
illogical seminary died at LitchfieId,
Conn.
The Mark Lane Express said that crop
prospects in England and France had
improved.
Saturdays and Sundays attempts to
float the American liner Paris were I'M
successful.
1t was reported that Admiral Dewey
would make Halifax his first American
stopping place.
A company has been formed which has
given orders in this country for 100 auto
mobiles, that are to be shipped to France.
The steamer Nippon Maru has arrived
at Honolulu with the body of a man who
died Of the plague while en- route from
Japan.
All the tin plate plants in the country
will shut down Friday night as the result
of the failure of the workers committee
to agree with the manufacturers on the
wage scale.
Monday, June 20.
The United States cruiser Newark has
arrived at Valparaiso with all well on
board.
Two wives claim Colonel John Gaynor,
treasurer of the New York state Demo-
cratic committee.
Three men were MORALLY wounded in
drunken brawl in Long Island City fol-
lowing saloon dance.
Governor Roosevelt was given most
enthusiastic reception at Las Vegas, N.
NJ, by the Rough Riders.
Jewelry and clothing valued at $50, 900,
brought by Mrs. Dodge from Europe,
were seized at the New York custom
house.
The st. Louis Baseball club has pur-
chased Centerfelder Hemphill of the
Grand Rapids club. The price paid was
81, 900.
Fire in Oswego, N. Y, destroyed the
Oswego Crate factory and slightly dam
aged the Ontario Bicycle works and
Findlay's Machine works. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Saturday, June "a.
Abram Gould, a brother of Jay Gould,
died at Salem, N. Y.
Emperor William has made Minister of
Foreign Affairs Won Bulow a count.
The Rough Riders reunion at Las
Vegas, n. NJ, will begin this afternoon.
Major Nair of New Zealand has been
appointed acting British consul at Sa-
mOa.
Henry B. Plant, president of the Plant
Steamship company, died in New York
city.
The conference on southern education
at Capon Springs, w. Va, closed last
night
The acting secretary of war said the
department had decided to retain the can.
teen system.
The Chicago health department has
taken steps to provide sterilized milk for
the children of the poor.
The prize of $4,000 in the Derby lot
terry of India has been won by the daugh-
ter of Bombay railway guard.
Friday, June 23.
The pope held a public consistory to
present the hats to the new cardinals.
Two French fishing smacks were cap
sized off Brest and IL persons drowned.
The cruiser Olympia, with Admiral
Dewey on board, arrived at Colombo,
Ceylon.
The cup challenger Shamrock will be
aunched Monday and arrive at South
lmptOn Wednesday.
Bartlett Trip, United States commits
'ioner at Samoa, reported that peace had
oeen restored in the islands.
1t was announced at Cairo that the
zhalifa had been defeated by a force of
natives friendly to the British.
An explosion of gas in the Maxwell
shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarrs
Coal company at Ashley, Pa, set fire to
he mine and caused a fall of coal which
or time imprisoned about 100 miners.
Thursday. June 20.
Three young sons of Henry Robash
we're drowned in Rangeley lakes.
A $3.50 cotton mill to be operated
by electricity was begun in Charlotte,
\. G.
The annual report of the park depart
nent shows 6.91S acres of parks in
Greater New York.
Advices from Dawson state that the
seasons KlOndike output will amount to
It least $1S.00O,000.
Oxford conferred the honorary degree
If doctor of civil laws on General Kitch-
,ner and Cecil Rhodes.
The livery stable of f. NJ Foote in
NIiddletOwn, Conn, was destroyed by
ire, causing $1,000 damage.
The British government has proposed a
ill authorizing a loan of f4,000,O00 for
military works at home and abroad.
The Midland Railway company of Eng
and has ordered four sleeping cars of the
pullman Palace Car company of Chica
20.
The treasury deficit for the fiscal year
'nding June 80 was estimated at $780,
100000. All the war expenses will be
included in $3.50, 100000.
At Calhoun, Neb., a severe storm blew
Iown barns, windmills and small build
ngs. A man named johnson was struck
" a falling tree and died shortly after
ward.
Wednesday, June FL.
An old fashioned magazine at Fort
dickens, Fla, exploded, killing one man.
DIR. Thomas Osmond Summers, the yell
wv fever expert, killed himself at st.
.ouis.
An East river tunnel company, with
capital of $7,5OO,OOO, was incorporated
t Albany.
Shelby and Mansfield, o., were flooded
y heavy rains, and several lives were re-
orted lost.
A strange kind of fish, weighing half