The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-10-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Brieh.
and TerseIy Told.

Town elections were held throughout
| Connecticut.
Luther Edgerton Newport of st. Paul
became suddenly insane at Hartford.
Much property was destroyed in Ma
zatlan, Mexico, by severe windstorm.
1t is stated that Secretary Root will
| probably be able to resume his official
duties this week.
The mayor of Georgetown, S. c., APP
pealed to the governor for troops to pre-
vent race riot in that place.
President Adams of the University of
Wisconsin has been obliged to take a
years rest because of poor health.
At the opening of the Nottingham
autumn meeting Johnny Reiff, the Amer
lean jockey, rode the winners in four
chief races.
Monday, Oct. 1.
Thirty persons were injured at Wichi-
ia, Kan, by the derailing of street car
Mrs. j. w. Clark of Avondale, Ala,
was shot in the head and instantly killed
by her own son, aged 1S.
Governor Sayers of Texas announced
that he had received $672, 476.29 for the
sufferers on the Texas coast.
Hon. s. N. Parent has accepted the
premiership of Quebec province to sue
coed the late premier, Marchand.
The recent storm damages at the town
Of Velasco, Tex, are announced by the
local committee to aggregate 100000.
A Santa Fe passenger train was wreck
ed at Waterloo, o. T. Two persons
were killed outright, and three others
were fatally wounded.
Saturday, Sept. 20.
No case ds yellow fever has been re-
ported at Santiago, Cuba, since last De-
cember.
The town of Solomon City, at the
mouth of Solomon river, Alaska, was de-
stroyed by recent storm.
Paul Sloan, a deputy sheriff, was kill
ed by a mob at Lake Charles, La, while
saving a negro prisoner from lynching.
The United Mine Workers ordered
strike in the Oak Hill district of Ohio I'M
less the operators raised wages to the
district scale.
Fire in Hamburg, Germany, destroyed
several warehouses, granary and resi-
dences, causing a loss of more than
1,000,00 marks.
American exports to Asia and Oceanica
for August show a falling off, but total
exports for eight months of the year
show large increase in all directions.
Charles T. Yerkes of Chicago and New
York was elected chairman of the new
board of directors of the Charing Cross,
Euston and Hampstead Underground
railroad in London.
Friday, Sept. %.
The Greek warship Navarchos Mao
,i1ac orriuod in Nauv VorL ho rbar
The United States training ship Hawk
ran ashore nine miles above Montreal.
Secretary Hay will resume charge of
his office in Washington early next week.
Irving M. Scott of San Francisco has
been elected president of the Pacific Com
mercial museum.
The two hundredth academic terms of
Yale opened yesterday. The freshman
classes number 600.
The new bessemer plant of the Repub-
lie Iron and Steel company at Youngs-
town, o., began work.
The United States received more
awards at the Paris exposition than any
other nation except France.
Charles A. Collier prominent citizen
Of Atlanta, was found in his back yard,
having been shot, probably by burglars.
The steamer Robert Dollar, which sail
ed from Port Townshend for Cape Nome
on Aug. 25, has not since been heard
from.
Thursday, Sept. 1T.
News was received of a great hurricane
in Iceland Sept. 20.
The Russian church has excommuni-
Gated Tolstoi. the novelist.
An appeal for further relief was issued
by the Galveston committee.
-Four lives were lost in a tornado at
Ferguson, Marshall county, la. Il
Lieutenant Richmond p. Hobson has
gone to Alabama to visit relatives
Professor Frank X Sanders of Yale |
has been elected president of Iowa col |
lege.
The Mexican congress declared Cen
eral Diaz unanimously reelected presi- |
dent.
Steps have been taken for the fedora
ton of the Fiji islands with New Zea-
land.
Admiral Walker, chairman of the Mica
ragua canal commission, visited Canton
and conferred with the president.
Boer sympathizers in convention at
Chicago invited President Kruger to
make his home in the United States.
Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Another death from the plague was re-
ported at Glasgow
The Iron Mountain shops at Barring
Cross, Ark, were burned.
Marble Falls and Kingsland, Tex, were
reported in great danger from foods.
Two men were sent to Jail for two
months at Atlantic City for scalping rail
'oad tickets.
Fire about Occidental, Cal, covered
$50 square miles and did damage to the
amount of $1,500,000.
A storm that ragged for two days at
Nome destroyed property valued at $780,
700. Many lives were probably lost