The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-12-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Fold.

| ana Iersety fOIU.
Fire partially Quilted The Chronicle
newspaper building in Halifax, causing
q loss OF $4,000.
| A movement is on foot for a great ma
tional religious revival at the opening OF
the new century.
The electric trolley system is rapidly
displacing the storage battery system or
the busiest streets of Berlin.
The Rev. David Whitney Thurston
one of the oldest Methodist preachers in
New York, died in Syracuse.
A strike of electric railway men was
ordered at Scranton, Pa, and the whole
Wyoming valley was completely tied up.
Saturday, Dec. %.
The gunboat Annapolis grounded neal
Norfolk
Dr. Richard A. Wise, NJ c., died at
Norfolk.
immigration for the calendar year will
reach about 100000.
Mrs. W. P. Frye, wife of the Maine
senator, died in Washington.
Philip d. Armour. head of Armour &
Co., was reported seriously i'll in Chi
cago.
The proposed national home for aged
Elks will probably be located at Colorado
Springs.
Some 10000 French Canadians are ex.
pected to leave New England for their
native land
A motion to propose arbitration for the
Beers was defeated by one vote in the
Hessc Cassel chamber
We're Foster, who for 80 years had as
sisted in the emigration of women from
Ireland, died at Belfast.
Friday, Dec. FL.
The Kentucky arrived at Port Said.
More antifOreign outbreaks were pre-
dicted in China.
Heavy storms were reported from all
over Great Britain.
Clyde shipbuilders have ordered $780,
600 tons of steel plates from the United
States
1t was said in Duluth that Archbishop
Ireland will visit Cuba at the request OF
the president.
An unsuccessful attempt was made t.
rob the Nebraska state treasury in tn.
capitol at Lincoln.
The closing argument in the Porto Rico
Philippine cases was made before the
United States supreme court.
Councillor of Commerce Sander has
been arrested at Potsdam in connection
with the Prussian Hypotheken Aktien
banks troubles.
Thursday, Dec. 20.
Ex-President Kruger visited Amster.
dam.
The strike of dock laborers at CalIao
the port of Lima. has ended
The French chamber of deputies pass
ed the amnesty bill by a vote of 1873 to 2.
Diplomatic relations between Turkey
and the United States have been re-
stored.
The funeral services of John Addison
Porter, former secretary to the president
were held in New Haven.
The French government has offered the
cross of the Legion of Honor to Lieuten.
ant w. ). Sims, former United States
naval attache at Paris.
None of the justices of the supreme
court or railroad officials of Michigan at
tended banquet to which they were in
vited by Governor Pingree.
Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Deputy Attorney General Edward p.
Coyne has resigned.
The president nominated John G. A. |
Leishman for minister to Turkey.
Impressive funeral services for the late
Oswald Ottendorfer were held in New |
York.
The river and harbor bill, as provisions
ally agreed upon, calls for more than
$75,000000.
The Canadian steamer Alpha was
wrecked on Vancouver island, and eight
lives were lost.
man supposed to be oneSof the gang
which held up the Chicago limited was
found dead in the suburbs of New Or
leans.
Reports to the New York state forest,
fish and game commission show that hun.
ters killed more than 200 deer in the
Adirondacks during the season just