The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-05-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

The Connecticut river was 14.5 fee'
above the low water mark and overflow
ed in many places.
An embassy has left Abyssinia on it
way to Paris. King Mcnelek, who was
expected, was not able to come.
At Paulding, o., Simon w. Cramer, al
ex-congressman, accidentally shot and
killed his wife while hunting rats.
Advices received at Victoria, B. G..
state that the ice has broken up ON the
Yukon and that steamers are running.
A. G. Stafford, well known Washing
ton attorney, lies speechess in Boise City
as the result of a stroke of brain paraiy
sis.
Eight hundred employees of Dunn x
McCarthy's shoe factory at Syracuse de,
manded higher wages, and the shops
were closed indefinitely.
Monday, May Fl.
King Leopold of Belgium has arrived
in England on visit.
A statue of Gladstone has been unveil-
ed in the central hall of the house OF
commons.
William H. Hunt of Montana has been
selected to be secretary of state for the
island of Porto Rico.
French exposition authorities have
granted the request of American athletes
and will not hold games on Sunday.
| Catharine Martin, in Worcester, Mass.
! confessed to having set fires in hotels
and boarding houses in many cities.
| Daniel Sherwood of Suffern, N. Y.
has just received $50 for nine pearls
which he found in the stomach of 8
partridge.
Saturday, May 10.
The grand vizier of Morocco died last
Sunday.
The Brazos and Colorado rivers were
reported rising again.
A buffalo calf was born in the Central
park menagerie in New York city.
Cases of the plague We're reported from
almost every seaport in Australia.
The king of Italy has signed a decree
dissolving the chamber of deputies.
Two were killed and seven injured,
three fatally, by the explosion of a loco
motives boiler at Dubois, Ills.
Forty-five famine camps in one division
in India have been attacked by cholera,
causing an appalling loss of life
Governor Roosevelt approved the ex-
emption of the state transfer tax APP
praisers from civil service examinations.
The Russian minister informed the Ko-
rean government that Masampho would
be the winter headquarters of the cars
feet.
The striking st. Louis street car en-
ployees have called on local labor unions
to aid them by ordering a general sym
pathetic strike.
Friday, MAY Is.
The Pennsylvania railroad will estab-
lsh new branch office in New York.
The boiler of a Russian torpedo boat
exploded at Cronstadt, killing six per-
sons.
The race question was discussed at the
southern Industrial convention at Chatta,
nooga.
The British steamer Samantha was
wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast. The
crew was saved.
The son of the Duke and Duchess of
York was christened Henry William
Frederick Albert.
A relief force has been sent from the
British Gold Coast to Kumassi, which is
besieged by the Ashantis.
Two hundred students from the Uni.
versity of Nebraska, on a rampage, as,
saulted the chief of police of Lincoln.
The California supreme court has de.
clared the bonds of railways and other
quasi public corporations worcestershire
for taxation purposes.
An unknown man shot II of the pas,
sengers and crew of the steamer Prins
Carl, plying between Hoping and Stock
holm, killing six, and escaped.
Thursday. May IL.
Commencement exercises were held by
the Yale divinity school.
Admiral Dewey returned to Washing
ton from his western trip.
Nearly all ST. Louis street car lines be,
gan operations with nonunion men.
Two persons were killed and 10 in. |
iured, five fatally. in the burning of the
Hotel Helene ut Chicago.
More Boxer outrages, including the |
massacre of native Christians, were re,
ported north of Tien-tsin. China.
The Italian parliament was prOrogued |
by royal decree as a result of the dis
turbances in the chamber of deputies.
1t was announced in London that The
Leyland Steamship company had taken
over the West lndip Steamship company
Postmaster Thompson of Havana made
sworn statement admitting certain ir
Irregularities in connection with the postal
funds.
Mr.. w. r. Corwine returned from
tour of investigation of Porto Rico fol-
the Merchants association and reported
conditions improving rapidly.
Wednesday, May 16.
The heat caused one death and four
prostrations in Chicago.
A heavy snowstorm was reported from
Leipsic and Chemnitz, Germany.
The Rochester school bill, which was
fraudulently amended. was declared null.
The Methodist general conference at
Chicago declared in favor of a negro
bishop.
Two firemen at Somerville, n. j., were
badly burned by gasoline from an ex-
ploded tank.
Terrible distress was reported in the
famine districts of India despite the Law
ish distribution of funds.
A small fire which broke out in the
Chateau d'Eau caused intense excitement
on the Paris exposition grounds.
Argument in the franchise tax case be-
fore the appellate division of the supreme
court was adjourned to the June term.