The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-02-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week BrIeny
and TerseIy Told.

The storm in the English channel be-
gan to abate.
The Austrian village of Bleiberg was
partially destroyed by an avalanche.
Twelve English fishermen were re-
ported lost in snowstorm off Iceland.
Mrs. Hammond Moore of New York
city committed suicide in Stockton, Cal.
Twenty-one men of the crew of the
French ship Chanaral were drowned
off Ushant,' Brittany.
Two members of a Philadelphia fam
lily were found dead from starvation
and two others insane from the same
cause.
Monday, Feb. 3.
Home skaters won all of the cham
pionships of the United States and
Canada at Verona Lake, N. j.
Five thousand men of the American
Wooden company have been thrown out
of work by a weavers' strike at Olney-
vile, r. |.
At a boar hunt near Arras, France,
n shot from one of the hunters went
through the boar, struck a stone,
glanced and killed the Countess Depas.
Saturday, Feb. 1.
Severe gales have occurred in the
English channel.
Two large passenger steamers with
200 passengers are fast in the ice off
Chicago.
The London Metropolitan company
has refused to turn over it's property
to Mr. Yerles
A supplementary army estimate of
E5O00,000 has been introduced in the
house of commons
A committee of the German reichstag
has adopted a clause of new tariff
bill providing for retaliatory duties.
Mountain peaks in the Olympia
range, Washington, are reported to
have been broken off by the recent
earthquake.
The transatlantic steamship pool has
sent ocean freight rates skyward, the
increase on many products being fully
so per cent.
Friday; Jan. 81.
Snow and frost impeded traffic and
work in England.
Charles f. Sprague, former member
of congress from Massachusetts, died
in Providence, Il. l.
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the celebrat-
ed pianist, arrived in New York, ac-
companied by his wife.
The navy department announced
that Rear Admiral Sampson will be re-
tired Feb. on account of age.
A fire destroyed the largest hotel in
Virginia, at Norfolk, and other build
ings, causing a loss of 100000.
Rear Admiral Rodgers telegraphed
that nope had been abandoned for the
safety of the ten marines losl in Sa-
mar.
A jury at Frankfort, Ky, found
James Howard guilty of the assassina-
ton of Governor Goebel and fixed pun
ishment at life Imprisonment
A heavy sleetstorm crippled railway
and telegraph lines and damaged build
ines and trees in Tennessee, Arkansas
and Mississippi to the extent of sew
cral millions.
Thursday, Jan. 30.
Caleb w. Mitchell committed suicide
at Saratoga.
Admiral Schleys appeal to the presi-
dent was made public.
John f. Dryden was formally elected
senator by the New Jersey legislature.
Adelaide Ristori. the actress, cele
brated her eightieth birthday at Rome.
Ex-President Cleveland arrived at
Princeton, n. j.. from his seven days
hunting trip to Georgetown, S. G. He
was apparently in good health.
Wednesday, BAN. -.
Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, u.
$. n. retired. died at West Newton,
Mass.
Santos DumOnt gave two successful
exhibitions with his airship at Monte
Carlo.
Henry Name, a lawyer Of New York
city, committed suicide in Philadel.
phia hotel.
A boat found by Indians at Ahousett
believed to have belonged to the
missing British sloop of war Condor.
The engineer of a New York Central
passenger train was killed and the fire.
man hurt in collision at Oneida, n. Y.
A tunnel. company was incorporated
at Albany to burrow under East river
for a distance of ten miles into Kings
county for underground railroads.