The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-03-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
EotabIe Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

| EotabIe Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.
Anxiety is still felt for Cecil Rhodes
BY his physicians.
A woman and her nine children were
burned to death at Matane, Que.
The Eliza Dawson House at Vassar,
the gift of John D. Rockefeller, was
opened
Federal officials at Knoxville Tenn,
were accused of violating the civil
service law.
The sons of Damad Mahmud Pasha,
the sultan's brother-in-law, were SEN
fenced by default to life Imprisonment.
The Z. l. Dupont de Nemours & Co.'S
powder plant, five miles west of Keo-
kuk, Ia, was badly damaged by an ex-
plosion. Two men were killed outright,
/ and third will die.
Monday, March 10.
An outbreak Of cholera was announc-
ed from Mecca.
Sealing crews numbering about 5000
men are on a strike at ST. Johns, N. +.
Forty-two of the large wholesale
dealers in paper in New York city have
formed an organization.
Colonel W. +. Cody, buffalo BiAA,"
10 getting together a company OF o,oO0
Swedes whom he will take to Big Horn
valley, in Wyoming, as colonists.
A three story frame house was NOV
ed from Greenwood to Bennums, In
Delaware, twenty miles, while the
| family remained in the building.
Mrs. Mary Johnson of Louisville,
Ky, has just been married for the
sixth time. Two of her husbands are
dead, two more divorced and another is
in prison for bigamy.
Saturday, March 8.
Fire at Hudson, N. Y, caused loss
of $4,000.
The French senate passed the ship
bounty bill
King Edward laid the foundation for
the new Royal Naval college at Dart
mouth.
The court of appeals upheld the in
dictment against Police Captain Her.
lihy of the New York force.
A New York aquarium turtle awoke
and ate a fish breakfast after sleeping
foodless for thirteen months.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker rebuked
King Edward for brewing beer and
violating the English Sunday.
Friday, March 7.
Four steamers were fast in the ice
in Newburg bay.
Two fishing schooners were wrecked
on the New Hampshire coast. No lives
were lost.
The steamer Alexandria, Hamburg
American line, is to convoy the kaiser's
new yacht to Hamburg.
Osman Pasha has been condemned to
death. 1t is said the sentence will be
committed to life Imprisonment.
One thousand men and boys went on
strike at the Natalie colliery, operated
by the Shamokin Pa.) Coal company,
because of the bimonthly payment law
not being strictly observed.
Thursday, March O.
| Leonard Lewisohn, the copper
king" died in London of pneumonia.
General Roncrt II. Carr who helped
to capture John Brown, died in Balti-
more.
An attempt at revolution in Servia
has failed, and the leader has been
killed.
The barge Cardenas, lost in a storm
last month, has arrived at Newport
News, Va.
A congress of French miners has de-
cided upon a general strike for an
eight hour day.
The vault of the First National bank
of Montgomery Ind, was blown open
and robbed of $4,000.
Wednesday, March 3.
Several leaders of the Barcelona
strikers have been shot.
General De Wet was shot in the arm
during a recent fight with the British.
The car has sent 100000 rubles to
the earthquake victims at Shamakha.
The Cunard steamship Eruria, four
days overdue, was sighted in tow west
of the Azores with a broken shaft.
A bill has been introduced in the
New Jersey senate to dissolve the
charter of the Northern Securities COM
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