Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-06-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
hossbIe Events of the Week Briefly
Ch-cnicIed.

ran two miles on grass in ON. lis.
New York subway strikers have Of
Tered to return to work at old wages.
The council of Trinity college, Dub.
lin, has recommended the admission of
women.
The scientific expedition for survey
of the Bahama islands has sailed from
Baltimore.
The Ardsley murder mystery has tax.
en- a sensational turn. Trail may end
at the club.
The mayor Of Erie Pa, has accepted
designations Of policemen who asked
for Taore pay
The war department has been doing
all that the law permits to aid the
flood sufferers in the west
Two students were burned to death
at Elton college, England. in a fire that
destroyed a masters house,
The German antarctic steamer
Gauss, for whose safety alarm had
been felt, has passed Durham.
Professor John f. Hicks was shot
and killed at Wooster, o., as he was
leaving the house of his fiancee.
Michael Tracy of Brooklyn was
found mangled in Myrtle avenue He
may have been hit by trolley car.
The Jewish community in St. Peters
burg has gratefully acknowledged
American help for sufferers at Kishi-
neff.
The rebellion In the province of Yum
nan, south China. is spreading. Two
hundred French subjects are in peril
at Yunnanfu.
The case or the Northern Securities
company has been advanced by the
United States supreme court and argu-
ment fixed for Dec. IA,
J. Finch, member Of the crew Of the
schooner Edward e, Brlry, was killed
by Second Mate Johnson, whom he at
tackled after becoming mutinous.
The United States supreme court has
decided that under the war revenue
law the government had the right to
collect Inheritance tax upon bequest
TO municipal corporation
Monday, June 1.
Nine. Pati is looking forward keenly
to revisitlng the United States.
Automobile manufacturers spent
$10,OO0,0OO on the Paris-Madrid race.
The Ragged Cavalier won the Empire
State steeple chase at Gravesend, New
York.
Yale beat Harvard by a half point
for chief honors in the intercollegiate
championships.
Columbia oarsmen won the senior
eight Dared she'll race in the Harlem
(New York; regatta.
Irish opinion is strongly in favor Of
the international auto race being run,
the dangers being minimized
The flood condition at Muskogee, l.
T., rs very serious The Arkansas riv-
er is out of its banks, and the lowlands
are flooded
Mrs. Kate Taylor, found guilty OF
killing her husband in Monticello, n
Y, has been sentenced to die in the
electric chair
Findlay S. Douglas beat John Mol
Ter, Jr., in the final for the metropolitan
golf championship at Deal Beach by 10
up and 8 to play.
The leading feature Of Memorial day
in New York was the unwilling Of a
heroic bronze equestrian statue of Gen
eral William r. Sherman
Plans have been formulated by the
New York state canal committee, and
a campaign for the proposed improved
water ways will be begun.
For information regarding Alphonse
J. Meyer, formerly city treasurer Of
Buffalo, who is missing. the police
have sent out general alarm.
Ruperto Rios, the fanatical Filipino
leader in the province of Tayaba who
was captured, has been convicted Of
murder and sentenced to death.
An automobile carrying John J. Jack
and his wife was struck by street car
in Cleveland, o. Mrs. Jack has three
ribs broken and is believed to be ia
tally hurt.
A Southern Pacific train south bound
was ditched at Rincon, Cal -Four cars
plunged down an embankment forty
feet high, two of them being sub
merged in the sea. Forty were injured.
Agents of the Ministerial association
caused the arrest of Edward Levi and
Nelson Hathaway, who We're selling
tickets to the Schenectady ball game,
on the charge of violating the Sunday
law
DR.. J. G. Benjamin and son Clarence
of Muskagon, Mich, and Edward L.
Carr a prominent fruit grower Of
Hart, Mich, were drowned in Muske-
gon lake while out rowing by the cap
sizing of the boat.
At Hannibal, Mo-, the water is far
up on the levee, and residents of the
sQuatter section have been compelled
to vacate their homes for higher
places The Mississippi river is rising
at all points north Of Hannibal up to
St Paul.