Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-04-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
NotabIe Events Of the Week Briefly
ChrOntcIed.

AnEOuANAeus
The international agricultural con
gress has opened at Rome.
A Lake Shore grain elevator at Chi
cago was burned loss, 100000
Sir Oliver Mowat, lieutenant govern
or of Ontario, broke his thigh In fall
A landslide blocked the Union Pa
ciic near the Aspen tunnel, Wyoming
Bitter cold was reported in England
with heavy snow in parts of the couR-
try.
Prince Ching has been appointed Chi
nese grand secretary in succession to
Yung Lu, deceased.
General II. X. Baldwin has succeed
ed General Funston in charge of the
department Of the Colorado.
Monday, April 10.
A terrific thunderstorm did heavy
damage at Pittsburg
Logan, De Witt and Piatt counties,
ILL.,, We're listed by a violent tornado.
The antlstrike bills as passed by the
Dutch parliament were at once signed
by Queen Wilhelmina.
Colonel J. e, MACEDONIAN, the veteran
editor in chief of the Chattanooga
CTenn) Times, is dead
Masked hlghwaymen held up a Chi
cago trolley car and robbed the in
mates of 5000 and some jewelry.
The dam of the Boney reservoir, near
Olathe, Colo, gave way, causing dam
age estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
600.
The retirement OF Major General
Robert p. Hughes was followed by a
large number of changes in important
army commands.
George Vaughan, a farm laborer,
found $1,000 in ten and twenty dollar
bills in the base OF hollow tree near
Knoxville, Tenn.
The stage running between Nevada
City and brownsville, Cal, was held
up by a lone highwayman and the
Wells-Fargo box taken.
1t was reported that the forces OF
President Zelaya had recaptured Fort
San Carlos and that the rebellion in
Nicaragua was practically at an end.
Four persons were killed. two fatal
ly hurt and several others slightly in
jured I'm head on collision on the In
tercolonial railway near Halifax, ~ 8.
William Valance the famous light
ming calculator, who could do any sum
in mathematical calculation mentally
and with but an instants hesitation,
died in Trenton. n. j.
The postofiice department has or
dered all promotions in the New York
Office held up pending the result Of the
investigation into the existence of an
alleged promotion pool.
Saturday, April II.
Colorado and Southern railroad men
get wage advance.
Extraordinarily severe weather pre-
vailed in many districts OF Austria.
French troops were reported pouring
into Kwangsl province from Assam
The new cup defender Reliance was
launched successfully at Bristol, r. /.
British sailors are reported to have
begun a piratical cruise in the gulf OF
Mexico.
Yung In, the comptroller Of finance
and first grand secretary Of China, died
in Picking
The Russian consul at Mitrovitza has
died Of a wound inflicted by an Alba.
man sentry.
a union miner received eight years
for his connection with the murder Of
a nonunion man.
All strikers in Rome except the com,
positoIs have resumed work. Foreign
ers are returning to the city.
The Pennell inquest at Buffalo was
closed without throwing any light on
the Burdick murder mystery.
The average condition of winter
wheat was reported 10 be 97.3 against
1871 on the same date last year.
a strike was begun in a factory at
Schenectady, n. Y, because a young
woman was discharged for laughing
The main building of Edwards col
lege, near Austin, Tex, a Roman Cath
Ollie institution, was burned. Loss.
$175,OOO
The Rev, William Henry NIilbun,
the venerable blind chaplain of the
United States senate, died in Santa
Barbara, Cal.
1t was announced that the trial Of
DR.. J. c. Alexander in connection with
the indianapolis grave robbing cases
had been postponed Indefinitely
Three thousand Chicago tanners and
curriers' have returned to work, end
ing strike Of several weeks for rec
ognition Of the union, without success.
Captain Pershing's force has cap
tured Bacolod, island of Mindanao,
killing 100 Moros and woundlng many
others. Three American soldiers were
wounded
Friday, April 10.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
and the gunboat Machias have arrived