The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-04
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
Esy Telegraph ana Mail.

l ht ttUttHllldl nOaTu Oh illHhtt has Ut
cided to award the contract for the cree
ton Of Memorial building and a main EX-
position building for the Centennial, to
Richard i. Dobbins, IA builder of Phila
delphia, he being the loves. bidder. Ills
contract will amount to over - 500 900 on
these buildings
a final and very severe test OF the st
Louis and Illinois bridge was made Thurs
day. Fourteen locomotives, averaging
forty tons each. were placed. seven ON
each track of each arch which produced
detection OF q inches on the entire arch,
which is $50 feet long. several other
tests were made nil of which were regard
ed rs highly satisfactory.
The amount ct lumber exported from
Ottawa for the month ending June 30,
1874, was 81, ls0, 00i feet: same period last
year, %, 456, $40 feet, showing decrease
of over 100000 feet. The number of
American boats employed in treighting
lumber the past month, and which left the
Chandierc, is 1914, against % for the same
period of last year. They carried over 49,
000,000 feet. Only "A Canadian vessels
cleared during the month, carrying $780,
044 feet, against l54 vessels tor June, 1873.
1t will thus be seen that the American
boats are fast securing the monopoly of
the ircighting business
Thursday night President Grant tele-
graphed to John II. Ketchum, who repre-
scented IN the Thirly-ninth and Forticth
Congress, the l1lh New York district, the
of commissioner under the bill
providing for Il new form of government
in the district of Columbia. 1t is not
known whether he has accepted, but as he
is expected in the city soon, the i'm
preston Is general that he will. Neither
Mr.. Blow or cX-Gov. Dennison have. as
yet, qualified by giving the bond in the sum
of $4,000, provided for under the law.
The steamer Cambridge, on Fourth of
July excursion from Bangor to Boston, left
Rockland. Me-, Thursday night, crowded
with passengers. The Bangor cornet band
was on board Fifty extra mattresses were
put on board at Rockland to accommodate
the passengers While coming down the
river she ran down the schooner Bloomfield
of Boston, cutting her in two. The steamer
lowered her boats and rescued the captain,
his wife and one of the crew, who were in
the water. No lives were lost. The steamer
suffered no damage and was detained about
an hour.
Mr., Robinson, the jewcler, who offered
the prizes in the late walking match at
Worcester, Mass, has decided to offer sim
liar prizes A $500 gold watch $50
watch and $40 silver trumpet, to be COM
peted for in running race, to come off
some time next month. The conditions of
the race have not yet been definitely ar
ranged, but it is expected that the race will
be half mile heats. best in 5, or mile heats,
best . in 3. The pedestrian fever is so high
in Worcester that there will he no difficulty
in getting up lively race. Like the walk
ing contest, tie race will, probably, be open
only to amateurs of Worcester county.
Thursday night two fellows went to Mid
dlelon, fastened their horses in the woods.
and went to the store of NJ. f. Tyler near
by, and breaking in were in the act of
plunderng when the owner discovered
them. The breakers fired a shot at Tyler,
and jumping into their team, drove to
Lawrence by the roundabout way of Wake
field. Tyler followed and informed the
police of this city, and in the afternoon
Officer Sheehan arrested one of the men,
doubtless the one who fired the shot, as he
had pistol in his pocket His nsme is
Albert Delaski he has been employed for
few weeks in Stowell's carriage shop as n
painter
The railroad commissioners of Minnesota,
appointed under the recent legislative act
have prepared "A schedule for freights and
passenger tariff. The usual local passen-
ger fare has been cents per mile; this
rate the commissioners reduce to or A
cents on the Iowa and Minnesota division
of the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad,
and 10 81 cents on the river division of the
same road. The general manager of the
Sioux City and st. Paul road, abiding to
the official schedule says:
:" We cannot run cheaper the trains which
have been run, nor have we any reserve to
pay expenses not earned. If the people on
the line of the road are unwilling to pay
old prices for transportation. flrst-class
passenger trains will be discontinued and
such accommodation be given to passengers
as can he given at cents per mile
There is considerable gossip in Brooklyn
about diamond-tiDped baton which was
purchased for T. 5. Gilmore, but which
never came into that genilemans posses
sion. About three years ago the officers
Of the Brooklyn Choral Union undertook
to get up miniature Jubilee, and the SER
vices of Mr.. u. S. Gilmore were solicited
as conductor on the occasion. Mr.. Gill
more came on from Boston, drilled the So
ciety previous to its appearance in public,
and also conducted it at the performances
The members of the Choral Union were
so well pleased with Mr. Gilmors services
that they decided to make him present of
a costly acknowledged baton. The baton
was purchased, but never presented to Mr..
Gilmore Subscribers are now on the qui
riUe The baton has been discovered in the
treasurer's trunk, where it has laid three
years The present will be Immediately
forwarded to Mr.. Gilmore. The treasurer
of the Choral Union disavows any inten-
ton of dishonesty in the matter
A terrible railroad accident occurred at
Milford, N. H., Thursday morning. Geo.
Daniels, Esq, while riding, accompanied
by his wife and little grandson, son of 4. L.
Livermore, Esq, of Boston, was run into
by the morning milk train, completely de-
molishing the horse and carriage and kill
ing Mrs. Daniels instantly, her brains being
strewn upon the track. Mr.. Daniels was
hurt badly about the head and right side.
There is some hope of his recovery. The
child is unconscious, being injured about
the head, the right arm broken and other