Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-02
Summary OF News.


A miniature battle was recently fought in Penn
sylvania between the farmers and gang OF ma
rauders. Two farmers and three thieves were
killed. The corn crop In the northwest will be
light, but the oat crop will be the largest ever
known. A package containing dynamite car
fridge was dropped into the mail at the New
York office last week. Three hundred pounds
of gunpowder exploded in a Chicago quarry last
week Every pane OF glass for a mile was
broken, and railway car shops were damaged to
the amount OF 81, 200. Several were killed..
The entire collections OF the United States inter-
nal revenue for the past year amounted TO s146,-
10000 The expenses OF collecting will not ex-
coed 50, 100, 900 There have been no defalcations
for the past six years. Three men took refuge
during thunder storm at West Roxbury, Mass
under tree. Two were struck by lightning and
the third one was stunned. There has been
large number Of cases Of sunstroke in New York
and Brooklyn during the past week. The death
OF Fanny Parnell, sister Of Charles Stewart
Parnell, has already been announced, and now
another sister, Anna, Is seriously sick. The de-
fauting teller Of the National Bank OF the Re-
public at Washington, d. c., has surrendered
himself because he was tired OF being hunted
from place TO place -. The strikes throughout
the country are coming to a head. In most cases
employers accede TO the demands OF the strikers.
-. In Sitka, Alaska, the people are dying from
the plague, and no physicians OF medicines are
obtainable; Hog cholera prevails in the east
ern part Of Illinois. Terrible forest fires are
raging in portions Of Michigan. Some Massa-
chusetts youths have been reading yellow COW
cred literature, and have been arrested for com
hitting highway robberies. A large forest FIRE
is raging between Sandwich and Plymouth. Mass
-. The Italian freight handlers at Jersey City
have again been assaulted by the strikers. Sew
eral were severely hurt "A state convention OF
brewers was held in Cincinnati, o., the other day.
They pledged themselves TO oppose any candidate
who favors laws subversve Of their interests.
The emigration from Germany to America has de-
creased ten thousand compared with the same
period In 18S1......T The potato crop will be very
large this A dpaDpratp Int unsuccessful
attempt was made last week to assaasinate the
recorder OF Dublin at the Green street court
house tutor named Fitzpatrick, who was
non-suited as plaintiff on civil bill pro-
cess, fired at the recorder in open court He
was seized by the defendant and police
man. Albert Curry Of Georgetown has been
nominated for governor by the republicans OF
Delaware. "A Denver, Colorado, boy stole
$1,000 from beneath his mothers pillow and abb
seconded. He was caught and the money restored.
....Seth Parmalee, an old settler and noted char
acter at Mackinaw, Is dead. aged eighty -six....
There were 1914 deaths in New York in the twenty
four hours ending at noon July 9th. Many OF
them were cases Of sunstroke. ....A stage coach
was robbed in Louisiana the other day by two
masked men. They secured thirteen registered
packages, relieved four passengers and the driver
OF money and jewelry. They took off the nuts OF
the coach wheels and escaped. Four hundred
refugee Russian Jews have been expelled from
Castle Garden, New York, because OF their re-
fusal to work and their filthy habits. ....A man
| named Westgate o Brien, a Scotchman, has been
| arrested on his confession that he was one OF the
murderers of Cavendish and Burke in Phoenix
Park, but it turns out that the confession is spu-
rious. The day Of the tragedy he sailed from
Nathalie for Swanza twenty minutes before 1t oc-
| Cured. Frederick n Lawrence well-known
retired lawyer, at Flushing, Long Island, has
committed suicide, Theophilus I1errick, we'll
known Boston hotel-keeper, committed suicide at
Gloucester Mass the other day. Francis Potts,
prominent publisher of Philadelphia, has COM
| mitted suicide by shooting. Samuel Sachs,
Era pt lu hot rif
because jealous of her. He escaped. Ex-Alder-
| man Dunn Of Brooklyn has expressed desire to
| fight Sullivan or Wilson in Louisiana or Missis-
sippi for 50, 500 a side and the cham ponship of
the world. One thousand dollars forfeit money
| has been deposited, Turkey has decided to
send troops to Egypt. At Paoli, Indiana, a
| mob hanged a man for aiding in a murder, and
| then threw the body into the river Sullivan,
the pugilist has surrendered to the police on the
old charges of assault and battery and profanity
| standing against him So. Two hundred delegates
from different parts of Massachusetts have formed
an organization to resist prohibtory legislation
| Yellow fever prevails at Matamoras Mexico go.
| Three prisoners lately escaped from Plattsburgh
| jail. One was recaptured. Dr. George H. White,
| Florida physician, was found on the dock in New
York in an unconscious condition. lie had been
drugged and robbed of his gold watch and $500 in
money. A Texas lawyer abused his wife and her
mother and was dangerously shot by the latter.
SO. The Apache Indians are again on the war
path In Arizona and Mexico Russian steamer
has been sunk by boiler explosion and eighty
persons were drowned. Guy Smith, a twelve
years-old, has been convicted of numbering his
father and will probably be sentenced to death.
800. The go-as-you-please walking match nuisance
has been revived in Boston. Hartman Hart,
Hughes, Noremac, Dufrene Campagna and Gal
lagher started Monday morning. More British
troops have been sent to Egypt The son of one
of the Russian consuls in Roumania has been
rested on the charge of supplying dynamite to
nihilists. girl in Hagerstown Maryland, has
died Of grief at the loss of her hair. . The num-
Der Of deaths in New York city for the week end
ing Saturday noon reached the appalling figure
of 1217. Charles II Reed, OF the firm Of Charles
II. Reed Il Co, leather dealers in Boston, was in
stantly killed Monday morning by falling through
hatchway in his store. A disastrous fire &C.
CURED in New York last Monday morning. 1t
started in Heckers -four mill and spread rapidly.
Occupants of tenements had to flee for their lives
large area was burned over and the loss of life
was considerable 1t is described as one of the
most destructive in the annals of the city. :.
The Massachusetts forest fires have been ex-
tinguished,. IA waterspout and sudden flood at
Wilderburgh, Ohio, swept away bridges and
buildings and drowned numbers of live stock
Hay and other harvested crops were carried off
Houses were submerged and families narrowly