Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-19
Summary OF News.

damaged property to the amount OF S15 600 and
injured many persons. The news from South
America is OF a pacific character There IL n
growing disposition among the Chilians to aban-
don Peru and end the war.....A man was shot
dead in Dublin, July A, by Fenians, II Is supposed
A man named Poole was arrested, and his arrest
ia important outside Of the present case =. Fresh
arrests have been made In st. Petersburgh, among,
them that OF an officer who was specially charged
with the protection Of the czar.. Twenty per-
| sons have been arrested at Loughrea, Ireland on
suspicion OF connection with the murder Of Burke
and the trooper Wallace The Americans In Paris
celebrated July ith by giving several banquets.
There were festivities at the American club in the
afternoon. A snake charmer in New York was
bitten by rattesnake and Is In critical condi-
| ton. :. W. j. Spaugh, Methodist minister in In
dian territory, was set upon and killed by. young
| Indians, whose enmity he had incurred by cor
| recting them In school. &c. About 1925 600 has
| thus far been contributed to the Garfield monu-
ment fund. Six thousand boot and shoe opera
tives in Montreal threaten to strike for advance
| OF wages. "A woman and two children were
| starved to death in lonely section OF Van Buren,
county, Arkansas, In the mountains. Upward OF
| SO 900 900 worth Of oleomargarine was made In
| 1881 by four establishments in New York city,.
Seven steamships having over 5000 immigrants ON
| board arrived at New York on the 9TH The
first nstallment Of children aided by the Iribtnes
| fresh-air fund has gone to the Adirondacks 90.
Greenfield, Mass, hote-keepers threaten to close
their doors in consequence Of liquor raid upon
them The famous Russian general, Skobeen,
| is dead Edwin Woodbury., although sane has
been in the Bloomingdae, ILL., insane asylum two
years. The Malley trial cost both sides $50 900
| The archbishops and bishops Of Ireland have
prepared circular TO the priests, directing them
| to dscountenance the ladies' land league and
| forbid6ing females from attending public meet
ings without the consent Of the parish priest
| A Chicago man has died Of hydrophobia in conse-
| quence Of being bitten by hog six weeks ago.
| 1t il said that whiskey was at the bottom OF
| the Scioto steamboat disaster. Fresh placards
| offering 100000 reward for the discovery OF the
| murderers Of Cavendish and Burke have been
N In drQd a nd iulf
poets are still detained in Irish prisons. Charles
| Sanghemer, Dutchman who figured In Dickens
| American Notes. recently released from the peni-
| Tertiary where he served over forty years, has
| again been arrested on charge Of til-tapping ...
| A Fargo, Dakota, policeman, while attempting to
| enter house TO secure an escaped prisoner, was
| shot by woman who supposed him to be tramp.
| Nlhilism is again becoming rampant in Rus
STA. The pudding mills in portions of Ohio have
signed the advanced scale Of wages and are
again running: The Sutton p O., murderer,
in jail at Sweetsburgh, has been making
threats against the jaor's life. His cell was
searched and heavy club found IA man in
New York entered BARRIERS shop, stood before
the mirror, and deliberately cut his throat with
razor... St Louis broker who had become
bankrupt committed suicide last week The
New York merchants are moving to have man
damus served upon the railroads, for the purpose
OF compelling them to forward freight. The roads
are trying to delay action, hoping to subdue the
strikers. Constant outbreaks occurring
among the freight handlers the old ones trying
more Missouri train robbers have been captured.
They refuse to give their names or disclose their
identity. The secretary of the treasury has de-
cided that the Doyle bond plate was counter
felt in every part and that no government officer
was implicated in counterfeiting the Doyle bonds.
THE project OF a tunnel between Dover, En-
gland, and Calais, France, has been abandoned.
go. General Lew. Wallace our minister at Con-
stantinople IL called to consult with the sultan
nearly every day on the Egyptian question:.
llablot X. Brown, known as Phiz,' the illus
traitor OF Dickens works, is dead Mrs Scoville,
in an open letter to Rev. DR. Hicks claims the
autopsy shows her brother was insane, and as
serts she will begin legal proceedings to get
possession Of his body and the property left by
him to DIR. Hicks. The post-olfice department
has decided that Walt Whtman's publications
shall pass unmolested through the mails al
though the privilege has been refused at the Bos-
ton post-ofice. The president Of Gautamala is
in New Orleans There was a general jail
delivery at Minneapolis last week One Of the
prisoners knocked down the turnkey, and all es-
capped. "A new association Of iron manufacture
ers has been formed at Pittsburgh The MEM
bers are firm in their determination to resist the
demands OF the strikers The death rate in
New York city during the past week has been ex-
tremely high. ... The Tennessee credit democracy
have nominated j. ii, Frissell for governor. -.
Ex-Governor Washburne Of Maine, while jumping
from moving train, fell and broke his wrist 90.
| There are over four thousand carloads of freight
standing on the side tracks OF the Erie railway be-
| tween Jersey City and Port Jervis Fifteen hum
dred men resumed work at the rolling mills at Bay
View, Wisconsin, last week. Davitt delivered
his last address in America at New York last
| week Tuesday evening The bouquet which
Mrs. Scovie endeavored to convey to GuiteAu
has been anayzed and found to contain arsenic
| enough to kill a dozen men. ....A memorial hall
for the members of Bowdoin College who fell in
the war of the rebellion has been dedicated.
, go. An explosion of gas caused fire in Paris
which destroyed twelve houses, killed twenty
persons, injured forty and rendered one hundred
homeless. terrible explosion occurred
| Shore At
Thursday The foreman Of gang of twenty
eight laborers was tamping hole for a blast in
which was two kegs OF powder when an explo-
sion took place The whole party njured in
some way-two were killed outright, several will
die, and many of the others dreadfully mangled.
Reports of toy pistol accidents continue to
come in.....A Brooklyn bookkeeper named
Shannon has embezzled 81 900 and disappeared
Young volunteers for the Egyptian campaign
, are numerous in England =. The secretary of
the treasury has made call Of three and one
half per cent bonds TO be replaced by three per
cents. "A lady was burned to death in Chicago
by the bursting of gasoline stove. $50. The late
outbreak in the Concord, Massachusetts, prison
: has been quelled. The convicts have gone to
work and are quiet and respectful. 80. The presi-
dent will not interfere in the case of Sergeant
Mason. Several hundred cases Of violations OF
the Sunday liquor law were dismissed in Chicago
last week 1t was impossible TO convict. Dur
ing May ninety-eght sailing vessels and ten
steamers of all countries were reported lost or
missing, The moulders at the Wisconsin NAL
a |
] consequence OF the employment of non-union
men. One of the largest iron and steel mer-
chants in Middlebury, England, has failed with
liabilities of $4,000 >. The tariff commission
will hold its sessions at Long Branch, Women
are hereafter to be admitted to the University
, OF Mississippi Two men named Flaherty, who
, had just returned to Ireland from America, have
| been arrested on suspicion of completely in the
Phoenix Park murders. The old state house at
Boston, after having been used for years for bust
ness purposes, has been nearly restored to its
original condition and was rededicated last week.
-. There are indications that oil pools of Pennsyl-
vania are becoming exhausted Some 700 ltal-
ians who were employed as freight handlers in New
York in place OF the strikers have Joined them.
! Through an ingenious arrangement attached to
the money drawer of the National State Bank
of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the bank isnitor sue
ceeded in abstraeting 50 900 during the past year
-. A steamer coded with schooner lately off
the coast Of Delaware and sunk her. The cap
tain and crew escaped to the shore in "A boat.
A woman employed in New York hotel threw
her newborn baby into the furnace during the alb
sence of the engineer. Charles 7, Geer, many
| years agent of the express companies in Ogdeps-
burgh, committed suicide last week by shooting.
.... Two Louisville, Kentucky editors met on the
street and fired five or six shots at each other.
One wounded, and both were arrested .....
An unknown man at Hoos ok Falls, New York,
J was twice pulled from the railroad track, but
found the next morning mangled and dead.
| There was serious fight at Jersey City last week
between the striking freight handlers and the
Italians who had been employed in their places.
| The ltalinns were well armed. Many were in
jured on both sides and a few killed. A Mexican
merchant caught a thief in his store and locked
him In room with fierce dog The thief was
manged to death live desperados were
lynched in New Mexico last week. -, Near Dem
yer, Colorado a mob hanged a cattle thief A
| squad OF police attacked the mob and desperate
fight followed. While it was in progress the thief
was cut down and resusctated, 900, The chemist
OF the Dupont powder works has been killed by
the explosion of a small quantity of powder. 49,.
A mob at Los Vegas New Mexico, attacked the
jail for the purpose of lynching man who had
killed the mayor. The guards fired, wounding
two and killing two,....A negro was lynehed in
| Kentucky last week. ... Bishop Scott, of the
Methodist Episcopal church. is dead -. John
Bright has resigned his seat in the British cabi-
net. The widow of the late President Lincoln
died in Springfield, Illinois, Sunday evening.
She h been sick a long time few days ago
she became worse and suffered "A shock of paraly-
| sis and lay in comatose state till her death.
WEST TorsHAM.- There was a large congre-
CATION out To church last Sunday. After the
mersed and united with the Freewill Baptist
have gone to Kennebunk beach for few weeks
Moore WAS tried by jury last week and the jury
by their verdict said they did not believe Magoons
story. Mrs. Victor Bagley and little daughter
from Kansas City are visiting friends here. MI
G, J. Carpenter and wife have bought the place
at Maple Corner where Charles Peaslee lived -.
Mrs. M. b. jackson and daughter have gone to
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