The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-11
Other Localities.


FISK & HATCH, the suspended New York
brokers, have resumed.
THE late Harvey D. Parker of Boston left
$4,000 to the Museum Of Fine Arts of that
city.
HENRY q. VENNoR, the weather prophet,
died on Sunday at Montreal, aged forty-three
years.
ENGLAND is experiencing a drouth, the like
OF which has not occurred for more than fifteen
years
For inefficiency at the Cincinnati riots,
the Fourth Regiment of Ohio Militia has been
disbanded.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, twenty-four members of
the salvation army have been arrested for dis
turbing the peace.
THE decrease of the public debt during the
month of May was S4 1903 241 90 Decrease of
debt since June 30, 1888, 1911, S22 714SS
THE wreck of the steamship City of Column
bus, with its contents, has been sold at auction
to the Boston Towboat Company for S760.
THE Oregon state election occurred ON Mon
day. the ID. The republicans carried the state
and elected the legislature, thus gaining a
United States senator.
THE Imperial Canal of China is the longest
in the world, and the greatest in point of traffic.
1t is 2 100 miles long, including river sections,
and connects forty-one cities.
THE prohbitory law in Iowa goes into effect
on the 4th OF July. Vigorous preparations are
being made on the one hand for its enforce
ment, and on the other for resistance.
The schooner Fanny Fern of Gloucester
was run down last Sunday, while on her pas
sage home from Georges, by an unknown out
ward bound coal steamer, and four of the crew
were drowned.
VIOLENT shock Of earthquake occurred
May 10 on the Island of Kishur, near the mouth
of the Persian Gulf. Twelve villages were de-
stroyed, two hundred persons killed and many
others injured.
NEW telephone has been tried on the cop
per wire Of the postal telegraph company be-
talking was as easy as for a distance OF block
only with an ordinary instrument.
NEW fruit called the "loquot has been
introduced in Southern California and is be-
coming very popular. The trees, which were
originally set out for ornament, are very prolific,
and the fruit is of the most delicious flavor.
GENERAL JAMES WATSON WEBB, the veteran
journalist, died in New York, Sunday, aged
eighty-two years. He was for many years
editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer,
and was United States minister to Brazil sew
eral years after 1861.
A LETTER from northwestern Louisiana says
the distress among the people of that region
on account Of the floods is appalling. Crawfish
and corn meal is the only food obtainable. The
cattle are furnishing.
THE expenses Of the Methodist general con-
ference at Philadelphia were over $50, 600, of
which the Methodists of that city pay $40, 900
and the Philadelphia conference S25, 600. The
| travelling expenses alone were $25, 900. 1t cost
| 50, 200 to bring the California delegation and
| $l,024 for the men from northern India.
THERE is negro graduate at Harvard this
year-Robert Hebberton Terrell, Virginian,
| nj n
college as waiter, and at that time was litter
| ate; but some Of the white students took a
fancy to him and helped him through pre-
| paratory course, after which he supported him
self by teaching Boston class of negro boys.
THE wealth of the United States is estimated
at so, 600 600 000 that of great Britain at $40,
600, 600 600. The wealth per inhabitant in the
United States is 5000 and in Great Britain 1t is
| 81, 900. In the United States seventy-two parts
OF the wealth go to labor, twenty-three to capt.
| tai and five to government. In Great Britain
forty-one parts go to labor, thirty-six to capt.
tai and twenty-three to government.
The Encouragement has sent letter to
Representative Springer saying that criminal
| proceedings are about to be commenced against
John Hall, late United States marshal of the
western district Of Pennsylvania. Examiner
BALM, who investigated Marshal Halls &C
count has been ordered to go to Pittsburg to
appear before the grand jury Witnesses before
Mr. Springer's committee during the present
congress have testified that Mr.. Hall has failed
to account for from 100000 to $40O. 600
THERE is intense excitement at Hammonton
N. j., over the discovery Of twenty-one chill
dren buried In five boxes in a small plot o.
ground on the outskirts the 4th, at a mission
home" opened several years ago by Mis-
Nivison for the purpose of taking young chill
dren TO raise out of charity. The children
were mostly taken from the great cities. Mis-
Nivison claimed that she could raise ninety-fiv
kI.A. H. Al has
II is now claimed that twenty-one out OF TWEEN
ty-three died.
BY the use Of ammonia, 1t is said, the larg
hotels OF Philadelphia have become indie