The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02
Items OF Interest.

THE woman suffrage amendment was killed
in the Iowa assembly.
THE Connecticut authorities have prosecuted
a number Of farmers for selling cider without
liquor dealers license.
Ex-MAYoR HENRY L. PIERCE of Boston paid
bert, at the sale Of I. s. Cooper's cattle at New
York.
AT Chsmbersburg, Penn, Miss Ada Kurtz
was sworn in as deputy sheriff. She is a
daughter of the sheriff and an accomplished
young lady.
GENERAL GRANT, it is thought by some,
may be brought out as a presidential candidate
in the event OF Logan not securing the republi
can nomination.
In the Connecticut house the bill giving
women the right to vote on license was over
whelmingly defeated The bill giving them
the right to vote in school meetings was also
rejected.
THE certificate OF incorporation of the United
States and West India Cable Company has
been filed. The cable route of the proposed
company Is between New York, the coast of
Florida and the West Indies. The capital
stock is so, 100000
years struck Denver, Col, the 9th ult., and in
the evening continued undated in fury. Many
of the finest buildings of the city, including the
city hail. were unroofed The wind maintained
velocity Of sixty miles an hour Several per-
sons were injured. 1t IL impossible to estimate
the loss at present.
EXPERIMENTS were made the 9th ult by
the American Bell Telephone Company ia
transmitting conversation between Boston aud
New York, over number of twelve copper
wires built especially for the experiments. A
metallic circuit was established, and with the
aid Of ordinary telephone instruments without
special adjustment the faintest whisper could
be he ard.
A MICRoscoPICAL examination OF piece OF
Mrs. Mary Schulters leg, who died with symp-
toms of trichina, in Westmoreland county,
Pa, showed it to be full OF parasites. Worms,
under the microscope, we're found In all stages.
Ludwig Schulters and the Gale family, six
of whom ate pork at the same time, are all
in very serious condition, and prob ably
Schulters and four of the Gale family will die.
In the New York senate, bill was intro.
duced prohibiting the sale or exhibition Of in
decent publications devoted to criminal and
| police news and criminal deeds tending to cor.
rupt the morals Of the youth of the state. This
offense was made misdemeanor. petition
| from the New York society for the prevention
of cruelty to children in favor Of this bill and
in favor OF the prohibition of the sale of dime
novels was read.
A BOYD, Kentucky, dispatch says it will be
| days before the extent of the desolation caused
| by the recent cyclone can be ascertained. The
! loss of life, as we'll as the damage to property,
| Is serious. At Colesmansvile, not one of the
three hundred inhabitants escaped injury, and
| seventy five buildings were demolished. The
little towns of Mount Nebo, Conroy and Antioch
| Mills were swept away. Throughout thu
country nothing was left standing in the TRACK
of the tornado. Stock, barns, dwellings, fences
and forests were carried off. Two boys who
we're fishing in the Licking river took refuge a
the mouth of a railroad tunnel, and were blown
| through 1t to the other opening, distance o
three hundred yards. Babes were blown from
their mothers arms and killed. Those VIII,
went to their work in the morning have not We
returned to their families. Two children sup
posed to have been lost we're found in a celia
and rescued. Bodies of dead persons wer
found strewn along the roads Immense mum
beers of cattle and other stock were slaughtered
A church was lifted from sight. The orga
was found miles distant. Rocks were born
quite distance Vast quantities of water wer
blown from the river. A man sought refug
behind freight car flying debris was seen t
encompass him, and he cannot now be found
The chimneys and foundations of building
were carried away.