The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-04

| Tor the best poem on the white elephant has
brought in over eight hundred productions.
The farmers Of Georgia complain of a bad
bee-destroying bird, stranger to the country,
which sits at the openings Of bee gums and
snaps at the bees.
THE gymnasium at Amherst college, Just
finished at n cost OF $50, 000 Is the gift Of Mr..
Charles NJ Pratt OF Brooklyn, who graduated
at Amherst In 1879.
TwENTy-oNE years ago there were only
| twelve women doctors In the United States
There are now eight hundred and fifty, and
the gates are still open
LARGE supplies Of war munitions are being
forwarded from England to Quebec. The
steamship Ocean King has arrived at Quebec
with the first consignment.
COLONEL FREI, Swiss minister at Washing
ton, has resigned. The resignation is due to a
defeat on May IL, Of the bill providing for an
increase Of the sasry of the minister at Wash
ington.
THE American Unitarian Association has
elected the following officers: President II. P.
| Kidder OF Boston, Independents, George Will
liam Curtis OF New York and Charles Allen of
Boston; secretary, Rev. Grindall Reynolds
of Concord, Mass. assistant secretary, George
w. Fox Of Boston, treasurer, Charles II. Bur-
rage Of Boston.
RALPH BEAUMONT OF Elmira, N. Y, presi-
dent of the Knights Of Labor, will make tour
Of the continent on foot, from Maine to Cali
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and expects to make upward of twenty miles
day, delivering lecture every night at some
| town on the route on the labor and anti-mo-
nopoly questions
CHARLES RowELL, the English pedestrian,
who was defeated by Patrick Fitzgerald in the
last six days go-as-you-please race, has gone
to England. Rowell has completely recovered
from the effects of the race and is getting fat.
He will remain in England until the time comes
for him to go into training for his race with
Fitzgerald in the fall.
NOVEL machine for illuminating purposes
has just been finished, says the Pittsburg Com
nlercidl by the supply company of that CITY,
The principle Of the invention consists in merely
blowing dry air over quantity of gasoline,
thereby producing pure hydro-carbon gas,
the consumption of which Is free from the usual
smoke and offensive odors.
KNUPP's tunnel, on the South Pennsylvania
railroad, was the scene OF terrible accident
| Thursday, by which nine men were instantly
killed, and eleven others seriously injured, with
slight hopes for recovery. A large force of
men was engaged in excavating the tunnel
about one hundred feet from the main entrance
when the heavy scaffolding gave way. The
victims we're principally Italians. The bodies
have all been recovered
A NUMBER of heavy wheat growers from all.
parts Of northern Dakota witnessed, at Fargo
Tuesday, an experiment in blowing by steam,
and express themselves as pleased with the re-
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ing sod four inches thick as evenly and as
we'll as could be done by horsepower, and at a
rate of over twenty-five acres day. This will
mark a new era in wheat growing, as it will
enable farmers to plow at a cost Of not more
than 81 to the acre.
A BLEACHER exploded in Moore g. Wilson's
strawboard mill at Waterford N. Y, on Mon
day night Of last week, totally demolishing
the building The bleacher was carried three
hundred feet across the canal, where it de-
stroyed wooden house and partially buried
itself in the ground. Five men were killed
The damage to the mill is between $4,000 and
$4,000 AS the bleacher had recently been
repaired and tested the cause of the explosion
is unknown The bodies have all been identi-
| fed.
THE weight of cotton stored in Hooper's
building in Baltimore caused 1t to collapse Fri
day afternoon. When the front of the build
ing fell in three or four persons were in the
counting room, four in the shipping Office and at
least fifteen or twenty in front of the structure.
Eight bodies have been discovered. The build
ing was erected twenty five years ago, and wac
supposed to be one of the most substantial in
the city. On which story the break occurred is
not known. All are down from the front to
within forty feet Of the rear. The ground on
which the building stood was filled In, having
been river shore. The foundation is said to
have settled, thus causing the calamity.
HORACE H. BUELL. of Chicago, not having
scheme of being sent as express matter to
Manhattan, Kansas and was successful He
arranged a box so that he could sit in it, and
could, II necessary, open 1t and release himself.
He left Chicago last Thursday and arrived in
Manhattan shortly after midnight on Saturday
morning When he was rolled into the express
office at the depot the box was so placed that
he was on his head. Buell. stood it as long rs
he could and then made his presence known,
greatly frightening the agent, who was going
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they released him. He is to pay the express
charges.
ONE of the worst railroad wrecks ever known
! (where there was no loss of life) happened
Thursday night, on the Falls branch of the New
York Central railroad, at Murray, a short dis
lance east of Albion. About ten o'clock west
bound and an east-bound freight and accommo-
dalton train met each other at full speed. The
crash was terrific. and reduced both engines to
a mass of broken iron. The engineers and fire.
men jumped in time to save their lives. Fifty
| three freight cars were thrown from the track,
and twenty were in An instant piled ON top of
the two engines The telegraph operator at
Murray carelessly forgot to hold the west
bound train at that station, as ordered, and he
is blamed for the accident. The loss will reach
$25 600.
The season is furnishing novelties in horrors.
1t was found one day last week by the relatives
of Horace Baldwin, who had died at Oak
Creek, Wis, that the coffin provided was quite
too short for the remains, and a nephew pro-
coded to sever the legs of the dead man, using
a common saw. While at this CHASTITY work
he imagined that the corpse moved, whereupon
he tainted. At this juncture another stalwart
relative finished the job and the funeral was
proceeded with. Soon after the occurrence the
neighbors threatened to mob the nephew,
though why the other guilty man should escape
their criticism is matter that can hardly be
understood outside Of a community where such
occurrences as misfits in collins and their rem
edies are tolerated.