The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-24


letters through the mail, and United
States commissioner, after hearing, held
them in $500, and they not being able to
procure bail, Judge Blodgett of the United
| States court ordered them to be sent to this
state for trial.
A QUIET gentleman stopping at the Stew
art House, Island Pond, has been for sew
eral days the object Of great curiosity there
because he minded his own business. Last
week Wednesday morning he developed
! into Robert A. Pinkerton, superintendent
of Pinxerton's Detective Agency, New York,
in arresting a safe burglar for Philadelphia
| parties. The criminal had been to Canada
| for his health and was Swallowed by Pink
erton and his men, and ran into the hands
| of Deputy Sheriff Bonett, while on his way,
| with one of Pinkertons men, to Europe.
| The mans name Is Proctor, alias Rogers.
| He is "a clever workman, having been the
master mechanic of the car shops at Sus-
| quehanna, Penn.
Other Localities.
Mr.. MOODY has started on a tour, during
which he will hold Christian conventions OF
three days each in Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
st. Paul, Cincinnati and Richmond.
THE senate has amended the bill relating to
lotteries in such manner that, il the house
concurs and the president signs the bill, the
lottery business must go to the wall.
WILLIAM A. GILPATRIcK has been ar
rested at Exeter, N. H., for causing the
| death of boy named Sydney Tanner by
cruel treatment, and held in the sum of
$4,000 for trial.
| ANOTHER great cave-in occurred Wednes-
day morning at Plymouth, Penn, three acres
| of land sinking five feet. One house was
wrecked but nobody was injured. The dam
age to the mine property will reach $4,000.
THE fashionable jewelry establishment of
| Napoleon Lafebyre, at Montreal, was robbed
the 18th. The safe was blown open with
gunpowder, and from $4,000 to S15, 600 in
diamonds, watches and jewelry were taken.
THE heaviest earthquake shock ever felt
at Laconia, n. H., occurred last week We'd
nesday morning. 1t was felt in all adjoin-
| ing towns, but the heaviest jar was at Cen
ter Harbor, lasting half minute. The vi
| bration seemed to come from a northerly
direction, passing toward the south. Doors
and dishes were shaken in many residences.
THE annual report of the New York cham
Der of commerce shows that the value of the
merchandise imported into the United
States for the fiscal year ending June last
was $705, 123,000, of which there passed
through New York S4S6, ;43, 900. The ex-
ports from the United States were valued
at S775, 100 900, of which 1868, 055 900 were
shipped from New York.
The Cape Ann advertisers summary Of
disasters to the Gloucester fishing fleet dur
ing the past year shows that sixteen vessels,
with an aggregate tonnage of one thousand
one hundred four and valued at SS7 900,
have been lost. The insurance upon these
vessels amounted to $63,000. One hundred
thirty-one fishermen lost their lives, leav-
ing fifty widows and sixty-six fatherless
children.
THE La Pere (Michigan) county poor-house
was burned Friday night Thirty-seven in
mates were turned out in their night clothes
only. One insane woman named Bertha
Rockwell dashed back into the burning
building and was burned to death. Another
woman ran two miles in the deep snow be-
fore she could be recaptured. She was
badly frozen, but may recover. The Their
mometer at the time was below zero.
THE Willimantic Thread Company, the
large Connecticut concern which employs
thousands of operatives, has recently been
compelled to cut down their wages ten per
cent, and yet it appears by an authoritative
statement made by the company that, with
wages thus reduced, the operators get double
what they did twenty-five years ago from
the same company, and the same sort of
thread sells for less than half what it sold
for then
THE wild man captured near Jasper,
Tenn, on Saturday of last week, has been
ascertained to be the private secretary Of
Miss Maud ST. Pierre, a capitalist interested
in coal and mineral lands in Marion and
Anderson counties. The man, who was
deeply in love with Miss st. Pierre, dis
appeared from Jasper about three months
ago. When found he had long matted hair.
He jabbered like Loom She is a mys-
FERROUS character, and travels around on
horseback through the mountains with sad
dle-bags full of money. She is worth some
three millions of dollars.
THE congressional commission to arrange
for the dedication of the Washington monu-
ment invites, through the medium of the
associated press, all civil, military and ma
|
tend the ceremonies, which are to be held
at the base of the monument on the Dist day
of February, 1886. Any organization ac-
cepting this invitation is requested to notify
acknowledgement p. II. Sheridan. The
| joint committee in charge of the monument
that the weight of the monument is 81, 40
tons, and the cost 81 ,1S7, no, of which con-
gress appropriated $SS7,710.
woRKMEN recently dug up in cellar at
Richmond Hill, l.. l., a woman's skeleton
| (whose skull showed marks of a bullet hole)
and the skull of an infant. A few days ago
the coroner received an anonymous letter,
| written by a woman, which stated that in
| 1859 there resided in the place a man, wife
and children, and the wife's sister, which
| family was broken up by the wife's charges
| of too great intimacy between her husband
and sister. One night the wife and her child
disappeared, and soon after the husband
and SlSter-ln-laW went away ana were never
heard of after. The writer asks the coroner
to find trace of the latter pair.
THE treaty of reciprocity with the repub-
lie of San Domingo, the terms of which have
been made public, is much the same as that
relating to Cuba and Porto Rico, except
that it admits leaf tobacco to the United
States and reduces the duties on manufac-
tured tobacco in cigars and cigarettes only
| twenty-five per cent. Our total commerce
al. IL. Ill. o. n
this sum 81 1913 COS were imports from San
that country The imports were almost eX-
clusively sugars, which amounted to 81 ,292, ).
997, or rather more than the total exports
feature of the treaty is the agreement by
San Domingo to receive the standard silver
dollar and make it legal tender to the
limit of 800.
ONE of the naphtha tanks situated in
Williamsburgh, n Y, exploded Sunday af-
ternoon, with deafening report. The burn
ing oil scattered in every direction. A few
minutes after the first explosion another
tank burst just in the rear. These two sent
ten thousand barrels of flaming oil pouring
into every nook and crevice where it could
make its way about the yard. The burn
ing oil flowed into Brunswick creek
and continued To burn on the surface
of the water. Several small boats were en-
veloped and burned. The shock occasioned
by the two explosions broke the windows
OF all the houses in the neighborhood. The
heat was intense, while the noise of the
seething flames could be heard blocks
away Explosion followed explosion ant