The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16

| blown open and rihed of its contents, con-
sisting of nearly $500 in money and checks.
| There is no clue to the robbers, but 1t looks
like the work of experts, as the door was
drilled and the lock blown off. The safe
was one of the Cincinnati fire and burglar
! proof.
ALLEN WILDER of Franklin has pair of
trained steers that perform all sorts of
| tricks in a remarkable way. They are hand
some, six months old, weighing eight hum
dred sixty-one pounds. Those who have
seen the animals perform pronounce it
novel and interesting sight, and give the
young trainer much credit for his patience
and skill.
MARY PARKS, while sewing, broke her
needle, the point OF 1t flying into her eye.
1t being so small that it could not be seen to
be removed, it continued to trouble her I'M
| til the next day, when she happened to
think she had small horseshoe magnet.
She held it to her eye a few seconds, and
when she took 1t away the point of the
needle was clinging to it.
A RATHER singular incident occurred on
the train between Howard Park and Bur-
| lingtou depot, last week Thursday evening
just before the train reached the depot
child who sat in a woman's lap gave two
shrieks and died instantly. The child was
| apparently about six months old, and
seemed well enough and cheerful moment
| before it died. The woman who was with
it had intended to leave the train at Essex,
but got off at WinoosH Nothing is known
as to the cause of the little ones death.
j. NJ. GRFFITHs store in East Dorset was
entered by burglars last week Wednesday
night and the safe robbed. 1t is supposed
that the burglars broke into Hartwell Ken
dall's blacksmith shop and stole wrench
and bit and stock, with which they bored
through the door of the store and removed
part of the lock. The safe was blown to
pieces and a part of the contents carried
away. Several persons heard the explosion,
but no clue to the thieves has been found,
except few tracks, which were followed
for a short distance.
FIRE in Barton, Thursday morning of last
week. consumed the store belonging to A.
| ID. Owen, dealer in general merchandise,
and the building and the drugstore belong
ing to E. f. Dutton. The buildings were
in the business part OF the village and the
fire at one time threatened general con-
fiagration. Mr.. Dutton lived in tenement
above his store and lost nearly everything
in his building. Mrs. G. II. Chadwick, a
tenant in the Owen block, lost everything.
Mr.. Owen did very large business and
carried heavy stock of goods. His loss is
$4,000; insured for 5000. Mr.. buttons
loss is estimated at $1,000; insured for
$500. Assistance was rendered by the
Barton Landing fire company.
A REPORTER at Winnipeg, Manitoba,
called last Thursday upon Mr.. Perdue, the
solicitor for Lawrence Brainerd, the St.
Adams defaulter, who stated that after
Brainerd had been kidnapped he Perdue)
Immediately telegraphed legal firm in St.
Paul and one in Chicago to watch for him
and have him taken in charge. He directed
that a writ of hdbedS corpus be issued calling
upon the detectives to show by what author
ity they detained Brainerd. There was no
warrant or legal process of any kind. The
instructions to the legal firm at st. Paul
were of a rather general character, urging
that Brainerd be got across the line into
Canada again in the easiest way and at the
earliest moment. The firm was instructed
to watch the trains both at st. Paul and at
Minneapolis. The programme was left en-
tirely to the law firm, the name of which
Perdue would not disclose, and beyond the
fact that Brainerd was gotten safely away,
he does not know his whereabouts nor the
programme to be adopted in bringing him
back to the Canadian Northwest, if he is
not already there. Mrs. Brainerd is very
anxious about her husband, but expects
soon to have him with her again.
Other Localities.
EMERY S. SToRRs of Chicago prominent
politician is dead.
A HEAVY fall of snow occurred at Lead.
vile, Col, Saturday.
THE New York Grant monument fund
now amounts to S75,307.
BITTERNESS between the different factions
in Canada over Riel's case increases.
A. NJ. KELLEY has resigned his appoint
ment as United States minister to Austria.
Hot water has been struck at depth OF
nine hundred feet in Sierra Valley, Cali
fornia.
ALL children in Bohemia are required to
study music hence the great musical de
velopment there.
a FLORIDA man has a parrot which he
claims is ninety-two years old. He has re-
fused $500 for the bird.
SEVENTY horses were burned to death
with livery stable at Nashville, Tenn.
last week Friday morning.
THE honey crop all through the West and
Southwest excepting parts of Indiana anC
Texas, is reported as failure.
THERE have been seven thousand eight
hundred seven deaths from cholera through
out Spain since the LIST instant.
WELLS, FARGO & Co.'S treasure-box on a
! Montana stage containing $50, 600, was stoler
by three masked men last Friday.
, MAUD S. tried to beat her record in Provi
dence ON Saturday and failed; but she made
half mile in 1:03-the fastest on record.
THE courier bearing an apology of SPAR
to Germany for the recent insult to the Ger
man embassy in Madrid has reached Berlin
A CHINESE loan of S4O,OOOOOO has beer
negotiated in Paris and Berlin for the con
struction of a railroad from Token to Tung
chow.
. THE sugar works of the American Glucos,
, Company, in Peoria, ILL.,, were burned OF
Saturday the property loss aggregatinl
$250,000
CHINA lost one hundred thousand mel
, and $3.50, 600, 900, and France fifteen thou
, sand men and $215, 900 900 during the Ton
quin campaign
AT Dublin, Indiana, last week Tuesda!
night, tornado demolished or unroofeI
) twelve houses, and hundreds of fruit ant
| shade-trees were uprooted
Both Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Roseber,
are opposed to making the disestablishmen
5 of the Scotch Church test question in tin
coming parliamentary election.
q, Nor less than one hundred sixty children
have died of diphtheria in the Parish of st
t Policarp, Quebec, in the last few months
= The epidemic is now decreasing.
FIRE was kndled with flint and steel OF
the hearthstone of Georgia farmer in 184a
n and it has not been out since. Matches ar
: an unknown article in that house.
n RUSSIA and England have signed the pre-
tocol delimiting the Russo-Afghan frontier
u The Afghan frontier commission will NEE
y in November and complete the details.
Mr.. STEVENSON, acting postmaster-gen
eral, has sent telegram to the postmaster
II general of Canada requesting that all mail
3 from Montreal for the United States be fu
. migated.
Il Two cases of smallpox were detected a
- the depot in Troy, n. Y, the other day