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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-22

STRAFFoRD.-JuliusR Roberts, a young man
seventeen years of age, residing in Sharon.
fell and fractured the radial bone of his
right wrist last week Monday. His case is
one that deserves much sympathy. His
parents are in very straitened circumstances.
but he has marked talent for drawing, and
anxious to do and to be something in the
world, for several weeks he has walked
every Saturday to our village, some five
miles, to take lessons of Miss Carrie Dow
On the morning mentioned, DESTROYS in part
to compensate his friends for keeping him
over Sunday, he went to work in A. Il.
Gusha's saw-mill and there received the in
jury stated = The STAFFORD Mining
Company has discharged all its miners
- Charles Harrington has sold to II.
Warrington his meat-cart business and will
soon leave town to seek his fortune in Cali
fornia. - jed b. Marsh is making prep
arations to supply this and neighboring
towns with hulled corn the coming season
- III. G. Gilkey has moved his goods
into his new and spacious store--a building
of as imposing exterior and tasty interior as
any in this part of the state. 80 Charles
Chandler has sold his Bean hill lot to
Charles II. Houston. - Our farmers are
sending away great quantities of new maple
sugar of extra quality. Charles w. Preston
has already sold eight hundred pounds, all
in small cakes, and expects to market sew
eral hundred pounds more. Our tinmen
have made more than two thousand tin cans
for syrup this season and have orders for
many more. A farmer asks in your agr-
cultural department if it will pay to make
sugar at present prices. The fact that two
pounds of nice maple sugar will buy three
pounds of the graduated article, as well as
that choice maple will surely bring high
price (and it is to be in greater demand each
year,, fully answers the inquiry.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-22
Business Notices.

ANY person having desirable tenement
of five or six rooms to rent is requested to
call at the WATCHMAN office for further par
tintt1arS
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piece of tin to spring back the snap-lock on the
door of the Office, and, by means of drills, read
lily got into the safe.
Persons at Quincy who are intimately ac-
qnainted with sex-Mayor Jacob M. Smith, for
merly of that city, but for several years a
resident of Atchison, Kan, where he is under
arrest for conspiring to burn Town his pork
house, say he is insane. His insanity, they say,
has been brought about by spiritualism, upon
which subject he has long been a monomaniac,
consulting the spirits about buying and selling
pork, and ali business and social matters.
The Odd-fellows' Hall at Summer was discov-
cred to be on fire at an early hour on Sunday.
The building burned, together with the two
story frame adjoining, which was occupied by
Guess & Dunphy's saloon Loss, s., 700, dis
tributed as follows: Guess e Dunphy, saloon,
building and contents, 50. 500, no insurance.; j.
A. Burget, stock of drugs, ST., 500; insurance.
$500. Odd-fellows, 81, 1000; Insurance., $500.
knights of Honor and Oriental Order of Humil-
ity, 5000 on r~egalias, 'etc. no insurance. Westall
e. Saxton, damage to building and stock of
groceries, $500; amply insured.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Another man was interrupted while making
preparations to jump from the Brooklyn bridge
last evening. This one gave his name as Parker
F. DAILY, of Jersey City.
SOM ~laborers, while excavating at Elmira. N.
Y, yesterday, unearthed the remains of a man,
evidently an Indian chief Of General Sullivan's
time. Several pipes and other Indian relics
were also found.
A party of sportsmen just returned from Lake
jacques Cartier, sixty miles from Quebec, state
that on Tuesday last they narrowly escaped be-
ing frozen to death, a violent snow storm hav-
ing prevailed during the night.
At a celebration at Woodstock, Conn, on the
4th of July, Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. and
Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois, will deliver
| addresses. and Maurice Thompson, of Indiana,
and Joaquin Miller will read poems.
In the case of John Cooper, of Philadelphia,
the Decatur Building Association, a plea of
guilty was entered Yesterday and he was SEN
fenced to an Imprisonment of five years in the
penitentiary.
On Sunday at Hesler, seven miles from Owen
ton, KY, Robert Coleman and Henry Reynolds,
returning home with a quantity Of whisky,
quarreied near home, and Coleman was stabbed
to death. Both are men with large families in
% helpless condition. The men were good
friends when sober.
Contractor John Shields, who was engaged in
excavating for a foundation in Butler street,
Pittsburg, fired a blast without warning at noon
Yesterday. Several persons passing at
the time were hit by flying stones, and three of
them, John Connors, Mary Losky and Mrs.
Dietrich, seriously injured. Connors may die.
Harry L. McGlory, a wealthy young man of
Pittsburg, committed suicide yesterday morning
by shooting himself through the head. McGlory
was the defendent in a will case which was de-
cided against him last week, and the verdict so
| worked on his mind that it gave way and he
ended his troubles by shooting himself. He is
the third member of the family which has COM
mitted suicide, his father and brother having
adopted the same method of obtaining relief
from worldly cares.
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General and Personal.

special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-Dr. Winslow S.
Pierce. brothers n-law of Vice president Hen
bricks, is in town to-day. He bears letters from
mugwump and Democratic publishers in New
York. asking that he be d~ecently treated.
Colonel Zollinger, ex-mayor of Fort Wayne,
accompanied Representative Lowry and Hon. j.
d. Willard to the White House to-day. Mr.. Zol-
linger will return to -morrow.
Minister DENLY and Congressman Kleiner
were among the Presidents visitors to-day.
A Mr.. Keyser, of Noble county, a friend of
Colonel Williams, was to-day appointed to the
had of a division in the Third Auditors Office.
Salary, 81 900.
j. D.. Moore, of Mitchell, Ind, is registered at
the National
The Postmaster general has appointed the fol
lowing fourth-elass postmasters: j. w. Whistler,
at Shielville, Hamilton county, Indiana, vice
Asher G. Walton; J. W. Reese, at Kempton,
Upton county, Indiana, vice j. A. Stephenson.
The numerous candidates for the governor
ship of Dakota, now filled by Col. Gilbert A.
Pierce, of Chicago, have suddenly ceased their
opportunities and quietly departed their several
ways. This is understood to mean that no i'm
mediate change is contemplated in that direc-
ton.
The weather here for the past two days has
been ten degrees above the average temperature
for the middle of June for many years. The
thermometer yesterday and to-day reached SO in
the shade.
The charges of peculation, gross favoritism,
etc, made against the managers Of the Govern
ment Insane Asylum, have been examine by
the board of visitors and pronounced unfounded.
The naval board appointed to examine the
Dolphin will, in a few days, make a formal re-
port to the Secretary of the Navy Of the result
day last. The Secretary will then decide whether
any further test of the vessel is necessary before
she is accepted.
The Comptroller of the Currency to-day ap-
pointed Benjamin j. S. Clark and S. II. Taylor
% be national bank examiners, and has assigned
he former to duty in New York and the latter
o duty in Indiana.
The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed
.. j. Harvey, of Pennsylvania, and VIM. S.
Kaiser, of Indiana, to be chiefs of division in the
Third Auditors Office, to fill vacancies caused by
removals.
The yice-consul at Copenhagen has informed
the State Department that he has just received
from Greenland a locked mail pouch and several
loose letters for the Greedy relief expedition. He
will forward them to Washington.
Commis sioner Mann summoned to his Office
this morning the entire force Of the statistical
bureau of the Agricultural Department, number
ing twenty-one persons, of both sexes, and an
nounced that there would remain no money to
pay their salaries after the Goth inst. They were
ali furloughed, without pay, from the Goth inst.
until the 1st of July.
General Sturgis, ex-superintendent of the
Soldiers Home, will leave Washington to- m
row, to join his regiment in the West.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
Children.s Day at Charlottesville.

Correspondence OF the Indian apolis Journal
CRAwFoRDsvTLLE, June 15.-Children's Day
was appropriately observed in the different
churches of this city yesterday. At the First
Presbyterian and Methodist churches the pas
tors delivered sermons in the morning to the
children, and at Center Church Naomi Tamua
lectured to the children. In the evening there
was a concert at the Methodist Church, and an
exercise. including the building of a lighthouse.
At the First Church there was also a concert,
with verses on the Lords prayer and a ladder
exercise. The latter church held an evening
concert at 6:30, so as to be able to
attend the services at Center Church at s o'clock.
Naomi Tamua, at Center Church, in the evening,
spoke of the difference between Japanese boys
and girls and those in America, the children of
Japan all having black hair and black eyes. He
also related his experience in this country-how
it took him six hours to find out whether a lady
who was waiting in the same depot that he was
was married or single. Married ladies in Japan
shave their eyebrows off and paint their teeth
black, and also wear a certain kind of head dress.
Mr. Naomi is a minister, just graduated from
Auburn Theological Seminary, and will return
to Japan in about three months. Komanosuke
Kumagai, Japanese student of Wabash College.
sang two songs in his native tongue, and the two
read from a Japanese Bible, verse about. The
exercises were listened to by an immense audi
ence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
THE FIRE RECORD.

Effort on the Part of Incendiaries to Burn
a Portion of Moutezuma, Ind.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MoNTEzUMA, Ind. June Is. A determinede effort
to burn at least a part of this placehas aroused the
citizens to a sense Of danger from incendiaries.
About one month ago Vonderheide's bakery and
restaurant was set on fire, the stock being de-
stroyed and the building saved in a much-dam-
aged condition Last Thursday morning the first
building south of the bakery was fired, and only
by active e~xertions was the whole block =seys&-
About midnight of Saturday night d. r. Shirk's
undergrad and warehouse were also fired, and
in spite of all efforts were completely destroyed.
Loss, about So, 500, partly insured. Mr.. Shirk
and family were absent visiting in the east part
of the county, and knew not of his loss until his
return Sunday evening. The people are much
aroused and the depredators, if caught, win
meet with quick justice. There are no positive
clewS.
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A Renentant swindler.

PHILADELPHIA, June 15-Joseph Cottinger,
the former secretary and treasurer of the Cen
trail Transportation Company, who is charged
with Illegally issuing certificates of stock of that
corporation, and who was arrested at Bashkil,
N. Y, on Saturday. was brought here this after
noon. He was taken to the Office of the com
pany and there confessed his guilt to the direct
ors. and stated that he did not ask for mercy
Cottinger was then taken before a magistrate
where testimony was presented showing that
there had been an over issue of 5000 shares of
stock, the par value of which overissue is $l54,
$50. When asked by the magistrate if he had
counsel, Cottinger replied that he had not, and
that he did not want any. The magistrate then
committed him in $50, 900 bail, TO answer at the
term of court This amount of security could
not be furnished. and Cottinger was sent to jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
WRECKING A BANK.
Trial Of President Riddle, of the Penn Bank
How Fictitious Accounts We're Kept.

PITTsBURG, June 1.-THE trial of William
M. Riddle and G. L. Reiber, late president and
cashier of the Penn Bank, began in the Crin-
inal Court to-day. They are being tried for
conspiracy, the charge of embezzlement, on
which they were arraigned some weeks ago.
having been apparently abandoned at present.
owing tc the faulty way the Indictment was
drawn up. The trial promises to be very sensa.
tional, owing to the number of wealthy men
directly and indirectly implicated. The defend
ants are represented by eight famous lawyers,
among them Congressman Boyle. of Pennsyl-
vania, and Judge Curtis, of New York. The
general impression seems to be that the case win
either break down or there win be no conviction.
The morning session was occupied with the
impaneling of a jury.
District Attorney Robb. in his opening speech,
said he thought they would show that the de-
PENDANTS concocted a scheme by which they
defrauded the bank and other people. They
conspired to get up q system Of false
accounts, and caused the accounts
of Watson & Co., Hill g. Co, Wilson & Co., and
others, to be put on the books, when no such
persons existed. By this system the bank was
defrauded of 81, 500, 900. In order to carry out
this scheme. they. Photographed toreport to the
board of directors every Monday morning, got up
a system of statements which made it appear
that the overdrafts were drafts or checks by de-
positors, and in that way deceived the board as
to the condition of the bank until three or four
days after it was swamped and closed.
Assistant individual book,keeper Craig, after
being sworn, said he had an indistinct reeollec-
tioE of the accounts of Wilson & Co., Watson
d Co., and Hill & Co. He could not say whether
any of the firms named ever drew direct checks.
Geo. p. Rowley, individual hook-keeper, said
he remembered the accounts named in the indict-
ment. No person came to get pass-books for
those accounts. Requests were made by MIR.
Riddle to have pass-hooks made out for some of
them. In answer to a query of the prosecution
Rowley said a memorandum Of an item on Wat
son & Co.'S account for Sis, 040 was in Riddles
handwriting. At that time Watson 81 Co. had
on deposit 500. GEL. Watson e. CO.. account was
started June 8, 1883, and the last entry was
made May 2. 1884. The account
was twice balanced. In December, 1883,
their account was overdrawn 1894, 324. rs.
The witness was then taken through the ac-
counts of Wilson q Co. and Hill & Co, in the
same way that he had been through that of Wat
son q Co. In some cases checks were made in
the handwriting of Riddle, some by Reiber and
some by other attaches of the bank. There was
a changing check for $3.50, 900, drawn by Mr..
Riddle; another for 1885,, 600 in the writing of
Mr.. Normicutt, the memorandum to charge il
being in the writing of Reiber. The witness
was still on the stand when court adjourned.
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A Remarkable white House Visitor.

Washington Letter.
One daily visitor to the White House, at least,
is getting to be known as a character. He is,
perhaps, sixty-fve years old. and his hair white.
But he wears a buoyant expression, and climbs
the long fights of stairs to the upper reception.
room of the executive mansion every day. A
blue book lies on the table there, and to its
pages he gives unintermittept study from 10 A.
NJ. to 2 P. NJ. Nobody knows his name, and his
papers are not on file. Yet his seem
ingly purposeless pursuit is carried on with
laborious system. Since March 10 he has
checked off the latest places, from the English
mission down. As one by one they are filed, he
puts opposite each a peculiar mark, thus-"T;
signifying apparently that there is no longer any
question about it. Just before going away every
day, he ereeps into Clerk Pruden's room. and
takes a glance at the list of the days appoint
ments. An expression of panied surprise comes
over his face if any of his marked places are
filed. He passed the missions and consulates
long ago, and is now among the collectors of in
ternal revenue. He speaks to nobody, and is
getting to be regarded with curiosity as an odd
mystery. The theory mas been broached with
plallsibiiity that he is a m-onomaniac or a super
annuated Office seeker.
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~Odd-Fellows' Decoration.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. June l5.-At a meeting of the
committee representing Woodward, Richmond,
Whitewater and Herman lodges of Odd fellows,
to consider the recommendation or proclamation
of the Grand Lodge for the decoration of de-
ceased Odd-fellows' graves On the 18th
Of June, it was concluded that the
time for preparation was too brief, and it
would be best to defer the beginning of the Gus
tom until next year; but members of Woodward
and Richmond lodges, finding but little trouble
in learning the burial places of all their deceased
brethren, concluded they would begin with the
beginning, and, despite tho rain, this afternoon
they Loyalty marched forth to do their duty,
bearing badges and emblems of their order in
flowers snd evergreens.
Our Muncie correspondent writes: 'srhe In
dependent Order of OddfeIlows here, including
the uniform degree camp. the encampment and
the subordinate lodge, decorated the graves of
their deceased members in Beech Grove Gene
terry this afternoon. There was q large attend
ance OF the three branches. together with many
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
Minister penby and the Chinese.

WASHINGTON. June 15.-Colonel DENLY, the
newly appointed minister to China, arrived here
to-day, and, on being interviewed, said: 'Ihave
just got here and would rather not say anything
on the subject of Chinese immigration or other
subjects until after / have seen the President
and received my instructions.R
'Your opinion on Chinese immigration is of
great Importance to the people on the Pacific
slope"
''The Pacific slope need not be alarmed over
my appointment"
Colonel DENLY will start for his post as soon
as he can arrange his affairs here.
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Loss at Brazil. Ind.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, June 15.-Fire broke out this
morning, about 8 o'clock, in Machaelree's build
ing, on Meridian street, occupied by John Jones.
grocer, and Isaacs & Michaelree, saloon. The fire
had made great progress before it was dis
covered, and both storerooms, together with
most of the contents, were destroyed. Only a
few articles of stock were saved. The total loss
will reach $4, SOC. partially insured as follows:
John Jones. on grocery stock, 5000, in the Liver
pool, London & Globe; w. H. Michaelree, on
building, 500. in the Phoenix, of Hartford;
Isaacs 81 Michaelree, on saloon stock, $500, in
tha Garmania-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
The Fire in the Dorrance sbaft.

WILKEsBARRE. Pa, June 15.-The fire in the
Dorrance shaft Of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany is still burning this morning. In. the main
gangway the water. is several feet deep. 1t was
being dipped up in pals by hundreds of work
men last night, and thrown upon the burning
woodwork. The coal is now on fire, and the
only means to extinguish it will be to flood the
mine. All the men who were working in the
pit were withdrawn this morning, and orders
issued that no one should descend the shaft
until further notice.
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CHICAGO, June 15.-Carey Jones, aged twenty
two, employed in a commission house here, and
said to be the son of wealthy parents, residing in
Tunic, N. Y, was arrested last night ON a charge
of bigamy. The complainant is Addie Jones. a
milliner, who claims that she was compelled to
support MIN for a time after their marriage, and
that he subsequently deserted her. The second
Mrs. Jones is a Miss Boymiller, of Utica, whose
father is connected with the insane asylum at
that point Jones says he was under age when
he married No. !, and that she has been untrue
to him.
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Charged with Cattle Stealing.

Special to the Indianapolis JOURNAL.
WABASH, June 15-This morning Sheriff Wal
ter arrived on the east bound Wabash train,
having in charge two men, Aaron Reed and a
young man named Roberts, both of Peru,
arrested for cattle stealing. The two have been
running a butcher shop IN Denver, Miami
county. On last Friday, it is charged, Reed and
Roberts stole a calf from Tim Craft, living near
Rich Valley, in this county. Offering to sell the
animal in Peru, they were arrested on suspicion.
On Saturday Craft went to Peru and identified
his animal and recognized the thieves. The
latter are confined in the county Jail here. They
will be tried at the next term of court.
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PITTsBURa, June 15.-The 'hooker-up boys
in Carnegie's Union mills struck TO day against
a 10 per cent. reduction, causing suspension of
work in several departments.
Oliver Brothers & Phillips's South-side mills
resumed this morning, and the fires of Spang,
Chalfant s. Co.'s mill were started tonight.
The Amalgamated Association received word
tonight that the Cherry Valley Iron Company.
at Leetonia, O., had signed the scale and would
resume operations Immediately.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
Damage Near Lemars,

LEMARs, Ia, June 15.-This section was
visited by the most destructive storm, last
night, ever known in this part of the country.
Rain fell in torrents, accompanied by a
fierce electric storm. The gas-house
here was completely demolished. ST. James
Catholic Church was totally wrecked; loss,
over $40, 900. The Plymouth roller mills
and elevator were unroofed, and dam
aged to the amount of $40, 900. Many houses
and barns in town and country were unroofed,
and damaged in a great variety of ways.
The loss in the city is estimated at 800. 600,
with an equal amount in the country.
No lives were lost in town, Ibut two men and two
children were killed in the country, while six or
eight were wounded, several dangerously. The
storm took in a great part of Plymouth county.
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Convention of German Veterans.

ST. LOUIS. June 15-The second annual con
vention of the German Veterans met at the hall
of the Germania Club. President Carl Winch
Ter. of Chicago. presided, and Sol Setter, of
Milwaukee, acted as secretary. The Presidents
annual report showed an increase in membership
of GOO since the previous meeting. and the treas
urer's report indicated a good financial condi-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
Crops in the Northwest.

MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, June 15-Reports have
and Dakota, covering every wheat-growing
county of Importance, and from 300 points in
northern Wisconsin and Iowa. One hundred
and ffty-five reports say the condition now is
good; 125 say the condition is better than last
year at this time; fifty say it is 10 per cent
better; so reports say the condition is poor; 35
say it is not as good as last year, and 80 from 10
to Is per cent. worse. The bad reports are from
the old counties, where the ground is weedy, and
where the wheat was sown late.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
Locan,s Opponent TO Be Provided For

WAsHINGToN, June 15.-It is believed that
Lambert Tree, of Illinois, who was General Lo-
gan's opponent for reelection to the Senate in
the closing days of the fight at Springfield, will
be appointed minister to Italy. Mr.. Tree is a
gentleman Of wealth, high character and ability,
and it is understood that he will take the place
if it is offered him.. He is a warm personal
friend and admirer of Mr.. Bayard, and in the
last Democratic national convention favored his
nomination for President.