The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-26

three other men were killed, and another
was seriously injured.
VICE-PREsIDENT NICHOLS of the City Ma
tional Bank, Fort Worth, Texas, stole $780,
600 of the banks funds and then committed
suicide.
THE general committees of the New York
Grant memorial fund have fixed the sum to
be raised at 81 100000; towards this about
$50, 600 has been pledged.
In building the main drainage works in
Boston $4,000, 900, 900 bricks and $50, 600 casks
of cement were used. The total cost of
these works was $5,213,00O.
Iowa democrats nominated Hon. Charles
E. Whitney for governor; endorsed the adj
minstration and resolved in favor Of the
repeal of the prohibitory law
THE Pau NAL Gdzette's recent revelations
of London vice have been dramatized at
Vienna. The play is in five acts, and is en-
titled Protect Our Daughters"
The conference of railway passenger
agents, which has been debating the ques-
ton in New York for several days past, has
agreed to advance rates to the West
THE largest circulation in the world is
claimed for lie Petit Journal, cheap but
clean Partisan newspaper. More than
eighty thousand copies are sold daily.
STEAM is employed in cooking the food for
the troops at the present encampment of the
so much trouble, being done away with.
IMPORTANT gold discoveries are reported
from Oregon. Some mines, found two weeks
ago and sold to Omaha parties for S70,0O0,
have since yielded ore enough to pay for
them.
THE Mexican editors have returned home,
and were greeted as though they were he
roes returning from war. They made their
trip of fourteen thousand miles at an ex-
pense of only S75 each.
THE general executive committee of the
Knights of Labor has ordered a general
strike of its members in the employ of the
Union Pacific railroad and its branches, and
of Gould's Southwest system.
PENSION COMMISSIONER BLACK is over
hauling the pension pay-rolls, and large
number of names which do not of right be-
long there will be erased, and the claimants
will receive no more pensions.
ISAAC p. MORTON, lawyer in New York
formerly stock broker in Boston, and one
of the executors of the estate of the late w.
L. Brintnall of Boston, has been missing for
nearly a month. 1t is not supposed that his
executive trust has been violated, but that
other financial matters induced his fight.
! DENMAN THoMPsoN's "Joshua Whit
comb " Company refused to fill an engage.
ment at Fargo, Oak, claiming the orches.
ira did not fill its contract with the local
management. Money was refunded fol
tickets, and the manager of the opera house
brought suit against Thompson for 81 600
and seized the baggage of the company
| Thompson says he will see the thing through
regardless of expenses, and will probably
bring suit for detention of his baggage.
THE Ohio democrats renominated Gov
ernor Hoadley, by reclamation, as their
! standard-bearer in the coming campaign
and John G.. Warwick for lieutenant-gov
ernor. The Hon. Charles d. Martin was
nominated for supreme court judge, lonl
term, and Gibson Anterior for the shor
term. The ticket was completed by the Sc
lection of Peter Brady for treasurer, James
Lawrence for encouragement and Henry
| Weible for member of the board of public
works.
THROUGHOUT Spain, Sunday, there were
| five thousand six hundred seventy-three
new cases of cholera and one thousand sever
hundred twenty-three deaths from the dis
ease. Since the beginning of the epidemic
there have been one hundred ffty-six thou
sand Seventy-seven cases and siXty-On,
million five hundred twenty-one deaths
Sundays cholera returns from all the in
fected districts show total of four thou
sand eight hundred eighty-Seven new case:
and one thousand seven hundred ninety
eight deaths.
SOME time during Saturday night, the
18th, an etfigy of General Grant was hanged
by unknown persons to a lamp-pOst on Mali
street in the little village of Writ, Iowa. |
was found by the citizens and promptly re
moved. A paper calling for subscription
to assist in ferreting out the criminals wa
Immediately put in circulation in Noun
Aver, the county seat, and adjoining towns
to which business men and citizens gener
ally responded eagerly. The best detectives
in Des Moines and Chicago have been EN-
ployed, and, should the culprits be discov
cred, there is but little chance in the presen
state of popular feeling that the law will b.
allowed to take its course.