The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-25

claws and held her for several minutes,
scratching her terribly. She is dsfgured
for life.
AT st. Louis the heat was terrific last
week Tuesday, the mercury reaching 1917
in the shade Many reliable instruments
recorded as high as 111o During the day
the breeze felt like hot air from a furnace.
Nine cases of sunstroke were reported and
four proved fatal.
Acting SURGEoN-GENERAL SToNER of the
marine hospital says that the United States
is in very good state of health Just at pres
ent and is entirely free from contagious dis
eases, except a few cases of yellow fever
now under treatment at the Ship Island
quarantine station, off the coast of Louis
lana.
A WHEELING, West Virginia, dispatch
says: The most terrible storm ever eX-
perienced at that portion of Marion county
along the Baltimore & Ohio railway occurred
last week. AT Barracksville several build
ings were destroyed. John Inederly, who,
with his wife and four children, lived on
Dunkard mill run, awoke in the night to
find the house surrounded by water, which
poured in at every door and window. He
made his way out to procure assistance, but
before he returned his wife and four chill
dren were drowned"
WILLIAM GRAY, Jr., of Boston, deiaulting
treasurer of the Atlantic and Indian Orchard
mills, committed suicide last week Tuesday,
near Robbs Hill i'm Milton, Mass, by shoot
ing himself through the heart His defal
cations will amount to 100000. Gray be-
longed to the old Boston family of that
name and had lived in princely style. He
was fifty-hve years old and leaves wife
and nine children. S. II. Payson of Boston
made an assignment Wednesday. The an
nouncement caused great surprise, as Pay
son had been considered one of the wealth.
lest men i'm Boston. His financial difficulty
w pp1prgpfppnt n n
the Indian Orchard mills, which are vir-
tually owned by himself and his family.
Foreign.
COMPARATIVE quiet has been restored at
Belfast.
A CANADIAN cruiser has seized the fishing
schooner d" Druid
The city of Mandalay has been flooded,
causing great loss of life.
THERE were twenty mine deaths from
cholera in Italy last Sunday.
PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON claims that the
imperial cause is gaining strength
A RUSSIAN passenger steamer on the Voga
was burned Saturday and two hundred lives
were lost.
NINE policemen in Belfast have been ar
rested for murder in connection with the re-
cent riotng there.
The Monte Carlo gaming tables have just
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seasonal woman who had lost 100000.
RIOTS between Chinese and Japanese
have occurred in Nag9saki. Five Chinese
were killed aud one hundred wounded.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria has abdi-
Gated the throne and left the country. A
provisional government has been formed.
THE island of Miquelon, off the New
foundland coast, has been visited by a
storm, destroying houses and shipping and
causing considerable loss of life.
ADvICEs from Japan state that cholera is
raging in Corea. Twenty thousand deaths
are reported in Meushodo alone. The ma
tives call it divine visitation and refuse to
give medical attention to patients.
The British parliament met Thursday
The queens speech was presented and a re-
ply adopted. 1t was very general in its
terms and of no special significance. In
both houses the Irish question was upper,
most, the principal speeches being made by
Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Randolph Churchill