The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08

covers an area OF ten acres ana virtually /
ruins the mine.
The Boston republicans nominated |
Thomas N Hart for mayor. He is the |
president of the Mt Vernon National Bank.
The Mississippi river steamer Charles
Morgan, running from Cincinnati to New
Orleans, was burned Saturday. The loss is
$4,000.
i. l.. CARTER, one of the officials OF the
North Poudreand Canal and Reservoir
Company, Colorado, has fled with over
S3O0,000.
ARRANGEMENTS for celebrating the CEN
tennial of the adoption of the federal Con-
stitution were completed in Philadelphia
Thursday
CONGRESSMAN FREDERICK (democraD of
Iowa has resigned because he was not per-
mitted to control federal appointments in
his district.
THE fishing schooner Ella, from st.
Pierre to Miquelon, Nova Scotia, is missing,
with eleven men. 1t is believed they were
lost in a storm.
AN eccentric Boston miser, Price Green
leaf has left half-mllion to Harvard Col
lege. For years he had denied himself the
comforts of life
THE old opera-house block in BroclIton,
Mass. was burned Thursday night. There
were numerous occupants and the total loss
is put at 100000.
THE French troop transport Chandler
mayor, reported Thursday lost with 1,2OO
troops aboard, has arrived safely at the port
of Tourano, AMMAN.
Eight propretors of second-class hotels
at Hartford, Conn, have been arrested for
using oleomargarine on their tables without
| putting up pacard.
GENERAL MAsTER-woRKMAN PowDERLY
has issued a secret circular levying an as
sessment of twenty-five cents member
| upon all local assemblies.
A sTUPENDoUs scheme is on foot in Mime
apolis to consolidate the many flour mills
there under one grand management and
big monopoly is threatened.
| MANNING, American minister to Mexico,
| who is said to have initiated Sedgwicks dis
graceful debauch and his wife are both re-
ported i'll with pneumonia.
MICHAEL j. HESS, a laborer, created a
sensation Sunday by jumping from the East
river bridge to the water below for a wager
of S25. He was not much hurt.
A SEVERE thunderstorm visited Portland,
Maine. and several places on Cape Cod last
week Tuesday night A lady was killed at
Cape Elizabeth, Maine, by lightning.
THE failure of the well-known boot and
shoe house of II. p. Martin & Co., Boston,
for 100000 was announced Saturday. EX-
Mayor Martin is the head of the concern.
THEoDoRE MIzE, confidential clerk of the
millionaire coal merchant of Chicago, Miner
| Ames, has been discovered practicing thefts
amounting to 100000 from his employer.
A CHECK for six dollars, crminaly raised
to three thousand, was presented to the
sub-treasury in st. Louis Thursday. 1t
came from a pensioner through the bank.
THE trial of the National Soldiers Home
case against Benjamin f. Butler in the
| United States circuit court ended in YER
dict against General Butler in the sum of
$16,537.50.
The mail agent between Cincinnati and
| Grand Rapids has been caught stealing
money letters. Seventy-five marked bills
were found in his possession. His pecnla-
tions reach $1,000.
ANNA NJ. T1sDALE of Glens Falls, n. Y,
| has recovered verdict of $4,000 against
the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
for personal injuries received by the fall of
the Fort Edward bridge.
Two hundred girls attacked and peted
with mud a bailiff and his assistants who
were serving wrts of ejectment on the ten
ants on billions estate at Ballyhannis, Ire
land. The men beat a hasty retreat, leaving
| their horse, car and papers.
SOME rascal tempered with the radiator
pipes in Lowell school-house so as to shut
off supply of water to the boiler, and il the
janitor had not discovered the situation the
building, with more than one hundred chill
dren, might have been blown up.
STORIES continue to come from the great
lakes about the suffering of the shipping
and sailors from gales and the cold wave
last week. Vessels would become unman-
ageable, seas dash over the decks and into
the rigging, sails and ropes be coated with
ice and men nearly frozen to death
LEVI WILSON has given the Providence
Tourndl two afidavits from Marinda and
jeremiah Young, declaring they We're pres
ent three weeks before Jonas Wilson 5
death and heard him make the statement
hat .t~t - nnftl do 10 /
sons sister and Jeremiah her husband.
THE failure of L. b. Frankel & Co. OF
Virginia City, Nevada, for $4,000, carried
with them their San Francisco agents,
Greenbaum q Strauss, who failed for $780,
600 These failures demoralized the street
and stocks tumbled California and Nir
ginia falling to forty-two and the others de-
clining in the usual proportion. The dea
has been purely gambling operation.
THE largest amount of business ever done
on any stock exchange in the world was
transacted on the floor of the New York
stock exchange last week Tuesday. The
total number of transactions aggregated
SS1 ,412 shares, of which 297 ,315 were of Read
ing. This represents an exchange of Sc
curities of very nearly Sl00,000,00O in pai
value and worth at least a half of that a
the actual market price.
f A PARTY of army officers who arrived a
Bismarck, Oak, from Fort Yates gives de
ScrlpllOn Oh Une mOSu unrllllng rue III tn'
history of that country. They We're seventy
hours in a blizzard in coming from For
| Lincoln, a distance of sixty miles, or owe
an hour to a mile. Their vehicle was al
ambulance and was drawn by four mules
During Monday night. when the blizzar,
was at its height they We're compelled t.
shovel and plunge their way through snow
: drifts from six to ten feet deep, and the con
tnual use of the whip and goading stick
3 was necessary to keep the exhausted ami
mails on the walk.