The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-07
VERMONT JOURNAL WEDNESDAY APRIL T. 1885,

ualtes on the side of the law and three
among the rioters An ample force of
troops is now in the city.
Now it is supposed that it was the missing
schooner Charles Il. Morse of Bath, Me-,
that sunk the Oregon.
MORE New York aldermen of 1884 have
been arrested The excitement over the
bribery stirs the city deeply.
SOME damage by freshets is reported in
New England, Northern New York and in
the eastern townships of Canada.
A TORNADO at Lagrange and Palmetto,
Ga, destroyed churches, dwellings and
other buildings. No lives were lost.
ALABAMA, Georgia and Southern Tonnes
see have been visited by disastrous floods.
The rainfall was ten inches in AZ hours.
Jo-Jo, the dog-faced Russian boy, is en-
gagged to Kee-Boo, the Michigan dog-faced
girl. The wedding will occur in New York
in July.
CONGRESSMAN LAWYER of Illinois, blat-
ant democratic politician said in the house,
Friday, if Jay Gould were hanged to lamp
post in New York it would be a blessing to
the United States.
The steamer Capitol City" of the Hart
ford and New York line and the " Europa"
German vessel, went ashore--the one on
the Connecticut shore and the other on
Long Island. No lives were lost.
A FIRE at Key West, Florida, destroyed
the principal buildings and a large part of
the city. Loss $1,500,0OO. Nineteen persons
were injured. Five thousand persons are
thrown out of employment and the people
are threatened with famine.
THE long pending suits between the
United States government and the Union
| Pacific railroad have been decided at last,
and in favor of the United States, by the
supreme court. The decision of the court
| of claims has been sustained and judg-
ment given for 81 ,577 ,6S3 Senator Ed
munds was one of the railroad corporations
| lawyers.
WARNER BROTHERS, the well-known cor
| set manufacturers, have commenced the
erection of a building in Bridgeport, Conn,
| to cost $50 600, for the free use of one thou
sand girls employed in their factory. The
| building will be about seventy feet square
and three stories high. The first story will
be devoted to restaurant, where good
meals will be furnished at cost. The second
story will contain large reading-room and
| library, onversation-room, music-room,
bathroom and lavatory. The third story
will contain a large hall Seating six hun
dredl, small hall (seating one hundred
| fifty, and class-rooms, where evening classes
| in singing, penmanship, drawing, book
keeping, fancy needle-work, etc, will
be taught The building will be under the
care of competent matron and will be free
| to all girls in Warner Brothers employ. 1t
will be the first building of the kind erected
in this country, and will without doubt
prove the practical wisdom and benevolence
of its projectors
! Foreign.
EMANCIPATION is proclaimed in Corea.
The strikes in Belgium have suddenly
| terminated.
CHOLERA has appeared in the mining re-
| gion in Spain.
In France S7,5OO,OOO has been voted for
the relief of the poor.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred arrests were made
of riotous strikers in Belgium.
THE slaughter of 400 more Catholic Chris
tians is reported from AMMAN.
THE anarchists of Paris have threatened
the person of President Grevy.
THE natives of Senegal, Africa, are in re-
bellion against French authority.
THE Cambridge crew won the race with
Oxford, on the Thames course Saturday.
Mr.. PARNELL is credited with demanding
! home-rue for Scotland as well as Ireland.
THIRTY-FIvE hundred entries have been
made for the international baby contest in
| Paris.
THE Russian government has notified the
Powers that Russia will take no part in CO.
ercing Greece.
A VESSEL with cargo of 10000 sealskins
was crushed in the ice Of Notre Dame Bay
n. f. All but three of the crew escaped.
A MAN named Clifford of Boston at
tempted to steal $4,000 from bank in Am
sterdam, Holland, but was caught in the act.
WAR with Greece is regarded as inevitable
at Constantnople. The Turks are fastening
to complete the last preparations necessary
for the sailing of the fleet.
RIGHT Hon. WILLIAM f. FORSTER, who
was chief secretary for Ireland under the
previous Gladstone ministry, is dead. He
had been ill for some time and was sixty
eight years of age.
A BREAKING up of the British cabinet is
imminent. Lord Kimberly, Sir William
Harcourt, Mr.. Childers and Mr.. Mundella
refuse to assent to any home measure Civ
ing Ireland control of the CUSTOMS and they
threaten to resign if such measure be in
sisted upon by Gladstone. Morley demands
modification of the plans for buying out the
landlords. Gladstone, however, remains in
flexible