The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-03

throne.
A SHORTAGE of S75,OOOhas been discovered
in the accounts of II. j. 7. Bradley, Of the
Pullman Car Company.
THIRTY poor persons have been found
sleeping in a warm water drain in Pesth.
They were entirely naked.
THE car has addressed note to Prince
Waldemar, asking him to become candi-
date for the Bulgarian throne.
ENGLAND is believed to be about to de-
mand that the Bulgarian question be set
tied by conference Of the powers
IT transpires that the centennial of New
Brunswick, n. j., observed two wears ago,
was fifty-four years behind the time.
NJ. PAsTEUR has sold for $4,000 to a COM
mercal company the secret Of his prophy-
Tactic against splenic fever in cattle.
STATES ATTORNEY GRrNNELL of Chicago
was brutally assaulted Friday, by Salamon,
one of the counsel for the anarchists.
A COLUMBUS, Ohio, special says: John
Francis, the convict who forged the election
tally sheet of 1894. has confessed the crime.
THE United States district attorney from
Rhode Island has brought suit against the
Riverside Oswego mills for importing for
eign labor.
Four children playing under a sand bank
near Scranton, Pa, to-day were buried by a
cave-in and were rescued too late to save
their lives.
THE Case Scientific School at Cleveland,
Ohio, opened last year and costing 100000
was destroyed by fire October q. Insured
for $4,000.
THE old rolling mill of the Old Colony
iron works. East Taunton, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday. Loss S1j0,0O0
partially insured.
A coLoRED woman at Forest Green, Mo,
locked four children indoors Thursday,
while she went to work The house burned
down and the Children wprp all crpmatpl
THE United Heiand tells the Irish tenants
that the time for patient endurance is
passed, and says it is time for them to stand
up and fight hard, hitting from the shoulder.
AT Chattanooga, Tenn, the Methodist
university was dedicated in the presence of
an immense throng. The university was
opened month ago and now has two hum
dred students.
The Dustin bank failure at Lincoln, ILL.,,
assumes greater proportions. Dustins
Montana liabilities now reach $4,000. The
total liabilities foot up over 100000, with
only S6I 600 of assets in sight.
RICHARD PRESTON, a Boston merchant,
borrowed one hundred fifty thousand dol
lars from friends and absconded He has
been specializing in stocks lately, and lost.
1t is believed he is in Canada
HANNAH SANDS, an old lady living at Rye,
n. Y, was supposed to be very poor and
died last fall Search among her effects
! brought 10 nRnt SfO,ODD IN money anu
! bonds, sewed up in an old skirt.
THE British steamer Borderer bound from
Boston to London, collided with the Minerva
in the Thames. The latter vessel sank and
seven persons We're drowned and the
Borderer sustained some damage.
THE English clergyman, Haweis, was adj
vertised to preach in the Congregational
church, London, last night, but his bishop
forbade him. When the fact was announced
! TO the audience tleV cried shame
The engagement is privately announced
of James Russell Lowell, ex-minister of the
United States, to the dowager Lady Lyttle-
ton, widow of the late, and aunt by mar
riage of the present, Lord Lyttleton.
Two Baltimore & Ohio freights collded
near Jonesvlle, Ohio, Friday Both en-
gines and twenty-seven cars were wrecked.
The loss is one hundred thousand dollars.
A tramp stealing ride was nearly killed.
JAY GOULD says he found business so
good out West that he has ordered between
1000 and 5000 new cars for the Missouri
Pacific, mostly freight cars, but including
100 passenger coaches; also 100 locomotives.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
express going northwest last night ran into
an open switch at Rio, Wis, and was
thrown into a stone quarry. The coaches
took fire. Seven lives were lost. possibly
more. The full particulars are not yet known.
FIRE at Pocahontas, Va, destroyed six
teen houses, including two hotels and
several business houses. George Baber of
Lynchburg, persisted in the flames Several
other persons are missing. The fire was the
work of an incendiary Heavy rains saved
the town. Loss $4,000.
AT Minneapolis the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Convention, by vote
of two hundred ffty-two to thirty-eight,
pledged It's influence and sympathy to the
prohibition party. DR.. j. H. Kellogg,
speaking on "Diet and Dress" claimed
that a person can get drunk on tea. He
was severe upon corsets and light shoes.
REVENUE COLLECTOR HAMILTON of Arkan-
sas, recently broke up a gang of illicit dis
tllers, and caught all but one Later this
one applied for work on Hamltons farm,
and not being recognized was hired. Friday
night, having pretended to go away, he
stole into Hamilton's bedroom, placed a
pistol to his ear, without rousing the vic
tim or his wife, fired and fled Hamilton
was killed.
GRAND CALIFORNIA ExCURsIoNs.-The
Chicago, Rock Island Il Pacific railway an
nounces three grand iirst-cass excursions
to the Pacific Coast, leaving Chicago No
vember 9th, November 10th and December
18th, at extremely low rates. For additional
information, tickets, sleeping-car accommo-
dations, etc, apply to nearest ticket agent,
or address L. A. Holbrook. G. T. Il p. A,
c. r. l. & p. R'y, Chicago, Ill.
NEW YORK, November Mrs. A. I.
Stewards will is published. The value OF
the property is estimated at twenty millions.
She gives two sisters an annuity of ten
thousand dollars each and brother twenty
thousand dollars during their lives.
; To other relatives she gives two hun
, dred fifty thousand dollars and two
: hundred thousand dollars. and several
fifty thousand dollars Then the residue is
: divided evenly between nephew, Charles
j. Clinch, now in Paris, and Judge Henry
Hilton, Stewards friend and adviser Clinch
{ and Hilton are made executors. The will
+ had several codicis, one providing for fin.
5 ishing the memorial cathedral at Garden
: City, which was incomplete when she died
4 New YORK, October 2S-The Barthold
statue of Liberty was unveiled this after.
noon with appropriate speeches, prayer and
music. The great feature of the cere
< mony was this mornings parade of ten
) thousand state militia, several hundred
: federal troops and marines, and Wis
D iting regiments from Massachusetts and
9 New Jersey. Scores of civic societies
: and many state and national officials were
, in line The President reviewed the
+ procession from stand up town
! standing in drzzling rain with
: out an overcoat or umbrella and remov
n ing his hat for every salute. The pro
i cession was over an hour in passing. There
e were thirty thousand visitors in town. TIT
principal buildings were deliberately deco
rated, and many shops We're closed. The
President later took a steam yacht over Il
the Island where the statue was unveiled.