The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-27

III ueneTHi
THE railway strike at Minneapolis has |
ended.
ALLUvIAL gold has been discovered in
South Australia.
THERE is to be one solitary republican in
the Georgia senate.
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake were felt |
in Germany Tuesday.
S. s. Cox was nominated for congress in
his old New York district.
EDITOR CUTTING has set in to get $50, 900
damages for his imprisonment.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., had the phenomena of
rain from clear sky Saturday
JAMES G. RLAINE will stump New Jersey,
opening at Trenton the 30th inst.
THE Mexican authorities have arrested
Negrete, the would-be revoutionist.
THE Gloucester schooner George l.. Smith
with all her crew, IA men, has been lost.
THE Unversalist denomination has re-
solved to engage in foreign missionary work.
COUNT FREDERICK FERDINAND Won BEUsT,
the distinguished German statesman, is
dead
EX-GOVERNOR WAsHBURN was reelected
president of the American Missionary Asso-
citation.
Hon. JOSEPH b. CLARK of Manchester,
n H., hung himself in his stable Friday
morning.
RETURNS for the first eight months of the
present year show 100 suicides in the Ger
man army.
GERONIMO and the other hostile Apaches
are to be kept in Fort Pickens, Fla, until
further orders
IT is rumored that the will of Sarah II.
Belcher, who left $4,000 to Bates College,
il to be contested.
Mr.. GLADSTONE gave evidence of the
entire restoration of his health by telling a
tree at Hawarden.
THE republicans of the second Massa-
chusetts district re-nominated Hon. John
ID. Long for congress.
THE wells at Summerville, S. c., contain
some ten feet more of water than before
Fridays earthquakes.
EDWARD II. HALL, a New York broker,
and formerly a partner with Jim Keene,
has committed suicide.
RUMoR has it that the Canadian Pacific
| Railway Company has bought the Stan
stead, Shefford x Chambly.
THE Knights of Labor convention passed
a resolution asking for mercy for the con-
demned anarchists at Chicago.
The national school at Canermurphy,
West Clare, Ireland, was wrecked Thurs
day night by unknown parties.
REPORTS from the Arctic state that the
catch of the whaling fleet up to the close of
September, numbered eghty-sx.
TwENTY-THREE thousand acres of North
ern Pacific lands in Washington Territory
have been restored to settlement.
ELLIOT & Co.. wholesale druggists of To-
| ronto were burned out Wednesday morn
ing. Loss one hundred thousand dollars.
KLADNo, a town of Bohemia is threatened
with destruction. All of the streets are
sinking. The town is built over coal pits.
BY the burning of Jacobs lumber yard
| and the American Narnish Company 5
works in Chicago two men lost their lives.
THE apparent indisposition of the powers
| to actively support Bulgaria Will have the
effect of driving her to a reconciliation with
Russia.
The train carrying Geronimo and his
braves to Florida was wrecked on Satur-
day night, but no one was hurt so far as is
known.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in cash and much
clothing and furniture has been given by
the Texans for sufferers from the Sabine
Pass floods
BY railroad accident in Nebraska five
men were killed. A number were injured
among them John Fitzgerald, president Of
the Land League.
THE business portion of Pennington, Me.
was burned Friday, including the Congre
gational, Methodist and Baptist churches
hotels and printing Offices
IT is estimated at the treasury that the
issue of the new 81 and 50 silver certificates
may aggregate $4,000, 900 and of the So sill
yer certificates, S6O,O0OGO0.
HIcKLIN j. LANDERs of indianapolis
banker and confidential clerk for two pork
houses, is said to have gone to Canada,
having embezzled about $4,000.
GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS, who is heir tC
the Russian throne, and is afflicted with
pulmonary disease, is in precarious con
ali II 10 faap sod In xxrill
GLADSTONE, while telling a tree at Ha-
warden, Saturday, stirred up IA nest OF
wasps. They attacked him, and his face
was terribly swelled from the effect of the
stings.
By a collision of passenger train with
freight train on the Detroit Grand Haver
& Milwaukee railway, the engineers, fire
men and other train hands were seriousl J
injured
EX-TowN TREASURER CARTER of Pittstield
Mass, has turned his books over to the
selectmen having accounted for but 5000 OF
the sum charged against him. This leaves
him about Sol 900 short.
SINCE September, 1885, twenty-six vessels
belonging To Gloucester, Mass, and valued
at S164 900, have been lost. The loss of life
has been one hundred four, leaving twenty
two widows and fifty fatherless children.
FARMERS are fighting extensive fires il
and Schuylkill counties, Penn. Abou
twelve hundred acres have been burned
over, destroying $4,000 worth of lumber.
JAMES G.. BLAINE, accompanied by his two
sons, devoted Friday to visiting the scenes
of his childhood. The party spent severa
hours in the old mansion where Blaine wa.
born and also visited the graves of his pa.
rents and his sisters.
THE famous Puts tree" near Crown
Point, n. Y, to which General Israel Put
nam was tied by the Indians but was res
cued just as the torch was being applied tC
the faggots, was last week sent to Saratoga
where it will be preserved.
AT the national convention of the Wo
mans Christian Temperance Union at Min
neapolis Monday night Mrs. Perkins of Yer
mont submitted a report declaring ii unwis,
for the Union to distinctly endorse any
political party, even the prohibitionists.
The report of the commissioner of pen
sions for the year ending June 80, 1885,
shows that there are in the United States
about 1900 soldiers in the poor houses OF
which thirteen per cent are pensioners, tha
the Oldest soldier receiving public support
is one hundred three years of age.
A DIPLOMAT in Washington credits the ru
NOR that the Car has gone mad. He says
Alexander always had a great secret hatred
drove him to frenzy. Frequently he has
been more irritable over Bulgarian matters
because the deposed prince was German.
Mr., BLAINE was greeted at Pittsburg will
one of the largest audiences before which h,