The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-19


THE strike in the lumber yards in Chicago
has come to an inglorious ending, all the
men returning to work.
PowDERLY has been accused by the Ger
mans of making the Knights Of Labor
temperance organization.
THE steamship Acadia of Baltimore has
been wrecked in cyclone near Jamaica;
seventeen lives were lost.
THE number of persons killed in the re-
cent cyclones in Ohio is put at fifty, and 500
were more or less injured.
IT is said to be a practically assured fact
that a Roman Catholic university is to be
established in Washington.
HENRY TANNER and his six children have
died from black diphtheria in Sheridan,
Mich. Other families are afflicted
THE experiment of Matching shad while
en- route between the Chesapeake and the
Columbia has been successfully made.
The twenty-three wounded officers in
Chicago are pronounced out of danger. The
fund for their relief has reached $33,637.
REPORTS from the principal fruit-growing
sections along the Hudson valley show
large yield of all kinds of fruit is assured.
AN anarchist named Lingg was arrested
in Chicago as the man who threw the death
dealing bomb on the eventful 4th of May.
The wholesale clothiers of Chicago have
not less than 10000 persons are made idle.
A SECTION of Forepaugh's circus train was
wrecked in collision near Binghamton, N.
Y, and seven men were seriously injured.
The Baltimore & Ohio express struck a
COW near Chicago and was thrown from the
track. Fourteen passengers were injured.
GEORGE e. DAME of Newport, N. H., has
been selected to succeed w. III. Bigelow as
superintendent of the New England mail
service.
THE annual meeting of the American
Bible Society was held in New York last
week Thursday. The years receipts were
$40; expenses, S499,99S
A LARGE tent at a camp-meeting in John
son county, Kansas, was blown down dur
ing gale. Two hundred fifty persons were
in the tent and three were killed.
MANY more towns in Missouri report dam
age from last weeks tornado. There was
a 100000 loss at Evansville, Indiana, and
general havoc along the Ohio river.
ANOTHER tornado in Western Ohio Satur-
day night. Three women were killed near
Celina, and fifteen persons injured. Hun
dreds of buildings were demolished.
A SPECIAL from Mississippi City says JEFF
ferson Davis has been confined to his room
since his return home and is under the care
of several physicians. He will recover.
The directors of the Chicago board of
uTdue pdSSeu TeSOluulOHS protesting against
the proposed tax of ten cents per pound on
oleomargarine or butterine by congress.
STILL another cyclone swept over the
West on Friday night. AT Dunkirk, Ohio,
several buildings were destroyed, four per-
sons were killed and fifteen or twenty in
jured. AT Forest, Ohio, many buildings
were demolished. In Meriden, Kansas, a
large number of houses were blown down
and twenty people were seriously hurt.
Great damage was done at Jones Lake and
Albion, Mich. The estimated losses in nine
counties in Ohio, by wind and flood, are
| $2,000,000
| PASSENGERS on the Chicago & Alton train
| which arrived at Chicago last week Wednes-
day night had remarkable experience with
a cyclone. AT Pontiac, ILL.,, a storm-cloud
was seen gathering in the west and moving
in a northward direction. As the train sped
on the storm kept coming nearer every min
ute, and the passengers began to realize that
they were being chased by a cyclone. just
as the engine pulled into Odell ILL.,, the
storm struck the town and the air was full
| of debris. In moment seven stores and
the hotel were unroofed, and one large brick
building was nearly destroyed. Under the
wreck of the structure two children were
| buried.
A TERRIBLE wind and rain-storm visited
| Xenia, Ohio, last week Wednesday evening,
sweeping away one hundred houses and
washing out all the railways. Twenty-Five
| lives were lost. The property loss is eSti-
mated at 100000. There was great de-
struction by lightning and flood at Spring
| field and DAYTON. Farm buildings and
| bridges in all directions were demolished
and all crops were ruined. The rainfall was
! four and one-half inches in three hours. In
Butler county the property loss was severe,
but no lives were lost. AT Attica, Ind, one
woman was killed and several persons fa-
tally injured. The hurricane blew down all
| buil1inos Int three in Wilkinson. Ind One
man was killed. Madison county, KY, suf-
| fered to the extent of 100000 Hundreds
of houses were unroofed at Logansport, Ind
| AT Peru, Ind, the damage is $3.50 O0 al
Tiplon, 100000 Several persons were ia
tally injured.
KANSAS CITY was visited by a cyclone last
week Tuesday, which destroyed the court
house and other property. A number Of
lives were lost-at least thirty-two, includ
ing eleven school children. Lathrop school
consisted of a main building to which al
art wing had been added. The building
was surmounted by tower, which for some 1I
time had been considered unsafe. Th'
house was crowded with children. TIT
winds seemed to concentrate their force il
a decent upon the tower, which yielded will
a crash, and, carrying down the heavy bell
plunged through the intervening floors t'
the basement. The main building was
mass of ruins. A dozen dead bodies wer
taken out during the day and sent to tn
houses of the Borrowing parents. In
three-story brick building, the third floor o
which was used as an overall factory, wer
about twenty-five employees, chiefly girls
When the storm broke out they started TO
the cellar. The building fell with a crasl
and most of the girls were caught in tn
ruins Four have been taken out dead. !
number of others are wounded. The dark
ness was almost like night, and the peopl
fled to the nearest shelter and awaited, will
, blanched faces, the fury of the tempest.
Foreign.
) FLOODS are general throughout Gres
Britain.
= A NEW Mahdi has begun operations in tn
Soudan.
4 SEVERE hurricanes have occurred on tn
Irish coast.
: A GALE in France nearly destroyed tn
town of Montpelier.
= OLEoMARGARINE is sold extensively q
butter all over Great Britain.
Y In the Paris Salon, just opened there al
pictures by 115 American artists.
| e. ID. WINsLow, the Boston forger, is
Jail in Buenos Ayres for swindling.
3 CHILL and the Argentine Republic expe'
to be connected by railroad in two years
n THE house of commons has rejected IN,
ton to abolish capital punishment, III to 6
= A COLLISION between Catholics and Pro
estants occurred in County Tyrone, Irelan'
!, on Saturday.
THE Queen Regent of Spain has give
; birth to male child, and there is great r