The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09

without a funeral. The daughter has be-
come insane and is to be transferred to the
insane retreat in Burlington.
GEORGE MUNRoE, alias Robert Bowman,
was brought to Rutland from Chicago by
one of Pinkerton's detectives Thursday, to
answer to an indictment charging him with
forging draft on the Brandon National
Bank in 1882
ABOUT 10000, 900 feet of logs have collected
in one jam near Miliken's mill at the foot
of the falls at McIndoe's. In some places
the logs are fifty feet high. Between 200
and 800 men are at work at them this
week, and with good luck it will take the
force fortnight to break the jam.
DIR. SUNDERLAND, who performed the
marriage ceremony at the White house, is
monter by birth, and went to Washington
before the war He was pastor in New York
of a congregation where the members of the
Cleveland family attended service.
THE body of man much decomposed was
found last week by Bennington fishermen
in the widest nook of the state in Somerset.
1t is supposed to be that of the peddler
who had been missing since last November
and whose pack was found some days
ago near this spot. His leg had been broken
and he had probably persisted because of
the accident.
ORMsBEE delegates have been elected by
republican caucuses in several Rutland
COUNTY uoWh dlSO AuulSOn
county, by ten majority. The delegates
from Stowe are uninstructed. Rutland,
| Pittsford, Poultney and Tinmouth elected
delegates to the county convention favor
able TO the nomination Of Colonel John A.
Sheldon for state senator.
DELEGATES and others attending the re-
| publican state convention at Montpelier
! on the 10th instant are instructed that
round trip tickets will be on sale at fare one
way, and that they should apply to the
| ticket agents for such tickets when going
to Montpelier. This plan has been adopted
as more convenient than the return check
method, and delegates should bear this in
mind.
FIRE caught from the engine in Hastings
& Follander's steam saw-mill at North Con-
| cord Sunday and entirely consumed it, The
! loss is estimated at $4,000, with an insurance
of $4,000. The wood-shed and 275 cords of
wood, owned by the Boston & Lowell cor
and fully covered. The depot caught fire
several times, but was saved after consider
| able trouble.
Other Localities.
THE town of Scottdale, Penn. was nearly
destroyed by fire.
THE reduction of the national debt in
| May was IS, 1926, 0OO
EIGHT persons were burned to death in a
tenement-house in Chicago.
CoTToN-sEED oil is now used in adulter-
ating tallow as well as lard
MOST, the anarchist, was sentenced to one
| years imprisonment and fine of $500.
THE prospect for a good crop of peache s.,
grapes and other fruits along the Hudson
river is excellent.
FIRES: Several business houses at Gardi-
ner, Me; loss $3.50, 900. The Grant theatre
at Louisville, Ky; loss 100000.
In the senate, the oleomargarine bill was
referred to the committee on agriculture by
a vote of twenty-five to twenty-one.
THE state department learns that the
Mormons have thirty eight missionaries in
Switzerland making converts for Utah.
FIFTY-sEvEN million matches are manu-
featured in one day by the match factory at
Akron, Ohio, the largest in the United States.
IT is reported that the defalcation OF
Cashier Hoke of the Merchants NatiOna
Bank of Peoria, ILL.,, will amount to 100000.
THE vessels of the North Atlantic squad
ron have been ordered to Portland, presum-
ably to look after the interests of our fisher
men.
PORTLAND, Oregon, has gained 1000 in
population in less than year, and Other
places in the state are gaining proportion
ately.
WHAT is said to be the largest schooner in
the world will soon be launched at Bath
Maine. She will have coal carrying ca.
pacity of 1900 tons.
The art of photography has been so sim
plifed and cheapened Of late years that
there are now thirty thousand amateur pho
tographers in this country.
The water of Mono Lake, Cal, is so i'm
pregnated with salts of sodium and bora>
that the BARRIERS in the vicinity use it as a
natural shampooing water.
THE republicans of the first Maine con
gressional district have renominated Mr.
Reed. The democrats of the fourth have
made John +. Lynch their candidate.
AT their state convention the democrats
of Maine nominated Colonel Clark S. Ed
wards of Bethel for governor. The plat
form praises Cleveland and blames con
gress.
MAXWELL, who has been on trial for kill
ing Preller and packing his body in trunl
in st. Louis, has been convicted of murde
in the first degree. The jury were on
twelve hours, and balloted three times be
, fore agreeing.
IT is reported in Montreal that the Cana
D dian Pacific railroad company has finall,
bought the Central Vermonts branch from
: st. Johns to Sherbrooke, known as tn,
Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly anC
Waterloo and Magog railways.
The Vanwert, Ohio, national bank re
ceived an express package purporting t
contain ten thousand dollars. The cor
:, tents had been removed and cotton
g pasteboard and advertising bills were foun
instead. The clerk who sent it sealed
: with green wax, and when received tn
v seals were red
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was married t
n Miss Folsom in the White House last wee
v Wednesday evening. The simple ceremon
arranged was carried out, but good tast
o and elegance was displayed on the part Q
IL all people present. A supper followed tn
10 ceremony and later on a special train tool
the welded couple to Deer Park.
n Foreign.
CHILL is harvesting the largest wheat GRO
n ever known in the country.
I. The British house of commons has passe
l. the international copyright bill.
A MOVEMENT has been started in Glasgo
ID for a separate Scotch parliament.
% THE town of Bote, Hungary, has been d
y stroyed by fire. Three hundred houses wei
burned and three lives lost.
y, :, THE Orangemen of Upper Canada al
~ aiding their co-religionists in Ulster by col
10 tributions of muskets and money.
, ORANGE workmen in a Belfast shipyar
II attacked the navies employed by the ha
= Dor commissioners and beat six of thel
~ nearly to death.
=. THE movements in Central Asia are aga
suppestive The latest Indication of cOmiI