The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14

ABOUT $4,000 has been raised for the
Parnel parliamentary fund in this country
EXPERIMENTS in Portland prove that
water gas will replace ether as an anes-
thetic.
ONE man has been killed and several
wounded by an explosion in a mine at Buch-
tel, Ohio.
GOVERNOR THOMPSON of South Carolina
has been confirmed as assistant secretary of
the treasury.
GREAT damage has been done to crops of
all kinds in Illinois by electric, hail and
wind storms.
ANARCHISTS in Chicago fred upon Fourth
of July procession, apparently aiming at the
American flag.
CONGRESSMAN MILLIKEN says Mr.. Blaine
will not live in Washington again unless he
does so as President.
! COMMANDMENT. 7. SAMPSON succeeds Cap
tain Ramsay as superintendent of the United
States Naval Academy
THE President has nominated Ftz-John
| Porter to be a colonel in the army to take
rank from May IA, 1861
ST. LOUIS spectators have lost S2,000,000
| by the squeeze in wheat at Chicago. Sew
eral firms are in trouble.
PAUL II. HAYNE, the southern poet
laureate, died at his home, Copsehill, near
! Groveton, Ga, last week,
broken open and robbed of $4,000 in money
and stamps Thursday night.
THE North American Underground Tee-
graph and Electric Company has been in
corporated, with S2,500,000 capital.
A STEAMER which arrived at New York
Wednesday brought four hundred thrty-siX
new converts to the Mormon faith.
INTENSE excitement exists among the
striking miners at Grape Creek, ILL.,, about
| coming tn take their plnppg
The boycotters who tried to spoil Mrs.
Landgraf's trade in New York were con-
victed and sentenced to Imprisonment.
COLONEL GEORGE B. CoRKHILL best
! known as prosecuting attorney in the case
of the killing of President Garfield, is dead.
THE assessed value of real aud personal
property in New York is 81 400, 96S ,2S6, an
increase of nearly S50000,000 over last years
| figures.
Mrs. JOHN ABBOTT of Dimond's Corner.
n. H., who was bitten by "A dog five weeks
ago, died Thursday from hydrophobia, as is
thought.
AT Coulterville, H., seventy persons
were poisoned by eating picnic ice-cream.
| -Four have died and more are in precarous
condition.
A FIRE in the New Zealand valley, White
| Mountains, destroyed a large quantity of
timber and eight horses, the loss being esti-
mated at 100000
NEAR Pilot Grove, Texas, child was
torn in pieces and devoured by puma. The
animal has been seen several times this sum-
mer in North Texas.
THE German socialist paper in New York
having threatened the men drawn as jurors
in the boycotterS trial, has been proceeded
against by the authorities.
THE grand jury of ST. Joseph, Mo-, has
returned one hundred four indictments
against saloon men for selling without a Ii
cense and violating the Sunday law.
ANOTHER hot wave is advancing from the
West which will probably equal, if not sur
pass, the one of last week. AT Fort Keogh
the thermometer Monday registered 100.
A DEMOCRATIC member of the house says
| that if Il vacancy occurred in the supreme
court of the United States during this adj
ministration the President would appoint
Secretary Bayard to fill it.
Mrs. ARNOLD at New Holland. Ohio has
celebrated her one hundred and ninth birth
day. She has two sisters living aged re-
spectively one hundred and six and one
hundred and twelve years.
THE $1,000, 900 suit brought by the Bank
ers' and Merchants Telegraph Company
against the Western Union Company, for
cutting wires, ended with a verdict for the
plaintiff in the sum of S240,000.
THE village of Waterford, Racine county,
Wis, is terribly stricken with typhoid
fever, fifty being down with the disease.
-Four deaths have occurred One family of
eleven and another of nine are in their beds.
A RAID on Oklahoma is promised this
month by Nugent, the leader of 1000 fol-
lowers, who are well armed and equipped.
Major Sumner will checkmate them by
burning the grass, and their stock will be
starved out.
THE fifty-seventh annual meeting of
the American Institute of Instruction was
I,,1,
continued until Friday evening. a large
number of prominent people interested in
educational work We're present
SEvENTY-FIvE editors of Ohio, represent
ing seventy counties, met the Sth, in answer
to call to express themselves on the re-
fusal of the United States senate committee
on privileges and elections to order an in
vestigation of the Payne bribery charges.
G. ID. GRAHAM passed safely through the
whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls in cask
Sunday. He is a Philadelphia, thirty-three
years old, and a cooper by trade. Having
conceived the idea of making the fool-hardy
voyage, he constructed barrel for the
purpose.
SENATOR WARNER MILLER of the agricul-
tural committee is much annoyed by Reall S
interference and officiousness in the bogus
butter legislation. He says he wishes all
the newspapers would warn the farmers
that no money is needed for the passage OF
the OleOmarBarlne Dill, ana undU real : col
lections are unauthorized
Foreign.
CARDINAL GUILDERT, archbishop of Paris
is dead.
THE Turks are looking for war between
Russia and Austria.
RUSSIA increases in population faster thar
, any other European country.
THE young liberals of Canada ask for pc
, litical independence and prohibition.
LoRTHEsI's wooden mills at Tourcing
1 France, have been burned. Loss 500, 900
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has preached
: again in DIR. Parker's City Temple, London
IT is feared in Canada that the tribes o
. Indians in the Northwest will shortly revolt
a In the last three years 1900, 600 sheer
9 have died in New South Wales for want o
I water.
e THE cholera returns from all over Italy
: show for Saturday 216 new cases and ion
deaths.
: RUSSIA has declared Batoum no longer
a free port, thus renouncing the treaty o
Berlin.
/ UP to Monday night the tories had elected
29l candidates, unionists &C, liberals 154
1 z.