The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

was accidentally killed In the Boston &
Lowell station in Boston Friday morning.
"HARRY WILKES trotted mile in q 15I
at Detroit, making the last quarter at a 2: 70
gait.
THERE is great excitement at Arlington,
Mass, over discoveries of rich gold and sill
yer deposits.
GENERAL J. II. VAN ALLEN of New York.
returning from Liverpool to his home, fell
overheard and was drowned.
IT is estimated that S450,000 worth of
grain was ruined by Fridays hail storm in
the vicinity of Portland, Oregon
The President has referred the oeomar-
garine bill to the Encouragement for an
opinion upon its constitutionality.
BETWEEN 800 and 600 members of the
Grand Army of the Republic passed through
st. Louis, Saturday, for San Francisco.
WEDNESDAY was the great day of the BIZ
centennial at Albany, and it was dignifed
by the presence of President Cleveland.
THE act passed June 20, reducing the fee
on money-orders not exceeding 50 from
eight to five cents, went into effect July 26.
Two Chicago post-office officials have been
arrested for heavy populations. One of
them, Colonel Bolton, has fine war record.
The Wesleyan Methodists of England are
talking favorably of the proposition to hold
an ecumenical conference in the United
States in 1891.
WILLIAM HUNTER, second assistant sec
rotary of state, the oldest official in con-
tinuous service of the national government,
died last week.
AN incident of the anarchists trial Friday
was the presentation of a bouquet to each
of the eight prisoners by "a fashionably-
dressed young lady"
A GREAT snow arch in Tuckermans ra-
vine, White Mountains, fell on Saturday
and killed a fifteen-year-old son of S. A.
Faunce, a Boston lawyer.
A CHICAGO newsboy ernest Hollstocl.
aged eleven) attempted to rescue two lads
from drowning, but before he got them
ashore he persisted himself.
Mrs. andre BAIRoLI, an Italian woman
of Cleveland, Ohio, and three children were
all fatally poisoned Monday by arsenic,
which druggist gave for sugar of milk.
AN attempt to assault the President is
supposed to have been stopped by the
prompt arrest of man in Albany Wednes-
day night. The man was, however, UNI
armed.
THE east-bound express train on the New
York, New Haven q Hartford railroad ran
into a gravel train in Bridgeport killing
two laborers and injuring six others. The
engineer was placed under arrest.
A SENSATION has been caused at Greens.
aged ninety, to Retta Boston, his ward
aged nine Bishops wife died two weeks
ago. His application for license stated the
girls age to be twenty-seven
COMMANDER HENRY l.. JOHNSON, U. S. n.
who was recently tried by court-martal at
Boston on charges of scandalous conduct
tending to the destruction of good morals
and of disobedience of orders, was found
guilty on both charges and was sentenced
to be suspended from rank and duty for the
period of five years on furlough pay, to re-
tain his present number on the list of COM
manders and to be publicly reprimanded by
the secretary of the navy
STEPHEN BRoDIE jumped from the Brook
Ign bridge Friday and received no injuries.
Less than twenty people We're near at the
time. The man shot down straight to the
water, one hundred twenty feet below,
striking feet-frst He sank from sight and
reappeared a moment later with both hands
at his chest, as if in pain. A skiff, which
was near, took the man in and pulled to the
foot of Dover street, where three police
officers arrested Brodie, who was arraigned
in the Tombs police court the next morning
He slept soundly all night and is none the
worse for his terrible leap. He was held in
81 900 bail.
FRENCH engineers are to construct the
Chinese railways.
MAMMALIAN WOLFGANG DUNCKER, the
German historian, is dead
A HOT wave of extraordinary quality
passed over Europe last week.
THE Cuban sugar crop is estimated al
69O,779 tons, against 631, 1857 year ago.
A GREAT iron-mill in Westphalia has beer
forced by English competition to suspend.
THE installation of Cardinal Taschereau
was the occasion of a great festival al
Quebec.
BY the explosion of government maya
zine near Constantinople forty persons were
killed and many injured.
SEVERAL colonial functionaries were seri
ously injured by railway accident between
London and Portsmouth.
United Ireldnd declares that the tug OF
war for Ireland is at hand, and meeting
which took place at Waterford emphasizes
the declaration.
THE stories coming from Newfoundland
about the restitution of the fishermen there
are becoming worse and worse. In one vii
lage more than half the inhabitants have
already died of starvation and in Others
nearly as bad a state of affairs exists. Or
the coast of Labrador similar state o.
affairs exists.