The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-12

right to organize to protect themselves, but
no right to disregard the rights of capital
A oNE-HUNDRED-F1FTY-ToN boulder rolled
down the mountain at Swanville, Maine, the
other day, and cut a clean swath through
large forest trees for over thirty rods.
A NITRo-GLYcERINE factory at Pinole,
California, has been blown up, with thir-
teen hundred pounds of powder Three
Cinnamon and one Yankee were killed.
TRAFFIC is resumed on nearly all Chicago
roads, the strikers having returned to work.
Those who have not returned are orderly
and do not now congregate in large crowds,
as formerly.
AN Iowa catte-grower has dehorned one
hundred twenty-five cattle with no bad re-
suits, and regards 1t a great economy. He
thinks that horns do S1,0O0,000 damage an-
nually in Iowa alone.
AN officer of the Audubon society states
that II no more birds were killed in this
country it would take four generations to
replace the birds that had been destroyed
during the last four years.
JONATHAN PRICE, one of the pioneers of
the town of Persia, n. Y, died a few days
ago, aged eighty years. Nineteen out of his
twenty children attended his funeral the
twentieth having died recently.
AT a sale of unclaimed express freight at
Denver, Col, the other day, three heavy
boxes We're sold for S6.40. On being opened
each of the boxes were found to contain a
brick of solid gold worth $4,000
SEVERAL new strikes were begun in Chi
cago last week Thursday, the chief one be-
ing by 200 employees of the Deering Har-
vester Company Switchmen and freight
handlers also struck in several railroad
yards. All but 500 of the 1850 men en-
ployed at Pullman left work.
AT East St. Louis, where the Knights
of Labor have declared the strike off, in
spite of Martin Irons, old hands applied for
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stored to their former places. Those who
had damaged property or INDUCED in vio-
lent threats were firmly rejected.
BLooDsHED occurred in Milwaukee last
week Tuesday morning, where a large
crowd besieged the Bay View Iron Mills.
Six companies of militia were on guard and
ordered the crowd to stop advancing, but
the order was disobeyed. The soldiers then
fired a volley, killing three and wounding
| seven others.
In last week Tuesday nights riot in Chi
cago fifty officers were wounded and three
| killed. Thirty-eight rioters and persons
| foolish enough to stand in the crowd were
wounded. The number of killed is not posi-
| lively known. The dead were concealed
by their friends. Eleven prominent social
| lists have been arrested.
A SOCIALIST alderman in Milwaukee,
named Rudzinski, has complained to Gov
| ernor Rusk of the use of troops. Rusk re-
|
that l will stop their assembling for riotous
! purposes If l have to call out every able
bodied militia IMAM in the whole state.'
Rusk's firmness is much commended
THERE was waterspout in Kansas Fri
day. A farmer named Jacobs saw it COM
| ing and put his wife, his brother and two
| children in a wagon to drive out of danger;
but the whirlng column overlook them,
| broke, and swept them into the river.
Jacobs and his brother escaped with one
child; the other child and the mother were
drowned.
Foreign.
GREECE has resolved upon war.
FRANCE assumed neutral position on the
Greek question.
The coasts of Greece are blockaded by the
war ships of five powers.
In a riot at Lyons, France, thirty striking
workmen were wounded
The town of Hull, p. O., was visited by a
disastrous fire Saturday night.
IT is officially announced that cholera has
appeared in Venice and Vicenza.
THE Athens populace are enthusiastic
over the prospect of a war with Turkey.
A FIRE in Honolulu April IS destroyed
property valued at million and half.
THE Greek question is considered alarm
ing in England, and war is thought inevi-
table.
GLADSTONE made another home-rule
speech in the house of commons Monday
evening.
The provincial assembly of Nova Scotia
on Saturday adopted the resolutions favor
ing secession.
TENNysoN has joined the loyal patriotic
union, the object of which is to resist the
granting of home-rule to Ireland.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN declares that he will
support the home-rule bill only on the con-
dition that it is amended so as TO maintain
the supremacy of the imperial parliament
ARCHBISHOP TAsCHEREAU of Montreal has
issued mandate forbidding Catholics to be-
come members of the Knights of Labor, as
being one of the dangerous societies con-
demned by the Pope.