The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

more g. Ohio railway killed an engineer
and three iiremen.
JOHN SHERMAN was reelected United
States senator by the Ohio legislature last
week Wednesday.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY believes that there
is n never-freezng ocean 800 miles in di-
ameter around the pole.
REV. NORMAN HUDSON, a well-known
Shakespearean scholar and native of
Cornwall, Vt, is dead aged seventy-two.
THE New Jersey children lately sent to
France, to be treated by Pasteur for hydro
phoba, arrived home last week Thursday.
DIR. THOMAS w. KEEN, member of the Vir-
ginia house of delegates from Danville, fell
dead upon the floor of the house Saturday.
THERE was 100000 fire at Bay City,
Mich, Sunday; S5j,000 blaze at Buffalo; a
SA, 900 loss at Oswego and 100000 fire in
Montreal.
SIX thousand loads Of snow were col
lected in New York, mainly in Broadway,
directly after the storm, and dumped into
the rivers.
MAYOR HARRISON of Chicago discredits
the alleged intentions of the socialists in
that city, and says there is no cause for APP
prehension.
A CATHOLIC church and other buildings at
Fort Wayne, Ind, were wrecked by a
boiler explosion in the basement. Two per-
sons were killed.
r.. II. SMALL, third auditor of the Balti-
more * Ohio railroad, was found drowned at
Palatka, Fla, last week Thursday He was
on his wedding trip.
Foreign.
GREECE has refused to disarm.
THE King of Bavaria is thought to be
insane.
THE tories are threatening martial law in
Ireland.
MONTREAL dsbursed $13S,0O0 on account
of smallpox.
THE government of Servia has declined 10
disband its forces.
Hon. A. w. PEEL was elected speaker of
| the house of commons.
The Princess of Wales is recovering from
an attack of diphtheria.
SNow-sroRMs have prevailed necessarily
in Austria and Hungary.
A CYCLONE in the middle counties of En-
gland killed several people.
The Powers have summoned Bulgaria
| Servia and Greece to disarm.
THE treaty of peace between France and
Madagascar has been ratified.
FLooUET has been reelected president OF
the French chamber of deputies.
THE British conservatives will introduce 8
| bill to stop boycotting in Ireland
THE Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland asks aid
for starving people in that country.
BRADLAUGH was admitted to his seat in
the house of commons without dissent.
THE report that the British government
| contemplateS a coup d'etdt in Ireland is
denied.
VOLCANIC eruptions are reported from
Ecuador and earthquakes from Contra
America.
SIX hundred convicts at Rion, France, re
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the prison.
A TRAIN was wrecked at Valdivia, Mex
leo. Thirty soldiers, including eleven Off
GERS, were killed.
Ten thousand operatives We're thrown on
of employment by the flooding of mills and
factories in Montreal.
A FLOOD in the Balkans has swept away
number of villages, and it is supposed thai
many lives have been lost
IT is said that the hair of Stanley, TIL,
African explorer, has changed recently from
an iron gray to rich dark brown.
THE Canadian Pacific railways claim
against the government for transportation
services in the recent rebellion is 100000
SMALLPOX has broken out at Cowans
vile, Quebec thirty miles north of Rich
ford. One person has died; another is sick
GREECE has consented to demobilize he
forces providing her claims for an eXten
sion of territory be considered by the Bal
kan conference.
JOHN MAGEE, who attempted to obtail
money from the Prince of Wales by mean
of threatening death, has been sentenced T.
seven years penal servitude.
NOTHING definite will be determined re
garding the policy of the British govern
ment in Ireland until after the formal open
ing of parliament on Thursday next
A FIRE in Montreal, last week WedneS
day, destroyed stores and other building
on De Besoles and st. Dzier streets. Los
100000. Several tiremen were killed.