The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-25

the chief iusticeship he will reconcile the
| Irish Americans by making place in the
cabinet for General Collins.
A HOST Of Roumanian insurgents have
| been killed by troops. The peasants are
pillaging villages and maltreating officials.
IT is claimed that eighteen of the thirty-six
Ohio delegates to Chicago thus far elected
are for Blaine. Ten more are to he chosen.
AN explosion took place in the St. Helen
colliery at Workington, England. Seven
! teen persons were killed and several in
jured.
JOHN DILLON the Irish member of parlia-
ment, was arrested on the charge of melting
tenants not to pay rent. He was liberated
| on bail.
AT the meeting of the Ohio republican
| league Judge j. A. Caldwell of the Blaine
| club OF Cincinnati was elected president by
reclamation.
EXPRESS MESSENGER ToTHERINGHAM at
! St. Louis has secured verdict of $4,000
against Adams Express Company for false
Imprisonment.
B. f. AsKEN, republican candidate for
congress, was bitten by mad dog at Mag
nolia, Ark, and has started for Paris to be
treated by Pasteur.
DIR. EDWARD G. LoRING, one of the most
eminent eye and ear specialists in the coun-
try, dropped dead in the street in New York
on Monday, aged forty-seven.
A. HOFFMAN, while insane, set his house
at Jackson, Mo, on fire. Three of his chill
dren were burned to death and Hoffman
and three other children were badly burned.
RECTOR AsHMAN of Emanuel church, De-
trot, is charged with cribbing sermons, and
sets up as defence the possibility of his
having unconsciously absorbed another
mans ideas and language.
GENERAL LAURENT has called General
Boulanger a disgraced soldier transferred
to the leadership of a mass of miserables."
For this offence he has been challenged to
duel by the new deputy from the depart
ment of the Nord.
lie Voltdtre of Paris denounees "the
American gang that has been providing
Boulanger with funds to bring about a war
between France and Germany, which would
result in demand for American grain and
timed meats, and the removal of prohib-
tive duties"
THE death of Matthew Arnold was prob
ably caused by running jump. He went
out to walk in Liverpool He tried to leap
a railing, and finally succeeded, without ap-
parent ill-results. Next morning he died
suddenly of heart disease, to which he was
predisposed. He had been warned by his
physician against sudden exertion.
A DISPATCH from St. Joseph, Mo-, says:
uniformed club of 900 Blaine republic
cans, under the leadership of Mr.. T. NJ.
Curtin of this city, will go to the Chicago
convention in June. Mr.. Curtin has for
nearly TWO years been organizing clubs OF
Blame admirers IN Missouri, and he claims
tnat he mas 2ooooO sympathizers in the
state ohe-slxth OF whom are democrats"
THERE are reports from Lugano, Switzer-
land, that renewed activity prevails among
the Nihilists. Lukewarm adherents have
been dismissed and a committee has been
formed for the purpose of aiding convicts to
escape from Siberia. Several such escapes
have been effected. Arrests of Nihlists
continue secretly in St. Petersburgh. Many
prisoners are subjected to torture and thereby
made insane.
A CROWD of anti Boulanperist students
Sunday set fire to several rolls of the news.
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