The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10


Union, New York City, composed of men of
all parties, has renominated Mayor Hewitt.
GOLD has been discovered by a party of
Englishmen in the foot hills of Mount st.
Elias, Alaska, 1000 feet above the level of
the sea.
Mrs. MARY H. GARRETT has been SEN
fenced at Medina, Ohio, to be hanged for
the murder of her two imbecie step
daughters.
Two engines were smashed to atoms, one
man killed and several injured in railway
collision on the Rome and Watertown rail
way last week.
The Rock River, H., Methodist confer
ence has adopted resolutions against the
practice of transferring pastors from one
conference TO another.
HENRY JuNGE, agent of the Hamburg
Germany Rubber Company, is missing
from his home in Newark, n, j. His ac-
counts are $1,000 short
THE editor of the New Haven Telegram
has been arrested on a suit for libel by the
.Etna Life Insurance Company. He pro-
cured bail and was released,
THE Jury returned verdict of acquittal
Wednesday i'm the case of Frank II. Dodge,
charged with he murder of Genevra Knapp,
postmstress at Dummerston, last August.
A CROWD Of 5000 persons lately gathered
at Paris railway station to greet General
Boulanger on his return to that city. lie
eluded the crowd and reached his hotel un-
observed.
Mr.. BLAINE spoke about twenty-three
minutes "Wednesday evening TO an audience
of six thousand people in the Detroit rink,
the cold weather preventing the meeting in
Recreation park.
w. II. MosELY, the Cherokee oil king, who
eloped year ago with a pretty sixteen
year-old girl, is now at Shelbyville, ILL.,.
very low with consumption. His young
wife is with him.
AN Indian woman was found dead on
New Grove street. Waltham, Thursday
morning. Frank Thomas, her husband, is
under arrest charged with assaultng her
ami causing her death
PRESIDENT CARTER of Williams College
has received a gift of 100000 to found
library fund in honor Ct James Ruthven
Adriance of the class of 1873, who died
year after graduation.
JAMES JEwETT was sentenced Saturday
by Judge Tillinghast for mansaughter in
the shooting of Arthur Craven, to five years
in the state prison. Clemency was ex-
tended on the ground of provocation
THE London chief of police has deter
mined to employ boodhounds in his efforts
to discover the perpetrator of the White
chapel murders. He has a clue, and sew
eraI buildings are being narrowly watched.
CHAIRMAN QUAY, of the republican ma
tional committee, has deposited S25,OOO in
bank as fund to reward those who may
furnish information leading to conviction of
violators of the registration law in New
York City.
THE autopsy of the body of the Indian
woman, Elizabeth Thomas,-w was sup
posed to have died in Boston from injuries
inflicted by her husband,-sho that she
died natural death from pneumonia and
liver troubles.
A PROPOSED amendment to the constitu-
ton of Georgia. increasing the number of
Judges of the supreme court from three to
five has been defeated by majority of
% 600. The lawyers favored it, and the
farmers opposed it.
ALBERT f. BoswoRTH, treasurer of the
Stafford Mills corporation of Fall River,
Mass, has fled the city and his present
abiding place is unknown to his business
associates His accounts are left in an I'M
satisfactory condition.
THE selectmen of Great Falls, n. H.,
have offered $500 reward for the apprehen-
sion and conviction of the murderer of
Charles II. Eastman, who met his death
September 16, near the bridge connecting
that town and Berwick
TIM CAMPBELL has made bet with
President Ingalls, of the United States SEN
ate that created considerable discussion in
BILE 1t was for $4,000 even that Cleve-
land would defeat Harrison.
L. b. WADE of Knightstown Ind, killed
Mrs. Sarah Higgins, his mother, and Mrs.
Martha Gates last night, set the house on
fire and committed suicide. Wade had EN-
bezzled 81, 800 of pension money belonging
to Mrs. Gates, a soldiers widow.
A DIABoLIcAL attempt at wholesale pois-
oning was made last week at Gait, Ontario.
80 ,,l,p laf
sent to three different ladies, who gave
them to their children All are in a critical
condition. No clue to the sender.
MELVILLE w. FULLER was inaugurated
chief-iustce of the United States at twelve
o'clock on Monday in the supreme court
chamber at Washington. The ceremony
was as impressive as it was short, The en-
tire session of the court occupied only ten
minutes.
A HORRIBLE story of widespread destitu-
ton comes from Ramsey county, Dakota,
where the entire population is said TO be on
the brink of starvation. 1t was brought
about by the frost which destroyed thou
sands of bushels of wheat. State aid has
been called for.
TWENTY thousand dollars is now stated
to be the amount of money taken from the
STAFFORD mills of Fall River, Mass, by Bos-
worth, the defaulting treasurer. The eX-
animation of books is not yet completed,
but it is not believed the defalcation will
eX coed that amount.
SPEAKER CARLISLE and other democratic
leaders in the house have held a conference
with the president relative to the adjourn
ment of congress and as result, it is ex-
pected that in few days the democratic
majority in the house will pass joint reso-
luton for adjournment.
HARRIET CURD, an old colored woman,
found the remains of one Tratford, horse
trader in the woods near Maytield, KY, on
Saturday Trafford's head was crushed as
if by heavy stick and his throat cut. Sus-
picion points to John Carter who was in
Trafford's company the night before
A careful estimate of the total corn crop
of the country makes the total yield in the
seven great corn states ,44 1874 ,S53 bush
els as compared with 1904 900 for 1887, a
gain of 54754 ,SjS bushels. If the crop in
the other states is as reported last year, the
total corn crop will be 2,l10,92O, S5S bushels.
Browns powder magazine, at Roanoke,
Va, blew up Friday night, giving the en-
tire city "a terrible shock, breaking great
number of plate glass store fronts and hum
dreds of panes of glass in private residences.
The entire population was terribly scared,
and much excitement prevailed until the
extent and nature of the disaster were
known.