The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
General News.


domestic.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is slowly improving
IT is said that Mrs. Langtry's beauty is
fading.
CHICAGO has anarchist and socialist Sun.
day-schools.
THE dome of the state-house in Boston is
to be regilded.
CONGRESSMAN RANDALL has been danger
ously ill., but is better.
The thermometer registered 1862 at
Omaha, Neb., last Friday.
GOVERNOR HILL has called an extra ses-
sion of the New York legislature.
A CONVENTION of the Flint Glass-workers
Union was held in Canton, Ohio, last week
THE expenses of the postal service during
the past year were S4 100000 more than the
revenues.
A CUT of freight-rates on dressed beef
and cattle was made last week on roads
east of Chicago.
In the national house of representatives
the senate bill FORGETTING certain lands
granted to railways was passed July 6.
Mr.. PowDERLY has written letter call
ing attention to corner in coffee and adj
vising a boycott of the article until the cor
ner is broken.
THE absurd and sensational project of re-
moving Libby prison from Richmond to
Chicago has collapsed from want of popular
and financial support.
THE president has sent to the senate the
name of Colonel Thomas L. Casey, corps of
engineers, to be chief of engineers with the
rank of igadier-general.
SENIOR ANTONIO FLORES, president of
Ecuador and minister to this country, pre-
scented his recall last week making profess
sions of strong friendship for the United
States.
j. d. LEARY, whose immense raft of logs
was scattered off the New England coast
last March, has constructed solid ship of
10000 logs in Nova Scotia that sails for New
York this month.
THE petition of the counsel for Stain and
Cromwell, convicted of the Dexter bank
murder, is refused, and a hearing is to be
given on the petition for new trial on the
ground of alleged new evidence.
AN express train on the Virginia Midland
railway near Orange Courthouse, Va,
broke through a trestle about two o'clock
last week Thursday morning. Thirty per-
sons were injured and six killed
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN have written a
new comic opera called Oolah Rudolph
Aronson has made arrangements by which
the Casino Concert Company has secured
the American rights in the production.
The building occupied by l.. b. Purmont
at Hanover, n. H., as a hotel since the fire
of 'S7 was burned early last Wednesday
morning, with adjoining property. The
total loss was $4,000 The origin is sup
posed to be incendiarv.
CHAIRMAN HoGE of the grievance COM
mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and Chairman Murphy of the
Brotherhood of Firemen were arrested at
Chicago July 10 on the charge Of conspiracy
against the 40 railroad
Hon. G. V. n. LoTHRoP, minister to
Russia, has resigned. He was leading
lawyer OF Detroit, Mich, at the time of his
appointment. The rigors of the Russian
climate are said to have induced his resig-
nation on considerations of health.
FIRE at Alpena, Mich. last Wednesday
afternoon destroyed buildings covering
space three blocks wide and half a mile
long The loss is about 100000. Fifteen
hundred persons were made homeless and
many were seriously hurt and burned.
THE sixth annual festival of the New En-
gland Musical Festival Association COM
menced at Weirs, n. H., July 9, and con-
tinued through the week, under the con-
duct of Professor III. G. Baisdell of Con-
cord and John Kennison of Plymouth, n. II.
AN agreement has been made between
the United States, Great Britain, Russia and
Germany on the Behring seal fisheries, by
which Behring Sea is to be secure from in
cursions from sealers not having govern
ment license during the seal season, from
May to December
The annual meeting of the American Phil
OlOPlCdl <aSSOCldllOu was Htlu dU Amherst,
Mass, beginning the 9th and ending the 18th
Many eminent scholars were present and
many valuable papers read Professor
Francis A. March of Lafayette College,
Easton, Penn, was elected president.
ALPHoNsE LoIsETTE applied in the SUI
preme court at NewYork last week Thursday
for an injunction to restrain George S. Eel
lows from exposing the secrets of the Loisette
memory system, Fellows had published
pamphlet with the exposure, which he
offered for sale. Decision was reserved.
HIRAM SHELLEY, for many years president
OF the Western Union Telegraph Company
and one of the most effective pioneers in
telegraph building, died in Rochester, n. Y,
last week Thursday at the age of eighty-one
years. lie was Instrumental in the CONSOLE
dation of over twenty companies that formed
the basis of the Western Union.
SINCE January there have been nine
homicides in the state of Maine and one
case which is in doubt. Thirteen men and
women have lost their lives. One of the
murderers has been convicted of murder in
the first degree and three Others who
await their trials, will undoubtedly be con-
victed. Two have been bound over for
manslaughter, one has never been discov-
cred and another shot himself.
SEVEN HUNDRED members of the four
brotherhoods of locomotive engineers, fire.
men, brakemen and switchmen held a meet
ing at st. Cloud, Mimi, Sunday, the Sth,
Tor the purpose OF taking steps toward an
amalgamation of these orders. The senti.
ment was favorable to union and a further
meeting was appointed to be held soon in
Minneapolis The Burlington matter was
discussed and action taken, but its nature
was kept secret.
THE scale of wages Of the Amalgamated
Iron-workers Association has been signed
by Jones & Laughlin of the American iron
works of Pittsburg, Penn, and by the Gate
City Iron Company of Gate City, Penn
This makes twenty-one firms that have
signed the scale. Jones & Laughlin employ
nearly 1900 men and, next TO Carnegie
Phpps & Co., are the largest manufacture
ing firm in Pittsburg. The collapse of the
lockout is now expected
THE American Institute of instruction
met at Newport, r. L., the 9th and closed
its sessions the 18th, George A. Littlefed
of Newport was chosen president. The
vice-presidents for Vermont are NJ. III
Buckham, Burlington; A. II. Campbell
Johnson; Edward Conant, Randolph; O. =
Conant, st. Albans Justus Dartt, Weathers
field j. A. DeBoer, Montpelier; j. NJ. Hit
Mortified; S. w, Landon, Burlington
Alvin f, Pease, st. Adams. The institute
DasSed resolutions recommending the adon