The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31
bonds, and cash amounting in the aggregate

to $4,000
A NoRTH-BoUND train on the Kentucky
Central railroad Thursday afternoon, left
the track at Richmond. The engineer and
passenger were fatally injured. Two
others were severely injured.
ARTHUR S. EMERSON, an Enfield N. H.,
farmer, committed suicide Wednesday, be-
cause of dependency, by placing the muz-
zle of a loaded gun in his mouth, disCharg-
ing it and blowing his head to atoms.
AN association of British Americans resi-
dent in the United States has been formed
in Philadelphia. Representatives were
present from most of the states of the Union.
1t is proposed to form an international assoc
citation.
STATISTICS shows that the potato crop of
the United States this year is the largest
ever known. The estimate is made upon
actual harvest returns to the runners Re-
rie1c Chicago, an authority upon this
subject
Mrs. HENRIETTA SPERE and Mrs. Martha
Beckel, inmates of the German home for
the aged of Baltimore, Ind, were found
Friday morning dead, both being suffocated
by gas. Mrs. Beckel blew out the gas be-
fore retiring
A WHOLESALE robbery of the mails oc-
CURED Thursday on the Michigan Southern
railway. The affair is involved in mystery,
but the robbers made a clean sweep and
have made great haul, as it was on the
through Boston train.
A PARTY of Union Pacific carpenters
pushing a hand-car along the track twenty
four miles west of Cheyenne, w. T., were
run down by train in deep cut at a sharp
curve Tuesday. One man was killed and
four others fatally injured.
In consequence of the Ascending of
Treasurer Axworthy and the attachment of
city funds deposited in bank, the city of
Cleveland has only $1,000 in the treasury.
1t is believed the city will lose nothing by
him, as his bondsmen are good
A HERD of sixty cows was struck by
Hartford and Putnam, Conn, train at a
grade crossing and curve near Bolton Notch,
| Saturday, and fourteen were killed. The
| high rate Of speed alone saved the train
| from being hurled down a forty-five-foot
| embankment
A COLLISION occurred about two o'clock
Thursday afternoon on the Providence
branch of the Old Colony railroad near East
| Foxboro between two west-bound freight
trains. The caboose and thirty coal cars
on the forward train were wrecked. No
one hurt seriously.
KERN STONE, a mason of Jersey City,
! and an unknown woman registered as man
and wife at a hotel in Hoboken, Saturday
night, and were found dead in their room
Sunday afternoon. They had been suffo-
Gated by escaping gas. 1t is believed that
they committed suicide.
JOHN c. CHANDLER of Boston was con-
victed in the superior court at Belfast, Me-,
Thursday of passing a forged check last
May, purporting to be signed by Charles f.
David of Boston for 1887 drawn on the
Belfast national bank. He was sentenced
to four years in the state prison.
BURGLARS entered the Naugatuck station
at Naugatuck, Conn, at two o'clock
Wednesday morning, blew open the door of
the safe with giant powder. There is nearly
three hundred dollars and tiplyatO
missing The money is mostly the property
of the Adams Express Company,
DETECTIVES at Wilkesbarre, Penn, have
arrested tough commonly called Red
nosed Mike" on suspicion of having muir
dered the paymaster and guard of the Lehigh
Valley railway recently, They followed
his trail nearly fifty miles through the
woods. He was held in $1,000 bail,
AxwoRrHY, the defauting treasurer Of
the city of Cleveland Ohio, is now in Eng
land. A full investigation of the accounts
shows deficit of S429,437 His bondsmen
have offered reward of $4,000 for his APP
prehension with the Doodle, and Pinkerton
detectives have gone to Europe after him.
THURSDAY a French girl named Boynton,
living near Beaver Mill, North Adams,
Mass, had her clothes ignited while kindling
a fire. Her screams attracted the neigh
bors, who succeeded in smothering the
flames, but not before the girl was fatally
burned. She was alone in the house at the
time.
Two ladies were killed Sunday night by a
Burlington and Cedar Rapids passenger
train near West Liberty. Ind. Their death
was the result of the stuhbornness of boy
who persisted in driving them across the
track when the engine was almost upon
them. The lad paid the penalty for his folly
with his life.
THE cranberry cultursts in Massachusetts,
have been peculiarly unfortunate this year
There has been a scarcity of pickers anC
the early and severe frosts have ruined a
large part of the crop. Those who insist
upon cranberry sauce with their roast
turkey at Thanksgiving time must pay &
good price for the luxury.
Mrs. HENRY f. How'd of New Haven
, Conn, was arrested. Friday night for tn,
accidental shooting of her daughter-in-law
Mrs f. j. How'd. The ladies were exam
lining revolver, when it was discharged
+ the ball taking effect in Mrs. j. f. How'd ,,
head. The wound is quite serious, but i
is thought she will recover.
, THE Portland fast express on the North
( ern Pacific westbound was wrecked a
Crow Wing river, Mimi, Saturday night
The train was running about forty miles al
! hour to make up lost time, and ran into al
, open switch near the east end of the bridge
The cars were thrown into tho river an,
several men were killed and injured
LATE reports OF the Italian landslide b,
j, which railway train was buried show that i
is much more serious than at first supposed
Ten cars loaded with excursionists wer
: crushed. The scene was a horrible one
0 Already seventy injured passengers ant
S ninety corpses have been taken from tn
wreck, There are still two cars under tn
, fallen rocks
e WHILE the yellow fever is in measur
=, under control, or at least less virulent, a
Jacksonville, Florida, it seems to be spread
, ing in other cities in that state. The weathe
. is yet very warm and there are frequer
. showers-a meteorological condition IN
favorable to the suppression of the disease
. In Decatur, Alabama, sixteen hundred pee
. pie are dependent upon charity.
q Alvin Schermerhorn, seventy-eight year
of age, was burned to death at his home o.
=, Globe street, Fall River Mass, about tire
u O'Clock Thursday morning. He lived alone
o and it is supposed the fire was caused by tn
" explosion of lamp which had been burr
ing in an adjoining room during the NIGH
> Schermerhorn lived alone, although he Ina
n many well-connected children in the city
IS An alarm was rung, and when the fire
men arrived they found his lifeless bod
d stretched across the bed.