The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-13
to appear as an afternoon edition of the

to appear as an afternoon edition of the
same.
A HOSPITAL (nearly completely in Plants
Vile, Conn, intended for the fath-cure
and owned by Elder Weimar was burned
by an incendiary fire Friday morning. Loss
$1,000.
A SEVERE tempest in Dakota and Michi-
gan Saturday did great deal of damage to
property. Several persons were killed at
Fort Yates, Dakota by lightning and flying
debris.
THE total cost of the recent Methodist
General Conference is said to have been
$4,000, or over $1,000 n day, which was
$50 900 in excess of the sum provided for by
the churches.
AT Somerset, Ohio, Mrs. John Sheridan,
mother of General Sheridan, who has been
ill for some time, had another relapse and is
in a critical condition. The doctors fear
she can not live.
A FIRE swept over two wards of the city
of Hull, opposite Ottawa, Ont, destroying
between 300 and 400 houses and rendering
over $500 persons homeless Six or seven
blocks are in ruins.
FURTHER details of the thunderstorm
from surrounding parishes of Montreal show
immense damage, which will probably
amount to 100000. In certain sections of
the country hardly a barn is left standing.
THE election in Illinois June for judges
OF the supreme court resulted Ill IL gen
eral republican victory, republican candi-
dates being chosen in the first, third sixth
and seventh districts and democrat in the
second.
DURING the severe storm last week
brick school-house in Osgood township,
Ont, was blown down and twenty children
were buried in the ruins. Some of them
were fatally injured. None escaped pain
full wounds.
THE latest novelty in the line of strikes
is reported from female seminary at Nash
vile, Tenn, where class of schoolgirls
Indignantly refused to be taught from text
book on history which recited the old story
of jeff Davis capture in female attire.
JERRY SINCLAIR of Ossipee, n. H., a
postal clerk running between Boston and
Bangor, Maine, was found dead in his car
Saturday night. He was sixty years old.
A fellow clerk named Sellon has been ar
rested for the murder, which was the result
of a quarrel.
THOMAS McELRATH, the first publisher
of the New York Tribune, died in New York
last week. He was born in Williamsport,
| Penn, May /, 1907. In early life he began
the publishing business and also practiced
law, but in 1S4l entered into partnership
with Horace Greeley in the conduct of the
Tribune.
THE Carnegie coaching party left London
| the 18th for its proposed tour of England
! anu ScOtlduu. Among tne party were MI.
and Mrs. Blaine, Miss Gail Hamilton, DR..
Eaton and Walter Damrosch. A large
party of Americans saw them off. They
| propose to be gone twenty days, winding up
at Cluny Castle, Scotland, which Mr.. Car
negie has rented for the season. Mr. Blaine
was in excellent health.
THE Thurman club of Columbus, Ohio,
got up demonstration in honor of Mr.
Thurman Escortng the S. j. Randall
| club of Philadelphia, which arrived from
St. Louis, they marched to Mr.. Thurman $
house. The visitors were introduced, and
then Mr.. Thurman made speech, thank
| ing all for their good will. In the course of
his speech he said: "Why, feel about ten
years younger, at least; l should not be sur
prised if | should make such fool of my
| self between now and the second Tuesday
or the first Tuesday, or whatever Tuesday it
| is, in October-November, mean-that |
should be prancing around making speeches
like a young man just out of his teens"
CONGRESS has Just enacted that pensions
heretofore or hereafter granted to widows
of soldiers of the war of the rebellion shall
commence at the date of the death of their
husbands. This legislation favorably affects
all claims of widows of the late war which
have been filed in the pension office on or
after July /, 1880, and which have been
allowed to commence from the date of
filing the claims, but will not favorably
affect the cases of such widows as
We're filed before July 1, 1880, and
which have been allowed, pension hav-
ing already been granted in those cases
from the date of their husbands death.
The commissioner of pensions gives notice
that in the settlement of claims under this
law, already allowed, no formal application
will be required, and that the services of
attorneys will not be necessary. Widows
entitled, under said law, need only write a
letter giving name, post-otfice address and
certificate number and the claims will be
allowed with as little delay as practicable
This legislation was recommended by Gen
eral Black in his last annual report.