The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-19

to have captured Emin Bey ana STANLEY. |
He agrees TO surrender his CaptiVes If Egypt |
will abandon Sualtim otherwise both may |
be put to death With the letter he sends |
strong circumstantial proofs that Emin and |
"the white traveller " are in his hands.
ABOUT is. 600 women voted on the school |
question in Boston.
THE Parnell commission adjourned last
Friday to January 10.
Mn AND Mas. MoRroN left indianapolis
for the East on Saturday
LORD SAcKvtLLE is staying with the Earl
of Derby 40 the London House.
COM HurcH," the Chicago wheat specu-
lator, is reported to be dangerously ill.
An officer and five men were killed by
the explosion OF a gun on French iron-clai.
HOLIDAY shoppers had a narrow escape
on Saturday from burning store in Spring
field, Mass.
THE English government has sent a
steamer to Suakim with large corps of re-
endorsements.
NELLIE OCoSNoR Of New York was shot
four times and killed, last week Thursday,
by a jealous adlnirer.
THE new Spanish cabinet is reported to
be a thin combination and will probably
dissolve in the spring.
THE notorious white Caps are terror
ling northwestern Ohio and committing all
sorts of dastardly outrages.
Four men were blown into eternity by
| the explosion of an oatmeal factory in Chi
! cago. The cause is a mystery.
The entire republican school ticket in
! Boston was elected, thanks to the $4,000
| women who tlockcd to the polls.
A sNEAK-THIEF broke into New York
| iewelry-store Saturday night and purloined
a diamond necklace worth $1,000.
Miss l.. NJ. FRENCH and daughter were
seriously, if not fatally, injured by jumping
| from carriage in Paterson, y. j.
YALE UNIVERSITY has cabeled refusal
! to accept the challenge of Cambridge Uni
versity for an international boat-race.
IT is rumored that Prince Bismarck is
planning an expedition to subdue the in
surgent natives in the interior of east Africa.
A N1NE-YEAR-oLD boy of Waltham, Mass,
broke into a store Sunday, and when con-
fronted by the chief-of-police threatened to
shoot
LAST week s storm was unusually severe
along the Atlantic coast. The wind blew a
regular hurricane and made havoc of the
shipping interests.
Two German medical students quarreled
over the merits of DR.. Mckenzie and
fought a duel to settle the row. One of the
students was killed.
again. 1t was discovered recently that
S24, 600 had been stolen from the govern
ment deposit bank in Madrid.
RAILROAD accidents were reported last
week Friday in Florida, California, Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania Two lives
were lost in the Florida wreck
A WITNESS testified before the Parnell
commission last week Thursday that he
had been hired by the Land League to kill
a farmer He tried, but failed
w. j. VANNICE. prominent citizen of
Cheyenne, Wyoming, was murdered last
Friday by tramp whom he had captured
and was taking home in his carriage.
BELLARNEY SHERREr, young man EN-
ployed in Douglass tannery at Chateaugay,
was killed Friday night by being caught in
a revolving shaft and dashed against the
roof.
The pope contemplates sending Italian
priests to America to look after the souls OF
emigrants of that nationality, as he consid-
ers their spiritual health to be on the de-
cline
GOVERNOR SEAY of Alabama approves the
course of Sheriff Smith of Birmingham in
firing on the mob of lynchers who attacked
the Jail and attempted to bring out Dick
HAYES.
THERE are rumors that J." Jack the Ripper y
is again abroad in London. A man entered
a cheap restaurant in the suburbs recently
and cut the throat of the landlords
daughter.
THE French chamber of deputies rejected
the government bill for the relief of the
Panama Canal Company. This bill post
poned for three months the payment of the
company's liabilities.
Two highwaymen stopped a passenger
train on the Illinois Central last week
Friday night, robbed the express car o
f $4,000 and shot passenger dead who inter
fered with their work.
A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment aiming t.
, 1isfranpbiSa the pOlOrpI has hppI
favorably reported in the South Caroline
house. The amendment provides an educa
( tional qualification for voters.
? THE pope has refused to bless medals ant
reliquaries sent to him from Ireland II
gravely asserts that the people of IRELAND
are disobedient and prefer the gospel o
Dillon and O. Brien to that of Jesus Christ.
A NEGRO woman was killed in New Yorl
last week Wednesday by blow from an AK
in the hands of her husband. He claims tina
the killing was accidental. "She got in tn
way of the axe and it was bound to hit her,
he said
; THE Chicago anarchists are again talkin
of using violent efforts to reform society
A bomb was found in the ruins Of the oat
meal factory that was blown up last week
and it is thought that the explosion was thu
4 work of the "dynamiters.
: OsMAN DIGNA's letter has thrown TIN
British government into state of uncer
tdints do W lJS pOllCy' ne Up
: erations for the relief of Suakim will not b.
= suspended until more definite and trust
worthy information is received.
, THE latest advices from Paris announce
the final collapse of the Panama Cana
: Company. NJ. De Lesseps and his col
! leagues have resigned and there is no hope
4 of completing the canal unless the govern
ment takes the responsibility of the en-
> terprise.
I THE Chesapeake oyster-dredgers, embold
r ened by their success in paralyzing police
boat, opened fire upon a passing steamer
The police boats ran out with cannon look
: ing for the pirates and the "coppers avov
! their intention of fighting it out to tn
bitter end.
a Two girls were walking on a railroad
trestle near Raleigh, N. c., when a trail
a came upon them suddenly One of then
= caught foot in the cross-ties in attempting
! to escape, and, her companion stopping t.
n assist her, they were both run over and hor
: ribly mangled.
ATTORNEY GENERAL SELLERS of Indian
- apolis has rendered his resignation. Hi
!, acknowledgements have been abusing tn
= poor man for his failure to find sufficien
!. evidence to secure an Indictment apainS