The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-15

DIR. BRADLEY, the Chicago victim of CO.
caine, is now said to be cured.
o. p. G. CLARKE, ex-commissioner of pen
sions, died recently of paralysis.
SCARLET FEVER continues to increase at
Blackstone, Mass, and vicinity.
THE militia force of the United States
foots up 100S37 officers and men.
A COMPANY is being formed in Chicago to
remove Libby prison to that city.
WESTERN railway postal clerks are to be
armed to resist attacks from robbers.
MINISTER'S ask congress to legislate against
the liquor traffic on the River Congo.
BosToN coal-dealers say that lower prices
| need not be expected for many weeks.
IT transpires that Germany and Italy have
| formed defensive alliance against France.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is in England again,
much refreshed by his continental journey.
SECRETARY Villas is throwing cold water
on Commissioner Blacks vice-presdental
| boom.
DEATHS in Boston during January were
lob, being larger than in any previous
January.
ARcHBIsoP McEN1LLY denies that the
pope is opposed to the aspirations of the
! Irish people.
The Racine College gymnasium, near
Racine Junction, Wis, has been burned
Loss S22,000
A JACKSONVILLE & SOUTHWESTERN train
was ditched near Athens, ILL.,, injuring
| several men.
DAVID 7. BUNKER of Massachusetts,
| United States consul at Demerara, has died
! from yellow fever.
The postponement of the extradition
treaty with Great Britain is looked upon az
practical rejection
IT is reported from Shanghai that nearly
100000 people are nearly destitute from
the Hoang-Ho floods.
SENATOR INGALLS, is expected to overhaul
the administration at an early day in
! characteristic speech.
THERE is a fiourishing grove of $1,000 CO.
| coanut trees at Cape Sable, the southern
most point of Florida
| ATToRNEY-GENERALW WATERMAN of Massa-
chusetts decides that the saloons must close
on all special elections
LEHIGH miners are reported to be dissatis-
! fled with their idleness and suffering and
to have applied for work.
REV. DIR. THOMAS S. HASTINGS of New
| York has been offered the presidency of
| Union Theological Seminary.
ST.. PETERSBURG official circles believe the
| government will make no change in mill
tary measures determined on.
REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT of PENNSYLVANIA
will probably succeed Mr. Barnum on the
| democratic national committee.
THE president of the Metropolitan Bank
| of Cincinnati has been arrested, charged
with Incorporating 100000.
BY the wreck of the British barque
"Abercorn " off the Washington Territory
coast twenty-four lives were lost.
COLONEL JOHN H. GEORGE, the we'll
known lawyer and democratic politician,
died at Concord, n. H.. recently.
DIR. MCGLYNN now repudiates Henry
George and says his party will have
| presidential candidate in the field.
AUSTRIA and Turkey have been visited by
violent snow-storms. In Turkey the storm
is the worst experienced since 1874.
HENRY GEORGE says that now Cleveland
has come out for free-trade he doesn't be-
lieve in third party candidate this year.
Mr.. BALFoUR, Mr.. John Morley and Mr.
| Edward Harrington debated the queens
speech in the house of commons the other
! night.
AN indianapolis special says that there are
! 5000 insane persons confined in the county
poor-houses or in homes of relatives through
out Indiana.
The operation of tracheotomy on the
crown prince was successfully performed
last week Thursday. The patient is pro-
crossing well.
FIRE insurance companies doing business
in Montreal have lost so heavily the past
year that it has been found necessary to in
crease the rates.
THE second year of prohibition in Rhode
Island has been less satisfactory than the
first, according to the report of the chief of
| the state police.
By the explosion of powder-mill near
! Wilkesbarre Penn, recently three men
were instantly killed and some forty were
seriously injured.
ENORMOUS avalanches along the line of
the Alberg railway, Austria, have resulted
in serious loss of life, and traffic on the road
has been stopped.
PROFESSOR FRANCIS l.. PATTON, ID,
LID, Stuart professor of ethics, has been
unanimously elected to the presidency of
Princeton College.
mont, Ohio, where ex-President Hayes and
family worship. was burned recently and
lady was fatally injured.
A FARMER near Duluth, Mimi, found in
the woods the other day stranded balloon
and near it the half-decayed body of a man
wedged in the branches of a tree.
THE personal estate of Jenny Lind
amounts to e40,630. Two Swedish univer-
sites are remembered The most of her
estate is bequeathed to her husband and
grandson.
THOMAS HEBERT, returning officer and
treasurer of Iberville parish, La, and a
prominent McEnery man, was killed Thurs
Way HlpnI ny lHOiHdS %, Glludy, preSlutnJ
of Nichols club.
The committee on constitutional amend
ments in the Massachusetts senate reported
it as inexpedent to legislate as to amending
the constitution TO provide for biennial ses-
sions of the legislature.
RICHARD X. Fox, proprietor of the Police
Gazette and handspring of about two-thirds
of the disre putable sports in this part of the
world, has been arrested at New York
charged with aiding and abetting prize
fighting.
HENRY REESE, late cashier of the Cont
mental Hotel, Philadelphia, is under arrest
for enlightenment. He confessed to stealing
his employers money, to having two homes
and to having plundered former employers
of $4,000.
MELVIN SMITH, who has been in Jail at
Montreal for some months on capias is
sued at the instance of his wife, from whom
he is separated, for $4,000, has been lib.
Grated, he having consented TO pay his wife
$4,000 and costs, which will amount to
$4,000.
THE British parliament resumed its sit
tings the 9th, and the queens speech was
read. Mr. Gladstone arraigned the gov
eminent in strong speech in the house OF
commons and Lord Salisbury, in the house