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

jumped through window down an air
shaft to the pavement, sixty feet below.
Both children were killed, and the mother
can not recover, as her skull was fractured,
her shoulder dislocated and left leg broken.
PROPOSALS of the Times counsel in the
Parnell investigation to offer testimony
about outrages in County Wexford called
forth protest from the presiding Justice.
He urged the Encouragement TO " boil
down" his testimony, as he did not care TO
listen to the narrowing tales till his hair
grew gray.
4 swlrcHMAN on the New York elevated
railroad was cut to pieces bya train Wednes-
day and his body thrown to the sidewalk
below almost i'm front Of his own door.
Much dissatisfaction is felt with the man
ayers of the road 1T the frequency Of the ac-
cideuts and the failure to take precautions
to prevent them.
4 LOT of vandals broke into the office Of
the D0HB EreHiHg Post at Portsmouth, n.
H., Wednesday night of last week and up
set every case of type in the office, knocked
down the forms Of the paper aud paralyzed
things in general. The act was done in re-
venge for the Objectionable manner in which
the paper had treated certain leading
citizens
THE Maryland steamer " McLane had
lively scrape with the Chesapeake oyster
pirates Wednesday night The dredgers
surrounded the police steamer and were
| making it hot for her when the captain or
dercd on all steam and ran down two of the
boats, killing nine men. The authorities
are determined TO break up the piracy at
any cost.
AN Arkansas cowboy became tired of the
monotony of lis life last Friday and just for
| excitement opened fire on prayer-meeting
| causing a stampede among the worshipers
! An Indian jumped upon the ruilian and at
tempted to throw a blanket over his head
| both men were fatally wounded before they
could be separated.
PITTsBURG (Penn) people are greatly ex-
cited over the discovery of an oil well near
| there which produces an oil sufficiently pure
to he used without going through the usual
process of refining. 1t is thought the re-
| filming is done in natural way through the
action of natural gas. Farmers there are so
much excited over it that they are mort
| gaging their farms to raise money to bore
wells
FRANCIS AsBURY HAWKINS, the matricide
was hanged in New York on Wednesday of
last week. During his confinement he Elk.
hibited the utmost Indifference to his fate
declaring that his sand would carry him
through" and his conduct on the scaffold
showed that he had made no idle boast
When the jailer was shaving him for the
last time on Tuesday he facetiously eau.
toned him not to cut his throat as he
wanted to "give the hangman chance tC
break his neck tomorrow"
The performance of Mrs Langtry at Os
wego, n. Y, on Thursday night was inter
rupted by cry of fire as the curtain was
rising for the last act. a panic seemed i'm
minent, but the orchestra struck up a lively
tune and the uproar subsidized sufficiently tC
get the crowd out of the building without
loss of life. As the last man was passing
out, flames burst through the floor in tn,
main aisle. The fire was soon extinguisheC
and no lives were lost. The building wa
badly damaged by smoke and water.