The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-24

there. A negro had shot white man and
was being taken to Jail when mob wrested
| the prisoner from the officers and hanged
him.
A has been stated, the session of con-
gress Just closed Is the longest in the history
of the country. In the senate 3,641 bills
and 116 joint resolutions, and in the house
II ,59S bills and $50 joint resolutions, were
introduced. 1t will require twenty volumes
of the Record, of about 800 pages each to
contain the record of doings.
THE first opinion given by Chief Justice
Fuller of the United States supreme court
is one of considerable importance. II was
in suit brought by the Western Union
! Telegraph Company against the state of
| Pennsylvania. The court decides that the
state cannot collect n tax on kilograms
except those passing between points within
| the state.
Mrs. Addie Sykes of Fiskdale, Mass, was
found dead on the floor Friday night i'm her
| room, by the people whom she was visiting
in Olneyville, p. O., and who left her early
in the evening apparently in her usual
| health. She was in her night robe. The
room was in perfect order No suspicious
of foul play are had, but an autopsy will
probably be made.
JUDGE SAWYER of the United States cir
cult court has rendered decision at San
Francisco, the practical effect of which is
to exclude from this country all Chinese
who have arrived since the passage of the
exclusion bill There are more than $4,000
such in the harborS of the Pacific coast
| The counsel for the Chinese have appealed
to the supreme court.
The Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe
railway has made a reduction of sixteen per
cent in the hours of labor, practically giving
the employees five days of labor instead OF
six. 1t affects about ten thousand men.
| The reduction in the payroll amounts to
about $4,000 week, and is said to have
been made in order that a better financial
standing may be shown.
VICTOR HILL, of Winchester, Ind drove
! Saturday night to the house of his father-in-
law, where his wife was staying, and shot
| him in the back, inflicting only a slight
wound. He then shot at his sster-n-law,
| but the bullet glanced from her corset. He
next shot his wife through the heart, killing
| her instantly, and then fled to the woods.
Hundreds of armed men are pursuing him.
COLONEL INGERsoLL, General Pryor and
| General Mcmahon are about to begin suit
on behalf of Mrs. j. G.. Blaine, Jr. against
James G. Blaine, ST., and wife for 800, 900,
for alternating young Blaine's affections.
Mrs. Blaine, Jr., does not sue for divorce,
because she is a Catholic and divorce is
not to be tolerated by the church. One of
the points which will have bearing on the
case is that young Blaine is still a minor.
The Loyal Legion of the United States
held its fourth annual meeting in Philade
pha. The election of the following officers
for the ensuing year took place: Com
mander-in-chief Rutherford b. Hayes of
Ohio, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of General Sheridan; senior-vice-
commander-n-chief, Senator Joseph b.
Hawley of Connecticut; junior vice-com-
mander-in-chief Judge Walter @, Gresham
of Indiana.
THE late reports of restitution and star
walton in Dakota were not without founda-
| ton. Indeed, later reports confirm them
| and add to them. An official investigation
has been had, and it is found that more
than seventy families are absolutely with
out fuel and food. The real condition of
the people beggars description. All in
rags, no money, no crops, mortgaged farms,
| no anything necessary to civilized life,-all
this is their condition, and worse.
GEORGE p. SIMoNsoN, Jr., of New York,
was found in hallway on Main street in
Bridgeport, Conn, about one o'clock Mon
day morning, with his skull fractured
shoulder dislocated, and otherwise bruised
about the head and was removed to the
| hospital, where he died soon after. Whether
he fell down the stairs and received the in-
juries, or is victim of foul play, has not
yet been determined. Considerable money
aud valuables We're found on his person
The case is being investigated.
THE family of Thomas f. Billings of Prov.
dence, r. l., was sitting around a stove in
| IntlT TtSlitutt SATURDAY morning ana IIlt
several children were examining a single
chambered pistol, a recent purchase. One
of the boys attempted to show his sister
how pistol was fred thinking this un-
loaded, when the arm was discharged, the
bullet striking James Billings, an older
brother in the neck, entering near the
windpipe and proceeding to IA position not
yet Gscertained. The wounded man is
twenty years old and his injury is serious
and perhaps fatal.
THE people of Tuscaloosa, a small town
of Alabama, are excited by the mysterious
murder of four negroes within ten days.
The first victim was John Hill, respected
negro mechanic, who was supposed to have
been murdered for his money. His dead
body was found on the street one morning
with his throat cut and fifteen knife wounds
in the body. Last Monday the body of an
unknown negro was found in the woods a
few miles from town, and Friday the body
of the third victim was found in the river
near by, the Threats of both having been
cut from ear TO ear. Saturday morning the
body of the fourth victim was found in the
woods near town.
In accordance with an act of congress- the
president has appointed General William
b. Franklin commssioner-general for the
United States at the Universal Exposition
to be held in Paris in 1889. 1t promises to
be the largest and most successful in recent
years. All the civilized governments of the
world are making extensive arrangements
to be represented, and our country should
be second to none. The exhibition is to be
divided into nine groups or departments,
as follows; CD works of art; (2) education,
and processes used therein; (9 plain and
decorative house furniture; a. textile fab
RIGS; (5) the raw and manufactured prod
ucts of mining, forestry, chemistry, etc.
(6) apparatus and methods of mechanical
industries; "a food products; (S) agricul.
ture, vine culture and fish culture; (9) hor-
ticulture. All who desire complete infor-
nation should address General Franklin al
30 Wall street, New York.