The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-11

all parts of the United States aud Canada
will participate.
THIRTY passengers were injured on the
Pennsylvania railroad near Nanticoke, last
Friday morning, in a collision caused by
neutrality-suspicious. blunder in neglecting to
hold a train at that place.
WALT WHITMAN is failing. He is now too
weak to leave his bed, and his physical
powers are being slowly paralyzed. His
physicians say that If rally does not come
very soon death is inevitable.
THE postmaster-general has written let
ter to the president formally protesting
against the proposition made by the civil
service commission to extend the cassi-
fed service so as to include the railway
postal service.
A HURRICANE swept eastern Dakota and
western and central Minnesota last Friday.
In the vicinity of Roswell, OAK, the storm
covered strip of territory twenty miles
wide. Buildings were destroyed and crops
badly damaged.
cause a member was discharged by his EN-
ployer for disobedience of rules was for
mally declared off at Cincinnati last Friday,
having continued three months and there
being no prospect of success.
THE 4Etna Life Insurance Company be-
gan last week civil suit for malicious libel
against the Hartford Telegram, claiming
damages in $4,000. All the property of
the paper was seized and removed by the
sheriff, and the Office of the paper was
closed.
A BATTERY of boilers at A. & j. Greet
fingers tannery on River avenue, ALLIE
gheny City, near Hers Island, exploded
last Friday afternoon, wrecking several
buildings and seriously injuring six persons,
three of them fatally. The cause of the eX-
plosion is believed to have been high pres
sure.
THE Union iron mills Ct Pittsburg and
the West shut down last week locking out
their men, who would not submit to a re-
duction of wages consequent on the low
price of iron. 1t is stated that 1901 900 men
were thrown out of employment, but the
scale of wages of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton has received the signatures of eighteen
! firms The manufacturers, however, hold
| that the lockout is not broken and that the
majority will stand firm until the men ac-
cept the reduction.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL TABOR of New York
has furnished an opinion in the matter of
| the sugar trust, brought to his notice by
Tammany Hall He says that the law re-
straining individuals from doing certain
acts equally applies to corporations. The
matter will be presented to the court as
soon as papers are prepared, for the pur-
| pose of obtaining leave to prosecute an &C
ton against the North River Refining Com
! pany The Sugar Refineries Company
| may De prosecuted al once,
THE democratic league convention met at
Baltimore, Md, last Thursday, Governor
Jackson presiding Governor Fitzhugh
Lee of Virginia made the opening address
and Colonel j. r. Fellows of New York and
! Representative Breckenridge of Kentucky
| followed. A permanent organization was
effected by the election of the following of
ticers President, Hon. Chauncev F. Black
of Pennsylvania; secretary, Edward b.
Whitney of New York; treasurer, George
| III. Lambert of New Jersey. The vice
presidents for Vermont are Hon. l.. w.
Redington, j. ID. Hanrahan, NJ. D., I. II.
Chubb, E. NJ. Sutton and j. II. Senter.
THE annual convention of Christian En-
deavor Societies, held in Chicago last week
commencing Wednesday, was attended by
about 1000 people. W. j. Van Patten of
Burlington, Vt, was present The reports
showed that the number of societies in
the United States is 800, with a total men,
bership of 10000. The Young Peoples
Union of Missouri and Illinois has dissolved
and wishes to join the organization of Chris
tian Endeavor. Dr. j. w. Brooks Of St.
| Louis preached the convention sermon.
Bishop Fellows and Rev. Arthur Little of
Chicago and Edward S. Niles and Rev. n
Boynton of Boston delivered addresses
THE American clipper Farragut," which
sailed from Calcutta January 90, has not
since been heard from. The Farragut "
was sister ship of the Inflated " Frank n.
Thayer," which was burned in January,
1886, seven hundred fifty miles from St.
Helena, by two Malay sailors, after they had
nearly killed the captain and murdered and
wounded half the crew. Captain Robert
X. Clarke, who was in command of the
"Thayer" at the time of the tragedy, says
it is barely possible that the ship may still
be aoat in crippled condition, but she has
been dropped from the marine list, and
probably if she is ever heard from at all it
he
"Thayer."
THOMAS b. BRoDERICK and j. A. Bowles,
members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, and another man named Wilson,
were arrested on a Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy train last week Thursday afternoon,
taken to Chicago and lodged in the county
Jail, under bonds of $1,000 each, charged
with conspring to destroy the railroad com
pany's property. They had considerable
dynamite in their possession when arrested.
The officials of the railroad state that con-
spiracy has been formed for wholesale de-
struction of the company's property. The
local officers of the brotherhood claim not
to know the men, and say that if they have
been engaged in any wrong doing they
will not be shielded
Congressional.
On Monday July 9 in the senate the
river and harbor bill was passed after Mr.
Hoar had vehemently denounced the crit.
cisms made by some senators and news
papers in relation to river and harbor bills
Consideration of the fisheries treaty was
postponed to Tuesday of next week. Mr.
Turpe addressed the senate in defence OF
the presidents tariff message. In the house
Mr.. Anderson of Iowa filibustered by intro
ducing bills of great length and demanding
their reading in order to consume time and
defer the offering Of resolution for the pas
sage of the Union Pacific funding bill under
a suspension of the rules.
On Tuesday, in the house, the Mills tariff
bill was considered in committee of the
whole. Motions to increase the duty or
iron, made by republican members, were
defeated by the democrats after long dis
cussions
On Thursday, in the senate, message
from the president was received, giving his
reasons for vetoing several pension bills anG
recommending tribunal for the examina.
ton of the facts in every case. The senate
adjourned until Monday. The whole of the
week was practically holiday in the SEN
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