The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

piano and Leopold Lichtenberg will be the
solo violnist.
In General.
SERvIA has new ministry.
QUEEN VICTORIA is at home again.
BISMARCK has declined the proffered
dukedom.
Ex-CHEF JUSTICE BRADLEY of Rhode
Island is dead.
IT is believed that Governor Hill will veto
the high-license bill.
COMMISSIONER ATKINS of the Indian bu-
reau is about to resign.
WISCONSIN democrats indorse the presi-
dent and the Mills bill
CONGRESSMAN MILLIKEN was renominated
in the third Maine district.
EMPEROR FREDERIcK's doctors believe
the present crisis is passed.
EIGHTY-sIX blooded horses were sold at
Lexington, KY, for $23,320
SIX persons were killed in panic in a
menagerie at Prague, Austria.
FREsHETs continue to cause damage
throughout the Western States.
CoNGREssNEN BoUTELLE AND DINGLEY of
Maine have been renominated.
THE Count of Paris manifesto is received
with indifference by the French people.
THE Delameter iron works, New York,
were damaged 100000 by fire last week.
A CYCLONE struck Pratt, Kansas, demol-
ishing several houses and killing woman.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON shows that
there is danger from yellow fever in Florida.
The Edison electric light station at Fall
River was burned last week. Loss 100000.
The price of the New York Sunday pa
pers has been increased to four cents each.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK has been APP
pointed German minister of foreign affairs.
A II IF tha
Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machne, is dead.
THE Irish county government bill was re-
jected by the house of commons, 2S2 to 1915.
IT is again rumored that the pope will
condemn the plan of campaign and all boy
cotting in Ireland.
QUEEN VICToRIA's reception by the people
of Berlin was of the most enthusiastic char
acter
ANOTHER emeute between students and
BoulangeriSts occurred in Paris on Saturday
night.
RETURNS from the municipal elections in
Kansas show that about 10000 women
voted
The Irish nationalists have resolved to
continue the plan of campaign despite the
pope.
W. |. BISHOP, the noted mind-reader, is
now an inmate of a private asylum in San
Francisco.
A BALTMoREAN has taken out patents for
process whereby heat is produced from
electricity.
FIRE at Des Moines, Iowa, destroyed the
offices of the Ddily Leader and Homestead.
Loss $4,000.
BY railroad accident near Clean, n. Y,
on Saturday, many persons were injured,
some fatally.
THE forest fire which has burned over a
large territory has been extinguished in
Kingston, Mass.
THE high school building and Unitarian
church at Concord, y. H., were burned last
week. Loss $4,000.
AT duel in the Bots de Boulogne, Paris,
between Dalpuis and Hobert, art critics,
the former was killed.
IT is announced in London that Mr..
Chamberlain is betrothed to the daughter
of Secretary Endicott.
THE Atlantic machine works, East Bos-
ton, were burned last week. Loss 500, 600.
Several men We're hurt.
The German emperor's relief is consid-
cred to be only temporary. He may have a
relapse at any moment.
RI. REV. LEON BoULAND, French priest
formerly resident in Boston, has renowned
the Roman Catholic religion.
DIR. MACKENZIE has declared his nten-
ton of prosecuting the German journals
Wnlcn nave calunnlated MN.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, celebrated her two
hundred tiftieth anniversary by grand pa
rade, speeches, banquets, etc.
CHARLES FERRY has been elected senator
for the Vorges department, defeating the
Boulangerist and conservative candidates
FREDERICK WITTE touched an electric
lamp in front of a store in New York, re-
ceived powerful shock and dropped dead.
The ship Smyrna" was sunk in col
lision with the steamer " Moto " off the Isle
of Wight Sunday, and thirteen persons were
drowned
THE birthday of Grant was celebrated
throughout the country, particularly by
notable gatherings of men in Boston and
Pittsburg
The Stewart mansion in New York will
be purchased for palatial clubhouse by
the Manhattan Club at an expense of
million dollars.
GENERAL ABRAHAM MERRITT, fifty years
old, of Nyack, n. Y, committed suicide in
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, by
taking laudanum.
DIR. &. w. MERKLEY was waylaid by two
men on West Van Buren, street in Chicago
and robbed of $4,000, which he carried in a
belt on his person
THE former Burlington road engineers
and tiremen insist that the strike is still in
progress. and say that they will fight it out
If 1t takes all summer.
GENERAL BoULANGER, at a banquet in his
honor, protested that he did not aspire to a
dictatorship he would vote, moreover,
to abolish the presidency.
A CHICAGO man claims to have invented a
mineral vapor bath which will preserve
dead bodies forever and enable the living
to resist contagious diseases.
Mrs. ABBY II. CORNER has been arrested
on charge Of manslaughter in the case of
her daughter, Mrs. Lottie A. James, the
victim of so-called Christian science IN
West Medford, Mass.
THE eastern division of Brooklyn was
visited by a $3.50 fire Sunday, which
completely destroyed the large iron front
building 403 and 405 Bedford avenue and
damaged the adjoining property.
The Indiana democratic convention Sc
lected ID. w. Voorhees,, David Turpie John
g. Shanklin and John II. Bass delegates-at-
large TO the st, Louis convention. Court
land G. Matson was nominated for governor
SOME of the proprietors of summer board
ing-houses are hiring men and boys to move
snow from their gardens in the Catskill
mountain villages. In the county of Scho-
harie snow is two feet deep in the sap
bushes.