The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
General News.

floods are feared
THE late severe frosts have seriously dam
aged the Massachusetts cranberries, and the
crop will be small.
THE decrease in the wheat crop of Mime
sofa and Dakota amounts to forty per cent,
as compared with last year.
The profits of f. p. Hutchinson, the
manipulation of the September corner in
wheat, are estimated at over S3,000,000.
A MICHIGAN widow set bear-trap and
caught tine-looking young man. There is
now a corner on bear-traps in Michigan
THE finance committee of the Montreal
carnival association has decided to arrange
for carnival which will eclipse all previous
ones.
THE yellow fever quarantine at Jackson,
Mississippi, has been raised. At Jackson
vile, Florida, the disease has materially
abated, but is still serious.
THE present session of congress is the
longest ever held since the foundation of
the government. The longest before this
was that of 1850 which adjourned Septem-
Der 30.
PITCHER the Providence, r.. l., defaulter
has been taken to the Quebec penitentiary
to serve out his sentence of seven years
All money seized has been handed over to
the bank.
A Mr.. BRYAN, once clerk in the United
States postal department, organized the
postal system Ol japan, anu SlDcb MS return
to this country he has been in receipt of
100000 year.
ACCORDING to latest reports, sixty-two
victims of the Lehigh Valley railway dis
aster have died. Many more are seriously
injured, and the death list will probably
foot up in the end not fewer than 100.
JOEL b. ERHARDT has been nominated
for mayor by the republicans of New York
city. He was formerly resident of Bur-
lington, VT, and was captain of a company
of the Vermont cavalry during the rebellion
LAKE MALHERN, in Oregon, which covers
more than seventy-five square miles and
has been without an outlet, is rushing
through subterranean passage with
great roar. Miles of formerly submerged
land are now visible.
THE records of Dartmouth College OBJ
servatory show that the rainfall for Sep
TENDER was SO inches, or more than double
the average for the past twenty-three years,
and six times that of the corresponding
month last year. The amount of rain in
September was only exceeded in the years
1868, 1869 and 1892
THE baseball season has closed, and
following is the standing of the national
league clubs, the first figures being the
games won and the second the games lost:
New York, 81, 81; Chicago, II, 50; Phiadel-
phiaa, 60, 6l Boston, 20, 60; Detroit, 6S, 60;
Pittsburgh, GO, GS; Indianapolis, 3d. 50;
Washington, As, &c.
ENGINEER HENRY, whose engine colided
with such disastrous results with the Tor
ward excursion train at Mud Run, Penn,
on Wednesday, says that no signal was dis
played until it was too late for him to stop
his train. He claims that the men of the
forward train were to blame for the accident,
as they sent back no signal man.
THE mother of Quantrell, the Missouri
bushwhacker and guerilla, is visiting the
mother of the notorious James boys. They
are fast friends, and spend hours in recount
ing the exploits of their sons. Infamous as
were the sons, their fathers were men of
character and education, Quantrell having
p5en college professor and James cler-
gyman,
Mrs. WILLIAM Moon of Pawtucket, r.
l., who has been several times confined in
an insane asylum, was found by her hus-
band about two o'clock Monday morning
in room adjoining their bedroom, in her
night clothes, enveloped in flames Mr..
Moon smothered the flames with a blanket,
but the woman was terribly burned and
died few hours later.
Mrs. CARRIE HARRISON, wife of General
Harrison, was given a reception at music
hall in Cincinnati, Tuesday afternoon in the
presence of many thousands of interested
spectators. 1t was conspicuously non-poiti-
cal, as among the reception committee were
the wives of many prominent democratic
citizens. Mrs. Harrison shook hands with
probably two thousand visitors.
A play written by newsboy, performed
by newsboys and for the benefit of news
boys, was the novelty Chicago people saw
at the Madison street theater Friday night.
1t is the unassisted production of John
Ryan, aged seventeen years, who has sold
papers on the streets for the greater part of
his life The proceeds went to fund to es-
tablish night school for newsboys.
Two Cinnamon from British Columbia
bound for New York by way of the Cana
dian Pacific have been stopped at Lacole
by the Plattsburgh collector of customs
who refuses to permit them to enter the
United States. Meanwhile they are the
wards of the railroad companies. They
must either stay in Canada by the payment
of $50 poll-taX, or the company must send
them back TO Hong Kong. The company
will take no more Chinese as passengers.
LATER reports of the Lehigh Valley rail-
way disaster confirm the widest rumors.
The whole affair is involved in mystery,
and the railway officials show no DISPOSE
ton to clear it up. There have been many
accidents in which more lives have been
lost but none attended by so much of hui
man suffering. Forty-eight persons, all in
one car, are known to have been killed. and
many more will die in consequence of their
injuries All in all, it is the most shocking
affair of the kind ever known in this coun-
ry.
W. ytdlo dBO, TIcu VI mIltI was StI-
fenced to the Erie county New York; peni-
Tertiary for three years on conviction of
rifiing the mails in the post-ofiice where he
was clerk. Owing to political complica-
tons, it has leaked out that he was innocent
and that the letters were stolen by promi-
nent politicians who wished to pry into the
affairs of their opponents The Judge
prosecuting attorney, and all who assisted
TO procure his conviction, have united in q
petition to the president for pardon. The
arrest of the guilty parties is daily expected
AT this writing the Hon. John Wentworth
of Chicago is hopelessly ill with brain soften
ing, and before this paragraph is seen by
our readers, may have passed away. HI
was bornin Sandwich n. H., March 3, 1915
He was grandson Of John Wentworth, Jr
who was in the Continental congress and
signed the original articles of confederation
for New Hampshire. After graduating from
Dartmouth College in 1885, he settled il
Chicago, where he became eminent as al
editor and lawyer, was mayor of the city
its representative in six congresses, anC
held other important offices. He published
a History of the Wentworth Family, a.
great expense, and was a liberal benefactoi
of his alma mater, from which he received
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
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