The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-30

POSTMASTER o. p. ROYCE OF Wales,
Mass, has been arrested, charged with
rifling letters.
THE seeding of wheat in North Dakota
has been completed under the most favor
able auspices.
ARcHBIsHoP WALSH assures the Dublin
corporation that the pope will not interfere
in Irish politics.
MAYOR ROBINSON of Gloucester, Mass,
says he can not sign liquor licenses, so he
resigns his office.
ILLINOIS democrats Endorsed the Mills
bill and nominated Ex-Governor John M.
Palmer for governor.
BY the explosion of gasometer at Mon
treal five men were killed and eight in
iured. Loss $2OO,00O
G. s. MELLEN, superintendent Of the Low
ell division of the Boston & Maine railroad
system, has resigned.
THE Buffalo board of fire commissioners
has virtually condemned the use of natural
gas for heating houses.
II is estimated that 1903 persons belong
ing to the fishery fleet lost their lives in the
recent gale off Ireland.
Mrs. CORNER, the Christian scientist at
Maiden, Mass, was held in $1,000 on the
charge Of manslaughter.
THE emperor of Brazil, at Milan, APP
pears to be stricken with paralysis. He has
lost the power of speech.
Boston CoRBETT, the slayer of John
Wilkes Booth has escaped from the insane
asylum at Topeka, Kansas.
REV. DIR. WOODROW spoke in behalf of his
evolution theories before the Southern Pres
byteran General Assembly.
A CONFEDERATION occurred last week at
Ohno, China, and 800 houses were de-
stroyed and several lives lost.
THE republican convention of West Vir-
ginia unanimously recommended General
Nathan Golf for vice-president.
JOHN HoEY has been elected president of
the Adams Express Company in place of
William b. Dinsmore, deceased.
REV. EDWIN THOMPSON, the well-known
anti-slavery and temperance advocate, died
last week at East Walpole. Mass.
A SEvENTH-DAY Baptist preacher in In
dian territory killed his father-in- law for re-
proving him for working on Sunday.
THE government of the Congo state has
received advices that DR.. Mangold of Kiel
is about to start in search of Stanley.
THE North Carolina republican conven-
ton was enthusiastic for Blaine. Oliver II.
Dockery was nominated for governor.
AN aeronaut named Fish was fatally in
jured at Blue Rock Springs, Ohio, on Fri
day by his balloon striking chimney
DELEGATES from the republican clubs in
vi
and organized state republican league.
BoULANGER declares that he is waiting
events and will take advantage of airy power
that circumstances may confer upon him.
PRINCE HENRY and Princess Irene were
married in the chapel of Charottenburg
Castle Thursday. The emperor was present.
THE Presbyterian General Assembly at
Philadelphia voted to raise fund of $780,
600 or more for religious education in col
leges.
The Southern Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church, by large majority, decided
against DR.. Woodrow and his theory of
evolution.
PEOPLE of Findlay, Ohio, are agitated
over what they call giant hand which APP
peared in the sky the index finger pointing
to the town.
EUGENE CHALAFANT, laborer in the glass
works at New Albany, Ind, died of hydro
phobia. He was bitten some weeks ago by
small Spitz dog.
of presidential offices will expire prior to
July 5, including those at Haverhill, Mass,
and Montpelier, VT.
CHINESE are being permitted to land at
Melbourne. The supreme court at Sydney
decides that the government has no power
to keep out foreigners.
CHICAGO is having shake-up over the
Partially shown the liquor interests by the
city council. Churches of all denomina-
tons are taking hand.
THE French senate has adopted proposal
exempting schoolmasters and students of
theology from three years, but requiring
one year, of military service.
THE New York aldermen, by vote of
fourteen to ten refused to allow the Fourth
Avenue Railroad Company to use cars pro-
PEELED by electricity instead of by horses.
The hotels at Keene, n. H., have all
closed on account of the enforcement of the
liquor law. Temperance accommodations
are being provided for the travelling public.
FRANK MILLS, sub-freshman of Harvard,
aged eighteen, died last week from the
effects of excessive opium-smoking. Two
companions in the vice are seriously ill
from the same cause.
A wATER-sPoUT fell in the northwestern
part of Dawes county, Nebraska, burying
five miles of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis-
souri, Valley track and carrying away a
large number of cattle.
THE General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church decided that it had no
right to instruct Presbyterans to refuse to
| license candidates for the ministry who use
tobacco, but adopted a strong recommended
ton against 1t.
The St. Louis Post dispatch has can
vassed the delegations of twenty-five states
majority in favor of Gray of Indiana for
vice. president, with General Black second
and Stevenson and Morrison in favor.
THE most novel train ever seen in Illinois
passed from Cairo to Rockford. 1t con-
sisted of twenty cars, and each carried a
completely organized Sunday-school. In
every car there were music, lessons and
speech-making while the train was speeding
along
THE vote of the Burlington strikers as to
their future course is practically complete
| Up to Friday evening 66l engineers, 421 fire
men and 1S4 switchmen had voted for con
tinuing the strike, and fifteen engineers
thirteen fremen and eighteen switchmen
voted against it.
THE discussion by the Methodist General
Conference on political temperance was ex-
citing and prolonged. The radical pro-
hibitionists were out in force and sought
to commit the conference to the third
party" but the majority sentiment was OPP
posed to pronounced political action.
NOTWITHSTANDING the recently-eXpressed
opinion of DIR. Schwenfurth of Brussels