The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

throughout England Wales and Scotland.
THOMAS l.. KIMBALL has been appointed
general manager of the Union Pacific railway.
A HEAVY snow-storm Is raging at Paris
and the streets are in q dangerous condition.
TEA-DRINKING is rapidly increasing in
France, especially in the wine-growng dis
trict.
SHERMAN delegates to the national repub
lican convention were elected at Lancaster,
Ohio.
THE roofs of several buildings in Merden
and Cromwell, Conn, were crushed by
snow.
AN explosion and fire at Milwaukee killed
four men and destroyed S425,OO0 worth of
property.
SEVERE storms are reported in Denmark.
Mails are interrupted and the snow is ten
feet deep.
Two passenger trains were wrecked and
burned at Summerville, Penn. Many were
badly hurt.
THE Meuse has overlooked its banks and
inundated Heugem, Borgharen and Itteren,
in Holland.
THE United States supreme court has de-
cided the telephone cases in favor of Bell
on all points.
THE Buckeye Buggy Company's building
at Columbus, Ohio was burned last week.
Loss S150000.
FIRE at Jacksonville, Fla, destroyed the
new Haselton block and other buildings.
Loss Sl25,OOO.
SEVERE weather continues in the north
of England, Scotland and Ireland, attended
by loss of life.
FIRE in the Chemical Paper Company's
mill at Holyoke, Mass, destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
LATE foreign newspapers speak of a snow
embargo in France and Spain. Trains were
entirely suspended.
j. l. CASE has refused $4,000 for the
trotting horse " Phallas F" from Kentucky
stock farm company.
A BOILER explosion at Santa Clara, n. Y,
caused the death of two men and the serious
injury of seven others.
EIGHTEEN coal barges, containing 100000
bushels of coal have been wrecked on the
Ohio near Steubenville.
THE Lehigh miners strike, after six
months of suffering, ends in defeat of the
demand for higher wages.
REV. EUGENE PECK, Presbyterian
clergyman of Washington. was killed while
walking on the railroad track.
MEN breaking out the roads in Shrews-
bury, Mass, found the dead body of George
w. Cheney, ffty-fve years old.
PERCY SMELLING of the London anti
coercion committee has been sentenced to
seven months of hard labor in Ireland.
NrHrLIsrs are again making trouble in
Russia. Police raids and arrests are numer-
Gus. A printing press has been seized.
AT Larimore, Oak, the barrel roller mill
was burned Friday, with warehouse, ele
vator and 5000 bushels of wheat. Loss
$3.50
THE Massachusetts republican state con-
vention to choose elegates-at-large to the
national convention is to be held in Boston
April %.
A TERRIBLE affair happened at Waterville,
Maine. ID. NJ. Warren, accused of causing
the death of his wife, shot his two daughters
and then killed himself.
THE storm had disastrous effect on
ocean travel. Steamers arriving report ter
rible weather and those sailing are short of
both freight and passengers.
JOHN HERMAN left Midtown, n. j., to
walk to Raritan. He has not been heard of
since. Neighbors found his wife dead in
bed and his children starving.
ONE of the Bald Knobbers of Missouri
who was engaged in the recent terrible
murder of three men, has confessed the
crime and saved an innocent man.
GEORGE VANDYKE, aged twenty eight
unmarried and deaf, was run over by a
train while walking on the track at Man
sonville station, p. O., and killed
SAMUEL RANDALL of Yahank, aged eighty
one of the oldest farmers in Suffolk county
Long Island, was found frozen to death
within few feet of his own house.
MADAME JANAUsCHEK has secured a YER
dict for $4,000 against Henry Bull, Jr., pro-
prietor of the Perry House, Newport, where
she fell and received serious injuries
THE government organs at st. Peters,
! burg concur in the opinion that Emperor
Williams death is hurtful to the unity and
international preponderance of Germany.
NEW YORK city has resumed its normal
! condition, and everything is moving, in
! Guiding all the surface cars, with as much
! regularity as before the advent of the biz
! card.
| a MONUMENT which will cost S2,000,000
will soon be erected in Panama to the
memory of General Bolivar, the lberator of
Bolivia Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and
! Venezuela.
Now that Emperor William of Germany
! is dead the oldest sovereign of Europe is
! William III. of the Netherlands, whose age
is seventy-one. Victoria of England comes
next, who is siXty-nine years of age.
DR.. MACKENZIE, the Scotch physician of
Emperor Frederick, of whom the German
doctors are jealous, received numerous
threatening letters and the emperor has
ordered that special measures be taken for
the doctors protection.
AN attempt was made to break through
an enormous drift on a division on the
Pennsylvania road. Four locomotives
made dash. Three of them were wrecked
in one minute. Four men were killed,
while fifth was probably fatally injured.
TERRIBLE disasters by floods are reported
from Hungary By the carrying away of a
bridge twelve persons were drowned at one
place and at another wedding party of
sixteen persons We're all drowned while
crossing the ice on the Danube in carriages.
JUDGE GRESHAM of the United States
court in Chicago decided that the Wabash,
as common carrier, could not refuse to
handle Burlington cars; that no engineer
could be forced to work against his will, but
that obstruction of traffic by strikers OF
others would be illegal
A DELAWARE, LACKAwANNA & WESTERN
express train was wrecked near Vestal
Saturday. Two sleepers and coach rolled
down an embankment and were set on fire
and burned. David Grace, former editor
of the Buffalo Courier, was fatally injured
Twenty other passengers were badly hurt.
IT is impossible now to estimate the full
damage OF the storm upon the Chesapeake
From data at hand between 100 and 20t
vessels were either cast ashore, capsized OF
sunk, from thirty to forty were wrecked
and from twelve to thirty people were
drowned Most of the bOats were slOOns