The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
General News.


THE Massachusetts Relief Association is
in financial difficulties.
RUSSELL SAGE has bought another rail
road, the Arkansas & Texas.
THE entire Massachusetts state militia
parades at Boston the 3D. instant.
FIVE men of Ogdensburg N. Y, were
drowned in the st. Lawrence river, Septem-
Der %, by the sinking of "A sailboat
AN abandoned part of the Washington
coal mine at Plymouth, Penn, caved in last
Friday, carrying down five acres of land.
OFFICIALS of the Wagner Car Company
have discovered that the company has been
robbed of thousands of dollars by the con-
ductors.
THE Dartmouth freshmen attempted their
annual horning" of the sophomores at
midnight Wednesday, and were showered
with rotten eggs.
A CONFLICT arose last week between Guy
and Bird for the governorship of the Chicka-
saws in Indian Territory Guy was counted
out, but took possession of the capital by
force.
TROUBLE is brewing among the Knights
of Labor i'll Chicago, over the election oil
George Schilling, socialist, as delegate to
the national assembly at Indianapolis in
October.
The anarchists of Chicago propose to OBJ
serve the 18th day of November, the ami
verSary of the execution of Spies and his
four companions. There will be parades
and speeches.
w. h. FOSTER JR., counsel for the New
York produce exchange, has disappeared,
having defrauded the gratuity fund of the
exchange out of Sl6S,000 or more by means
of forged mortgages.
A UNITED STATES revenue officer shot a
Mexican editor Cara, at Rio Grande,
Texas, and a mob of Mexcans took pos
session of the place last week, but was sup
pressed by sherff's posse
PRAIRIE fires ragged last week in Dakota.
Between Lamoure and jamestown a strip
fifty miles wide was burned over Hun
dreds of small farmers sustained losses
ranging from 800 to 81 900.
RUSSELL EATON, aged eighty eight years,
the Oldest journalist in Maine, and founder
of the Kennebec journal, president of the
Kennebec Saviags Bank, and formerly
owner of the Maine Farmer, died last
Friday.
The notorious clone highwayman " of
Texas, who has terrorized the region about
Kenville for the past two years, has been
shot and killed in Bandero county by a
woman, Mrs. Lizzie Hay, whose house he
had entered.
DIR. WILLIAM HEINRICH SCHULTZ, pro-
lessor of music in the Syracuse university,
n. Y, died suddenly September %. He
was born in Celle, Hanover, January 10,
1928, and was formerly leader of the famous
Mendelssohn Quntette Club of Boston.
w. TAYLOR and S. w. Armistead, grad
yates of the United States naval academy,
who were admitted as private students of
marine engineering at the Royal naval col
lege at Greenwich, have acquitted them
selves with great credit, Taylor taking first
place, and Armistead fifth
A HEAVY storm ragged ON the coast
Wednesday of last week. Boston was del
uged and suffered damage by wind. AT
Salem, Lynn and Beverly, streets were
flooded and cellars were filed. Trees were
leveled and boats in the harbor were blown
from their moorings. At Gloucester and
Rockport the gale was terrific and the
streets were flooded.
The post-office department is soon to have
new style of postal cards. 1t is very much
like double card of the present pattern.
The back folds are split diagonally and open
out like four-pointed star. The four cor
ners are folded and joined in the center
when the card is ready for mailing, with a
piece of gummed paper. The card weighs
less than half an ounce, and will contain no
more writing than the present card, the
only advantage being greater privacy.
Foreign.
The Canadian government is taking
measures to protect its whale fisheries from
the depredations of New England whales
GENERAL FRANCOIS ACHlLLE BAZA1NE,
the distinguished French general, died Sep
TENDER % at Madrid. He was born at Yer,
sailles in 1911
PITCHER, the bank defaulter of Provi-
dence, r. l., was sentenced, Saturday, by
the court of the queens bench at Montreal,
to seven years Imprisonment.
PHILIPPINE and Trapton, who shot and
killed Mrs. Charles f. Howe of Phiadel-
phia, on the Tobique river in New Bruins
NkTia I.~ al tad e.,
murder.
Two more women were found murdered
Saturday night near the scene of the former
butcheries at Whitechapel, England. This
makes six persons who have recently been
murdered in that locality.
AT balloon ascension at Ottawa, Ont.
last week Wednesday, on the occasion of
the industrial exhibition, Thomas Winslow,
young man who was holding one of the
ropes, was carried up thousand feet, fell
and was crushed to death.
AT a conference of the miners at Manches-
ter, 100000 miners represented, it was de-
cided to strike October % unless the demand
for advance of ten per cent is acceded to.
1t was also decided not to accept the adj
vance unless it was general
THE storm that was SO generally de-
structive in the Southern states, Mexico
and Cuba, the middle of September, was
violent on the CHILEAN coast. A French
barque was driven against the British bark
Cam brian. Both vessels foundered and
their crews were drowned.
THE conference of workers for the rights
of the Indian closed at Mohonk, n. Y, last
Friday. Resolutions were adopted on re-
port of Rev. Lyman Abbott, demanding
more thoroughly organized systems of juris
prudence and education for the Indian and
asserting that the allotment of land in
severalty is insufficient for the maintenance
Of Indian rights.
Congressional.
MONDAY, September 24-In the senate
bills were introduced prohibiting the imm
grafton of Chinese laborers; Offering a re
ward of 100000 for the discovery of the
cause and remedy for yellow fever, provid
ing for a medical commission in Jackson
vile, to study and report on yellow fever
A communication from Memphis was read
attributing the existence of yellow fever in
Decatur, Ala, and Jackson Miss, TO unre
stricted intercourse with Florida and Cuba
urging the necessity of strict seaboard quar-
antine, and recommending national boart
of health. The general appropriation bill
was amended and passed. - In tn,
house, bills were introduced establishing
camp for yellow fever refugees; providing
for the immediate transmission of enrolled