The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-09

story attributed to one DIR. Haywood, and
published in the New York Herald, is
stupid invention.
CHAIRMAN JONES of the republican ma
tional committee denies the latest inven-
tons regarding Mr.. Blane's intentions.
THE treasury department has discovered
the theft of Sal 900 from the American Ex-
change National Bank of New York city.
FIFTEEN banking houses in Buenos Ayres
have suspended within ten days. The liza
bilites of one of the banks exceed 7,000,-
600 pesos.
REV. CHARLES j. CLARKE of Portland,
Maine, assistant secretary of the Methodist
general conference, died at New York Sun
day of diphtberia.
REV. l. n. TARBox, ID, the historic
grapher of the Historical Genealogical So
ciety, died last week at West Newton, Mass,
aged seventy-three.
DIR. ID. W. BLISS physician-in-chief to
President Garfield from the time he was
shot by Guiteau until his DEATH is seriously
ill and his recovery is doubtful.
GERMANY begins to be alarmed at the
progress made by the Russian war party,
and Bismarck and his organs have adopted
a less friendly tone toward Russia.
Born the Diss Debars were indicted by
the grand jury in New York city for grand
larceny and conspiracy, and the children
were given over to Mr.. Gerry's society.
THTRTY-EIGHT Michigan counties have
voted under the local option law, and all
but two of them have decided that prohibit
ton shall prevail for the next three years.
A PETITION to Governor Ogesby for the
pardoning of Fielden, Schwab and Neebe
the anarchists, has been circulating among
the socialists, anarchists and radicals of
Chicago.
DIR. EVERETT WAGNER, an eccentric Ken
lucky physician, in his will bequeathed his
body pecemeal to relatives who had treated
him shabbily, and left his property to char
table objects.
VICE president MCLEOD of the Reading
railroad, in an official order, declares that
any employee who uses his influence to
secure members for any labor organization
will be discharged.
THE papal decree is exciting much COM
ment in England and Ireland The Mitch
elstown branch of the National League de-
cines to take its orders from Rome. A
meeting of Irishmen and Engishmen at
Aldershot condemned the decree and re-
solved to contribute no more to Peters
pence.
THE Boston AdcertiSer Company has been
recognized on stronger basis, with these
officers: President, w. E. Barrett; treasurer,
Henry Parkman; directors the same and
Samuel w. Mccall. The Adoertiser was a
mugwump paper in 1884, but is now soundly
republican and protectionist. 1t is con-
Quoted with marked ability and deserves
success
GENERAL WRIT ADAMS, postmaster, and
John II. Martin, editor of the Nelo MiSsis-
Sippi0h, met in the street at Jackson Miss,
and opened fire on each other General
Adams was hit three or four times in the
head and Martin was hit twice. Both are
dead. Structures on the postmaster pub
lished by Martin in his paper caused the
trouble.
THE Medical Record of New York pub
fishes a statement by a German physician
that the malformation of the Crown-prince
Williams arm is not due to a scrofulous
disease as has been reported but to the
bungling work of two English physicians
who attended at his birth, and that this fact
accounts for the princes hatred of the
English.
EIGHT persons were killed, thirty injured
and $4,000 worth of property was destroyed
on the Philadelphia & Reading railway
Saturday night by a collision of trains. A
freight train of seventy-fve cars became
divided, and when the two sections came
together an explosion occurred in a car
loaded with powder and wrecked seventeen
buildings along the track, which were occu-
pied by railroad employees.
CONNECTICUT democrats elected delegates
to the st. Louis convention and instructed
them to vote for Cleveland The delegates
at-large are Alfred E. Burr of Hartford,
James T. Pigott of New Haven, Charles NJ.
Allen of Putnam and William II. Barnum of
Salisbury. - The Wisconsin democratic
state convention elected the following dele
gates-at-large; Goddard NJ. Woodward of La
Crosse, Emil Shandein of Milwaukee, G..
w. Bird of Madison and j. H. Knight of
Ashland. - New Hampshire democrats
elected Daniel Conner of Manchester, j. c.
Moore of Guilford, Alvah w. Sulloway of
Franklin and Frank Jones of Portsmouth.
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convention elected Governor Green, eX-
Governor Albeit, Moses Bigelow and SEN
ator Baker as delegates-at-large to the ma
tional convention