The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-07


a sound thrashing
WHILE four young men, James Hayes,
Henry Gormley, William Sellar and Charles
Cogan, were sailing in Dorchester bay Sun
day afternoon their boat was capsized and
the three first mentioned were drowned,
Cogan escaping by swimming to vessel,
which lay near by.
SINCE our ports have been closed against
the Chinese they have been smuggling
themselves into the country through the
British Columbia ports There they have
to. pay a tax of $50 per head, but they
gladly do that for the chance of getting into
the United States.
A DESPATCH from Zanzibar states that
some Arabs who met the explorer and his
followers near the end of last November,
1887, have arrived and report that the ex-
petition was then in a rather dilapdated
| condition, but that Stanley was still deter
mined to continue his northerly advance.
AMANDA MONTGOMERY and Gus Wine
! man, were run down by a freight train at
! Greensburg, Pa, Wednesday night and
| killed. The young couple were out for an
| evening stroll and in stepping off one track
! to avoid a train they were run down by
another train coming in the opposite direc-
| ton.
NEAR Hopewell, Penn, Friday morning
| several miners, when riding on hand car
on the Huntington and Broad Top Noun
tain railroad, were thrown from the car by
a runaway team. Sam Hastings was in
stantly killed. Martin Maher had his skull
crushed and seven others were seriously in
jured.
HEYwooD BROTHERS brought large
number of men from Vermont on Monday to
take strikers places at their shops and are
furnishing large building formerly used
as ladies' seminary, as clearinghouse for
Vermonters. They will be kept at the
Windsor House until the clearinghouse is
ready.
In the trial of Llewellyn NJ. Qumby,
charged with the murder of William Ken
nston of Boothbay, Me-, the prisoner testi-
fled that he entered Kennistons house in
the night time for the purpose of robbing.
He accidentally awakened Remission, and
fierce struggle ensued in which Remission
was accidentally killed.
THE kingdom Of Greece is not an exceed
ingly powerful one and there it is literally
true that uneasy lies the head that wears
the crown" Yet King George has sue
ceeded so well in conciliating his subjects
that they are about to give him grand
jubilee in his honor on the twenty-fifth an
niversary of his accession to the throne.
BURGLARS made a raid on the post-office
at Old Orchard, Me-, early Saturday morn
ing. They blew open the safe and stole
cash and postage stamps amounting to five
hundred dollars. The glass front was shat
tered by the explosion, the windows broken
in the front of the block and the safe door
blown through partition fifteen feet dis
tant.
AT College Point, n. Y, Monday night, a
respectable market gardener named Joseph
Kroger was wantonly run down in the
street, trampled and killed by half dozen
drunken fellows, mounted on mustangs,
riding recklessly through the town. The
men have been traced to a riding school in
Brooklyn, but their identity is not yet es-
tabished.
INN hor do
in appliances for submarine exploration
that it is quite common thing nowadays
to discover sunken treasure. Thus, a few
days ago, the steamer Saginaw was raised
where she had sunk, near the docks in New
York. The total loss from the sinking of
the vessel was only about $1,000, and that
from the wetting of her cargo.
A NUMBER of boys of Middletown, n. Y,
on Sunday, took hand-car of the Ontario
and Western railroad from a switch out on
the main line. While going down heavy
grade near Sanders station the car became
unmanageable and attained high rate OF
speed. 1t finally jumped the track, and
one of the boys named McGreevey had his
head cut off. Another boy was fatally
injured.
Two well-known citizens of Pittston
Penn, Henry Berlin and George Llellyan
were driving home Saturday night in car.
riage from Pleasant Valley, when they were
stopped in the middle of the road by two
men, who asked for ride. The occupants
of the carriage refused and drove on. The
men in the road then fired their rifles, ia.
tally wounding Berlin and seriously injur.
ing his companion.
CAPTAIN KENNEDY of the British shiI
Creedmoor, which has just arrived at New
York, reports that on September Q the Brit.
ish ship Ardencaple was sighted with dis
tress signals. The Ardencaple had or
board the remnants of the crew of the
shin Carl WpmVsS which had cOllidpd will