The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-11

year NUMBER 90.
FIRE in the Brooklyn navy yard caused
damage of $4,000.
WARLIKE preparations are going on at
great rate in Roumania.
Fremont COLE was elected speaker of
the New York legislature.
CONSERVATIVES gained three seats in the
French senatorial elections.
JENNIE PENDULUM was killed in coast
Ing accident at Holyoke, Mass.
The union railway station at Atchison,
Kansas, was burned last week.
PROFESSOR VIRoHow, in his new work,
declares that cancer is durable.
SCHOOLS have been closed at Strausstown,
Penn, on account of diphtheria.
THE Theater Royal at Bolton, England,
has been burned by incendiaries.
PRESIDENT CARNoT sends Emperor Will
lam assurances of peaceful policy.
AN Iowa Judge has decided that the Gid
den barbed-wire patent is not valid.
NINETEEN seamen, rescued from other
vessels, have been landed in New York
GRADS piano factory in Paris was burned
recently and 800 pianos were destroyed.
The fire losses in New Hampshire for the
past year will aggregate nearly 100000.
THE Ohio senate passed resolution con-
demning the presidents position on wool.
MR.. PowDERLY is very sick man. His
physician has ordered him to go to Florida.
The threatened return Of Inflammation in
the crown princes throat has been averted.
FIRE destroyed twenty-one buildings in
the business portion of Salida, Cal. Loss
100000.
The Old Ocean Marine Insurance Com
pany of Portland, Maine, will cease doing
business.
IT is estimated that at the present time
there are $4,000 electric lights in use in New
England.
AN Illinois court decides that the state
board of health cannot prevent doctor
practicing.
THE New Hampshire Fire Insurance Com
pany has gone into liquidation, owing to
heavy losses.
PLEURo.PNEUMoNIA still prevails among
cattle in the upper part of Westchester
county, n. Y.
COFFEE has declined eighty points within
two days, owing to reports of surplus of
Rio in Brazil.
NEARLY II 900 men have been thrown out
of work by the shutdown in forty-three
glass factories.
THE English steamer MAUD " has foun-
dered in the Black Sea and twelve persons
were drowned.
COAL dealers ridicule the idea of a coal
famine this winter on account of the Penn
sylvania strike.
REPORTER HOPKINS, who sent sham in
fernal machine to Chief-iustice Waite, has
been fined 500
THE Boston home market club has secured
John Sherman for principal speaker at its
coming banquet.
BoNAMY PRICE, MA, professor of po-
litical economy at Oxford University, is
dead, aged eighty.
Hicks, the wrecker of the Stafford Bank,
gets off with sentence of 81 and four years
in the state prison.
REV. DIR. w. H. RYDER of Ann Arbor,
Mich, has been called to theological pro-
fessorship at Andover
A VIOLENT hurricane has ragged in the
Irish Channel. Several wrecks, with heavy
loss of life, are reported.
THE Los Angeles, Cal, Furniture Com
pany's workshop is burned. Loss 500, 600;
insurance about 100000.
AN engine on the Norfolk & Western rail-
road plunged into the river. The engineer
was drowned at his post.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rendered to the
president his resignation as secretary of the
interior and it is accepted.
THE remains of Napoleon III. and the
prince imperial will be removed from
Chiselhurst to Marlborough
BISMARCK declares that Germany is strong
enough to withstand an attack on two, or
even three, sides if necessary.
SENATOR BLAIR believes his educational
bill will pass both branches of congress and
that the president will sign it.
The Spanish government will set apart
100000 yearly to create a fund for the
Christopher Columbus celebration.
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France and 10000 animals have died in
Marseilles district within month.
A SYSTEMATIC robbery of the Ohio River
road by passenger conductors has been dis
covered and all but one discharged.
CITIZENS of Buffalo will give 500, 900 to
the man who presents feasible plan for
utilizing the water-power of Niagara.
THE democratic legislative caucus at
Frankfort, Ky, nominated Senator Beck
for reelection He had no opposition.
Two express trains on the Dutch State rail-
road collded near Meppel and twenty-siX
persons were killed and many injured.
ALL the continental powers seem anxious
to give the impression that they really have
had no idea of doing anything warlike.
IT is now reported that the fisheries com.
mission will agree that the whole matter OF
the fisheries be submitted to arbitration.
The Massachusetts Cremation Society
with a capital stock of $4,000 in 81 ,00(
shares, has been organized at Worcester.
TYPHOID FEVER is epidemic in the state
prison at Jackson, Mich. There are thirty
severe cases there. The convicts number 800
ALEXANDER DUNCAN, graduate of Yale
College in 1925, now of London, England, has
given the university $4,000 Internationally
THE president asks congress to pass a bill
for the protection of the Indians on the
Round Valley reservation against tres
passers
The London Lancet declares the German
crown princes disease is not malignant
cancer but merely severe form of chronic
laryngitis.
THE Italian papers say that Mr.. Gladstone
will treat with the vatican for its support
in the efforts being made to obtain autonomy
for Ireland.
| Mrs. STACK, the sick old lady beaten by
burglar at Cumberland Mills, Maine, Thurs
day, has died. A tramp has been arrested
on suspicion.
II is reported that cholera has increased
alarmingly at Valparaiso, the number o
cases daily reaching 100, of which eighty t.
ninety prove fatal.
G. j. HAMLIN, owner of the fast trottin.
mare, " Bell Hamlin," 2:134 record, refused
an offer of $4,000 for her, made by a party
of Cuban gentlemen.