The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-08
General News.
Domestic.

SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON says that
the yellow fever in Florida appears to be
dying out.
THE cantonment of Patriarchs Militant at
Weirs, N H., that closed Thursday, was at
tended by 10000 persons.
THE physicians in charge of Hon. Samuel
j. Randall report that he is improving daily,
and rapidly gaining in strength.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, and the surrounding
country was swept by cyclone, accom-
panied with rain, last week Thursday night.
Heavy losses were suffered by nearly every
business man in the city.
INTENSE heat prevailed in the western
states last Wednesday and Friday. There
were many prostrations and several deaths
Crops have suffered from rust and blight in
duced by heavy rains, followed by the heat.
LAST Wednesday $50 weavers in the Ar
lington mills at Lawrence, Mass, struck
for an increase of their wages ten per cent.
The next day $50 more went out. All were
out Saturday and 100 more were expected
to join in the strike.
A TENEMENT in the Bowery, occupied
largely by Jewish tailors and their families,
was burned Friday afternoon. There were
about sixty persons in the building at the
time. Twenty-three are known to have
persisted, and the bodies of twenty were
recovered.
THE steamship "Owego" broke the
record on the run from Buffalo to Chicago
on her last trip, coming up in sixty-three
hours and fifteen minutes. The record was
sixty-three hours and fifty minutes made by
the steamship Tioga" in her celebrated
race with the Hudson +" at the opening of
the season.
HERBERT S. UNDERWOOD, who has been
Washington correspondent for the Boston
Advertiser for some time, assumed the man
aging editorship of the AdrertiSer and Record
last week. W. E. Barrett, as president of
1,l ,a1,,
department. S. NJ. Mccall will continue in
charge of the editorial page of the Advertiser.
A DECREASE of S506, 946 in the earnings of
the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad
company is recorded during June, and for
the first six months of 1888 the decrease in
the net earnings, compared with the cores
ponding period last year. reached total of
S4,701 ,549. The decrease is attributable to
the bad crops last year, low rates and the
engineers strike.
Two separate storms of rain and hail
struck Duluth, Mimi, last week Thursday
evening within few minutes of each other.
Streets were washed, Easements flooded
railroad tracks undermined and carried
away, electric wires disabled, and build
ings struck by lightning The losses to city
country, railroads and private individuals
aggregate $4,000.
Hon. Adm TBAYER, for the past ten years
judge of the probate court of Worcester
county, Mass, COlnlullueu SUICIDE by cutting
his throat with razor, Saturday morning
He was prominent and much-respected
citizen of the commonwealth A sudden
attack OF nervousness, amounting to tenn
porary insanity, and induced by long
continued ill-health, led to the act.
DIR. ERNEST WEIssENBAUER, professor o
geology in Heidelberg university has beer
startling the inhabitants of northwestern
Ohio with predictions that their part of tn
earth will soon melt with fervent heat.
He has inspected the gas wells of Fndlay
He says he found the vastness of the ga
well country greatly underestimate an
that underneath the town of Findlay a
great depths lay mighty cavern file
with highly infiammable gas under tre
mendous pressure. He connected som
very delicate telephones with steel rod
sunk in the earth through the shaft of tn
well to distance far below it. He hear
the boiling of the rocks, plainly accompane
by cracking sounds He found that at a dis
lance of only one mile beneath the grea
gas cavity which lies under Findlay fir
was raging at a temperature of 5000. III
thinks an early catastrophe not only pos
sible, but probable.
Foreign.
FOREST fires raging near Ottawa, Ont
Friday, were the most destructive eve
known in that locality. Eureka, villal
containing about fifty houses and steal
saw-mill, was completely destroyed. I'll
flames. Several of the most valuable tmb'
limits on the Ottawa river were destroyed
f. b. EDDYs lumber mill at Birchtol
Ont, burned last Wednesday Afternoon
with the entire seasons cut, valued
$4,000. The total loss is 100000; insu
ance 100000. William Hobbs persisted
the flames, and William Stewart was Sci
ously burned. All the lumber destroye
was sold at the sellers risk to the Shepal
& Morse Lumber company, the Canat
Lumber company and other Burlington, VI
firms.
Congressional.
On Monday, July 80, in the senate,
amendment to the sundry civil appropri
ton bill was adopted appropriating $25O,O
for the irrigation of the arid lands of {
West. - In the house, the deficiency a
preparation bill was considered.
On Tuesday, in the senate, the Outhwai
funding bill was reported by the select COZ
mittee on Pacific railroads. A resolut
was agreed to, providing for the appoil
ment of a committee of seven senators
report upon the relations of commerce al
business existing between the United Stat