The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28

ton for the widow of General Hancock.
NEBRASKA had a big blizzard last week,
with eight inches of snow and immense
drifts.
Miss AUsTINE SNEAD {" Miss Grundy ~,
the well-known Washington correspondent,
is dead.
A MOVEMENT for a reform OF the constitu.
ton of the British house of lords has been
defeated
CONGRESSMAN MILLS is seriously i'll and
the consideration of the tariff bill is conse-
quently delayed.
STATE TREASURER TATE of Kentucky is
accused of defauting to the amount of S1i0.-
600. He has fled.
IT is rumored that Secretary Bayard will
be made hief-justiCe and Minister Phelps
secretary of state.
JESSIE CLARK, who died in CRANKY, Mass,
of pneumonia, was cut off from medical
help by the storm.
THE president has nominated NJ. Stock
Slayer of Indiana to be commissioner of the
general land office.
BELL telephone stock dropped fifteen
points on the announcement of the death of
Chief-iustice Waite.
ONE of Emperor Fredericks physicians
expresses the opinion that he may live
through the summer.
THE storm in France last week blocked
railways and showed in the mails between
Paris and Switzerland.
1t is stated that the idea of appointing a
papal nuncio to this country has been aban-
doned by the Holy See.
In Spain the storm was very heavy, es-
pecially in the north. In the south of Spain
floods did enormous damage.
EMPEROR FREDERICK of Germany is said
to be in better health than at any time since
the operation of tracheotomy.
THE annual boat-race between the crews
of Cambridge and Oxford universities was
won by the former by five lengths.
THE house of commons, by vote of 1913 to
243, has refused to order Mr.. Parnells ar
rears of rent bill to a second reading.
THE biggest snow-drift reported since the
great storm was found at South Weathers-
field Conn. Its depth was forty feet.
THE New York assembly ordered to third
reading the bill substituting electricity for
hanging in cases of capital punishment.
JOHN T. KING, the oldest living ex-mem-
Der of the United States senate, died at Au-
gusta, Georgia, last week aged eighty-nine.
THE Rhode Island democrats renom-
mated Governor Davis, elected delegates to
St. Louis and Endorsed President Cleveland.
THERE was tariff debate in Boston Sat
urday night. Congressman Butterworth
spoke for protection and Everett p. Wheeler
for free-trade.
MIGUEL DE ALBANIA, the Cuban patriot,
is dead. His death is great blow to the
people of Cuba, in whose cause he spent
over 81 100000
G. f. r. HAYWARD, managing editor of the
Denver Tribune-R Republican, died of pneu-
monia in Denver, Col, the 18th instant,
aged about thirty years.
A TORNADO at Minnesota, Kansas, Satur-
day, destroyed two churches, five stores
and thirteen dwellings, killed five persons
and wounded fifteen others.
Mrs. SAMUEL FAIRFIELD, aged one hun
bred two years and nine months died at
Haydenvile, Mass. She retained her men
tai powers almost to the end.
A TEST case as to the Iowa law prohibit
ing the bringing of liquor into the state has
been decided by the supreme court against
the constitutionality of the law.
CERTAIN congressman, it is said, received
a tip in advance in regard to the supreme
court decision sustaining the Bell patent
and made large sums in speculation
THE earthquake in Yunnan, China, con-
tinued three weeks, destroying several
towns and causing much damage to shipping
At Kien-Shin 1000 persons were killed.
IT is reported that Chief Arthur is calling
prominent engineers, firemen and switch
men from all parts of the country to Chicago
for consultation regarding the situation.
GREAT suffering is reported in the rural
districts of Portugal owing to the recent
severe weather. Many peasants persisted
in the snow and cattle and sheep were lost
in drifts.
A MOVEMENT has been started by the
farmers of Kansas looking to the formation
of farmers trust, to embrace farmers,
stock raisers etc, in all the territories and
Northwestern States.
THE exploring cruise of the United States
steamer "Albatross" in South American
waters has brought to light some marvellous
forms of life, the like of which had never
before been seen by man.
Two Jews have received from Emperor
Frederick the highest order of nobility in
Prussia and he has practically banshed
from Berlin Mr.. Stoecker, the inveterate
enemy of the Semitic race.
COLONEL FRED GRANT has written a caus-
tic reply to General Badeau's letter in re-
gard to the latters demand for additional
compensation for helping General Grant in
the preparation of his memoirs.
S. NJ. BISHOP, widely known as the
" fattest man in the world died in Peters,
! burg, Va, of intermittent fever, aged twenty
! five. He weighed five hundred fifty pounds
and had been on exhibition since infancy.
/ A DECREE authorizing Crown-prince
William to represent the emperor in the
| transaction of official business in the event
of the emperor being unable to act for him
self, will shortly be issued and proclaimed.
THE newspaper controversy in Nashua,
n. H, which has excited considerable in
terest throughout New England, has come
to an abrupt and satisfactory termination
by the withdrawal of the opposition to Mr..
! Moore.
ANOTHER piano prodigy is playing in Lon
don-Otto Hegner, ten years od-with " the
confidence and bearing of man of thirty.
He has been brought up to be a pianist and
his technic is called superior to little Hoff-
| manns.
SENATOR BLAIR's philanthropic bill, pro-
viding that manned confederate soldiers
should be be given the preference for office
over the other men who had been dsloyal,
was not acceptable to either southern or
| northern senators.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAC defended General
Boulanger in the chamber Of deputies. The
prime-minister declared that his remarks
were insulting and asked him to desist
The military tribunal will inquire into the
case OF the general.
THE largest pension ever granted to pri,
vate soldier has been secured by c, =. Gil
lette of What Cheer, Iowa. for total blind
ness. His claim has heen pending since
1873, He now receives $4,000 for arrears
and S72 per month hereafter.