The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-01
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of Irish agitation is the total uprooting of
landlords from the soil.
READING mining affairs have taken on a
new phase. The miners who returned to
work have again struck
AN explosion of gunpowder occurred at
Brest-Litovsk, Russian Poland, killing
eleven and injuring thirty.
II. w. SEYMOUR of Sault Ste. Marie is the
republican nominee in the eleventh MiChi-
gan congressional district.
FRANK j. HARTLEY, a well-known music
teacher, was found frozen to death in an
orchard at Southboro, Mass
THE United States supreme court has de-
MED a writ of error in the case of Maxwell,
the ST. Louis trunk murderer.
THE village OF Aisone in Italy has been
almost wholly destroyed by fire. Two per-
sons were killed and many injured.
AN express train, running at forty-fve
miles an hour, was wrecked near Detroit
Several persons were badly injured
No clear water can be seen in Cape Cod
Bay. Clear ice extends from the shore
half mile seward along the entire coast.
On the Savannah, Florida e. Western
railroad Saturday night four sleeping-cars
were burned. More information is lacking.
CYRUS WAKEFIELD, treasurer of the
Wakefield (Mass) Rattan Company, died
very suddenly from heart disease last week.
THE steamer "City of New York." from
China and Japan, brought three cases of
smallpox. A lady cabin passenger died on
the passage.
THE court of cessation in Paris has de-
cided that the marriage of Catholic priest
is perfectly lawful one, Notwithstanding
his VOWS of celibacy
The most disastrous fire on Broadway,
New York. in fifteen years occurred Mon
day. Many dry goods and clothing stores
burned. Loss 81 100000
A YOUNG man known in Philadelphia as
John Burns has found the parents from
whom he was kidnapped eighteen years
ago, when only two years old
A CLEVELAND special says that the great
lakes are becoming shallower. The depth
of water is about sixteen inches less than
last year at the principal ports.
|. n. STANLEY, the paying teller of the
National Bank of Commerce of Cleveland,
who embezzled 100000 in 1886, has been
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
The winter carnival at st. Paul opened
January % a great crowd witnessed the
" stormng of the ice palace" which was
constructed of over 60,OO0,00O pounds of ice
THERE is a sentiment in the house COM
mittee on banking and currency in favor of
issuing S20,000,000 in fractional currency
that can readily be mailed in small amounts.
THE Louisiana republican state convention
nominated for governor II. G. Warmoth of
Plaquemine, for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II. C.
Miner of Terre Bonnie, and full state
ticket.
In recent report of the deaths of old
people in Charleston, S. c., it appears in
that city no less than twenty-four persons
of one hundred years or more have passed
away since 1880.
JOHN McDoNoGHUE of Hyde Park, Mass,
was struck and killed by New York
& New England train while walking on
the track. He was seventy years old and
the father of twenty-five children.
ONE result of the terrible calamity in the
West has been to inspire movement in
Nebraska to ascertain who were especial
sufferers among the pupils and teachers in
the state, for the purpose of rendering them
aid.
MILE. MARIE BAsTIA a prima donna in
Italy, where she enjoyed great reputation,
starved herself to death recently. She left
letter stating that her grief was so great
because her enormous size prevented her
from appearing on the stage that she pre-
ferred death.
The withdrawal of Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon
from the Baptist Union, and the pronun-
ciamentos by which he has preceded, ac-
companied and supplemented that action,
have developed a theological crisis in En-
gland almost equal to the Andover and
American Board agitation in this country.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road intends purchasing 100000 bushels of
seed-wheat and sending it ont into Kansas
where farmers have suffered most from last
years failure of crops. The company will
take the notes of farmers, due in one year, at
three per cent, and will charge nothing for
transportation.
In the Massachusetts house the consttu-
tional prohibition resolve was passed to be
engrossed, in concurrence with the senate,
by vote of one hundred sixty to seventy.
An amendment proposing to substitute the
word alcoholic for Intoxicating" was
rejected by a vote of lightweight to one
hundred thrty-seven.
A GREAT fight for the many millions left
by Alexander T. Stewart is about to begin.
There have been several skirmishes. Now
the real battle is to be waged. The on
slaught will be made by the combined
natural heirs against Henry Hilton, to
whom the late Mrs. Stewart gave the bulk
of the estate, much of it before her death.
DEAD cartilage in the crown princes
larynX is the latest cause of trouble at San
Reno. In the application of the cautery
for destroying the vitality of the morbid
growths in the larynX, the destructive eff
feet could not be perfectly limited, and they
went so far as to kill part of the cartila-
gnous wall of the larynX beneath the tissue
that was the seat of the disease Some of
this cartilage has already come away, but
| enough remains to cause trouble.
The supreme court of Nebraska has just
! given most rigorous Interpretation to the
| liquor-sellers liability law Not only are
| liquor-sellers themselves liable for con-
| tributing TO the damage of any one, but
their sureties are responsible for all dam
ages to which the principals acts contribute.
| Moreover, sureties are continuously liable
while person is unable to support his fam
| lily by reason of intoxication, the RESPONSE
bilty ending only when there is an end to
the drinkers disqualification.
AN extensive and systematic coal-steal
has been discovered at cambridge (Ross
county,, Ohio. A carload of coal would at
times disappear in single night. Fifteen
prominent citizens, including the marshal,
"A hotel proprietor and the Presbyterian
preacher, have been arrested. Detectives
say half the citizens of the town are impli-
Gated and the populations amount to many
hundreds of dollars. Although coal is uni
versally used in cambridge, not single
carload has been billed to residents of that
place this winter.
THE Howard House block at Malone, n
Y, comprising a hotel with seventy-fve
rooms,' an opera-house, the Farmers Ma
tiona Bank and Penhed's undertaking
ware-roons, was burned Sunday morning
The block, six stories high, was built in 1856!
by a syndicate of Malone citizens at a cost