The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

Mr.. BLAINE is freely mentioned at Paris
as the successor Of Mr. Mclane as minister
to France.
EVERY saloou-keeper in Elkhart, Indiana,
has been arrested by order of the law and
order league.
OLIVER D1TsoN, the veteran musical pub
Usher of Boston, died December 81, aged
! seventy-seven.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and Chairman Quay
held private conference in Indianapolis
last week Wednesday.
/ THERE were three burglaries in Brooklyn
last week Thursday night only two of
| the thieves were caught.
DoREMus, the brute who murdered his
! son, was hanged last week Wednesday in
| the Hackensack, n. j., Jail.
SUSIE KING, a sixteen-year.old New York
schoolgirl, committed suicide last week
Thursday by taking rat poison
FORTY republican county chairmen were
| examined by the grand jury at indianapolis
last week Tuesday in relation to the Dudley
| letter.
FERDINAND CAROLYN and Henry Carlton
were sentenced in New York, last week
Friday, to be hanged February Is, 1882 for
murder.
TIcKET-AGENT HYATT of the Grand Cen
trail station, New York, borrowed $1,000
from the safe and started on a Canadian
| tour last week.
IT is rumored that plot was laid last
week to assassinate General Harrison, but
| was thwarted by its timely discovery by
one of his friends.
THE southern "coons" and western cow
boys are holding a high carnival of crime
nowadays. Nine murders were reported
last week Tuesday.
JAMES DEMPSEY of New York was fatally
shot by his brother William on Saturday
evening. William was examining pistol,
and didn't know it was,' etc.
THE president has appointed Leon o;
| Bailey United States district attorney of
Indiana. Mr. Bailey is the inventor of the
famous dollar-a-day canard.
A CONDUCTOR and brakeman on a Col
orado railroad were killed last Saturday.
A car-brake which they were turning gave
way and threw them under the wheels
THOMAS MULLEN of Boston was arrested
last week Wednesday, charged with wife
murder. An autopsy showed large guam
tity of arsenic in the woman's stomach.
HENRY d. SHOEMAKER, prominent
young business man of Brooklyn, shot his
wife Sunday morning and then killed him
self. No cause is suspected but insanity
Hermann LUTHER of Detroit made des-
perate attempt to kill his wife and children,
but only succeeded in putting ball through
his sons cheek. He narrowly escaped
lynching.
one day last week, and assaulted their
teacher The embryonic cowboys frac-
tured his skull, broke his arm and beat him
numerically.
A CONVENTION of democrats was held at
Marshall, Dakota, at which "A memorial to
congress was adopted asking for the division
of the territory and the admission of South
Dakota as state.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE students went on a
little Christmas " tear in New York Sat
urday night, aud as a result of the spree
five of the noisest were arrested and fined
for disorderly conduct
The badgers " who attempted to assault
and blackmail Phil DAILY in New York a
short time since, pleaded guilty and We're
given board and lodgings at the expense Of
the state for seven and nine years respect
lively,
AxwoRrHY, the defaulting Cleveland
treasurer, effected a settlement with his
creditors by paying E320O0 He is now in
London and is likely to stay there, as he
will be arrested should he return to this
country.
AN attempt to wreck an express train in
Missouri was frustrated by the fireman of a
wild engine ahead of the express who,
though his ankle was broken in the wreck
of the engine, crawled back over a mile and
Jagged the train.
A WOMAN died in dentists chair at Har-
had been annoyed by her complaints about
toothache and compelled her to sit and
have thirteen teeth extracted without tax
ing an anesthetic.
a CERTAIN Sarah Robertson of New York,
who was arrested for being drunk and dis
orderly, complained bitterly to the justice
that she was not drunk, but was the unfor-
tunate possessor OF gimpy leg, which
gave her perambulating gymnastics groggy
appearance. The judge concluded that the
, possession of a gimpy" leg was a criminal
offence and fined Mrs Robertson $40.
Hon. GEORGE w. MORRISON, twice mem
Der of congress from New Hampshire and
for half a century a leading member of the
bar, died at Manchester on the DIST instant
aged SeVenty-nine years. He had lived at
Manchester since 1886 He is said to have
tried third more cases than any other
lawyer who had lived in the state, and was
generally successful. He was a democrat
but while in congress spoke against that
, party measure, the Kansas \ ebraska bill
; Mr.. Morrison was born at Fairlee, VT, in
, 1909.
Foreign.
} Mr.. BRIGHT's condition is very much i'm.
} proved
IT is reported that the sultan of Morocco
is very i'll.
! Mr.. GLADSTONE left England for Naples
Italy, last week Wednesday.
PARNELL's suit against the London Time,
commenced in the Scotch court on Thursday
ENGLAND will hold Suakim, but will make
no attempt to advance into the interior OF
, the Soudan.
AN attempt was made in Paris to blow VI
the Office of the cOmmissary of police witt
a dynamite bopb Nobody was injured.
t A DINNER was given at the National
t Club, Paris, Friday evening in honor of Mr.
) McLane, the American minister to France.
, The report that Blaine is to succeed Pen
dleton as minister to Germany has caused
, great satisfaction among American residents
at Berlin.
. DIR. TANNER was suspended from the
: house of commons on Friday for losing his
temper and calling @felowmember COW
ard and a liar.
! FRANCE has sent war ship to Panama tC
: protect French interests, fearing that the
, canal cOmpany's troubles may give rise tC
! disorders in the isthmus.
r EMPEROR WILLIAM has regained his
= health and resumed his travels about Ger
. many, investigating the social and politica
/ condition of his subjects.
. The honorable artillery company of Lon
don, the oldest military organization in the