The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-24


into the stores were obtained from Orange
Densmore's blacksmith shop and Thomas
Godfrey's carpenter shop. Some weeks
ago two men were in town, claiming to be
dealers in safes, and were allowed to ex-
anime the safes in the various stores. They
pronounced those at j. Il. Atwood's and
w. S. Hatch's to be burglar-proof, and these
stores were unmolested on the night of the
robbery. Popular opinion, of course, con-
meets these men with the affair. Not the
slightest trace has been found as yet of the
men or their plumber.
In General.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Of Germany will
make u tour through Spain before return
ing to Berlin
"LoNG JOHN WENTWORTH" whose seri-
Gus illness was lately mentioned, died last
week Tuesday morning.
THE grand jury of Monmouth county,
n. j., has indicted most of the gamblers
and liquor-sellers at Long Branch.
A CHINESE belle lately landed at New
York whose feet measure one and one-half
inches in length by one-half inch in width.
ONE portion of Dakota has, and is, suf
fering in consequence of the frosts. Now
another portion is being devastated by
prairie fires.
THE North Wales Coal Owners Associa-
ton has granted an advance of ten per cent
in the wages of miners and thus averted
general strike.
THE paymaster of Lehigh Valley railway,
while accompanied by his body guard, was
fired upon, killed, and robbed of $4,000.
The guard were all killed.
DURING the late session of congress 1881
special pension bills were sent to the presl-
dent for his approval. OF these, 1867 be-
came laws and 254 were vetoed.
THE courts have sustained the validity of
the will of Samuel j. Tilden, in which he
devised large sum for the establishment
of free public library in New York city.
TEN women, wearing white badges and
singing temperance battle hymns, raded
the Grand Forks, Dakota liquor stores and
spilled every drop of the " critter." They
were arrested for their pains.
AN analysis of the candy sent to Gait,
Ontario, women few days ago, and of the
viscera of Miss Cheney who died in convul
sions after eating it, shows the presence of
strychnine in large quantities.
THE governor of Massachusetts has an
nounced that he will appoint Thursday, No
vember 80, as Thanksgiving Day. 1t has of
late been customary to follow suit" so
that will probably be Vermont's day.
GENERAL SHANNON who was recently
driven from the presidency of Hayti by an
insnrrectionary movement, and who went
to Paris for the purpose of undergoing the
operation of cystatomy, died there Friday.
THE expense to Mr.. Parnel of his libel
suit against the London Times will be, it is
said, not less than $1,000 His friends all
over the world are making efforts to raise
the money, with good prospects of success.
ONE of the biggest bonanzas ever struck
in silver mining is the one at Aspen, Color
ado, last week. An immense bed of ore
was found, some of which will assay as
high as 1000 ounces of silver to the ton of
ore.
THE longtime printing house of Rand &
Avery, Boston, has been compelled to make
an assignment. The cause is said to be lack
of available capital, though they have
plenty of assets and the business will be
continued.
JULIA BECK of Kansas City, Mo-, good
looking. bright, admired by many we'll
TODD young men, thought that she was too
homey to live and committed suicide Thurs
day by taking three-quarters of pound of
chloroform.
THE community of Derry Depot, n. H., is
startled over the sudden disappearance of
one of its leading young business men, Har-
ris F. Bell, the well-known clothier and
furnisher and popular manager of Bells
opera house.
THE treasurer of school district near
Duluth, Mimi. has been waylaid by four
highwayman and robbed of 81 900 in school
funds, besides being severely beaten. The
previous treasurer was robbed on the same
spot six years ago.
r. NJ. PULsIFER, president of the Boston
Herdtd Association, committed suicide last
Saturday by taking poison. His credit had
become impaired through reckless specula-
ton, and it is thought dependency drove
him to take his life.
THE coroner's jury which investigated the
Muddy Run Nehigh Valley disaster, have
come to the decision that it was caused by
Il loo l
| of the engineers, conductors,-in fact, the
train-men generally.
The train known as the " cannon ball -
express on the Baltimore and Ohio railway
Friday ran off a treste, owing to a mis-
placed switch. The train fell ten feet and
is complete wreck Three We're killed
and twenty injured.
THE New England potato crop seems to
! be up to the average, while New York and
the West fall short. In New Brunswick,
the crop is fairly good, though the quality
| is impaired by the scab and the rot In
| Europe the crop is short.
! THE Jacksonville, Florida, churches were
| open on Sunday for the first time since the
beginning of the yellow fever scourge. The
disease is abating, but il is not yet safe to
raise the quarantine. The same remark APP
plies equally to the South generally.
| HENRY SHAFFNER, his sons Henry and
Percival, and his step-son, David Mink, were
| instantly killed by locomotive while cross
ing the Fremont & Missouri Valley road
! Monday night. Two others who were in
the wagon were probably fatally injured.
THE city government of Chicago claims
| jurisdiction of the telephone lines there,
and has passed an ordinance reducing the
late exorbitant rates of tolls. The telephone
companies will fight it, claiming the exer-
else of such powers to be unconstitutional.
A YOUNG man, few days ago, walked
into Quebec bank, with soap-hox under
his arm. He deliberately stood upon the
box, reached over the railing and walked
coolly out with 81 200 package of bills,
before the clerks could recover from their
surprise.
A YOUNG French woman of Lebanon,
n. H., named Narcotic, attempted suicide
by taking large dose of morphine during
Friday night, but owing to its prompt dis
covery and equally prompt efforts made for
her restoration, it is thought her recovery
is possible.
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred in Jersey
! City Saturday morning. Crazed by an ill
ness of several weeks duration, a young
nun belonging to the Sisters of Peace, took
her own life by jumping from a window.