The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-15


New Hampshire.
A sTREET-CAR containing nine passengers
was crossing railroad track in Kalamazoo,
Mich, last week Wednesday, when an en-
CINE dashed down upon it, completely de-
molishing the car and killing six passengers.
THE stables of Captain Thomas e. Moore,
at his stock farm, the Cedars, near Shawhan,
Bourbon county, Ky, were burned last
week, and with them thirteen head Of the
finest trotting stock in the state, aggregat-
ing $4,000 in value.
The Connecticut State Board of Health
estimates the population of Connecticut for
1888 at 758,662. There is an increase of
10000 in siXty-one towns and a decrease of
10000 in thirty-four towns. The large towns
have grown at the expense Of the smaller
ones.
PHILIP STRAITS, a teamster, while unload
ing lumber from car at Utica, recently, was
fatally injured by heavy planks falling upon
him. About three weeks ago his son was
killed by being thrown from wagon, and
some time previous his daughter was burned
to death.
A. II. LESLIE, secretary of the prohibition
committee in charge of the amendment
campaign in Pennsylvania, says the liquor
dealers in Philadelphia alone have raised
between 100000 and 100000 to be used
in the campaign, while the prohibitionistS
have but little money.
and published the alotments of the 100000
appropriated by congress for the equipment
of the militia. The allotments are based
on the representation of the states in con-
gress, and range from S2,S47 to Delaware
up to S3I, 173 for New York Vermont's
share is S37g7.
The new Washington bridge across the
Harlem river, New York, was opened to
traffic week ago. 1t is higher than the
famous High bridge 1t is about half mile
long and cost S27 100000 1t rests upon two
big steel arches, which are supported by two
massive stone piers. A small park has been
laid out at each entrance. The bridge was
begun four years ago.
THE bank of Forest City, forty miles north
of St. Louis, was robbed very openly
last week. While the president, cashier
and another man We're sitting out in front
of the bank, talking base ball. /" three men
wearing SLOUGH hats entered, and the bank
officials followed them. Once inside the
strangers drew revolvers and required the
cashier to hand over to them S4 800. They
escaped.
GENERAL b. f. BUTLER has renewed his
old charge that Admiral Porter ran away at
the battle of New Orleans, and asserts his
ability to prove his accusations. The adj
miral denies the imputation of cowardice,
and retorts by calling the general a i" foul
old bird etc, etc. The combat still wakes
hot, and as neither shows signs of relentng,
they will probably fight it out on that line
all summer.
Tony PITCHER of Melrose, Florida, be-
came impressed with the belief that the only
true baptism was immersion, and that
everybody and everything should be bap-
tized. He took all his chickens and pigs to
a lake and baptized them, and almost every
day he would baptize himself When
Sheriff Shelley went to arrest him Mr..
Pitcher attempted solemnly to baptze the
sheriff with quart bottle full of ink. The
sheriff captured the bottle and Tony, and
committed him to be restored to sanity.
AT Kaska William colliery, near Middle
port, Penn, last week Wednesday evening,
ten miners's lives were carelessly sacrificed.
The cage containing the men was on its
way up the shaft when couple of Hunga-
rian laborers pushed an empty car into the
opening above. The empty car crashed
down upon the ascending cage with terrible
force, instantly killing every one of its occu-
pants. The cage, with the mangled bodies,
fell five hundred feet to the bottom of the
shaft and into the sink of water there. The
bodies were not brought to the surface for
several hours.
The first section Of the Northern Pacific
west-bound limited passenger train and
freight train collided Sunday morning, May
D, half mile east of Crystal Springs, Oak
The accident was due to a misunderstand-
ing of train orders on the part of the oper-
ator at Steele and the conductor and en-
gineer of the freight train. Engineer Boss
broke his back in alighting, and died almost
Immediately. E. Slattery, chief postal
clerk, whose leg was broken, and who sus-
tanned internal injuries, died soon after.
Another postal clerk and a baggageman
had their arms broken in two places. Many
of the freight cars were badly demolished.
Three of them were loaded with horses,
nearly all of which were either killed out
right or so badly wounded that they had to
be shot.
A MAN drove hurriedly to the Office of DR..
p. II. Cronin, in Chicago, Saturday, May 4,
and asked the doctor to go with him at once
to see man who had been hurt in Lake
view. The doctor drove off with him, and
has not since been seen. Alderman Chap
man of Lakeview was driving along Evans
ton avenue, between Graceland and the
German Catholic cemeteries, a few days
later, when he saw three men standing
around trunk which was behind bush,
with one end thrust into the ditch The
trunk was opened and the interior was be-
spattered with blood and partly filed with
cotton, which was saturated with blood.
Chapman gave the alarm to the police, and
the trunk was taken to the station. 1t was
at first thought that it contained DIR. Gro
nin's body, placed there after he had been
murdered, but it has since been ascertained
that the trunk contained the body of a
woman, and it is suspected that the doctor
has fled to avoid the consequences of his
connection with a case OF malpractice.
Foreign.
The attendance at the Paris exposition
numbered II 900 persons daily last week.
THIRTY persons engaged in selling social
list pamphlet have been arrested in Hamburg.
FRANCE celebrated the centennial of the
meeting OF the states-general " Sunday,
May ., at Versailles.
SIR CHARLES RUssELL's fee as counsel for
the Parnellites before the special commission
is stated to be $4,000.
Ir is believed that the budget about to be
presented to the Italian parliament will
show deficit of Sl0,0000O0,
THE volcano of Vesuvius is in an alarm
ing state OF eruption. Streams of lava are
coursing down the mountain on the Pompeii
side.
MAN who gave his name as Perrin fired
a blank cartridge at President Carnot of
France May b. He was promptly arrested,
but said he had no desire to kill the
president.
Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN and Mr.. Edward
Harrington were released from prison, in
| order that they might give Testimony hefora