The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-23

nearly $50 600 which he had accumulated in
selling papers.
SMALLPOX has broken out in Denver,
Col, and people are fleeing from the city.
THE United States war ships Vandalia
and " Monongahela " have been ordered to
Samoa.
THREE girls lost their lives in a fire in
cigar-box factory in New York last week
Tuesday.
WHITE CAPS are making themselves con-
spicuous in the vicinity of Great Barring
ton, Mass.
Two well-known Philadelphians have
started on a pilgrimage in search of the
tomb OF Buddha.
THREE negroes were killed Saturday in a
race conflict at Ty Ty, Georgia, Further
trouble is expected.
GEORGE MEADOWS, anegro murderer, was
lynched last week Tuesday by Birming
ham, Alabama, mob
SENATORS HoAR of Massachusetts and
Frye of Maine have been reelected by their
respective legislatures.
EIGHT persons were killed and a number
injured in railway collision at Tallmadge.
Ohio last week Monday.
ALL the students at Cornell University
were vaccinated last week, owing to the
discovery of slight case of valioloid
THE electoral colleges of the various
states met last week Monday and cast their
votes for president and vice-president.
THE colored washerwomen of Albany,
Ga, have served a notice on Chung Lung,
Chinese laundryman, ordering him to leave
the town at once.
THIRTEEN alleged White Caps were ar
rested in New Hampshire last week for as
sauting an unoffending citizen, but es-
capped with small fines
HENRY F. VAIGHT, cashier of the defunct
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Pitts
| burg, Penn, has been arrested for appropri-
ating 100000 worth of funds.
QUA BENITo, a cowboy of Arizona donned
his war-paint last week Tuesday and
swooped down upon a lot of Mexican herd
/ ers, killing five and wounding one.
The governors of Indiana, Illinois and
| Missouri were inaugurated on Monday of
last week The governors of North Carolina
and Arkansas were inaugurated Thursday.
WILLIAM RINK, a German painter, was
found last week Wednesday in New York
street with fatal cash in his throat. He
declares that he was assaulted and stabbed
THE first annual dinner of the American
Protective Tariff League was held in New
/ York last week Thursday evening. Speeches
were made by William Mckinley Warner
Miller and others.
THREE persons We're killed and several
| injured in an accident on the Northwestern
TdlHOdu near ElllWOOui MICH, ldSI OdIur-
day. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF Michigan
John A. Mcdonald, was among the killed
A TEAM containing Joseph Moorehouse
and Edith Cooper was struck by train at
Webster, Mass, last week Wednesday.
Moorehouse was killed instantly and Miss
Cooper received deep cut in her head, liv-
ing but short time.
BENJAMIN PosT, William Blodgwood
and Edward VanWagner of Ulster Park,
"a lgt ETiI lU
while walking on the railroad track. Post
was killed instantly and Blodgwood fatally
injured. anWagner escaped by jumping.
AT the coroners inquest on the bodies of
the eighteen persons killed by the collapse
of the mill at Reading, Penn, during the
recent storm, the testimony showed that
the building fell because of the fearful force
OF the storm, being perfectly sound struct-
ure. A verdict was rendered accordingly.
A BRUTAL murder was committed Satur-
day night at Riga, n. Y. Chris. burger, a
siXteen-year-od boy, killed Mary j. Hale
an old lady, with whom he was boarding.
The murderer killed his victim with boot
pounding her head to pulp, breaking the
frontal bones of the skull and crushing in
the nose and forehead.
SIXTEEN years ago a half-breed, named
Rodae, buried his wife twenty miles from
Winnepeg. a few weeks ago he exhumed
the remains to carry them to another place,
Wllen tne DOuN was lOunu perfectly pre-
served and completely petritied. A small
stream Of alkali water had been running
, through the coffin. The petrihed remains
weighed seven hundred pounds
Foreign.
THE czarna of Russia is insane
: MINISTER PHELPS will sail for home Jan
uary 81.
THREE large men-of-war are to be bull
by Russia during the present year.
FORTY persons were drowned by tn
sinking Of a steamer off Singapore.
The Free Masons have issued a pro
nuncamento against General Boulanger,
, The gifts recently presented by the pop
4 to the Irish churches are valued at $50 ,00C
-, THE damage by the earthquake in Cost
a Rica, December 30, is estimated at 81, 600 OOC
THE royalsts have decided to supper
General Boulanger in the coming Paris cleo
\ tons.
( The returns from the London count
: council elections show a majority for tn
= liberals.
= THE British government will appoint n
successor to Lord Sackville until afte
March A.
THE Spanish cabinet proposes to gran
amnesty to political, military and pres
a offenders
THE annual boat-race between Cambridg
s and oxford universities will be rowe
March 30.
4 GENERAL HyPPoLITR is encamped abou
4 twenty miles from Portau-Prince, avail