The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

disastrous period for railways since 1850. |
Eight roads, with a total length of $3.50 |
miles, were bankrupted. There were also |
eight foreclosures during that period.
PRESIDENT HARRISON spent the Fourth at |
Woodstock, Conn. From there he went to |
Newport, r. l., stopping at Norwich, Conn, |
long enough to make speech. A salute of
twenty-one guns was fired on his arrival at |
Newport.
Mrs. HARRISON is at Deer Park, Md,
where she will remain during the heated
term. She is accompanied by her father,
DR.. Scott, and her two grandchildren.
Mrs. McKee, the presidents daughter, will
join the party.
Miss FRANCES L. WILLARD, president of
the Worlds Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, has requested the local unions
numbering 10000, to hold memorial services
in honor of the late Mrs. r. B. Hayes on
Sunday, July %.
A PASSENGER TRAIN on the Norfolk Il
Western road ran into washout, thirty
one miles above Lynchburg, Va, the I'd.
The boiler exploded and the cars took fire.
Seventeen persons were killed and ten were
seriously injured.
A CURIOUS instance of the far-reachng
distress growing out of the Johnstown flood
comes from England. A London paper
says 800 Cornwall families are reported to
be wearing Grape for relatives lost in the
Conemaugh valley.
AT Little Silver Crossing, three miles
north of Long Branch, n. j., last Friday, a
carriage containing four people was struck
by an express train on the New Jersey Cen
trail railroad and demolished. All the per-
sons and the horse were killed.
The report comes from the village OF AL
bany Minnesota shat black diphthera has
broken out in one hundred thirteen families.
Both churches and the schools have been
closed, and the celebration of the Fourth
which had been arranged was abandoned.
The Mobile Life Insurance Company, Mo-
bile, Ala, has made a general assignment
to u. r. Burgess and Elliott Toxey. No
statement of the company's condition is
made, but there are LOO outstanding poll
cies, mostly held by Alabamians and Mis-
sissppians.
THE explosion of a mortar at the Salem,
Mass, fireworks display on the evening of
July resulted in a terrible accident Two
children were killed outright and four
others were seriously injured. The flying
| fragments entered the dense crowd in all
! directions, and many others narrowly es-
capped.
HARRY DIXON, the young Mississippian
recently appointed to West Point cadet
| ship by the president, upon the statement
of the boys grandmother that her husband
and son (the cadets father had both been
assassnated because of politics, failed to
pass the physical examination required of
cadets.
REV. THEODORE DWIGHT WooLsEY, DID,
LID, the tenth president of Yale College,
and one of the most distinguished scholars
and publcists to whom the United States
has given birth, died Monday afternoon,
| july l. at his home in New Haven, Conn
| DIR. Woolsey was born in New York on Oc-
tober 81, 1901, and was graduated at Yale
in 1920
THE persistency with which Mormon mis-
sionaries are carrying on their work in some
parts of West Virginia excites Indignation.
Two elders have taken up permanent quar-
tiers there. Meetings are held weekly, the
congregations being quite large, at which
polygamy is not only preached openly, but
attempts are being made to carry the theory
into practice.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has made these ap-
pointments: A. l.. Snowden Of Pennsyl-
vania, to be minister resident and consul
general to Roumania, Servia and Greece
William III. Edwards of Ohio, to be consul
general at Berlin; Augustus o. Bourne of
Rhode Island, to be consul-general at Rome;
Eugene Schuyler of New York, to be agent
and consul-general at Cairo.
THE state department at Washington has
appointed Professor David p. Todd of Am
herst College chief of the expedition which
will go to st. Paul de Loanda, about October
l, to observe the total eclipse of the sun,
which will be visible in Angola. The
eclipse is to occur December o. and Pro-
lessor Todd will be accompanied by large
staff Of scientists and assistants.
HADJE HassErN GHooLy KHAN, the Per-
sian minister, will leave Washington for
London about the 18th instant. There he
will join the shah. The minister is said TO
be greved over the obnoxious articles
which have recently appeared in English
and American newspapers regarding the
shah, and it is alleged that he is going to
consult with his majesty as to whether he
ought not to be recalled.
MINNEAPOLIS was last week the scene OF
one of the boldest highway robberies on
record. Henry Hoge had gone there to be
married, having with him $4,000 in ne.
gotiable drafts. He went out to get shaved
and met stranger, who accosted him, and
after few moments conversation threw 6
quantity of vitrio in his face. He was ther
taken out into the woods and robbed. He
: remained in the woods unconscious fol
J three days. No clue to the thieves has a.
yet been found.
UNCLE JOHN HANKS died at Decatur, III.
June 30, at the age of lightweight years
He was born in Kentucky, and was frs
t cousin of Abraham Lincon's mother, Name,
Hanks Lincoln. From 1899 until 1860 Mr.
Hanks was closely associated with Abraham
, Lincoln in farming, trading and other pur
suits. He and Mr.. Lincoln split rails to
gether near Decatur in 1880, and in 1873
both men built near Springfield the frs
fiat-boat that ever tloated down the Sanga
! mon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans.
THE United States senate committee @
interstate commerce, which has under in
. yestgation the relation of the Canada
railways to the interstate commerce law an
the United States railroads, met in Bosto
J, on Monday last. Ex-Governor Smith of Vel
Il mont appeared for the Central Vernon
J. railroad. He stated that the total tonnag
passing over the road and its connection
n annually amounted to 100000 tons. III
Vt thought that both the Grand Trunk an
n the Canadian Pacific were complying wit
the provisions of the interstate commerce
(. law in every point and that any legislatio
n leading to non-intercourse, in case the pre-
a. visions of the law are not observed, woul
be disastrous to the American roads. TIL
~. difficulties should be settled by treaty NJ
~ by legislation.
K Foreign.
" JOHN RUsKIN is seriously ill.,
=. The Shah of Persia has arrived in Londol
n ARCHDEAcoN GOODYEAR of the East A
al RIGA mission is dead.
MINISTER LoRING will be received b
A. King Louis of Portugal tomorrow
d. EIGHT persons were killed by railwa