The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-17
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forty-eight barns, $50 sheep and many horses
and cattle were destroyed by the recent
prairie fires in Sully county. The letter
saws that log farmers are homeless and with
out clothing or seed for sowing.
Two strangers visited Daniel Keller of
Shamokin, Penn, one day last week and
after proposing to purchase his farm en-
gagged the old farmer in game of cards
Keller became interested and put up $4,000
as stakes. The money was seized by the
strangers and Keller was covered with re-
volver as they moved off. Both escaped.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at the print
works in Dover, n. H., last Wednesday.
The cloth is bailed in large Reeves at night,
when the covers are fastened on and the
steam applied at high pressure. Jerry Sui
Ivan had been at work packing cloth in
the Reeves and while waiting for cloth
probably fell asleep. Not being missed, the
man-hole was closed and steam turned on,
Sullivan being literally boiled to death be-
fore he was discovered.
THE Chicago and All-America ball-teams
have arrived in New York, after their trip
around the world. They were banqueted
at Delmonico's Monday evening of last
week Mark Twain, Chauncey NJ. Depew
and Mayor Chaplin of Brooklyn were among
the orators of the evening. In the course
of his speech Mr.. Depew told of CONVERSE
ton he had last summer with Mr.. Glad
stone concerning the newspapers OF Eng
land and the United States. Mr.. Gladstone
asked what difference there was between
them, and Mr. Depew had replied that the
difference was simply this: " The English
newspapers give ten columns to parliament
tary debates and half column to cricket,
while the papers in this country give half
column to congressional news and ten
columns to base-ba ="
Foreign.
Ex-KING MILAN of Servia is making
tour of Palestine.
The premium on gold in the Argentine
Republic has reached siXty-four per cent.
SIR CHAREs RUSSELL accuses Irish land
lords of having supplied funds to ruin Par
nell.
BY an explosion in the Erin pit at Castrop,
New South Wales, Wednesday, twenty
| five persons were killed
MICHEL EUGENE CHEvREUL, the noted
Partisan chemist, died last week at the
great age of one hundred three years.
Four Russian officers have made a wager
that they can ride on horseback from st.
Petersburg to Paris in forty-fve days. They
will start in May.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN, the imprisoned agta-
tor, will be releas May %, his appeal for
reduction of the sentence of six months
having been heard.
OWING to the distressed condition Of the
negroes on the canal works at Panama the
British consul distributed bread among the
sufferers one day last week.
JOHN BRIGHT left an estate valued at
1850 600, which is to be divided among a
large number of persons, even distant rela-
tives being included in his will
THE memorial fund to Matthew Arnold
now amounts to about 935, 900. By far the
greater portion will be assigned to Mrs.
Arnold and the remainder will probably be
used in placing memorial in Westminster
Abbey.
THE recent fire in the imperial palace at
Pekin is said to have been started by the
attendants to remove all proof of fraud in
the accounts of the theft of furs and silks,
of which large quantity has been stolen
and sold.
THE cases of Finucane and Sheehy, Irish
members of parliament, who appealed from
their sentences of imprisonment under the
crimes act, have been decided by the courts.
Fenucane's sentence of four months was
confirmed, but Sheehy's was reduced from
| ten to four months.
IT is announced that the Right Honorable
| William Henry Smith, first lord of the
| English treasury, is about to be raised to
the peerage, and will accordingly resign
the government leadership in the house eff
commons and take his seat in the house of
lords. Mr.. Balfour is regarded as his prob
able successor as the government leader in
the house.
THE ability of the London Times to sur
vive the consequences of the Parnell case
| is questioned The paper expected a grant
| from the government. But the collapse of
the letters alters the situation, and grant
| is utterly out of the question. The Times
| therefore has to face an unexpected expen-
diture of 100000 of law expenses plus
another 5000 for libels.
| THE house of commons, by vote of two
| hundred to seventy-nine, rejected Mr..
Clarke's Scottish home-rule motion. Mr..
| Gladstone opposed the motion in an ami
mated speech, in which he said that the
question was not ripe and would obstruct
| more pressing measures He did not dou bt
| however, that when Scotland unanimously
demanded home-rule parliament would &C
cede to her desires.
Washington Notes.
REAR ADMIRAL 7. II. PATTERSON is dead.
has reported to the secretary of state that
yellow fever is prevalent there to an alarm
| ing extent.
SECRETARY NOBLE has decided to appoint
| Hiram Smith, one-armed and one-legged
Missouri soldier, to be assistant commits
sioner of pensions
SENATOR MATTHEW S. QUAY is still rest
| ing at his home in Beaver, Penn. He looks
pale and overworked and denies himself to
all except intimate friends.
SECRETARY TRACY intends to visit all the
government navy-yards and see that they
are in good working order. He inspected
the one at Brooklyn last week.
SERGEANr-AT-ARMs w. p. CANADy of the
senate is charged by Senator Jones and eX-
Senators Miller and Malone with fraudulent
stock transactions, by which several mem
bers have been swindled.
SENATOR DIXON of Rhode Island will be
one of the youngest members of the senate.
His age is forty-one, the two senators from
West Virginia being the only two senators
who are his juniors, we believe.-BOstOn
Herald.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's daily. mail still
averages about 700 letters. On several oc-
casions the number has come dangerously
near / 900. Each letter is answered promptly,
although in order to do this little force of
executive clerks is kept on duty from eight
in the morning till eleven and twelve
o'clock at night.
OWING to an arrangement between Prince
Bismarck and the state department, only
one warship of each nation is to remain in
Samoa pending the Berlin conference.
The orders for the " Richmond " and the
adams " to go there have been counter
manded. The Alert will represent the