The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

w, Dayton OF Fort Plaln, N. y, Tor
merly chaplain of the Fifth Vermont Regi-
ment, made an address at the town hall in
the evening. Then came banquet at the
Addison House. to which nearly one hum
dred ladies and gentlemen sat down.
Colonel g. w. Hooker was toastmaster
Domestic.
BUFFALO" MILLER of Chicago is dead.
Hon. GEORGE II. PENDLEToN died at
Brussels Sunday night.
GILBERT A. PIERCE has been elected
United States senator in North Dakota.
GovERNoR HILL has committed the SEN
tence of Charles Giblin to imprisonment
! for life.
THE paper-mils at Glens Falls, N. Y,
have been sold to English capitalists for
| 81, 100000
FIVE attempts have been made within
fifteen months to burn school-buildings at
Bridgeport, Conn.
THE latest estimates of the forgeries OF
b. S. Barrett of Cleveland, Ohio, place his
! Indebtedness at 100000.
FRANK FOSTER of Gloucester, Mass, at
tempted to shut off an electric light with an
| iron gail and was instantly killed.
A NUMBER of removals of rerated pen
sioners in the pension department have
! been made by Commissioner Raum.
THE National Grange has passed resolu-
! ton favoring the election of United States
senators direct by vote of the people.
j. NJ. FORMER, county treasurer at Man
| haitian, Kansas, has abSconded with $40 600
! His bondsmen will make the shortage good
THE president has appointed James E.
! French of New Hampshire to be collector
Of internal revenue for the district of New
! Hampshire.
THE Epson block, which contained the
Seneca Hotel, at Baldwinsville, n. Y, was
burned on Wednesday night Of last week
Loss 100000
EDWARD CUNNINGHAM was shot on Thurs
day of last week by Italian poachers on
his grounds at Milton, Mass. He died the
following day
THE department of state is informed that
the Haytien government will appoint Mr..
! Annibal Price envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Washington.
YALE won the great foot ball game with
Harvard at Springfield on Saturday of last
week, six to nothing. Dartmouth defeated
| Williams on the morning of the same day,
| twenty to nine.
II. G.. WooD, of ballot-box forgery fame,
was arrested at Cincinnati on Friday of last
week. GOvernor-elect Campbell, Senator
Sherman and Congressman Butterworth
are believed to be pushing his prosecution.
STEPHEN l.. PETTUs, secretary and treas
urer of the Brooklyn elevated railroad, was
| shot and killed near Fulton Ferry by Mrs.
Hannah Southworth on Friday of last week
The woman claims that Pettus ruined her
JAMES J. SMITH, a New York letter-car-
rer, shot and killed his two-year-old child
fatally wounded his eleven-months-old
child, last week Friday, and slightly
wounded himself in an attempt to commit
suicide.
THE military post at Plattsburg is to be
made headquarters for regiment az
recommended by General Schofeld in his
annual report, the change necesstating the
| building of new quarters and several other
buildings.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Ishpeming
| Mich, says that seven miners were buried
| by fall of rock in the Buffalo mine at
Nepaunee on Tuesday night of last week.
A Swede named Olsen was instantly killed
and two Firms were fatally injured,
Phil ARMOUR, the Chicago pork packer,
| has been subppnaed to appear before the
senate committee on dressed-beef interests,
which meets on the Both instant, and Ser
geant-at-Arms Canady has informed him
that If he does not attend voluntarily force
will be used.
A LARGE and enthusiastic mass-meeting
was held at Wachita, Kansas, on Wednes-
day evening of last week, to consider the
| question of resubmitting to a vote of the
people the prohibition law. The call for
the meeting was signed by both republic
cans and democrats.
THE Old Dominion line steamer "Man-
haitian" Captain Jenney, was run into last
week Wednesday morning off Fenwick's
Island light, Maryland coast, by the four
masted schooner Agnes Manning" The
schooner proceeded to Philadelphia with
one man missing, supposed to have been
drowned. The " Manhattan soon began
to settle, and sank within ten minutes after
she was struck. But one person was
drowned.
THE grand jury which has been investi-
| eating for some time past the charges of
bribery against the Detroit city council has
brought in three indictments against Alder
man John G.. Jacob president of the coun-
ell. Two of the indictments are for solicit
ing brides in connection with a scheme for
eXacting ten per cent commission on all
contracts they awarded. The other indict-
ment is for Offering a bride. Three other
aldermen were also indicted upon charges
OF bribery connected with the ten per cent
| scheme.
THE National Jackson Club was organized
at Nashville, Tenn, last week 1t has for
its objects the publication of politics and
the preservation of liberty. The following
officers were elected President, A. r. Nc
! Clure of Pennsylvania; vice president, Ben
ton Mcmillan of Tennessee; vice-presidents-
at-large, John j. George Harris of Tennes-
see, j. H. johnson of Alabama and A. S.
Coyler of Tennessee. Two vice-presidents
from each state were elected, New York
btlns ItpItstnltu ny L. w. ! ldJJ anu NUS
well p. Flower. Among the other vice
presidents are Henry Watterson, ex'Presi-
dent Hayes, A. g. Thurman, George F.
Hoar, S. j. Randall, A. G.. Carnegie, C.. b.
Farwell, John NJ. Palmer, III. w. Blair,
Joseph II. Hawley, w. w. Eaton, j. G.
Blaine, A. H. Garland, r. Q. Mills, Thomas
Ochiltree, ex-senator Sewell and Congress-
man McAdoo
Foreign.
DIR. PETERS is reported safe, and Stanley
will reach Zanzibar in few days.
THE French papergof Montreal favor the
establishment of Canadian republic.
IT is reported that the followers of Tam
asese at Samoa have elected Maleitoa king.
A PROPOSITION in favor of free match
manufacturing In France was passed by the
chamber of deputies, Thursday of last week,
against the ministry.
OWING to trouble in enforcing a city ordi-
nance at San Crstobel, Cuba, serious riots
have occurred. Two Spanish regiments
met in street and fought.
SECRETARY TRACY has telegraphed Rear
admiral Gillis, commanding the South
American squadron, that his presence with
the - Richmond - and " 'rallanosa - at Rio