The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

to Canada are subject to the interstate law.
A COOK formerly employed at the Black
wells Island insane asylum charges that
decayed food is habitually furnished for the
inmates.
THE twenty-fourth anniversary Of the
death of Abraham Lincoln was observed at
the tomb in Springfield, ILL.,, last week
Monday.
WILLIAM NJ. CALENDER, president of a
Newark, n. j., manufacturing company, has
disappeared; likewise 100000 of the com
pany's funds.
THE removal of the telegraph poles
on Broadway, New York city, was begun
last week Tuesday under the direction of
Mayor Grant
FELICE VIART, a professional beggar,
died recently in an old shanty at New Or
leans of debility and neglect. The coroner
on Wednesday discovered $4,000 hidden
around the howell
PERRY WINE, a well-known citizen, was
Telling tree in Brockton county, West Nir-
ginia, Wednesday, when it broke across the
stump, demolshing his house and killing
his wife and three children.
Two men, named Riley and Brown, while
taking down telegraph wires in New York,
were pulled out of a window by rope at
tached to a falling pole. One was instantly
killed and the other fatally injured.
THE entries for the centennial industrial
parade foot up the astounding total of
100, 600 men, and the chief marshal does not
know what to do with them all 1t would
take all day to see such procession. Very
many persons are coming forward with
claims as members of the Washington
family.
JUDGE THAYER of the United States court
has decided that the taking of papers from
the top of a letter-box is no offence against
the mail laws. The top Of a mal-box is not
tn,1A fNr f1,A ,ail nd Il
placed there is no more in the custody of
the mail than a package placed upon the
steps of the post-oiiice.
THE largest fire that has visited New
York city in several years destroyed the w.
j. Wilcox lard refinery, the Rossiter stores,
two large elevators and several piers be-
longing to the New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Company last Friday. One
man was killed and two were seriously in.
iured. The damage is varously estimated
at from two to five millions of dollars.
Mrs. w. o. LEEDS, wife of one of the
richest men in Indiana, is about to prose-
cute nineteen saloon-keepers in Michigan
City for selling to her husband after she had
warned them not to do so. 1t is rumored
that Mr. Leeds has promised to stand back
of the saloon-keepers in any proceedings
and supply the "sinews of war" The
amount of money he can control is esti-
mated to be S5,000,000.
On tuesday OF last week, at noon, TWO
men went into the State Bank at Mime
apols, when only two employees were pres
ent. One covered the employees with re-
volver. The other vaulted over the rail
ing and thrust $4,000 on the teller's table
into valise. just then depositOr entered
and this forced the uncovering OF the as
sistant cashier, who rushed to the safe to
get his revolver The robber threw the va
lise to his accomplice, who dashed into the
presidents room, jumped through window
and fed The robbers were finally cap
tured and gave their names as James Henry
and Fred Douglass
GOVERNOR RICHARDSON of South Carolina
has pardoned two negroes convicted of
lynching a white man. He says, in justit-
cation, that he was influenced by his desire
to do justice to the colored people. This
was the first time any one had been con-
victed in South Carolina for ]ynching, and
it was also the first time that negroes had
lynched any one, and he would not have
them made an example of when white men
had not been punished for like offences.
The negroes were ignorant, and had had
the example repeatedly set them by the
whites. The governor received tifty-two
petitions signed by nearly 5000 persons,
asking for executive clemency. The ma
jority of the signers were whites.
Foreign.
GENERAL BoULANGER will soon leave
Brussels for London.
THE freedom of the city Of Edin burgh has
been voted to Mr.. Parnell.
Mr.. PARNELL has begun suit against the
London Times for half million dollars
damages.
THE German reichstag has adjourned I'M
til May and the French chamber of depu-
ties until May IA.
The Parnell commission reassembles on
Tuesday, April 80, when Mr.. Parnell will
open the testimony for the defense.
SIX thousand emigrants embarked at
Liverpool last week Wednesday, the ma
jority of them for the United States
ADvIcEs have been received that cholera
is epidemic in the PHILIPPINE Islands, and
that out of 800 cases ,0O0have proved fatal.
PROFESSOR HARRISON of Oxford Uni
versity has been committed to Jail on the
charge of assisting beseged tenants at
Gweedore, Ireland.
A SUBCOMMITTEE of the French senate
commission conducting the trial of General
Boulanger will examine 1890 documents
bearing on the case.
PATRICK MALLoY, one of the witnesses of
the London Times, has been convicted of
perjury and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment at hard labor.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has appointed Count
Herbert Bismark and DR.. Krauel of Hol-
stein the representatives of Germany at
the Samoan conference. The conference
will open April 20.
AN explosion occurred in the Roths-
childs colliery at Tefblau Austria, last
week Wednesday. Five persons were killed
and two were dangerously wounded. Six
others are missing.
THE German war ship Olga" which has
arrived at Sidney, N. S. W., reports that
the "Nipsic," so badly injured by the hur-
ricane at Apia, will not be able to return
to the United States
The wheat deficit in the Australian colo
MES of New South Wales, Queensland and
Tasmania is reported to be fully 8,750,0O0
bushels, and California, with her large
wheat crop, expects to be called on to meet
the requirements of the colonies.
AN Ottawa dispatch says that Professor
Weldon's extradition bill, enlarging the
scope of the present law, will probably be-
come a law this session. Professor Weldon
has received number of threatening let
tiers, supposed to have come from American
fugitves.
Mr. HERGEssEN, the Gladstonian candi-
date, was elected at Rochester to seat in
the house of commons, on Tuesday of last
week, by majority of seventy-fve. At
the election of 1886 the conservative can
didate led the home-ruler by two hundred