The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-03


lust outside the bank They left town on
the run, firing shots in the air 1t is not yet
known what amount they secured, but prob
ably only few thousand dollars.
AT the Lick Observatory, June "a, Mr..
Barnard discovered a faint comet in right
ascension one hour and twenty-one minutes,
declnation north thirty-eight degrees and
ffty-one minutes. The comet is moving
rapidly to the north and east.
THE old Planters house in St. Louis,
which gained historical interest from allu-
sions in Dickens " American Notes." and
from whose front balcony Andrew johnson
made one of the speeches that are said to
have led to his impeachment, is to be torn
down.
THE Italian monument to Columbus in
New York city is to be ready for erection
next year II will cost between 1886 900 and
900, and, with pedestal, will stand $50
feet high. The money for its purchase will
come almost entirely from small subscrip-
tons from members of the Italian colony
in New York.
THE exports of specie during the week
ending June 90 amounted to S3,416,5S0, of
which S3,047 $40 was gold and S36S,970 sill
yer. OF the total exports S2,611 ,951 in
gold and $40, in silver went to Europe,
S2,611 900 in gold bars going direct to Paris,
and S435, $50 in gold and $2S,755 in silver to
South America.
lHE DOdUlnB contests DelWteu IHt COlltRc
crews on the Thames at New London, Conn,
last week, were the most exciting ever wit
messed there. The contestants were, for
the first race, the freshman crews of Har-
ward and Columbia. Harvard won in 1921.
The second contest was between the crews of
Columbia, Cornell and the University of
Pennsylvania. Cornell won in 1904. Much
excitement was caused by the fainting of the
entire Columbia crew at the end of the first
race
SECRETARY TRACY has issued an impor-
tant general order directing a radical reor-
ganization of the different bureaus of the
navy department, which went into effect
July /. In general, the new organization
groups the duties of construction, equip
ment and supply logically and systematic
ally among several bureaus, and places the
personnel of the navy, the training drill
ing, inspection and discipline of officers and
men-heretofore scattered among several
bureaus-under the bureau of navigation.
Another important and new feature of the
reorganization of the departmental work is
that constituting the chiefs of the five
bureaus that have to do with the prepare
ton of material, yards and docks, ordnance,
equipment, construction and steam engineer
! ing to be er-O6iciO board for the design,
construction and equipment of new ships.
Foreign.
THE shah of Persia is suffering from a low
fever at Spa.
ITALY joins Germany in demonstrating
| with Switzerland for sheltering socialists.
ONE result of the Boulanger trial before
the French senate is the stopping of his
pension.
| CARLoTTA PATTI, the well-known singer,
and sister of Adelina Patti, died in Paris
last Friday.
PRINCESS LOUISE of Wales, granddaughter
| of Queen Victoria, has been betrothed tC
the Earl of Fife.
THE Panama canal relief bill passed the
French chamber of deputies, last week, by
a vote of 1888 to So.
DIR. GEORGE OWEN REEFS, physician extra
ordinary to Queen Victoria, and author Of
many medical works, is dead.
THE Swiss council has decided to borrow
the sum of 5000 ,000f. with which to pur
chase repeating rifles for the army.
GERMANY has bought majority of the
shares in the Swiss Western railway anC
has replaced the French by German di-
rectors.
In the newly-annexed islands of Oceanica
where the French are just establishing
themselves, the natives have made condi
ton that no alcohol in any form shall be in
troduced
BIsMARCK's semi-official newspaper or
gan has just warned the government o
Switzerland that unless that outspoken re
public is more deferential to his wishes it!
political independence is likely to come t.
a sudden stop
THE pope has decided to permit the cree
ton of an astronomical observatory in thu
Vatican, the site selected being the towe
over the rooms occupied by the master o
the Sacred College, it being the most ele
waited portion of the building.
NJ. BEERNAERT, minister of finance a
Brussels has introduced bill in the cham
Der of deputies to authorize Belgium T.
make acontributon toward the construction
of the Congo railway. The government
will probably contribute S2,000,000 towar
the construction of the road.
THE descendants of Murat, who live il
Paris, and their relatives, the Pepoli @
Bologna, and others, demand of the Italia
government the modest sum of S10,00O, DOC
the present valuation of the property c
Joachim Murat, king of Naples, who's
goods and chattes we're confiscated afte
his capture in Calabria and his execution i
| 1915.
A ROME dispatch says "Archbisho
; Feehan of Chicago, having made long re
port to the Vatican through Cardinal S
moni on the criminal acts of the Clan-nf
Gael, the pope has given instructions thG
the faculty be granted the archbishop t
take whatever measures he may deem OF
, perfume to declare the Clan-na-Gael in OF
: position to the church"
> LAST Saturday, at a farmers picnic
Woodstock, Ontario fifty persons wer
poisoned by drinking lemonade which col
, tanned sugar of lead, and fifteen are not e.
: pected to live. The confectioner who ha
furnished the drink, in order to save lemon
used in its connection what he believed
be tartaric acid. The druggist who mad
the mistake barely escaped being killed b
a mob.