The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-16
way. The gale blew all the buttons

red away. The gale blew all the button,
off his coat.
THE coroner's Jury in the case Of A II
! Schilling whose dismembered BODY was
! found recently in Paramount Park, phila-
delphia, found an indictment against Jacob
Schoop and wife.
HERMAN ScHLEIGER, fourteen-year-old
Baltimore boy, struck a railroad signal tor
pedo with an axe last week Friday. The
torpedo struck back and the boy has not
been heard from since.
LUTHER TALLMAN of Fairport. n V
went TO Detroit last week Thursday TO see
the sights with $500 in his inside pocket
On his return from the theater he was
robbed OF the entire amount
Ed STARK Of Corvdon, Ind, was blowing
i'm the muzzle of his gun last week Wednes.
day, when his dog brushed its tail against
the trigger, discharging the gun and blow
ing the top of Stark's head off.
JAMES CROWLEY and William Madden.
while blasting at Montrose, Cal. last week
Friday, accidentally exploded a giant car
fridge which set fire to sixteen sticks of
giant powder The men were killed
The Indiana legislature assembled last
week Thursday. A wild scene was enacted
IN the senate-chamber, the lieutenant-pov-
ernor being kept from entering by the demo.
cratlc majority Inside was a bowling mob
which made it impossible for the body to
organize
HARRY ID. SCHALL, assistant cashier in
me paymaSters office of the Chicago x
northwestern railroad, has decamped with
Sll,5OO of the company funds and $3.50 be-
longing TO the Clerks and Mechanics Build
ing and Loan Association of which he was
treasurer.
A BOLD attempt at highway robbery was
made in the streets of Boston last weel,
Friday night A gang of twelve rufans
aI,acked Derdlc ana attempted to knock
out the driver and rob the passenger Charles
e. Waldron of Mount Bowdoin. They
were unsuccessful, owing to the pluclxv re-
Sistance Of the driver.
THE selectmen of Hampton, n. H., have
laid out an avenue along the sea frontage
from Bears Head to North Hampton and
have appointed a committee, of which John
G. Cutler is chairman, to superintend the
grading IL is intended to make it one of
the most beautiful driveways on the New
Hampshire coast
The venerable Simeon Idle of Claremont.
y. H., the oldest printer living in New En-.
gland, is now in his ninety-ffth year.
Though he has been confined to his home
most OF the time since he returned from
Boston in December, he now walks out
daily to take the air, and Is clear in mind
and keeps well read up in all the news of
the day.
THOMAS GRIMES, farmer of West Keene,
n. H., plowed on his farm from January
81 to the 9th, finding no frost in the ground
He sent the Sentinel for inspection a box of
clover and other roots and leaves, which or
dlnarily put in an appearance about the LIST
OF April. The present winter is phenomenal,
II not wholly Unprecedented in the long
continuance of warm weather.
QUAY, Clarkson and Dudley of the repub-
can national committee are threatened by
the Toice, the organ of the prohibition
party, with criminal prosecution. They are
charged with having hired two of the en-
ployes clerks OF that paper, to steal and
deliver to them its mailing list, in order
that they might flood its subscribers with
republican campaign documents in place of
their regular party organ.
THE New Hampshire Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has Just held
its annual meeting at Portsmouth Thomas
f.. .. Marvin was elected president and
state agent and James r. May, secretary
and treasurer. A large number of vice
presidents, directors and other officials were
also chosen. A balance of SCI 26 was re-
ported in the treasury. During the past
year tn, society has interfered in behalf of
iOi variously abused horses, 1j2 suffering
cows, 131 oxen, twenty-sx dogs thirty-tive
cats and thirty-four calves. Eighty-three
animals have also been humanelv killed.
A GREAT continental cyclone swept across
the country Wednesday and Thursday of
last week. The storm center moved from
Texas in northeasterly direction, causing
heavy gales along the middle Atlantic and
New England coasts and bursting with
terrific force over the Hudson valley and
the state of Pennsylvania. The tornado
struck Reading Wednesday afternoon,
wrecking the paint-shops of the railroad
company and killing four men. Then it
swooped down on Greenshaw's silk mill,
crumbling the huge brick building into
ruins and entombing two hundred lady EN-
ployes in the wreckage. The work of ex-
Treating the bodies was begun at once
About eighteen We're dead. One hundred
fourteen are injured and there is a long list of
missing. At Pittsburgh large unfinished
brick building was blown down, crushing
several smaller buildings under it, Seventeen
people were killed, great number injured
and there are many not accounted for. The
whirlwind reached Ontario Wednesday
and Quebec Thursday night and whipped
chimneys, telegraph poles, trees, fences and
dwelling-houses through the air like bits of
paper. AT Niagara Falls the old suspension
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