The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-14

Caps, who dashed them until the blood
flowed
THE schooner Fannie Chase " when just
outside of Portland, Maine, harbor, picked
up lump of ambergris, which filed two
thirds of a BARREL and is worth $500
A MAN in Lunenburg, Mass, who offered
to pay his son cent for every potato bug
picked from the vines, handed over S6.40 at
the end of the first day and then backed out
of the bargain
SOME of the swtchmen on the North
western Road in Chicago have struck for
higher wages and easier hours If the road
refuses or attempts to put on new men,
general strike will occur.
A PASSENGER train was robbed in Colo
RADIO Tuesday night of last week by high
waymen, who failed to effect an entrance
to the express car, but robbed the passen-
gers of 5000 and twenty watches
IT is said that Thomas f. Plunkett who
disappeared from Hartford, Conn, about a
| year ago, and was supposed to be dead, is
resident of the City of Mexico. He was a
defaulter to the amount of $300,0O0
PRESIDENT HARRISON, with Secretaries
| Window and Proctor arrived in Boston on
Wednesday morning of last week and were
given a rousing public reception. The
| president was en- route to Bar Harbor.
EBEN S. ALLEN of New York, president
of the Forty-second street and Grand street
! ferry railroad company, has been arrested
|
amount of about $4,000. He confessed.
Hon. WILLIAM w. JACKSON, JR., of
! Lowell, Mass, who was mentioned in some
quarters as well qualified for a cabinet
portfolio, will be the guest of Secretary
Blaine at Bar Harbor, the last week in Au-
! gust.
Two workmen were killed and two ia
tally injured one day last week, by the
breaking of the guy robes of a derrick on
fremont street, Boston. a heaviy-loaded
horse-car barely escaped being crushed by
stone weighing ton or more.
FIVE young men from Japan have arrived
in San Francisco to begin years tour of
the United States and Europe for the pur-
pose of studying legislative methods,
preparatory to the establishment of a con-
| stitutional parliament in their own country.
A LADY and her daughter in Brooklyn,
n. Y, were induced to leave their home by
n bogus letter announcing the dangerous
illness of the lady's sister at West Farms,
and after they had gone the house was
robbed of $500 worth of jewelry and clothing.
RAIN washed out the supports of a culvert
| at Weston, Neb, last week Monday night,
and caused the wreck of a freight train
| drawn by two locomotives. Engineer
Mitchell was killed, Swtchman Conklin
fatally injured, and Engineer Morgan
crippled for life
PROFESSIONAL cracksmen forced an en-
trance last week Tuesday night into
ticket office on the most prominent corner
in Detroit, Mich, brilliantly lighted by
electric lights and passed by policemen
every few minutes. They broke open the
safe, securing from $1,000 to $1,000
A FIERCE storm ragged throughout south
western Indiana recently, doing extensive
damage. Scores of houses were unroofed
and several were demolished. At Mitchell
a wagon containing "a family of tive-father,
mother and three small children-were
blown from the roadside into Black Creek
and all were drowned.
Foreign.
FELIx PYATT, the noted French dramatist
and communist, died recently.
The Royal Grants bill has passed the
final stage in the British house of commons.
The trial of Boulanger before the high
court of the French senate began last week
Thursday.
THE Egyptian campaign is over, as Gren-
fells recent victory nearly wiped out the
dervish army
THE income of Pope Leo XIII. in 1888
was S2,500000, of which over S1,70O,000
came from Peters pence.
MRS MAVERICK has been convicted in
London of poisoning her husband and SEN
fenced to death. Much dissatisfaction is
felt with the verdict.
MIR. PARNELL's health is said to be
broken. His physicians have advised him
there until next summer
A FEEBLE attempt was made by small
body of conspirators on July 80 to over
throw the Sandwich Island government
Several persons were killed.
THE steamship Montreal" of the Do
minion Line, which sailed from Montreal
on July 81 for Liverpool, is totally wrecked
on Belle Isle. The passengers and all hands
were saved. They have plenty of pro-
visions, and await homeward bound
steamer to take them to England.
THERE was tremendous uproar in the
house of commons last week Thursday, the
chairmans calls for order being drowned
by a chorus of Irish yells. Mr.. Balfour was
interrupted in a speech by Mr.. Harrington,
who challenged one of his statements and
attempted TO assault him. The tumult
finally ended in mutual apologies.
The Haytien war has degenerated into a
murderous campaign, and is beginning to
look like a war of determination Hippo
lyte's forces are gradually closing in on
ers like so many cattle cutting their Threats
in the market places, while Hippolyte
slaughtered eighteen men who fell into his
hands the other day in retaliation for those
killed by Legitime.
The Canadian customs authorities have
placed under seizure the painting Jeru-
salem on the Day of the CrucfiXion," on
exhibition at the Cycorama, Montreal.
The painting is valued at S25 600. Its owners
, sought to have it enter the country free of
duty, on the plea that it was work of art.
The authorities claim that it has been
} brought into the country for commercial
2 purposes, and that the customs duty OF
twenty per cent should be paid.