The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-17
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syrup, 10,097 pounds of cake sugar and
ii ,4S9 pounds of pail sugar. Reckoning the
syrup at eleven pounds to the gallon, the
standard weight this shows total weight
handled of about eighteen tons.
THE annual regatta Of the Lake Cham
plain Yacht Club was sailed Saturday
morning, the last boat crossing the line at
noon. In the first class Nautilus, owned
by Mayor Crombie and Horatio Hickok,
beat DIR. w. S. Webbs "Flyaway" by
seventeen minutes and seven seconds over a
twelve-mile course. "Saidee b. Trow,"
Port Henry, N. Y, won the pennant over
Ripple" and White Wings" in the
second class, and "Gypsy" won in the third
class.
DIR. WILLIAM b. CLARK Of the United
States geological survey writes, in letter
to the Brduleboro Ph0nir, that he has
received absolute promise from head
quarters at Washington that two United
States typographical engineers-Mr. Lowell
and Mr.. Hyde, the latter graduate OF the
University of Nermont-would begin work
upon the Brattleboro region July 10. The
work will occupy them some two or three
months, as the contour maps proposed ex-
tend from the Massachusetts line to Putney
village and from Hogback to Chesterfield.
The Montreal night express train going
north from Rutland over the Rutland
Burlington road was ditched near Brandon
at three o'clock last week Wednesday
a
cars were derailed and the engine was
turned over on its side The accident was
the result of a cloud-burst which visited
that section of the state during the night
and swelled small stream running beside
the track, causing il to undermine the road
bed. There were two hundred passengers
on board, but no one was seriously injured.
Domestic.
THE widow of ex-President Tyler died re-
Gently in Richmond Va.
THERE have been twenty-three cases of
diphtheria in Salem, Mass, since July l.
VIcE-PREs1DENr LEVI p. MORTON is at
Saratoga Springs, n. Y, the guest of George
Bliss.
L. j. NEwALD, a politician of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, is missing, being a defaulter to
the amount of $4,000.
THE extra session of congress will prob
ably be opened between the 10Th of October
and the LIST of November
THE Persian minister left for Paris on the
French line steamer " lie Bretange Satur-
day. He says he will return.
A CLOUD BURST near Fort Robinson, Neb.,
drowned a wood-chopper and three chill
dren. Other deaths are feared.
The Otis Steel Company of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been formed into an English COM
pany, with capital of 100000.
THE French societies of New York cele-
brated the hundredth anniversary of the
fall of the Bastile on Sunday and Monday.
Mr.. HENRY c. BOWEN, editor of the In
DEPENDENT was thrown from his carriage, Fri
day afternoon, and it is feared was badly
injured.
LEADING educators throughout the coun-
try are urging that national university be
established to promote higher education in
America
WILLIAM p SwoPE, a well-known attor-
ney of Philadelphia, has disappeared, and
is said to be an embezzler to the extent
of $4,000.
THE tanks of the Consolidated Oil Com
pany in st. Joseph, Mo-, were struck by
lightning, last Sunday, and destroyed. Loss
$4,000; insured.
FIRE broke out in bakery at Fresno,
Cal, Friday morning and destroyed half a
block of brick buildings. Loss 500, 900;
insured for 100000.
The new Guatemalan minister, Don Fer
nando Cruz, has been formally presented to
the president. The usual feiicitous ad-
dresses were exchanged.
GEORGE w. MOORE, manager of the Rock
ingham house, Boar's Head Beach, n. H.,
committed suicide last week by cutting his
throat with a carving-knife.
CLAUS SPRECKLEs announces that he will
open his mammoth sugar refinery in Phila-
delphia, September l, with capacity Of
100000 pounds of sugar day.
A FIRE in the top story of the Anglo
American Provision Company's warehouse
in Chicago at an early hour, July II, caused
loss of about $4,000 to the firm
The Mobile (Ala.) Life Insurance Com
pany has suspended. This is the last of
the eighteen life insurance companies that
were started in the South in 1S70-71.
ALEXANDER PARKER, a Yale College stu
dent, while riding on the top of freight
car was struck by bridge at South Amboy,
n. j., last Friday, and instantly killed.
DR.. WILLIAM p. WHITE, an electrical
physician of Boston, instantly killed his
wife last Friday He then committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head.
FIVE people were nearly suffocated last
Friday in a Coney Island hotel by escaping
gas. The servant had blown out the flame
instead of turning off the gas All were re-
suscitated
1T is understood that the will Of the late
George B. Hyde bequeaths, after the death
of his widow, $4,000 to Harvard College,
and a like sum to Southbridge, to found a
public library.
A ENGINE which was making trial trip
over the Western, New York & Philadel-
phia railroad collided with fir eight train
near Pittsburgh, Penn, Saturday. One man
was killed and four injured.
THE national convention of the Societies
of Christian Endeavor was held in Phila-
delphia last week Postmaster-general
Wanamaker attended the session on Thurs
day and addressed the convention.
DAVID CAMPBELL, a wealthy farmer OF
Randolph, n. Y, was visited by masked
men, last week, and bastinadoed to force him
to give up money supposed to be in the
house. The gang secured only So.
UNDER a decree of the United States
court the st. Louis & Chicago railroad will
be sold at masters sale in Springfield ILL.,
on September 9th next. The amount OF
the mortgage bonds is 81 ,600,0 900, with add
tional judgments of $4,000.
JUDGE FOSTER of the United States cour
at Topeka, Kansas, has rendered a decision
to the effect that no officer of Oklahoma has
legal authority to arrest or imprison offend
ers of the law, inasmuch as that country is
under the jurisdiction of no court.
THE store of r. o. Pinkham and post-offic
at East Holden, Maine, were broken into
Friday night and S48 in stamps, a gol'
watch and other goods stolen. The Main
Central depot at the same place was als
broken into, but nothing OF value was taken
PREsIDENT III HARRISON is in RECENT of com