The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-09


ALI the dies numbering between 500 and
900, used during the year 1888 in the United
States mint, were destroyed last week
Wednesday, under the direction of Superin-
tendent Fox.
BILL RYAN, member of the famous
James gang OF train-robbers, has been
granted Communication OF his sentence of
twenty-five years imprisonment by the
governor of Missouri.
GEORGE OsGooDBY of Pomona, Cal, is
now reported to be Lord Sackyilles famous
correspondent. OSgoodby's father is an
Englishman by birth and lives in Pomona.
Murchison is the family name.
THE total eclipse OF the sun, visible
along the Pacific slope on New Years day,
was most successfully observed at the Har-
ward station and Lick observatory. The
sky was clear at almost all points.
FANNIE HELDMAN, a young lady of Gran
vile, S. c., escaped from her fathers house,
in a fit of insanity and drowned herself i'm
the river Her aged father, while pursu-
ing her, fell through a railroad trestle and
broke several ribs.
The Massachusetts, legislature assembled
on Wednesday of last week and organized
by choosing II. G.. Hartwell of Fitchburg
president of the senate and w. e. Barrett
OF Melrose, the editor and part owner of the
Boston AdreUiser, speaker of the house.
THE students of the New York Medical
College rebelled recently against the action
of the faculty in engaging a certain pro-
fessor, and for a few days refused to attend
Rotations. After short time, however,
they cooled down and returned to business.
A SHORTAGE of over SsOOO0 has been dis
covered in the accounts of Clerk of Court
Leighton of Boston. He claims that he
knew nothing Of bookkeeping and that the
discrepancies are due to mistakes. Leighton
is worth over 100000 and will make the
shortage good.
G. II. ARMSTRONG, superintendent of
bridge construction on the Mexican Ma
tional railway, and James Sloan of New
York quarreled over dice at San Luis
Potosi, Texas, December 81, and fired and
fatally wounded each other. Armstrong
was wealthy American.
DANIEL LANNIGAN, brakeman on New
York elevated road, was killed last week
Wednesday. He was leaning ont over the
gates on the rear platform, when suddenly
his head received terrific blow by coming
in contact with post on the side of the
track. His skull was fractured and he
died in about an hour.
THE false report of clerical uprising in
the city of Mexico caused tremendous eX-
element there. The government is making
every possible effort to discover the author
of the hoax who will be punished ifcaught.
1t is believed that IL was the work of a
clique of men who had been expelled from
the city as suspicious characters.
THREE boys, named John Ryan and
Charles and Fred st. Peter, were drowned
at South Framngham Mass, last Friday,
In company with three others they were
skating on pond, when one of the six
broke through the ice. The others, in at
tempting to rescue him, also fell in and only
three of them could keep up till assistance
arrived
NOEL strap, a thirteen-year-old New
Orleans boy, unscrewed the barrel of an old
musket, filled it with water and placed the
muzzle end in the fire, calling his sister to
come and hear the water boil He placed
his ear to the breech. An explosion oc-
Cured and half his head was blown off
The musket contained charge put in
during the war.
On New Years day in New York city
Michael Grove, plasterer, was stabbed 10
death in drunken family quarrel; John
Neary hodcarrier was killed and several
Others wounded by stray bullets from shoot
ers celebrating the New Year; Cornelius
O'Connor, a laborer, was probably killed
with brick while fighting street ruffians:
John Henry was shot in Brooklyn by his
landlord, William Dunlap, in "a quarrel
which arose over noise and a woman was
burned to death in her room by the explo-
sion of a lamp-and yet one of the city
papers declares that the day passed very
quietly"
LONDON has been visited by the densest
fog for years.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were reported
last week from Nicaragua and Turkistan.
TwENTY-sEvEN persons were killed by an
explosion in the Oller colliery in the Astu-
rias, Spain.
GENERAL BoULANGER issued his manifesto
to the electors of the department of the
Seine on Thursday.
A RECEPTION was given to Mr.. Glad
stone in the municipal palace at Naples
last week Wednesday,
IT is reported that two hundred persons
have been lost in the snow and frozen to
death in Russia during the past week.
GREAT anxiety is felt in Germany in re-
gard to Prince Bismarck's health. He has
been ordered to remain in strict repose and
not to go to Berlin.
JOHN HENNIKER HEAToN, member of
parliament, will visit the United States
soon and appear before congress in advo-
cacy OF scheme for ocean penny postage.
GENERAL BoULANGER held a reception
New Years evening which was largely at
tended. He expressed his confidence that
Paris would elect him to the vacant seat in
the chamber of deputies.
A SERGEANT formerly belonging to the
Egyptian army has arrived at Suakim from
Khartoum, which place he left November
90 He says that Emin Pasha was at that
time free and had repeatedly defeated the
dervishes in battle.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says: A ter
rible disaster has happened at Sabumtschi,
near Titiis, in Georgia, Russia. A train be-
came blocked in an immense snow-drift, and
before aid could be sent fourteen of the pas
sengers persisted from the intense cold and
twenty others were badly bitten A
relief party which started cut to rescue the
imperiled passengers lost their way and
died in the snow"
Congress.
WEDNESDAY, January I'm the senate the
discussion of the tariff bill was resumed,
the subject under debate being the cotton
goods schedule. - In t! q house two i'm
pOrtant amendments to the pension laws
were passed. One fixes the fee of examin-
ing surgeons at So in each case whether for
an original examination or a re-examina-
ton. The other provides that no agent
shall receive any compensation in any claim
! for increase of pension on account of the
increase of the disability for which the pen
sion was originally granted, or for services
rendered in securing the passage of any
! special act of congress granting pension or
| increase in cases presented at the pension
/ office allowable un1ar the oanaral nan